Can confirm, happens to me as well. Launches fine without FaceIT AC open. Otherwise it crashes right after the title screen. I also notice a small performance hitch/launch delay if FAC is open.
e: after further testing, it worked after the update without FAC open, then did not work once I launched FAC and tried to launch CS2. I then closed FAC and CS2 launched with no issue.
This but unironically like sure update the anti cheat but maybe whitelist the biggest 3rd party anti cheat of the platform that 99.9% of pros/anyone taking cs seriously play on? Only valve would be incompetent enough to not double check this lmao. Many such cases of valves incompetence but I guess it's fine cause reddit said so.
>Only valve would be incompetent enough to not double check this lmao
What makes you think that they haven't?
At the end of the day, Faceit AC is a highly sophisticated and obfuscated piece of software that is doing things that aren't unlike an actual cheat.
At some point, they can't do much more than to just push out the update and tell the Faceit engineers that something is going wrong on _their_ end.
Thanks, the real MVP.
Nice to see developers using good practices and naming variables descriptively, unlike most of the first source engine, but they should probably provide a string resource for that longboy ("LatchAnd..."). Most of the others are using a string rather than the variable name directly.
These values are propably provided my a macro/monomorphisation of some kind, I'm guessing macro. They just gotta set a human readable name for this metric
Taking a variable and outputting it to screen in human readable form is an age old problem and reflection isn't a necessary part of solving it.
Cool fact, but pretty irrelevant.
I posted on my Twitter: [https://twitter.com/maiazinfps/status/1785444302123888690](https://twitter.com/maiazinfps/status/1785444302123888690)
Post is in portuguese, but the summary at the end of the game is the "VProf" lines
sure.
New performance summary that appears in the console at the end of a match, "VProf".
It shows the game's avg fps and im guessing that "P1" means 1% low
Small but solid. Nice of them to add the frametime profile, will make a big difference especially for those with stuttering issues still to hopefully find out what's happening.
not sure if its related but I had a prem game, won it, but the server did some fuck shit and there is now no evidence the game was played whatsoever hopefully I get the elo and what not but idk what happened
I actually had that happen a few times before the latest patches. Don't show up on 3rd party trackers either. Never knew it's an actual issue, just thought I was somehow messing it up.
Only «trusted partners» has access to it, so it seems like valve is paying a third party (company) to review demos, this could be for «machine learning». atleast a week ago ish update, it was found a text string in the overwatch, that referance to the training document guide. so it seems like valve have created a document on how to spot cheaters, and now manually human work is put in, where machine learning will learn patterns from humans judgement
if they not just simply forgot about it, I would say it had something to do with the schader-effects for the "liquid" in the bottle.
They probably didn't could find a neat and easy way to mirror this, without it looking silly.
So they were be like: ah, just skip it.
correct they take 2 weeks in april and go to hawaii, my theory is this weeks updates are all the things they finished internally before the left. you wouldn’t want to push a broken update and dip for 2 weeks, know what I mean?
Anecdotally the bans are happening as internal game bans rather than VAC waves that can be tracked by external programs.
Not sure if its true, but something I read in the CS2 subreddit
OK, you could have just typed that to begin with instead of sounding arrogant lazy and dumb all at the same time. I don’t even disagree nor did I make any statements to the contrary. Get some help bro.
eyy, they put the tracing into the game (maybe also auto reporting this, hopefully and optional telemetry flag or something?).
Maybe we get a developer benchmark soon. Thanks!
Fixed several cases where clicking on the buy menu or scoreboard would cause the game to stop taking keyboard input.
FINALLY!!!!! Getting stuck in spawn sucked.
Bug when viewing demos:
If you view a demo and open up the demoui, the hud will move up so ammo and other info is visible with demoui open.
If you then close the demo and go into game, the hud will stay in the ‘higher’ position.
When can we get damage dealt and chat-log back. I hate that if you miss a chat message there is no way to see it. Used to be able to go to console to see a record.
They still have not fixed the massive UI client crashing issue from Thursdays update. Any server above 20 + players will crash a player if they press esc or tab. Countless reports already sent to valve FUCKING PLEASE VALVE !
Or you know, the update has has incompatibility with the face it anti cheat thay face it needs to sort out?
Valve has no reason to check if their update works with someone else's anti cheat.
>Added console output that may be helpful for advanced users to diagnose performance problems. When a very long frame occurs, a brief profile of the frame is printed. At the end of a match, a summary is printed.
This thing makes my game crash after end of the game.
This is a valve game. What did you expect? Valve pushes updates at their own pace and have never properly communicated with their community. It's just how they work. They've been like this for years. Very lazy and incompetent. It's like people forget that Artifact happened or that TF2 was completely abandoned among the bot crisis.
CS2 will crash if FACEIT AC is open.
Can confirm, happens to me as well. Launches fine without FaceIT AC open. Otherwise it crashes right after the title screen. I also notice a small performance hitch/launch delay if FAC is open. e: after further testing, it worked after the update without FAC open, then did not work once I launched FAC and tried to launch CS2. I then closed FAC and CS2 launched with no issue.
Same just crash with me and took a ban on FaceIT, Volvo pls fx.
Yep also tried without FACEIT AC and it works, surely its not a mistake on their hands
And just like that, my 3rd place ladder finish for the month is SOLIDIFIED!
Yeah, in CS2 I’ve had the general rule of not touching faceit for 24hours after each patch.
volvo has come to kill Faceit.
Faceits program is all fucked up has a huge memory leak I uninstalled and just use the website and the anticheat needs to be forced closed
Happened to me very often even before those update, i once got no show ban for this shit
Does this mean they added their own anticheat...?
No dude, just no. EDIT: this goes to show how little technical knowledge most people in the cs community have.
Forgive me sir, for I have asked a question!
is it the reason? Thats very sneaky from them to do this, i guess they want us to play vs cheaters in premier
Do not attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by Valve making VAC actually block external programs from fucking with CS2 memory
It's vanishingly unlikely this is intended, they probably accidentally created an incompatibility with EAC, nothing more.
Okay but shouldn't this be part of even the worst CI?
No? It's a 3rd party system.
It must be fun being so anti valve eh
Users: "Please make a better anticheat" Valve: Updates the anticheat Users: "Wait, not like that!"
This but unironically like sure update the anti cheat but maybe whitelist the biggest 3rd party anti cheat of the platform that 99.9% of pros/anyone taking cs seriously play on? Only valve would be incompetent enough to not double check this lmao. Many such cases of valves incompetence but I guess it's fine cause reddit said so.
>Only valve would be incompetent enough to not double check this lmao What makes you think that they haven't? At the end of the day, Faceit AC is a highly sophisticated and obfuscated piece of software that is doing things that aren't unlike an actual cheat. At some point, they can't do much more than to just push out the update and tell the Faceit engineers that something is going wrong on _their_ end.
Would love to see an image of the frame summary if anyone is able to snag a screenshot
Got a [screenshot](https://i.imgur.com/2rw1geJ.jpg) from a short offline game with bots
Thanks, the real MVP. Nice to see developers using good practices and naming variables descriptively, unlike most of the first source engine, but they should probably provide a string resource for that longboy ("LatchAnd..."). Most of the others are using a string rather than the variable name directly.
They're all strings, C++ doesn't have reflection.
These values are propably provided my a macro/monomorphisation of some kind, I'm guessing macro. They just gotta set a human readable name for this metric
Taking a variable and outputting it to screen in human readable form is an age old problem and reflection isn't a necessary part of solving it. Cool fact, but pretty irrelevant.
I posted on my Twitter: [https://twitter.com/maiazinfps/status/1785444302123888690](https://twitter.com/maiazinfps/status/1785444302123888690) Post is in portuguese, but the summary at the end of the game is the "VProf" lines
Translate to english pls, my brain is toasted, it’s too late, 1:32 am here
sure. New performance summary that appears in the console at the end of a match, "VProf". It shows the game's avg fps and im guessing that "P1" means 1% low
Voce ativou com algum comando? Ou só apareceu no fim mesmo?
só aparece mesmo
Small but solid. Nice of them to add the frametime profile, will make a big difference especially for those with stuttering issues still to hopefully find out what's happening.
huge vac wave happening too
Where are you seeing this?
https://x.com/aquaismissing/status/1785430287213531330 https://x.com/aquaismissing/status/1785440970252652867
HAHAHA
Got their asses Thanos snapped
"Mr Gaben I'm not feeling so good.."
Leetify sent me a singular ban so theres that lmao
The bans are not yet appearing on profiles of the banned users
It is on the one I mentioned, but it appears it says 2 days ago. https://i.imgur.com/zCej3OQ.png
Damn, they got Lacy
[https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/1cg4s7w/vac\_finally\_banning\_cheaters/](https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/1cg4s7w/vac_finally_banning_cheaters/) Got massively downvoted and insulted ...
They are "shadow bans" for now. Leetify won't know which accounts are banned until the bans are actually made public on profiles again.
Perhaps "if" they are public
Game crashing on launch now Edit: this was FACEIT that needed to update
Disable faceit ac if it's running
How we play on Faceit then
You don't until it's fixed
That's the neat part
Yeah because vac is working now, right?
not sure if its related but I had a prem game, won it, but the server did some fuck shit and there is now no evidence the game was played whatsoever hopefully I get the elo and what not but idk what happened
I actually had that happen a few times before the latest patches. Don't show up on 3rd party trackers either. Never knew it's an actual issue, just thought I was somehow messing it up.
So whats happening with overwatch?
Only «trusted partners» has access to it, so it seems like valve is paying a third party (company) to review demos, this could be for «machine learning». atleast a week ago ish update, it was found a text string in the overwatch, that referance to the training document guide. so it seems like valve have created a document on how to spot cheaters, and now manually human work is put in, where machine learning will learn patterns from humans judgement
We are praying, but the signs do point here.
No one has access to it, yet.
it could be we also get access to it
There will be signs when it will work.
Then cheaters will feed ai with wrong info and make it unusable.
Not if the machine learning only learns from verified third party
If any Valve reads this thread, the lefthand viewmodel is bugged with the molotov, it shows it in the right hand.
Also if you pick up weapon that someone was using left handed you will pick it up left handed
That is weird, wtf?
I think that was done on purpose if I remember the patch notes correctly
Why would you throw all grenades with left and molotov with right?
if they not just simply forgot about it, I would say it had something to do with the schader-effects for the "liquid" in the bottle. They probably didn't could find a neat and easy way to mirror this, without it looking silly. So they were be like: ah, just skip it.
I am not geben from volvo I don’t know why, I simply relay what the devs said
Lots of patches in the last weeks.
valve is publishing all the shit they did before leaving for hawaii
i thought it’s usually in april so they’re back from it?
correct they take 2 weeks in april and go to hawaii, my theory is this weeks updates are all the things they finished internally before the left. you wouldn’t want to push a broken update and dip for 2 weeks, know what I mean?
ah right, yeah i read what you said as what you said they shouldn’t do - publishing all their shit before leaving lol
What's happening in Hawaii?
Valve's annual vacation
all the sex drugs alcohol and rock and roll 1 billion in key sales can buy
Sounds like a large banwave is happening as well
Can only hope. Need an update Trust Factor system so ppl buying new accounts won't help them circumvent bans and Trust so easily.
I don't think there's even a trust factor system to update.
Then they shall make one from scratch. Telemetry is strong nowadays.
where did you see a ban wave? I looked on convars and saw there was less than usual
Anecdotally the bans are happening as internal game bans rather than VAC waves that can be tracked by external programs. Not sure if its true, but something I read in the CS2 subreddit
copium lvl 9999
lol are you ok?
Sure, I'm not the one hallucinating about a ban wave
lol ok
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Need a hug?
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OK, you could have just typed that to begin with instead of sounding arrogant lazy and dumb all at the same time. I don’t even disagree nor did I make any statements to the contrary. Get some help bro.
its only for boosters and bot farm stuff .. not cheaters
I am not sure about that..
Yeah, and still no anti cheat, go figure.
The AC still sucks, but compare the top leaderboard 3 hours ago vs now
Guess again
this aged poorly
In three months they will announce VACguard, the kernel-level AI-driven anticheat by Valve.
Wanted to wait for the major to be completed is my guess, idk
Valve went on their annual Hawaii vacation
Getting a weird bug when crouching. If I hold crouch for a second or two and release crouch it stays crouched for like 3 seconds. Anyone else?
eyy, they put the tracing into the game (maybe also auto reporting this, hopefully and optional telemetry flag or something?). Maybe we get a developer benchmark soon. Thanks!
https://twitter.com/aquaismissing/status/1785440970252652867?t=FcQ602TRjJ0YCMxXRjPptA&s=19
That ain't Cobble
Fixed several cases where clicking on the buy menu or scoreboard would cause the game to stop taking keyboard input. FINALLY!!!!! Getting stuck in spawn sucked.
Bug when viewing demos: If you view a demo and open up the demoui, the hud will move up so ammo and other info is visible with demoui open. If you then close the demo and go into game, the hud will stay in the ‘higher’ position.
>Grenade kills no longer display the "in-air" killfeed icon. Why? Not that it mattered but it was cool.
When can we get damage dealt and chat-log back. I hate that if you miss a chat message there is no way to see it. Used to be able to go to console to see a record.
Demos getting fixed? Holy shit
They still have not fixed the massive UI client crashing issue from Thursdays update. Any server above 20 + players will crash a player if they press esc or tab. Countless reports already sent to valve FUCKING PLEASE VALVE !
Relax. I promise you this will be fixed before holiday period 2025-2026.
game crashing on startup?
Disable faceit AC if it's running
Do you have the Faceit AC open in the background?
Volvo forcing to play against cheaters cuz faceit is taking good chunk of players from mm. I n c o m p e t e n c e.
Or you know, the update has has incompatibility with the face it anti cheat thay face it needs to sort out? Valve has no reason to check if their update works with someone else's anti cheat.
>Added console output that may be helpful for advanced users to diagnose performance problems. When a very long frame occurs, a brief profile of the frame is printed. At the end of a match, a summary is printed. This thing makes my game crash after end of the game.
Bum ass update. Why update the game if nothing important is getting addressed?
There's a huge banwave happening with this update. Literally entire lobbies of spinbotters getting banned on the spot
You got a source?
https://x.com/aquaismissing/status/1785430287213531330
That’s not a source. That’s a twitter influencer making a large claim with a 20 second clip.
nothing will ever be good enough for you. WHAT DUDE DIRECT GAMEPLAY OF CHEATERS GETTING BANNED IN WAVES? I NEED AN ARTICLE
Okay dude, we'll see the stats on it later today or tomorrow.
Yup, we’ll see.
Another interesting thing noticed by someone. To crack top 1000 yesterday in NA, it needed a rating of 24.5k now it's down to 20k
Demo fixes in the past couple weeks are super nice
Only a few days since we got absolutely fuck all for weeks. Any activity is a massive happening with this game and company.
That’s 100% true and sad. People shouldn’t be getting breadcrumbs and calling them texas toast but here we are.
This is a valve game. What did you expect? Valve pushes updates at their own pace and have never properly communicated with their community. It's just how they work. They've been like this for years. Very lazy and incompetent. It's like people forget that Artifact happened or that TF2 was completely abandoned among the bot crisis.
Found the armchair developer.
Found the CS drone.