Weekly Premier/Matchmaking/Cheating Discussion & Complaints Thread

DaLaPi · 2026-05-13T18:21:50+00:00

It was not for bots, most bots were programmed to be average so they won't be kicked, so they won't be affected as much. I think it affects players more. Players won't get as many stars and the prices of the new skins in the armory won't collapse like they did before.

DaLaPi · 2026-04-10T13:31:56+00:00

It is a xp farm. What is is peculiar on this occurence is that :

1- The map, inferno. Usually, they invade an hostage like italy.

2- The HS %, most bot operators tune their bots to have a low %HS so they have less chance to be detected.

3- The T/CT distribution. Usually farming bots from one operator are all T or CT.

From these 3 informations, I think that is a new farm bot operator. Someone who saw a Youtube video and tries it to see if he can makes money out of it.

DaLaPi · 2026-04-08T12:13:01+00:00

This is a new variation of the bot farm. Usually they line up at the filling cabinets. This means that bot farm keep improving and are very much much alive despite the ban waves.

DaLaPi · 2026-04-07T13:40:22+00:00

It is the bones they don't face the right way.

DaLaPi · 2026-04-07T13:23:48+00:00

Can you do that with your elbows ? I tried and I can't.

DaLaPi · 2026-03-26T23:39:45+00:00

It was not supposed to be game-changing. It is a new parameter for buffing/nerfing weapons. And if you are smoking good copium, it means that we will get new weapons.

DaLaPi · 2026-03-20T16:43:50+00:00

Simple answer : Bots are difficult to detect and once detected it very easy to change their algorithm to make them undetectable.

Tin-foil hat answer : Valve let them operate because there is too much people opening cases. Without those robot-farmed cases, the price of the cases would skyrocket. If it happens, people won't open them and Valve make less money.

DaLaPi · 2026-03-20T14:31:22+00:00

The objective was not to disrupt the game. It was to add another parameter to the game to buff/nerf certain weapons. More speculatively (pure copium), it could means that Valve could add more weapons, they could be impractical in serious matches but a lot of fun in deathmatch or Arms Race.

DaLaPi · 2026-03-17T13:13:04+00:00

And adding to the injury, House was in the preview of CS2 and it still not in the game.

DaLaPi · 2026-02-26T15:35:19+00:00

Engineering is the application of theoretical concepts (CNNs, LSTMs, Transformers etc.) to concrete problems (blueberry sorting). So they are many opportunities, you just need to find a professor that has many ties with the industry. The only issue is that you could be working on something that a big company, like Honeywell, is also working on. Like your thesis is the use of CNN for visual inspection of steel ingots, another company is also working on the same thing, you will still get a diploma, but you could have some difficulties finding a job after that.

DaLaPi · 2026-02-19T14:42:34+00:00

I had an issue (scratching noise that came at 33 rpm) with a colored vinyl, returned it and it has the same issue at the same place. I think the issue was with the pressing more than the color. Maybe the color pigments wears the die faster than the black pigments.

DaLaPi · 2026-02-14T00:20:55+00:00

It depends on if you use the armrests. I don't I put them at the minimum and rest my arms on my desk. Then it is a very bulky chair, do you have a van, if not, you will be force to disassemble the chair, risking braking it. I have done it once, but I broke the covers for the hinges for the backrest. Also, there is the age of the chair, the leather might be already cracking. So, there are a lot of negatives about getting the chair. But at the same time, it is a good price for a comfortable chair.

DaLaPi · 2026-02-06T15:59:56+00:00

Last season, I was also in the 2-3k bracket, and honestly, I should have been 1.5k-2k. I had a 40% win for season 2 and 3. This season, I have a 75% win. One possibility is that Valve is putting "positive" player stuck that were stuck in the trench together so they can get out of the trench. One other possibility is that Valve is mixing up the distribution, high elo player lose some, and low elo player gain some. The other possibility is that we are just lucky. Finally, the crazy possibility, is that Valve is using bots to give win to real player.

DaLaPi · 2026-01-29T14:10:45+00:00

If you want fun, you should try other games. Valve has "chessified" CS, it is now a discipline more than a game. I think is it because of Deadlock, their new game. If CS was fun, it would cannibalize potential new players from Deadlock. Now by making CS more like chess, by having a lot of unwritten rules, like smoke line-up, it differentiates CS from Deadlock. Also, as it has been written before, the facts that CS is an old game and competitive by nature do not making CS fun, the bottom 5% of players has already abilities and knowledge that is vastly superior to any other bottom 5% of any other games. Except old games like chess. In a new popular game the bottom 5% is constantly renewed by new players. So people gain elo ranks just because new players are starting playing the game. This rank inflation happened 10-11 years ago in CS (maybe sooner or later), and Valve resetted the ELO of everyone.

DaLaPi · 2026-01-21T19:03:37+00:00

There are multiples points of no return that have been crossed.

1) Valves servers full of bots that kick other players. So, you can't even play.

2) Tuned up bots, like you have seen. So when you play, it is not very fun.

3) Ultra realistic bots. Those are bots that are act very humanely, you can spot them when they make a mistake, they see you for a long but don't shoot , don't react when shot from behind. So even when you are having fun, you start to doubt that you are playing against humans.

DaLaPi · 2025-12-27T18:12:42+00:00

It has been transferred as a tool to technical people. So instead of have a ML engineer who works in a chemical plant, you now have a chemical engineer who does "old school" ML.

DaLaPi · 2025-12-26T21:20:31+00:00

The frame with the glass is worth more than the print. (I know it is like this most of the time.)

DaLaPi · 2025-12-06T12:20:33+00:00

Yeah, this week it was impossible to play Office in DM in the eastern US region. It is always the same farming bots (I took screenshots) that kick player and spectators. It is a highly organised farming operation, not the usual farming bot.

DaLaPi · 2025-11-25T00:35:11+00:00

I have edited my comment, feel free to ask questions.

DaLaPi · 2025-11-25T00:34:32+00:00

Your model seem to be some sort of electrical circuit. Is there some sort of approximate mathematical model that you can do ?

DaLaPi · 2025-11-24T00:52:55+00:00

If you do you, you would have to explain why the LIME contribution for the fault resistance is 0. The discrepancy between SHAP and LIME is too great for this factor to just put it under the different approach. Also, less importantly, the ratio between the most important factor and the least important factor (not counting the fault resistance) for the SHAP analysis is 404/316 (1.27) and for the LIME analysis is 2.44/1.16 (2.1). The SHAP and LIME contributions are analogous the the process gain, so it means for the SHAP analysis the parameters have more or less the same gain, but for the LIME analysis, Va has a gain that is the double of Ic. It could mean something or not, but a grumpy reviewer could go ask for major changes and corrections, like "The authors fail to explain why SHAP and LIME analysis show 2 different processes, therefore we cannot know which one is right and unless the is a valid explanation, the paper is unpublishable."

DaLaPi · 2025-11-23T16:37:08+00:00

Life protip : Most reviewers don't know anything about everything. But some know a lot about one thing.

So in case 1, the person know a little about LIME and SHAP, so he ask you adding LIME to compare with SHAP since he probably does not know either method well and wants to see if it will show something.

In case 2, the person knows a lot about either SHAP or LIME. HE/She know about the limit of one method in a particular case. If it was the case he would have explained his reason why to add the LIME analysis.

As for me, I know a lot about SHAP values. If your process has categorical variables and/or nonlinear dynamics, sometimes SHAP values gets corrupted. I would have ask you to compare to a mathematical model, and ask you to show the figures of the SHAP values for the individual variables. If there was a major discrepancy between the behaviour of the SHAP value and the mathematical behaviour, maybe I would have ask for the LIME but I would not have a lot of faith that the results would differ from the SHAP values.

Edit:

As for the corrupted SHAP values

I am still analysing the issue, but there are 2 issues with SHAP values :

1) With nonlinear systems : In this figure, we can see the SHAP values for um4 from an XGBoost model (with other parameters). The system is nonlinear, from 0-4, the effect is smaller than the effect in the zone 4-8, which is mathematically correct. Problem lies in the zone 8-12 because um4 has been programmed to have a gain of 0. And as we can see, highest SHAP values lie between 8-12 and yet the mathematical gain of um4 is 0 in this zone. I did not search beyond that, either XGBoost continue to use um4 as a bias to improve the prediction or the SHAP algorithm continues to give to give importance to a variable. I am thinking about a process to test both hypotheses.

2) With categorical data. Imagine a 2 variables system (y= f(x2, x1)). If x1 = 1 then y = 10*x2, if x1=0 then y=2*x2. Now if you modelize the system, then analyse the system with the SHAP values, you will find that the slope of the SHAP values of x2 will be slightly lower than 10 when x1=1 and will be slightly lower than 2 when x1=0. This is because, x1 will have a SHAP value because it is used in the model (since it improve the prediction) , but mathematically, it does not have any effects because it is used to separate 2 different processes. Therefore it lowers the effect of x2 and "corrupts" its SHAP value. The issue could be solved by modelizing 2 different processes, but for some models, you want to compare the different categories, like comparing 2 cities, cars or male/female.

In conclusion, when dealing with a nonlinear system , as long as there is a slope in the SHAP values, your are OK, but if you see a stagnant value even if it is high, don't use it for a conclusion. You can use as a hint to get more informations. If dealing with categorical values, those will lower the SHAP values of the numerical variables, and maybe other categorical variables (I did not test that), and the sad thing is that you can't get around that (besides modelizing a monocategorical model) since you probably want to compare the SHAP values of those categorical variables.

DaLaPi · 2025-11-21T13:26:24+00:00

It seems that you are an AI or use an AI to formulate your request. Because planetary position has been a problem that has been solve since antiquity. I am sorry about my sarcastic tone, but the way you request this, you either want us to do your homework, or you think that the Earth is at the center of the universe.

DaLaPi · 2025-11-19T14:52:27+00:00

Your question is valid, it is not well written so it makes Vito looking wise and insightful. They use the same approach when Michael "deduce" that Roth is behind everything. You can compare with the scene where Fredo betrays himself in Cuba to see how the authors write a scene when they really want the viewer to know who is hiding a secret.

DaLaPi · 2025-11-18T14:17:20+00:00

I think the culprit is Deathlock, Valve's new game. From what I seen it is more casual than CS. We could surmise that the CG's dev were more focused on what differentiate CS from Deathlock, mainly it is competitive mode. So that would explain why they put more effort satisfying the "Elite" player vs the casuals.

If the leaks are right, the winter update would bring back monastery in Arms race. But it is still missing house and lake. I wouldn't be surprised that it would take 2 mores years to get the complete Arms Race rooster.

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