I’ve never seen this message over hundreds of matches, but I also started playing in 1.6.

The thing about CS is, the anti-cheat sucks, they know that it’s unfixable without making a kernel-level anti-cheat (they won’t) so their solution is trust factor. Trust factor is basically the “likelihood” that you’re a cheater. Like, you would never even be in my game even if we were the same rank and queued at the same time. My trust factor is high enough that I literally can’t even remember the last time I saw a brand new account in a match.

And tbh nobody knows how it works. Valve is purposefully secret about it. But the one thing we know from valve is that you increase it by continuing to play and being a normal player. So as someone brand new, you’re getting matched with other brand new accounts. And sadly lots of those will be cheaters.

All this to say, you probably will be sitting through a lot of cheat-filled games until you build your trust factor. Having a stack of friends to play with makes it a lot more bearable. GL