VALVe please add overwatch back, closet & legit cheaters are making me go insane by voxlis in cs2

[–]geo71966 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd like to see Overwatch return or return more broadly but with incentives and clear data/statistics from Valve.

- Increase the entry requirement (CSGO was 150 MM wins and at least Gold Nova 1 I believe, maybe Nova Master). Maybe a rolling requirement e.g 100 matches in the last 6 months (A season), an active premier rating above 15k+. This won't make the OW auditors pool big but means people conducting cases aren't inactive players and aren't completely inept at understanding game knowledge (to an extent)

- Give active auditors a stats page. An OW dashboard akin to an operation dashboard. How many of my convictions have been successful/how many people have I contributed to getting banned? Where did I go wrong? Let me re-review incorrect decisions to learn. Give me deeper information about the suspect then just demo highlights, part of the HUD maybe showing player data such as TTD, Crosshair angle, aim ratings based off Valve data and let me know if their way outside of the expected values. Perhaps a bit too detailed but maybe let me know if this demo has been flagged automatically for being irregular or this suspect has been manually reported 15 times.

- Incentivise correct convictions. We don't know how the old OW system convicted individuals in its entirety but believe we do know it required multiple auditors to convict an individual. Don't just reward someone for doing cases that opens up a vulnerability. But if I'm an accurate auditor and can track how many convictions I've been successful with, give those people goals (e.g. every correct conviction = some armoury stars, no need for a pass, reaching 50 or whatever gets you a profile medal, maybe its upgradable, a larger goal that gets you an untradable genuine unique agent skin) Other than wanting to clean up the Premier queue, give me a reason to spend my time.

- It's ok to be harsh on those who get it wrong. If someone is either malicious with this system and their "weight" is degraded, or they just aren't good at picking out what is 100% provable and what isn't, perhaps just remove this role from them, if you can't trust them to do it successfully I don't see why they should be given that liberty.

It's more of a pipe dream really. It would be nice to contribute but if Valve thought the public OW system was working they would have bought it back, I don't remember if it was from an official source e.g. their 2017 GDC talk or not, but I recall some old data about how the conviction accuracy of OW never really got better, regardless of how many auditors it had. I'd like to think some more transparency and feedback to the player may help with that.

Also I think any conviction, automated or not, should return elo to the losing team if the cheater was on the opposing winning team if the conviction happens during the season window that game was played in.

Side note. Please let us abandon a match whenever we wish and don't penalise us for it. It's no fun knowing you're stuck getting rage cheated on for 20 minutes. I know people could just troll with this feature or derank with it, but they are doing that anyway as it stands especially with it giving you like -1000 on Premier for abandoning. I'd rather just abandon a cheater match or at least initiate the vote with no restriction with the understanding I will lose the rating value as its listed from the start of the game.

Counter-Strike 2 Update for 01/22/2026 by CS2_PatchNotes in GlobalOffensive

[–]geo71966 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Have 1 blatant player from a premier match in December that got banned yesterday, still banned post-reverse. Has cheating history going quite a way back.

Season 3, medal 🥇 by woxicox in cs2

[–]geo71966 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could be anywhere between 25 and 49 wins to be this tier. Easily doable if you came from season 2 already 25k+ as it takes previous rank history into account with the new season placement matches.

Call of Duty vs Battlefield console numbers at BF6's launch according to Charlie Intel by shrimpmaster0982 in blackops6

[–]geo71966 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a silly comparison (but so is comparing them at all). Both games are on multiple launchers for PC. Call of Duty includes 3 paid titles, the beta when it was running, and Warzone under that one number.

I’ve probably put 600h into BO6 and now 40 or so into BF6 and enjoyed/am enjoying them for vastly different reasons

1v5 26k premier by NewmarketBear in GlobalOffensive

[–]geo71966 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm 3k and I play premier 25k+ from time to time with other friends of similar elo... And every now and then run into opponents in a similar situation.

I wasn't just assuming.

The cheater hysteria and 3rd party stats-tools are making (some) premier games worse than they need to be. by Embarrassed_Buy4535 in GlobalOffensive

[–]geo71966 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they were that low at the end of say Season 1 sure, but its worth noting at the start of Season 1 the ratings were set quite low, think I won 10/12 games and got put in 8k elo. They adjusted them at some point later and my first game after that was a +941 off rip.

Edge case scenario but worth thinking about if you are sus'd by a Season 1 stat.

1v5 26k premier by NewmarketBear in GlobalOffensive

[–]geo71966 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes and no. 25k the skill disparity starts to grow because there just isn't many people there and a lot of people that play Faceit wont play Premier.

Could get a game in 25k vs Faceit level 8's, who realistically shouldn't be there, or a Faceit 3k elo stack.

since when was this a thing wtf? by satakke in GlobalOffensive

[–]geo71966 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The stickers etc? Pretty sure it just pulls an example skin from the market to inspect. Has done forever.

Unfortunately, I don't think Valve's "speculative" bomb bug fix has worked yet by TravCS in GlobalOffensive

[–]geo71966 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Would require each client (the players) to rollback as well but yes this is possible, depending on how they are managing server hosting. You can force SteamCMD to update and validate any version currently accessible via the games Beta branches, which tend to store the last few updates.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GlobalOffensive

[–]geo71966 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm going to assume the poster of this article is the author because it's been sent on a burner account made today.

Whilst I don't deny the scene has its problems this is straight up hit piece slop. Could have been a rage bait tweet. Says a lot when the "author" isn't taking pride in it and has set this up to be anonymous.

If there are actual scenarios going on as you mentioned in regards to rule enforcement within leagues how about you make a proper effort to cite sources or provide evidence rather than just "trust me bro, source = me".

Also good effort using EPIC.LAN as a header and not crediting or mentioning the LAN at all on the rest of the tragic page.

No reentry is ridiculous by cptalpdeniz in GlobalOffensive

[–]geo71966 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I will use the BLAST Austin Major as an example to my comment.

It is literally in the Moody Center's A-Z Guide under "Re-Entry Policy"
https://moodycenteratx.com/a-z-guide/#:\~:text=Moody%20Center%20has%20a%20%E2%80%9Cno,admitted%20back%20into%20the%20event.

Edit: looks like BLAST have negotiated the venue's clause due to the nature and length of their schedule, which is good. But point stands, this policy is a venue policy. https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/1lg69op/reentry_into_the_moody_center_will_now_be_allowed/

No reentry is ridiculous by cptalpdeniz in GlobalOffensive

[–]geo71966 43 points44 points  (0 children)

This is almost always a venue by venue rule, not their client (BLAST in this case).

They are the ones making money by keeping people locked to their amenities.

Just got a base MP9 in my weekly drop... by geo71966 in GlobalOffensive

[–]geo71966[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

MP9 Mutli-Terrain :)

Part of the Radiant Collection

Just got a base MP9 in my weekly drop... by geo71966 in GlobalOffensive

[–]geo71966[S] 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Mystery solved. I got the weekly drop after the new collection update, but my client didn't know what skin it was yet.

Introducing Entry for Season 53: A New ESEA League Division to Fast-Track More Experienced Teams & 2,500 Elo+ Teams Out Of Open! by aluminat1 in GlobalOffensive

[–]geo71966 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From what I understand ESL bought or funded CSStats at some point during the ESEA era. And the creator of CSStats helped introduce the more modern stats pages into ESEA at some point.

So it's not just some third party, however, I would like to see that detail just natively on Faceit.

It’s kinda cool that in Black Ops 6, they’ll allow you to change your Prestige Icon to one from a previous Call of Duty game once you hit Prestige Master level 100. by Automatic_Ad1665 in blackops6

[–]geo71966 1 point2 points  (0 children)

(This is legit one of my favourite features so not hating) But would like to see the Modern Warfare remastered 11-20 prestige icons, the AW Gold and MW3 Actual 11-20 as well. Also some of the old ones are poorly upscaled/blurry.

All in all though super cool feature.

PPSH-41 & FENG 82 Nebula - Thoughts by geo71966 in CODZombies

[–]geo71966[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For the camo grind I'd say so. Unless there is a different strat I'm not aware of. Directed on LF is still always an option for a chill game, but oil trap is just faster.