Wait for AMD update patch and Valve confirmation you can use that, or you’ll get VAC banned

  • kae
    15·
    1 year ago

    For those late to the party, this is a day old already. The drivers have been pulled, pending an update.

      • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
        172·
        1 year ago

        Bans should definitely not come with refunds.

        It’s also not on Valve. If you inject code in an actual competitive multiplayer game, you deserve to be banned. The fact that your hardware manufacturer elected to do so means Valve is going to change it, but they didn’t do anything wrong, and their tools didn’t fail.

        • phx
          1·
          1 year ago

          Valve is giving back 100% of the CS2 purchase price to banned players, don’t work

          • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
            8·
            1 year ago

            Yes, AMD is. They intercepted CS’s code and changed it. This is universally not permissible in competitive games, and by definition cannot be legitimate software. It doesn’t matter who shipped it. It was an insane decision by AMD.

            Cheaters being refunded is a giant “fuck you” to every other player who’s ever touched the game. I don’t even sort of give a shit about the company’s money. Cheaters deserve to be punished for their cheating. If companies were allowed to fine them many times the price of the game, too, gaming would be a far better place.

              • averyminya@beehaw.org
                2·
                1 year ago

                You do understand that false positives exist and are actively checked by Valve and that refunding actual hackers only incentivizes them to keep doing it? Plus CS2 is free so and it seems odd to refund just cosmetics.

                Regardless of what “actually cheating” is the fact of the matter is that the antilag feature interacted with .dll files which is extremely common for hacks, so any unknown tampering with those is going to get flagged to prevent possible cheating. False positives are rare and truly unaffected players are free to reach out and get those overturned.

                Not really sure what the issue is. Cheaters are annoying as hell and a driver update that changes how something interacts should be run past developers. This feature also affected EAC and Ricochet (CoD’s anti-cheat).

                But yeah, say more on how Valve is totally 100% to blame here. Uh huh.