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by temporarrry0923 1715 days ago
>as if it's hard to detect spinbotters

Valve couldn't figure it out for years and years.

Subtle cheats are absolutely a problem, but far less of a problem for the average new non-prime or fresh trust-factor player than a rage botter

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Couldn't figure it out or didn't figure it out? Valve has been notorious for neglecting the development of VAC and letting cheaters run rampant in Counter-Strike for over two decades. As we speak, there are probably public cheats in existence that won't be banned for at least another two years.
>Couldn't figure it out or didn't figure it out?

I've reported bugs to the VAC email and they were patched a few weeks later, so maybe they do try? I really can't think of a reason WHY they neglect VAC willingly..

>As we speak, there are probably public cheats in existence that won't be banned for at least another two years.

Yep, I used to help maintain a free one on github, the traffic was in the tens of thousands. Been UD for 2+ years (and it's a fork of another, which was UD for 2+). All because we use Java and VAC never started scanning the JVM.

How cant a server detect someone spinning a hundred times per second? Surely valve didnt even try