Massive VAC Ban for TF2 cheaters

Lol imagine the profit they could get with a massive ban wave on CSGO with people buying it again on another account XD

They actually have done a couple of those, 2 somewhat recently. The second of the two was one of the reasons the comp ranking got screwed up and they had to shift it a few months ago. (causing a lot of people to complain about losing rank which they previously gained)

There recently was a "bigger" ban wave were 3,2k ppl got sad... ;)
If you scroll down you can see the spike on "Recently Banned (by date)"
Also their inventory values they lost :}

http://www.vac-ban.com/

Can you transfer your items from a VAC banned account? I think you can't but I have absolutely no idea.

Actually, this is a bit bigger than that. Valve now knows what to look for with LMAObox, so they can deal with similar programs in the future (the reason why people did not get VAC-banned for it in the past was because VAC had no way of spotting it). The devs of LMAObox have also given up on it, meaning that it's gone. And this was one of the most disruptive cheating tools to date. Will someone create a new LMAObox-like program in the future? Possibly. But it will probably take some time, as they need to find some new loophole that VAC can't detect.

crud, I searched for vac and didnt see anything recent :\

some cheat program for TF2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q5z9nP0Fyw

since lmaobox is just TF2 I assume it's only that game. Wouldn't make sense to ban u on everything if u only cheated in one game

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7849-Radz-6869

Note:
If you receive a VAC ban in any of the Source Engine games listed above, that VAC ban will cause your non-purchased Team Fortress 2 inventory to be removed from the account.

Cheating in one of the following Source games or a Source mod will result in a VAC ban for all games in the list:
Counter-Strike: Source
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Day of Defeat: Source
Team Fortress 2

they do it to piss people off, thats why. thats the joy they get out of it, not feeling like theyre good, its knowing they are annoying others... which is why you can always spot an idiot during a game with a hacker.. they'll be the one whining, giving the hacker exactly what they want. If a hacker shows up, just leave, or enjoy the challenge of trying to kill him.

Physiological reasons, they don't feel they get enough attention in real life so they go onto games and do that in order to feel both accomplished and payed attention to.

it can be as simple as some people just cheat cuase are cheaters , its good to know they will get punished and maybe will mature from the experience

I am not into that kind of games but i am siding with the non cheaters they wanna enjoy playing their favorite games and a cheater is what an error that stops the game is to me

Why even cheat? Well, some people have some mental issues I guess...

I think your looking at it in the wrong way.No matter how good you make something someone or some people will find a way in.Like someone said once PC tech has far out paced what security can do to protect things,if you make a better firewall they just build a bigger ladder to get over it.

Its still a good system to catch most cheaters and evidence of that in the forums of people crying about not cheating but getting VAC'ed.Of all the games i played the VAC'ed games i found i had the least problems with cheating and i wish GTA V had it.
The best way to avoid cheaters in any online game is to find decent players to game with who do not cheat playing with randoms is a crap shoot even if they do not cheat as some like to just fuck up the game without cheating by just playing stupid which can be just as frustrating.

Being f2p and CS-GO being so cheap and easy to make dupe accounts cheating will always be a issue with these games.Unless they take more secure steps to cut down on this like limiting accounts per I.P. and so on this will always be a big issue in these games.

If someone can lock something up, there'll always be someone who will be able to unlock it :)

Not really, they are banning cheaters on tf2 which they didn't do for months,so no,they're not planning on something big,they just started caring about their own game. For once.

Does the vac ban actually affect his items? According to his steam inventory page, almost all his tf2 items are tradeable, including that burning flames team captain hat.

That sounds like bullshit to me. What about the poor bastard who just got a new phone, and the # used to belong to a cheater?

That was actually pretty obvious, if Valve wants to create perfect matchmaking then they must do everything they can to gather as much information about new account as possible, that includes not only IP, country, account age, but also e-mails, phone numbers, even friend connections and names sometimes. Basically anything that could help the system recognize that user is a smurf and not a newbie player.

However, the algorithm is pretty smart and works on all of that data at once, and not only selected part. That's why it's working in general, unless somebody puts serious effort in having 2-3 easier games, just to be marked as smurf shortly after, which doesn't make much sense to me but whatever :3.

People... I hate em all!

Awesome. And people wonder why society's going down the drain.
At least these kind of people are amusing. "Take away my ability to win". Still laughing :)

ability to win (...)

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