128 tick and intrusive anti-cheat community petition

EDIT: PLEASE VALVE GET SOME MORE QUALITY PERSONNEL IN YOUR CS DEVELOPMENT TEAM. GAME OF THIS SIZE SUCH AS CS2 DESERVES ROYALTY TREATMENT. THE PLAYERBASE WILL THANK YOU IN BILLIONS OF USD. IT'S TIME TO EXPAND IN 2023, DON'T SLEEP ON US. IT WAS PROVEN AGAIN ON IEM SYDNEY 2023 HOW INSANE ESPORT CS IS. I think I speak for everyone right now that were in touch with Counter-Strike in the last 23 years that 128 tick and intrusive anti-cheat is necessary for the actual builds of Counter-Strike 2.

I know that the future of FPS games netcoding is very exciting and netcoding evolution obviously won’t end with 128 tick rate servers. I know that Valve was planning giving us something else that a lot of people are experiencing. The instant and accurate shooting feedback should have been 100% consistent. Movement should have been more fun and more precise than CSGO 128 tick system, but this more precise system just still don’t have its time yet. Valve are using us all playing CS2 for testing their still in development tickless system and we have no choice of playing on classic 128 tick servers with very good reputation working almost flawlessly for years. Despite we all play the full release of the game. We don’t really know how far is tickless system from working as it should. There are no development blog posts from Valve and Valve communication on social media trough meme gifs is not enough. This left us in a fog of not knowing what to expect, being mad, grumpy and sceptic.          

Next thing I want to talk about is the Counter-Strike cheating problem. It began to be obvious that in 2023 e-sport FPS titles the intrusive anti-cheat is mandatory. Faceit intrusive anti-cheat, judging by official statistics happened to make only 0,6% of matches disturbed by cheating. Other titles such as Valorant have their success because of their Vanguard anti-cheat + hardware bans. To be honest I think that crazy majority of people playing competitive FPS wants to play Counter-Strike. They just wants clean matches being fair to everyone. Counter-Strike official servers anti-cheat servers should have great reputation. AI based anticheat called VAC live can terminate the match mid-game but since the beta of CS2 can’t manage to detect majority of paid cheats. Lot of people playing CS2 met a cheater at least once than has never been banned since the start of beta season making their experience terrible. I suppose AI based cheat not being able of scanning the screen of CS2 and not scanning the computer files won’t never be enough in cheating software and anti-cheat ratrace.

I wish to make this post as an official petition adressed to Valve Corporation. Thanks to everyone reacting to this post and sharing his view. Counter-Strike 2 in the last month managed to surpass over 30 million of unique players playing that month. Im not afraid to say that Valve is now just few decisions away from surpassing over 60 million of unique players and more in the future. This can lead into money income never seen before in the videogame industry. Making Counter-Strike 2 the best Counter-Strike to play and watch. These two things would have solve about 90% of the problems we are experiencing with Counter-Strike 2 right now. Game is running on a clean game code made only by Valve running on Source 2 engine and Source 2 tools being capable of crazy potential, Valve is pushing updates almost every day. Lot of things gets fixed and numerous of things about Counter-Strike 2 is insanely nice. Counter-Strike 2 is a game made from the ground up on an already extremely polished base of CSGO. We all saw the amazing hard work made by extremely talented individuals from Valve on Half-Life, on Counter-Strike, Portal and etc. other game development studios won’t be able to produce. Like I said before, all the people playing FPS games wants to play Counter-Strike. But they don’t have the build of Counter-Strike they want yet. The game of this unique community, maps, skins, modding, movement, gunplay, simplicity, crazy crowds, adrenaline rushing tense matches can’t be replaced by any other game. Lets just make the football of e-sport games happen.