Chitergate: Valve declares war to Chiters
Cheats are a stick about the two -edges. It is one thing to wind up money in a single campaign (this affects only you and entirely on your conscience), and it is quite another to frustrate in competitive matches, where hundreds of thousands of dollars are sometimes at stake.
Last month, a professional scene Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Excited a loud scandal. Frauds capture system Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) suddenly banned three famous players – two Frenchmen from Titan And Epsilon And the German from Alternate. The guilty, as they say, played with cheats in large online leagues.
French Hovik Tovmasyan And Gordon Zhiri (SF) At first they denied their guilt, but the German Simon Beck (SMN) He admitted almost immediately and said that, according to his estimates, about 30% of the players of the strongest teams in the world regularly play with modern cheats. But as much as possible?
The essence of the problem
Fraudulent instruments have always been and will be an integral part of the modern gaming industry. No one has yet managed to completely chop off the opportunity to use cheats, although there were innumerable attempts of such. Today, several successful “realmous” sites that have been distributing and selling a variety of cheats for many years are flourished: from free and almost harmless to expensive and high -tech in terms of secrecy and the effect of the effect of the game.
► primitive cheats for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. ► Khovik Tovmasyan (Kqly) was once one of the strongest players in Global Offensive, and today is considered an ordinary chiter.
The very fact of catching another portion of chiters did not cause special surprise among the community – they were caught even during the heyday Counter-Strike 1.6 , когда считалось, что анти-чит VAC почти бесполезен, потому как несколько лет толком не обновлялся.
All salt in another – in the cheats themselves, which have since become much more perfect. Previously at tournaments on Counter-Strike 1.6 much more modest money were played out, therefore, the attention of the creators of prohibited programs to discipline was significantly less. Now, there are several times more money on a professional scene-there are four large helmet tournaments with 250 thousand dollars of the prize fund at each and a dozen two or three smaller competitions, from Starladder Starsers and to overseas Esea. And you can also make a lot to make money on team stickers.
Thus, today, having a head on your shoulders and a good cheat, you can get into the world top in some six months, which means to win several dozen, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. What are you risking at the same time? Well, except that a reputation and a game career, which will immediately end after you are caught hot.
► command stickers from the ESL One Katowice tournament. Copenhagen Wolves Danes earned about fifty thousand dollars on their sale.
How the new cheats differ from the old? A week ago on the German site 99DAMAGE.de an interview appeared with one of the coders who decided to remain anonymous. According to him, there are five or seven people in Europe that can create high-quality high-tech cheats for Counter-STRIKE (for other games, we believe, too). The cost is different-from 500 to 800 euros, depending on the seller, most often practiced sales of annual support with preliminary familiarization through a beta version with cut functionality. The cooler the cheats, the more carefully their creator picks up future customers.
After the publication of this interview on Reddit, the legendary German creator of cheats suddenly appeared KO1N , who confirmed all of what was said, although he doubted the personality of the interviewee. It turns out that modern cheats have very wide settings (up to how many percent of the shots in which part of the body will fall), and can also be launched with smartphones (through applications on Android) and even cash in game devices with a “hard” memory ( mice, keyboard).
► a screenshot of a letter in which the Creator of Chita explains to his customers how to use it correctly. Posted on the Vaccen website.in.
In addition, it turned out that the aforementioned five or seven best creators of Europe are almost not familiar with each other, and if they maintain a connection, it is very rare, because there is strong competition between them (trying to “drown” each other if possible). Each cheat is written in different code, and VAC is almost not able to detect them. As for the caught three players, they all used a cheat from Coder SUPEX0 , Which, according to KO1N, is difficult to call the most advanced at the moment.
SUPEX0 cheat was made at Steam Workshop and loaded into the game through Steam Cloud. For example, he was sewn into a certain card through .DLL files that VAC did not recognize as alien. By its principle, it was a universal Aimlock with the ability to see the walls. Visually, the cheat was almost invisible – everything that he did, – brought your sight a little, setting it exactly on the pixel of the opponent’s head, which, of course, gave a huge advantage in the fights of the strongest teams of the planet.
► A modern cheat may well be correctly hidden in such an “AIM card”.
Chiters fly south
After two Frenchmen were banned, whose teams were about to take part in Dreamhack Winter 2014 And later they were disqualified, and a less titled German, the gaming community arranged a real “witch hunt”: everyone rushed to view the demos of other players, trying to find new cheaters. First of all, they took up very young players with good shooting, who have been knocked out in the elite in the last year. There are many such players in the Fnatic team, which is considered one of the best in the world.
Of the five shooters of the "black-orange" squad only Marcus Valsteen ( Pronax ) was a famous player in Counter-Strike 1.6 , The rest of the four or came from Counter-Strike: Source, or was known in the narrow circles of the Swedish gaming community. In principle, suspicions fell on all four, but most of all got Robin Roncvist , more famous as Flusha. The fact that his moments are very suspicious were recognized by all famous experts of professional CS: Go scenes.
The Creator of Chitov KO1N also mentioned Flusha and another player Fnatic – Olofmeister – hinting that they play with cheats, but with others, not from SUPEX0, and VAC cannot yet detect them. This stream of scandalous "stuffing" so scared the organizers Dreamhack Winter 2014 , that they forced all the players in CS: go to hand over their smartphones before the games and, in addition, turned off the Internet on computers in the tournament zone so that no one could download anything forbidden. Such procedures are often practiced in Starcraft 2, where the so -called Maphacks, opening the card were once very common.
► Video with suspicious moments performed by fnatic.Flusha
But why did Valve suddenly began to update her anti-shit and catch cheaters after ten years of actual inaction in this field? We believe that the matter is in the very development of e -sports in general and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in particular. Having made the game very controversial at the time of the release, Valve analyzed its potential for a long time before taking up the new “counter”. Two years ago, Go could boast of 20-30 thousand players online, and today their number sometimes exceeds 300-350 thousand.
Of great interest to the public are 250 thousand championships passing four times a year with the support Valve. Thus, the Dreamhack Winter 2014 Grand Final on the air was watched by 430 thousand people at different streams-much more than the spectators of a parallel league course Dreamleague By Dota 2. It seems that Valve begins to realize that the FPS genre in computer sports is not only alive, but also shows good growth dynamics. Who knows, maybe in 2015-2016 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Yours will already pass The International.
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In a word, e -sports is becoming more and more like traditional sport every day. The appearance of highly developed scammers is a typical side effect of growing up. Both players are checked for https://sister-site.org/goldenbet/ doping in large sports, and electronic competitions are not far before examinations for cheats. The cycle is repeated almost with surgical accuracy … Only e -sports has reached this much faster.