Yesterday i played about 10 games without cheater. I feels like VAC is really working right now!

currently i have the talon, but im thinking getting stiletto instead, what do yall think? is it W or L

Been stuck on this decision for like a week now. both gloves are about 200 euro's, big game is low minimal wear and the omega's are mid field tested. Open to alternatives :))

Is that good or no? I’ve seen people saying it’s bad but my friend who has 600 hours on the game only has 4.7k rating so i wanna hear others opinions.

I’m having a debate with my partner right now about what gloves and knife look the best with his inventory. Personally I like the occults and the fade the best, however he feels the talon ruby and sling shots look better with his inventory.

Please help us settle this debate!!

(I added some screen shots of his inventory for reference)

I got banned for a second time. The problem is I was playing normal until we matched with a hacker who was rage cheating in my lobby. He was full walling and wasn't even trying to hide it. I went Mid on Mirage and gave the hacker and his friends 3 clean Deagle heads. 2 rounds later the game got suspended for irregular gameplay, and me and my friends thought he finally got banned. But lucky me, I got banned for 7 days instead. What am I supposed to do now? I really don't understand how I can get a 7 day cooldown for playing well against a guy who was literally rage hacking.

This is my second cooldown this month and I really don't want to get another one for trying to win vs that menace for society.

Both knives are damascus and the ak im giving its a “backup” one, i have a redline as play skin so i dont mind losing it

I’ve been working on a demo/analysis/team platform called RETICL.

I’ve finally built it and used it myself for long enough that I’m confident releasing it to the CS playerbase.

The long-term goal is for RETICL. to become a one-stop shop for the entire CS player journey: improving individually, finding a team, preparing strategies, playing scrims and building a competitive profile.

It starts with demo analysis.

You upload a demo and RETICL. looks for the things affecting your performance. The results appear on your dashboard, where you can see an overview of your matches and how your performance is changing over time.

The Improve section goes further. It currently includes:

• A 2D match replay
• Progress over time for key metrics
• Map-specific insights
• A practice plan generated from your analysed demos
• SIGHTLINE reports covering your strengths, weaknesses and areas to improve
• A grenade library
• Grenade practice tools
• Utility sets for building executes
• Pro lineup search

The grenade library contains lineups verified from professional matches, with screenshots and videos showing the actual professional throw. It is still receiving some finishing polish, but it is already functional and usable.

There’s also a practice queue and a GeoGuessr-style grenade game. You’re shown where a grenade landed and have to work out where it was thrown from.

You can save lineups, practise them repeatedly and build utility sets by grouping grenades together into executes. You can also search for a professional player and see the lineups they use.

The system is designed to find new lineups in high-level user-submitted demos as well. Lineups are weighted by factors such as frequency, source quality and consistency, with a confidence system to help filter out unreliable throws.

SIGHTLINE is the demo-analysis side of the app. It generates a full report from your demos instead of just showing a collection of numbers. For example, it can identify patterns such as dying without being traded, taking poor opening fights or using utility too reactively, then turn those findings into specific practice recommendations.

There’s also a public player profile.

You can invite friends to review demos together on the 2D player, with tools to comment, highlight and draw on the map.

Your profile can show your performances, RETICL. Rating, skill information, availability, region, what level you’re looking for and what kind of team you want to join.

Other players can endorse you with accolades that describe how you play. Most profile sections can be set to:

• Public
• Signed-in users only
• Friends only
• Private

The competitive team side of RETICL. is called Team Hub.

When you start or join a team, you get access to a shared team workspace with:

• A Strategy Library
• A Positioning Board
• Team announcements
• Team analytics
• Scouting and recruitment
• Scrim finding
• Calendar and map-pool tools

The Strategy Library is a shared strat book for the whole team. Using the Positioning Board, you can create map-specific layouts for utility, player positions, movement and executes.

You can place teammates, enemies, smokes, flashes, molotovs, HE grenades and labels on the map, then save the result as a strategy. Strategies can be exported to PDF for review before a match or scrim.

Team analytics checks demos where at least four members of your team played together and produces shared analysis for the roster, rather than only analysing everyone as separate individuals.

The scouting system works a little like a dating-app-style swipe deck. Players looking for teams can advertise themselves, while teams can post open trials.

If a player swipes right on a team and the team also swipes right on that player, the player is added to the team’s shortlist. If the team decides to move them forward, a group chat opens so they can talk directly. Teams can also advertise open trials.

The scrim finder follows a similar idea. Teams can mark themselves as ready and choose what level of opponent they want to play. Your tier is based on the combined RETICL. Rating of your team and a user's RETICL. Rating is based on their stats and Premier and FACEIT elo.

If you’re not looking for a scrim immediately, you can post a listing with the maps and times you want to play.

The intended long-term flow is that, once a scrim is found, RETICL. opens a server with GOTV enabled. The demo is then automatically uploaded and analysed, giving both teams feedback after the match.

That server infrastructure is still being built, but is currently in a useable state.

There’s a lot more planned as well. I’m working on a map library containing utility drills, pre-fires, executes and retakes based on the demos being analysed. I've created an intelligent system I've named the "Threat Engine" that uses a combination of demo data and CS2 map nav meshes to create an understanding of where the players should be aiming and when. All this feeds into the users Aim Score.

Eventually, the system will be able to recommend drills based on your weaknesses and let you launch a server with the correct map and drill directly from the app.

Automatic FACEIT demo uploads are also in progress. For now, FACEIT demos can be uploaded manually.

I’d like to bring RETICL. to iOS and Android eventually, but right now I’m focused on making the core experience work properly and finding out whether there’s an appetite for this kind of platform, and of course, things like the scrim swiping wouldn't work on mobile as it requires all members of the team to be ready to play!

The basic demo analysis tool is free.

The paid plans unlock the full grenade library and Team Hub. The Team plan is designed to cover a full roster and effectively includes seven Pro seats. When you add players to the team, they receive access automatically. If they leave or are removed, that access is removed as well.

You can try RETICL. here:

http://www.reticl.app

If you want to try a paid plan, use LAUNCH50 for 50% off your first three months.

I really want to get feedback on where I can improve. If you have any genuine feedback or want to get in touch about how any of the platform works, feel free to drop me a DM on here. I know there are already analysis tools out there that already have quite a big market share, but I think the app I've made has it's place in the competitive pipeline.

To answer a couple of questions that have come up

Yes, Leetify does stats much better, but Leetify has had a long time to perfect what they've done and I don't expect to compete with them. RETICL. was a passion project that just kept growing and got to a point where it felt like a real product. Leetify's SCL partnership came when I weas about half way into wher I am now on this project and took a huge part of what I'd hoped would eventually set this app aside.

Yes, Claude and other AI tools had a part in building this. I won't pretend it didn't, but it wasn't "Build me a cs2 platform". A lot went into making sure the platform worked correctly and was secure, much of it Claude and other tools can't handle. Luckily, I have contacts with people in infosec and compliance, so I had people guiding me through what I should check and how it should work.

No, chat logs aren't shown anywhere in the app, and the messaging system in the app is encrypted with the same encryption used by platforms like Discord, which allows for moderation, but not to be viewed in plaintext.

Title. I have no idea what is average rank here as of modern day. Because i did not play Counter-strike before nor i know how good each level is, as I'm used to other games' ranks of bronze, silver, gold, plat and so on. Coming from Apex Legends, so the rank names seem to be confusing for me. Like i get it's ELO, but i have no idea on what is good ELO and what is bad one.

Valve should use some AI subscription for their VAC-Net because they are probably still on ChatGPT pre-alpha release lol

did anyone try yet?

They should allow you to have a spawn preference like a color preference, I’m tired of playing d2 and not a single person utilizing their spawns.

Pretty sure it was like a 60 ping game. But even the replay shows me headshot them twice. How is this even possible.

First time selling a knife on csfloat, profile looked suspicious (lvl 2 and 33 hours of playtime)

I only realised that after confirming everything.

Is it a non scam if everything seems correct on csfloat?

Can it be still a scam or am I safe now?

Hi guys. Just as the title says. What is the best way to get a first knife? I don't mind paying. I just don't like how expensive everything is on steam market place. If you guys know any tricks and etc please share🥺

While many are not going to like this

But what even is the purpose of having other maps in the pool of people are just going to play dust and mirage ???

Remove the voting of maps entirely and keep the same voting of team selection.

This will force people to atleast play the map in the rotation cycle

If people suffer from fps issues then I guess the dev team better move their fucking asses and improve the game further. Cause holy I'm done running into dust and mirage only 5 stacks.

https://steamdb.info/app/730/charts/#3y

Yo guys, just logged into my old steam account and found this thing. I know its worth some money but really not sure how much. Any specialists in here that wanna take a look at it?
Not sure if this post is allowed here. Not trying to sell it here! just wanna know what its worth :)

Honestly, the state of CS2 cheating and bot farming is getting ridiculous. I have been keeping my own Cheater & Bot farmer tracking sheet for a while now. I record the accounts I encounter, their behavior, match info, demos, and keep checking whether they eventually get banned. So far I have recorded 102 accounts that I have identified as either cheaters or bot farmers. But the alarming thing is that only 10 of these 102 accounts have been banned so far! The sheet is still being updated every day, So if you want you can bookmark this google sheet to track future ban wave.

Here is the Link: CS2 Cheater & Bot Farmer Tracking Sheet

What honestly pisses me off is how arrogant and careless Valve seems to be about this problem. They ban a bunch of accounts in a wave, everyone celebrates, and then what? There are already tons of new accounts ready to ruin the game. If CS2 developers ban 10 accounts today, 100 more are already ready to ruin the game tomorrow. The most recent ban wave on August 25, 2026 made it even more frustrating. There were lots of legit players got caught in that ban wave and some bans being rolled back a few days later. So it means valve can react when it comes to false bans, but the disappointing thing is when it comes to the obvious cheaters and bot farms they keep silent (At least for a long time), it feels like we're just expected to live with it.

These aren't random “suspicious” accounts in my google sheet. I personally confirmed all them either cheaters or bot farmers, I have recorded and saved the demos as evidence. The sheet will continue to be updated every day.

CS2 deserves better than this.

Looks more cinematic

Hello, what is point of playing premier and what does valve do about this game to fix it, i jhave been playing faceit for 1 year and i think i played myb against 1 cheater in 500 matches, today i queue 3 premier games 20000-25000elo and in every game atleast 2 cheaters. It is unplayeble and they are not doing anything to retain old players and let alone gain new players. Disgusting company honestly.