Well-known CS2 professional claims Premier mode is ‘infested with cheaters’—and a whole lot of gamers agree

Ninjas in Pyjamas’ Counter-Strike professional Kristian “k0nfig” Wienecke mentioned on Oct. 12 that Premier is plagued with cheaters and it’s taking away from his want to play the brand new recreation mode designed for CS2, sharing a sentiment that many individuals in the neighborhood can agree with.

Although I’ve actually not performed CS2 as a lot as k0nfig, I’ve come throughout two extremely suspicious gamers in two out of the ten Premier video games I’ve performed. They match the identical description that k0nfig supplied: new accounts with low hours of CS:GO/CS2 performed, however they all the time knew the place my group was heading and nailed all of the timings with perfection.

They weren’t blatant spinbotters, however I might inform they had been most definitely utilizing wallhacks as their goal and motion wasn’t almost pretty much as good as their godlike recreation sense.

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Premier is the mode everyone who performed CS:GO over the previous 11 years needed. It’s a aggressive mode with a pick-and-ban part wherein your ranking is seen and you already know precisely how a lot Elo you’ll win or lose relying on the end result. It’s like taking part in FACEIT, for instance, however the distinction is that FACEIT is traditionally significantly better than Valve at conserving cheaters away from the servers.

CS2 was off to a fantastic begin but players have been facing more cheaters in Premier matches since the game’s global release and are already contemplating a transfer to third-party platforms resembling FACEIT. Just lately, Josiah “JoJo” Jimenez—one of many highest-rated Premier gamers on the planet—mentioned if Valve doesn’t begin giving again Elo when cheaters get banned, the Premier grind “is likely to be useless.”

Although VAC Live, a brand new anti-cheating device designed for CS2, is at the moment working, it isn’t adequate to detect all sorts of cheats whereas the match remains to be ongoing. It additionally looks like Valve is battling cheaters in the identical vein it did in CS:GO, which is banning hackers in waves after a popular cheating software gets detected.

Ought to Valve not go for a extra intrusive anti-cheat that’s extra able to conserving cheaters away from Premier and different official modes, I might see folks cease taking part in on the official servers and as soon as once more transfer to third-party platforms, killing all the aim of Premier.

In regards to the creator

Leonardo Biazzi

Workers author and CS:GO lead. Leonardo has been captivated with video games since he was a child and graduated in Journalism in 2018. Earlier than Leonardo joined Dot Esports in 2019, he labored for Brazilian outlet Globo Esporte. Leonardo additionally labored for HLTV.org between 2020 and 2021 as a senior author, till he returned to Dot Esports and have become a part of the workers group.

Author: Ronnie Neal