Tag: VAC
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Steam: Watch out for false VAC bans!
There is a huge problem with Valve Anti-Cheat system at the moment. It seems that they have enabled a brand new manual rule that triggers a VAC ban on certain Steam accounts. If you launch Steam on Linux with an account name (OS account, not Steam account!) that contains “Catbot” you WILL be banned on…
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Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC): Another proof that false positive bans are real
Since I’ve started using Steam back in 2007 I had this little obsession of mine, well more of a concern. You see, every now and then I have some sort of paranoia that I might get VAC banned for no reason, like I sometimes read online. I used to be very cautious of what I’m…
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Steam Support: “Please uninstall your cheats.”
Haha this is hilarious check this out via reddit.
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Gabe Newell: Valve, VAC and trust
Gabe Newell posted an interesting message regarding VAC and more on reddit 2 days ago, check it out: “Trust is a critical part of a multiplayer game community – trust in the developer, trust in the system, and trust in the other players. Cheats are a negative sum game, where a minority benefits less than…
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VAC does make mistakes – Gabe Newell apologizes!
Here’s an official letter from Gabe Newell! Please read it. Hello, Recently, your Steam account was erroneously banned from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. This was our mistake, and I apologize for any frustration or angst it may have caused you. The problem was that Steam would fail a signature check between the disk…
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Alien Swarm coming this Monday FREE on Steam!
Alien Swarm is a game created by Valve – mostly by people who were hired from the mod community. The game will be absolutely free! You will have to kill thousands of alien scum with your friends in order to complete the game – the game has 4 player co-op. You will be able to…
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Another VAC controversy
I think most of Team Fortress 2 players heard about www.tf2items.com, a website in which you can look at anyone’s backpack from the game with items, guns and hats. The creator of the whole system – Drunken F00l – got VAC banned lately after he leaked a way to get…the golden Wrench. That guy claims…
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VAC banned by a Valve employee?
A Facepunch Studios forums user claims that he was banned by a Valve Employee for using a SourceMod plugin to activate some console cvars in the game itself (if you don’t know what SourceMod is it’s basically a plugin that’s being used on 99% of Source Engine games, you can do a lot of kinky…
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Modern Warfare 2: Hackers already active!
IW.net and VAC are so good!!!11 Cheat / Hack Free Games: The biggest benefit of using IWnet by far is the fact that you don’t have to worry about joining a server full of aim-bots, wallhacks, or cheaters. Or relying on the server admin of the server to constantly be monitoring, banning, and policing it.…
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Valve Anti-Cheat system does make mistakes?
Update: It couldn’t be a free weekend account because in that period of time there was no free weekends with VAC enabled games. It might be a guest pass though. So my bad if it is ;P —————————————————— This is a pretty delicate subject. No one really knows how Valve Anti-Cheat system works. Can you…