It seems like dishonest doesn’t pay, and Valve is out to show it in Counter-Strike 2. In its first set of patch notes, Valve doesn’t mince phrases; it’s banning cheaters and penalizing events caught benefiting from their actions.

As famous by IGN, Counter-Strike 2 cheaters danger extra than simply their very own in-game freedom. Valve’s replace warns that when a number of individuals are caught dishonest, gamers partied with them danger their very own account standing. The patch notes learn:

“When a number of occasion members get convicted of dishonest and completely banned, all their associates might be penalized with lack of Profile Rank and CS Score”.

Along with the cheater-by-association ban, the patch notes goal people hoping to piggyback their means by way of participant rankings with higher-skilled associates. “In Premier, gamers with a really excessive established CS Score aren’t allowed to occasion with accounts that don’t have a longtime CS Score.”

It appears that is a part of Valve’s newest answer to handle the prolonged historical past of dishonest within the Counter-Strike group, although the CS2 developer doesn’t actually clarify why or the way you’ll get flagged as an affiliate. The corporate carried out its first iterations of Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) again in 2002 and tuned the system right into a cheat-seeking missle over the past decade.

These are however a few of the adjustments, enhancements, and bug fixes discovered within the first wave of Counter-Strike 2 updates. Valve, in very Valve habits, launched Counter-Strike 2 at 4:40 p.m. ET on a Wednesday, formally retiring CS:GO.