Hi All,

As you may have noticed, since the full release of the client Anti-Cheat we have been working non-stop on updating it and have been pushing almost an update per day. In this post we recap some the updates we pushed.

Anti-Cheat Updates

As usual we will limit the disclosed changes to those that do not affect the security of the Anti-Cheat. The main updates we pushed over the last week in terms of user experience are:

Fixed an issue with encryption that lead to Invalid Certificate or Corrupted Packets errors when connecting to the server

Fixed an authorization error with some of the clients

Tagged over 150,000 users to force the AC over the Christmas period

There is obviously a lot more than this, particularly in terms of detection improvements, which we are not able to disclose (hopefully the list below will speak on its own though). The results of the Anti-Cheat so far are way above our expectations, with a lot of private and paid cheats already being detected, with some unsuspected casualties as high as in the FPL Challenger League.

Ban List

Many of you have been asking to put together a ban list with users that have been banned for cheating. While we are working on it we thought it could be nice to have a list of those who got banned since the AC release in this post. Putting all banned accounts in here would wake it way too long, we therefore decided to put a couple of samples as well as a few stats that may be interesting for you;

Since the full release of AC on December 24, 2016:

Banned players: 1,608 or 124 per day

FACEIT Points on their accounts: 100,000+

Tagged Players: 150,000+

Min Matches Played: 1

Max Matches Played: 1,970

Max Positive Reports: 305

Max Reports for Cheating: 227

Min Reports for Cheating: 0

Our PM after the ban waves…

Below you can see a list of the top 100 ELO caught cheating by the Anti-Cheat:

Since this was one of the first ban waves with the client Anti-Cheat we decided to go an extra mile to detect any false positives and enrich the detection system we have in place — for each of these accounts we checked whether they had an account in other platforms and their ban status. While many of the players in this list seem to be undetected on other CS:GO platforms, for each of these we were able to confirm the bans and the cheating software used thanks to the client side detection. Please note that at the moment the “stats” page on the site does not include the bans we did from the client AC detections.

Additionally, given that the banned accounts had thousands of FACEIT Points we decided to give these back to the community in the form of a community night. Next weekend we will be hosting a CS:GO community night with 200,000 FACEIT Points in prizes; 100,000FP from the banned accounts and 100,000 added by us as a form of repayment for not having acted earlier.

Finally, in the coming days we will update the stats page to include bans from the client (these are currently not shown on the stats).

Other / Minor Updates: