Release Notes 14 January 2017

Hi everyone!

Since November we have been releasing a lot of significant updates, from the client Anti-Cheat to the FBI system and automatic bans. This week we decided to work on a number of small tweaks based on your feedback to improve the general experience on FACEIT, consolidate the work of the last few weeks with some bug fixing and add something quite a few of you have been asking us to add: Classic Offensive.

Classic Offensive

Since it’s first version came out this Christmas many of you have been asking us to support the community mod Classic Offensive on the platform. For those of you that don’t know it, it is a community mod of CS:GO that aims to bring back some of the feelings of 1.6 while retaining the mechanics of CS:GO.

As with anything that comes from the community, if we can help we are happy to help — starting today you can play PUGs and tournaments on Classic Offensive on FACEIT. You can play it by connecting your steam account here.

Servers are set up with the latest version (1.1d). Please remember to always check and update to the latest version before queuing on FACEIT.

To learn more on the mod, download and learn more on how to play see here. Congrats to ZooL and dayik for the success that the mod is achieving on greenlight.

Client Anti-Cheat Improvements

As you’ll have noticed we have been deploying quite a few updates to the Client in the last week. These are mainly improvements to the detection system and fixes to bugs and edge cases. We noticed that quite a few of you have been enjoying the statistics we released about bans last week. We expect to release something similar again next week.

Ban Hammer Ladders

The Ban Hammer Community Nights are partially funded by FACEIT Points revoked from accounts banned for cheating.

Finally, as promised last week we have been putting together two ladders that will run throughout the weekend that will give back to the community the FACEIT Points that had been won by the cheaters that we detected in the last ban waves. In the end we decided to give away 400,000 FACEIT Points between North America and Europe; 100,000 from cheaters accounts and 300,000 from us. This time around we decided to limit these ladders to premium members as most of these points were won in Leagues, meaning it diluted the potential prizes they could aim to.

You can find the ladders here:

Minor Releases & Fixes

After weeks of new feature releases we felt it was time to change all those small things that despite being minor may improve the day to day activity on the platform quite a lot and a few fixes linked to these releases. Here we mention a few of them.

Fixed a bug with the client Anti-Cheat that in certain cases was causing issues with audio in-game

Fixed a bug with the client Anti-Cheat that was causing intermittent mouse input lag for certain users

FACEIT nicknames are now enforced on TF2 and CS:GO servers to make players recognizable in the match room

Changed CS:GO overtime settings to MR3 | 10K

Fixed a bug that would have disconnected players from the Client Anti-Cheat at each update

Increased scalability of the server side data systems behind the Client Anti-Cheat to support a higher number of simultaneous connected clients

Added a link to the Anti-Cheat client to the footer

Added information & download links to tournaments that require the Anti-Cheat client

To avoid confusion stand-ins in tournaments are only shown when enabled

Divided organizer FACEIT Points balance from the personal balance

Added the ability for organizers to choose whether to give automatic losses to AFK teams in their tournaments

Added ability to partner organizers to force the use of the Anti-Cheat client in their tournaments You can find more information on how it works here.

Fixed the resizing and cropping of sponsor images for organizers

Optimized admin tool performance for partner organizer with the goal of releasing this to all organizers in the short term

Added VK social contacts to the organizer page

Removed short voting times that were creating bugs from the organizer options

Go back to FACEIT to enjoy these updates! GL & HF