Originally posted by 30cm dinner plate:

The issue is that it's not just me but on average I see a player every match or two getting booted just like this for hours at a time. It's not a client-end problem when it's happening on that scale and if it was then what is the mystery shrouded VAC solution, especially when these bans happen due to the current in-game performance of the player? I just now was booted from a game just as I sat down to play in warmup of a casual match: I ran to the enemy spawn and hit like 5 or 6 headshots with a MAG 7 then got kicked. Not a minute of gameplay before being locked out of the game for hours. I don't care if you call it a ban or an error, who cares, I just want to be able to play my mainstay game when I'd like to for as long as I please, like literally any other game I've ever played. How could this be an issue with my computer when I've never been kicked when I'm playing poorly (most often), only when I'm playing aggressively and ripping a few kills off? It's 100% clearly an automated decision based on the player's input. I'm surprised all the other players this affects don't complain more, is this supposed to be the norm with VAC now?

Originally posted by 30cm dinner plate:

I only play casual, have 3000 something hours and have never as much as considered cheating in a game as I come from a first world country and had two parents. As of the last few months and again just now, every couple of weeks or so I get booted mid-game for no reason and locked out for a period of time that is shorter than it takes for me to forget the Valve service experience, then next session everything is back to normal and I'm playing with no ban or apparent record of it. These bans always occur when I'm putting up decent numbers and I've seen this happen to others in game who I know don't cheat at all as well as pros like Flom recently. This is especially infuriating when you're in a lobby with gripers who like to claim everyone is cheating and then they see a random VAC kick and feel validated to continue the constant grief. When this started I did the troubleshooting and reinstalling everything etc but how much homework fixing Valve's problem am I willing to do when I can just come back in a few hours? There are still clearly as many cheaters in the game as ever and if anything they are more enabled by this garbage algorithm randomly kicking whomever instead of them, and as for the actual cheaters, do they also just get to come back on a few hours after spin-botting and do it again? What exactly do you think Valve's strategy is here? If there's a permanent solution anyone knows other than just putting the game down until I forget how much it sucks please reply.

Originally posted by 30cm dinner plate:

The issue is that it's not just me but on average I see a player every match or two getting booted just like this for hours at a time. It's not a client-end problem when it's happening on that scale and if it was then what is the mystery shrouded VAC solution, especially when these bans happen due to the current in-game performance of the player? I just now was booted from a game just as I sat down to play in warmup of a casual match: I ran to the enemy spawn and hit like 5 or 6 headshots with a MAG 7 then got kicked. Not a minute of gameplay before being locked out of the game for hours. I don't care if you call it a ban or an error, who cares, I just want to be able to play my mainstay game when I'd like to for as long as I please, like literally any other game I've ever played. How could this be an issue with my computer when I've never been kicked when I'm playing poorly (most often), only when I'm playing aggressively and ripping a few kills off? It's 100% clearly an automated decision based on the player's input. I'm surprised all the other players this affects don't complain more, is this supposed to be the norm with VAC now?