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What is VAC? How the Controversy Around Valve's Answer to Cheating Changed CS:GO

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Competitive integrity is an important part of esports. If someone is cheating, they don’t just invalidate their own achievements, but also those of their teammates. And even respected pro players on top teams have risked it all by turning to hacks to improve their performance.

But it would be nearly impossible to follow through on cheating allegations without some sort of detection system, and Valve Anti-Cheat — or VAC — is exactly that.

Produced, Written & Hosted by: Josh Bury (@ThrownGauntlet)
Produced, Shot & Edited by: Miles Hackett (@miles_hackett)

Footage & Image credits:

Thumbnail image of Fnatic’s flusha, Olofmeister, JW and Krimz courtesy of ESEA (

Forsaken aim-lock twitch clip

Corutesy: eXTREMESLAND Asia

Forsaken Stage footage:

Courtesy: eXTREMESLAND Asia

DH Stockholm CSGO: Grand Final LDLC vs. Titan Map 3

Courtesy: DreamHack

“My VAC Account” video

Courtesy: Veteran Affairs Canada (YouTube)

kennyS AWP flick vs. NiP’s f0rest

Courtesy: Twitch.tv/DreamHackCS

How to report people in Overwatch

Courtesy: JayWaddy (YouTube)

Hack Vs Hack! : CSGO no VAC server

Courtesy: Ritlan (YouTube)

What it’s like to be VAC Banned in TF2

Courtesy: Disk Jockey J

Hackers on vac free server! Voice trolling 😀

Courtesy: OleNaess (YouTube)

Sir Billy Connolly:”F*** off means f*** off!”

Courtesy: Mudflap Films / Rainstorm Entertainment

Emilio [Team Property] VAC Banned on Stream

Courtesy: Fragbitecom (YouTube)

A Night at the Roxbury “Emilio” clip

Courtesy: SNL Studios

RedEye: “Brutal, Savage, Rekt”

Courtesy: Valve Corporation

GuardiaN AWP play

Courtesy: DreamHack

JW AWP ace vs. LDLC

Courtesy: DreamHack

GeT_RiGhT pistol jumping headshot

Courtesy: ESL

Frankenstein Torch-Wielding Mob scene

Courtesy: Universal Pictures

Footage of Fnatic players @ ESL Cologne 2015 grand finals

Courtesy: ESL

‘Reflections’ with flusha (CS:GO)

Courtesy: Thorin

Fnatic vs. NiP ESL One Katowice 2015 Grand Final – Map 3

Courtesy: ESL

s1mple wallbang vs. Mouseports

Courtesy: StarLadder

VAC Power Shot – Miracle- WR

Courtesy: StarLadder

Music used under license from Associated Production Music LLC (”APM”).

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42 comments

Nemanja Skoric April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

Here is the truth, i cheat for straight 3 years and didnt get banned, on Valve platform, in tournaments, in BC, in ranked games. That much about your VAC.

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Doro Desu April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

I was using cheat engine to spoof my steam download speed, forgot to close it and unhook from the steam downloader and got vacced from tf2

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Balder Christensen April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

????

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Cruz Games April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

I have a VAC ban because my 12 year old self decided to hack unturned ?

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TheWerewolf April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

how was the VACcening not called the VACcination. Lost opportunity

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dan mcfandom April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

Wtf veteran affairs Canada lol get that shit out of here ???

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Phantomdude April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

I got vacced because my account got scammed
XD rip my csgo skins

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Naive Gamer April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

vac ( F**K)

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Weaboo john Brand that unites April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

In other words theres no anti cheat in cs go

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John Jordan April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

id butter you so hard daddy <3

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USAGI April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

Hey! I have 11 fingers!

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tarvet pay April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

I hope flusha not cheat

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Trayan T April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

well to be honest most of Biggest pro player when they stoped to have some weird locks thru the walls they become really useless players French,Swedish scene are just easy example of this.

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JustFinnn April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

I think you are GeT_RiGhT brother

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ariyan sameni April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

You actually look like gla1ve but wider and definitely your head doesn't look like an egg

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Orella Minx April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

VAC is ridiculously easy to disable. Has been since 2011.

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CherryIsTrash April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

"Fuck off means FUCK. OFF."
My sides

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MiniKing_ YT April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

VAC – Valve's Answer to Cheating.

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I Cant Walk April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

The number 1 thing in the forums are “I got VAC ban for no reason?”

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Ian Miller April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

Flusha from Fnatic has obvious cheats based on several clips. He only didnt get banned because he cried about the vac hysteria

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=NolePtr April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

Only pro I've ever thought was cheating was flusha. Some of his mouse movements were fishy, imho.

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DUxMORTEM April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

So nothing on all the people VAC banned that werent cheating and proved it by showing the flaws in the program systems and how at one point VAC banned every player who played CSGO and got a wallbang at 1 point?

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C. Niner April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

Now use VAC on Apex 🙂

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Dryx Abrea April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

but VAC cant identify cheats in csgo today

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Spectrum gaming April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

I got a VACation in team fortress 2

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TheAkbobby April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

Haha. He said he’s soarry

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Raising Agent April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

I got global in Wingman from like DMG bc they overcorrected so hard when they banned my opponents UwU

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oxifyyy April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

Csgo right now gold and mg is hackers only

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Nikita Yudin April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

That kid though

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dante yasser April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

You are get right

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Charchar 7490 April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

I was just about to say u looked like get_right…

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Infidel556 April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

as someone yesterday in my server were using spinbot aimbot and walls hmmmmmm

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Kristian Severens April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

VAC is a worthless system though. I hacked in CSGO on my first account (I was 14 and stressed because of the amount of cheaters, sue me :P). I took Valve more then 14 days to ban me. 14 DAYS!. So trust me when there is a good chance of running into hackers. Also I got a VAC ban on Rust. Funny thing about it: I did not play Rust for 3 months, my account confirmed this. I never cheated in rust, hell I hardly play it. So i send an email to valve. Their response in a nutshell: If you got a VAC ban, you cheated. Ok then -__-. I am assuming this was my recording software, or monitoring software (gpu, cpu etc.). But valve does not care about that. It is a broken system that has poor detection and is left without control.

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Gachi Gasm April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

Cuckly?

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Netbase2000 April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

I remember punkbuster…. terrible piece of software

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climax050 April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

Wait wait waittttttt 1 in 216 chances of dating a millionaire? Is that like correct cause those odds seem pretty good hang on one second (literally about to fact check this,) and omegalul that kid writing as a dad that’s just a weak effort lmao

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gaddy555 April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

Baby don't hurt me

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Erwan April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

You are get_right

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Player April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

"Dream Hack"

Yeah Cheaters Dream Hack is EZFrags

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Alpha Phœnix April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

"hacks to improve their performances" the thing is that they don't have performances

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moshiko ssaass April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

vac is the biggest joke in gaming history, they should have just used logic and beat the cheaters with logic, or hardware id bans. wana hear example? playing on prime would means u must level up account to 100, all accounts will start from level 0 after update, none prime matches will be free for all, but to play prime u will need 3 months of hardcore play to reach that 100 level, it will demolish every fucking cheater, no cheater will work so hard to level an account for 3 fucking months to just get banned on the way and start over Lol or just after reaching that point. is no worth it at all. it will clean prime from cheaters period. simple fucking LOGIC<! if i can do it why valve cant? BECAUSE THEY ARE FUCKERS THAT GET MONEY FROM PRIME ACCOUNTS WHICH CHEATERS REBUY!

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Red April 13, 2019 - 11:01 am

4:37 holy shit what an opp

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