Counter-Strike’s anti-cheat system starts banning players who move their mouse too quickly.
Clearly, the release of Counter-Strike 2 did not go smoothly. While many players were banned after activating AMD’s Anti-Lag+ option, Valve’s (VAC) anti-cheat struck again this week.
New week, new absurd reason: if you move your mouse too quickly, you risk getting banned from CS2.
Counter-Strike bans players who are too “fast”?
The case first emerged on Reddit, with numerous testimonies from players having been banned following very specific, but harmless, behavior. The latter adjusted the DPI (the sensitivity measured in dots per inch) of their mouse to a very high value, above 10,000, and received a sanction after moving their camera frantically.
From the outside, the character seems completely glitch and many players have fun with this kind of animation in FPS games like Overwatch, Valorant And CS2. Except that obviously, the anti-cheat of Counter-Strike 2 considers this behavior suspicious.
The hypothesis from the PCGamesN site is very probable: VAC seems to associate these chaotic movements with the technique of “spin botting», a cheat which consists of having your character shoot randomly on the ground before automatically targeting an enemy as soon as they get too close.
Valve has not yet commented on the subject, but it will not be long before given the numerous testimonies, an update to VAC should arrive shortly.
While we generally advise you to increase your DPI up to 1600 to benefit from optimal latency, there is no reason for you to choose such high settings. Especially if they prevent you from playing your favorite game.