techspot Valve bans keyboard automation exploits in Counter-Strike 2

[UltraMega]

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For those not up to speed, Razer caused a bit of a stir in the competitive gaming community when it added support for a feature called Snap Tap to its Huntsman V3 Pro keyboards. The tech more or less eliminated input lag when switching between opposite directions in games like Counter-Strike 2, leading to movement that is otherwise impossible.

 

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Anyone suspected of "automating multiple player actions from a single game input" on official Valve servers will now be removed from their match, we're told. The Verge's Tom Warren tried using simultaneous opposing cardinal directions (SOCD) after the update on a Valve server, and was indeed booted from the session. Notably, there doesn't seem to be an account ban associated with an infraction (at least, right now) – you just get kicked from the match.

https://www.techspot.com/news/104359-valve-bans-keyboard-automation-counter-strike-2.html

 

 

Glad this kind of thing is being looked at. Hopefully this leads to a more universal crack down from the industry as a whole. 

[Kaz]

This isn't about pressing 2 buttons in a macro sense, it's about stopping one input when another starts.  Looks like they need a random delay to avoid getting kicked  /s.  If I were a razer dev, I'd be working on that right now.  I don't know how a software developer addresses this, but I'm glad they are trying.

 

Part of me thinks it's scummy for Razor to try and rig competitive gaming with their gear.  Another part of me thinks this should have been a keyboard feature 15 years ago.

[UltraMega]

1 hour ago, Kaz said:

This isn't about pressing 2 buttons in a macro sense, it's about stopping one input when another starts.  Looks like they need a random delay to avoid getting kicked  /s.  If I were a razer dev, I'd be working on that right now.  I don't know how a software developer addresses this, but I'm glad they are trying.

 

Part of me thinks it's scummy for Razor to try and rig competitive gaming with their gear.  Another part of me thinks this should have been a keyboard feature 15 years ago.

If it were a standard feature that we all happily used, then it would be fair. But as is, it's an extra feature that you have to pay for to get an unfair advantage. As long as that is true, it should be banned IMO.

[funguseater]

This feature is amazing and I cant imagine going back after getting used to it in 1st person RPGs. "Competitive" gamers get restrictions we all dont need to worry about, just like we can wear  Alphafly's if we want to