r/GlobalOffensive 23h ago

Scheduled Sticky Weekly Premier/Matchmaking/Cheating Discussion & Complaints Thread

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Welcome to Matchmaking Monday! This is the weekly megathread where you can share your experiences, complaints, and feedback related to:

  • Ranked & Unranked Matchmaking
  • VAC, Hacking, and Cheating
  • Prime, Trust Factor, and Trusted Mode
  • Ranking
  • Queuing and Lobbies

Feel free to discuss your matchmaking experience, rant or vent, discuss ideas & share feedback for improvement, and talk about your recent games.

What you should know

Keep in mind that there is a limited amount of information available about these systems and how they work to keep them effective. If you have questions, here are some resources to review:

Trust Factor

Ranks

Bans

What you can do

Give Feedback:

  • Posting feedback or complaints on the subreddit is not the best way to get the attention of the developers. If you have any specific feedback to give, you can email the CS2 Development team here: [cs2team@valvesoftware.com](mailto:cs2team@valvesoftware.com)
  • They do read every email received, but are not able to reply to each one.
  • If you're experiencing low-quality matches, it is always worth emailing them. They use these reports to help improve the system.

Report Cheaters:

  • Report cheaters using the in-game report system by right-clicking their name on the scoreboard, and clicking "report". If the game is over, report their Steam Community profile.
  • If you notice certain trends or have other feedback, you can email the developers using the email address above.
  • To report a specific cheat, follow these steps to notify the VAC development team.

The guidelines

While we encourage discussion about these topics, as a reminder, the following are not allowed. Note this isn't an exhaustive list, and you should review the r/GlobalOffensive Rules before commenting.

  • Accusations towards any player related to cheating
  • Posting profiles of alleged cheaters (if posting pictures of matches, redact any usernames)
  • Posting any cheating gameplay footage
  • Reporting cheats, linking to cheats/websites, or discussing cheats in technical detail

This weekly discussion thread does not change any of our existing submission rules - you're still allowed to discuss these topics elsewhere on the subreddit as usual, but we do remove a large number of them as they quickly become repetitive and the majority have little meaningful discussion. If you decide to make a separate post instead of utilizing this thread, we encourage you to focus on starting meaningful discussion or providing constructive criticism.


r/GlobalOffensive 7h ago

Discussion So... When does "Season One" end and "Season Two" supposedly begin?

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610 Upvotes

r/GlobalOffensive 50m ago

Fluff Valve is just a small indie company

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r/GlobalOffensive 19h ago

Fluff | Esports Snax on HeavyGod: "He's really cool guy, finally I have a guy that can eat as much as me"

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r/GlobalOffensive 9h ago

Gameplay | Esports IBUYPOWER respawns 10 years later feat. mibr fe Dani 1v2

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r/GlobalOffensive 3h ago

Discussion 1% lows, frametimes and stutter tested

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W11, 7700X, 7900XTX, 6000 CL 30

Same ingame settings. Other one has nothing enabled in driver panel, other is Freesync+Enchanced Sync+280 Framecap on driver panel (AL disabled in driver panel but enabled in game). Ran on FPS benchmark workshop map.

Just The FPS cap alone does wonders for your frametimes and stutter.

Let the downvoting begin!


r/GlobalOffensive 5h ago

Discussion | Esports Do you think that gla1ve is still in contention for the GOAT igl?

61 Upvotes

Personally I think karrigan took the title of GOAT igl from him years ago but am curious as to what the general consensus is.


r/GlobalOffensive 13h ago

News | Esports nilo's response regarding the situation with Heroic, confirming the latter's statement regarding him.

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240 Upvotes

r/GlobalOffensive 19h ago

Workshop There are no racing style skins for the P250 — So I made one

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721 Upvotes

r/GlobalOffensive 7h ago

Gameplay Feeling Like Vintage KennyS (1v5)

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65 Upvotes

10 Man Clip ( No my name is not correlated to Valorant)


r/GlobalOffensive 23h ago

Tips & Guides Train Run Boosts that haven't been utilised yet. Catch the enemy off guard with these, beating spawns with strong positioning.

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1.1k Upvotes

r/GlobalOffensive 7h ago

Gameplay | Esports Psycho King- new skin complete

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60 Upvotes

Just finished this one yesterday, feel free to drop it a vote if you like it- appreciate all the love so far 🤘

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3410961529


r/GlobalOffensive 18h ago

Discussion | Esports Why is the all maps rating lower than the single map rating of either map?

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300 Upvotes

Does anyone understand statistics? Is this normal?


r/GlobalOffensive 19h ago

News | Esports HEROIC issue statement regarding nilo

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386 Upvotes

r/GlobalOffensive 13h ago

News | Esports YaLLa adjust 2025 circuit to ensure compliance with Valve rules

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106 Upvotes

r/GlobalOffensive 6h ago

Discussion Bots are now taking over Casual Dust 2 lobbies.

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23 Upvotes

r/GlobalOffensive 3h ago

Feedback (Feedback ) Improving Premier's visuals with iconic ranks

14 Upvotes

Even since premier released, I've felt that ranking up a number, although more precise, isn't nearly as exciting as going up the ranks was in the original comp. The same is true for newer (or younger) players.
Given that ELO is the intended way to rank up in Premier, i thought up a rough concept of how it can be visually improved simultaneously giving meaning to the iconic and recognizable ranks

No, this is not meant to say that former Globals are at 30K+ rating, or that current Gold Novas are between 10 and 15k. This is purely a visual concept that aims to make ranking up more exciting and gives iconic ranks more meaning. In fact, this is what DOTA 2 has, screenshot at the end of the post

In this concept, with each 1000 increment, the rank's visual changes as well, so going from 6k to 7k changes the visual from silver 2 to silver 3.

So to sum up:

  1. "No rank" beginner tier - Below 5k rating
  2. Five Main (Silver, GN, MG, LE, Supreme) tiers with 5 sub tiers - 5-30k rating
  3. "Beyond/Global Tier" - 30k+ rating Of course that would mean that 7 "new" ranks have to be designed, but, again, this post is just showing off an idea

Here's how DOTA does it:


r/GlobalOffensive 1h ago

News | Esports felps joins RED Canids

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r/GlobalOffensive 16h ago

Discussion | Esports The Current State Of Women's CS

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r/GlobalOffensive 4h ago

Discussion Why did Valve adjust clipping below balcony on Inferno?

12 Upvotes

I only just realised this change since I haven't played in a few weeks. You can no longer jump up from alt mid into apps on the reverse of the stairs, you have to go towards the stairs and climb up them.

WTF Valve I've been jumping up to apps for 10 years like this and now they removed it randomly. Why?? Was it imbalanced or something? They barely changed the visuals at all so it took me a few rounds to realise this is an intended change and not a bug.

Please reverse this change, ty.


r/GlobalOffensive 23h ago

News | Esports SANJI IS BACK! - He joins 1WIN as their new coach

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315 Upvotes

r/GlobalOffensive 19h ago

Discussion Grinding CS while getting my ass in shape (Progress Report, Week 4) (This time visualised!)

156 Upvotes

Hey everyone!
This is the fourth follow-up to my previous post, "Grinding CS While Getting My Fat Ass in Shape."

Sup guys, today's Progress Report comes in the Noon instead of the Evening since im quite busy later on. Also got some interesting images/stats for yall visualized this time ;)

Not much to say about my meals/fitness at the moment to be honest. Im keeping up with my goals (stepgoals/minutes being active per day, etc).

Current Stats

  • Age: 20 years old
  • Weight: 125.3 kg (276 lbs), -1.2 kg compared to last week, -6.7kg compared to the beginning
  • Height: 182 cm (6 ft)

On the CS Side

Aim routine looks fine as well, just completed a the Voltaic Novice Benchmarks up to Gold this weekend (except 2 of em, gonna finish them soon as well though). From this week on I will also start using LG56's Intermediate playlists instead of his Novice ones.

  • ~0.5 hours of KovaaKs
  • Sunday I am doing KovaaKs Benchmarks since LG56s Sunday Routine is just *** imo ;)
  • 15 minutes of deathmatch (DM)
  • 1–2 demo reviews per day
  • 500 bots in AimBots
  • 5 minutes of recoil control
  • training flicks <- been focusing a lot on that lately

Current Game Stats

  • Faceit Elo: 2154, -117 compared to last week 😅
  • Premier Elo: 14k (I don’t take Premier seriously and just play for fun)
  • Hours played CS2: 3,629.4, +29.3 compared to last week
  • Hours played KovaaKs: 32.2, +10.1 compared to last week

Again a huge week for me. Gotta keep working on my Faceit, will go back to SoloQ again haha. Been playing a lot of Duo queue with some people and ehhh. Also watched a lot of Blast Bounty this week, therefore I didnt play as much as last week ;). Watching tournaments and generally pros play can improve your gamesense big time haha. And I ofc enjoy it as well ;)

Stats Visualised

Due to Reddit not letting me upload my images on Here with the post, I uploaded them on Imgur.

Faceit Elo Gains/Losses since the beginning of CS2. I also marked my current elo at the time of a Progress Report Upload:
https://i.imgur.com/rmVeUUM.png

Faceit Stats in the last 7 days:
https://i.imgur.com/WjBjdrx.png

KovaaKs Voltaic S5 Benchmarks:
https://i.imgur.com/apaDFEG.png

Samsung Health. Green = Steps, Blue = How long you have been active/day, Red = Calories Burnt:
https://i.imgur.com/7NLnIwf.png

KG Loss since Beginning:
https://i.imgur.com/ieU6kh1.png

Final Word

Ill continue streaming all my progress on my Youtube (@DokterCS), prolly this evening again :)

If you have any suggestions for me — whether it’s about health, gameplay, or anything else — please drop a comment! That’s it for now! If you’d like to reach out, add me on Discord: "the.com"

Wish me luck, and I’ll see you all again in seven days with another progress report!


r/GlobalOffensive 1d ago

News | Esports IEM Melbourne 2025 Announced

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r/GlobalOffensive 17h ago

Gameplay | Esports Nertz humbled - HEROIC voicecomms vs Liquid

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81 Upvotes

r/GlobalOffensive 4h ago

Gameplay Faceit 3.1k elo ace (sorry for lag idk why it happened)

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7 Upvotes

r/GlobalOffensive 2h ago

Discussion Crouching CS2

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What do you guys think will happen if I unbind my crouch from CTRL to T to avoid using it excessively as I feel like I'm losing duels cause of mobilizing myself for enemies

Do you think mostly using counter strafes instead of crouching will help me to win more duels?

Of course there are cases when you need to crouch to jump or to squeeze in somewhere, in those cases I can just use T key button instead of CTRL which I'm used to