Report notifications due to a VAC Live ban have been noticed less since the release of CS2. Perhaps part of the reason was that VAC, Valve's anti-cheat system, wasn't working to its expected capacity. However, recently, a host of players were banned from CS2, and matches were canceled across servers. Now, players are seeing notifications indicating that their reporting a player helped get them banned.
A CS2 player took to their X handle to respond to a post speculating that VAC Live bans are working because cheat users were caught complaining about getting banned. To this, the player shared their experience with report notifications. They asked for "no more fake bans" from Valve:
These report notifications are a newer widespread phenomenon. While report notifications have always existed in Counter-Strike, it's important to note that many players have been seeing them after the VAC Live ban wave.
A similar sentiment was shared by a player on Reddit:
Fans are clearly happy to see the progress and that VAC Live ban waves are effective to a certain degree. The ban wave was a sudden incident, videos of many players getting banned and removed from the match went viral too.
Soon, a decrease in the CS2 player count was noticed, potentially indicating that the ban wave had removed many cheaters. However, some fans speculate that maybe not all bans are coming to light for a reason.
However, not everyone has had a positive experience. Some reported that most of their games have cheaters and not nearly enough of them have faced a VAC Live ban even after the massive ban wave that took over the game. In fact, some players have never seen the report notifications.
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