Counter-Strike 2 Player Count Will Keep Dropping Until It Adds One Key Feature

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Counter-Strike 2 Player Count Will Keep Dropping Until It Adds One Key Feature

Counter-Strike 2 might be breaking concurrent player count records, but under the surface, every player knows that it won’t last. Despite topping 1.86 million concurrent players in April 2025, the game has more cheaters than ever, and the community is growing tired. If you asked any CS2 player what they want most from the game, they’d say the same thing.

Valve needs to add an actually useful and working anti-cheat for the game. When players are reporting cheaters multiple games in a row and getting no results, you know something’s wrong. And we get a meaningful solution soon, many believe the game is, in their words, “cooked.”

Counter-Strike 2’s player count doesn’t matter if this problem isn’t fixed

The cheating problem is by far the biggest one that Counter-Strike 2 has. For the entire time that the game has been out, players have reported being killed through walls, tracked while walking, or facing new accounts with suspicious stats and expensive skins. The term “game sense” is like a secondhand term for wallhacks at this point.

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The worst thing is that this was the same situation in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and we all know that little has changed. Counter-Strike’s popularity is part of the problem. As one of Steam’s most played games for over a decade, CS2 naturally attracts cheaters. And since the game has hundreds of thousands of players every day, it makes sure that cheats are constantly updated.

One of the biggest requests that the community has is a kernel-level anti-cheat like Riot Games’ Vanguard anti-cheat for Valorant. Unfortunately, that’s a bit unlikely. Valve’s commitment to user privacy means they’re unlikely to implement a system like Vanguard. Kernel-mode anti-cheats can see nearly everything on our computers, which is a security concern. But without that level of access, any other anti-cheat is just weaker.

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And that’s exactly what Valve’s current anti-cheat is. Vavle Anti Cheat, or VAC, has become something of a meme at this point because of how ineffective it is at detecting cheaters. Some players have said they went against cheaters multiple games in a row, and there are literally videos of people livestreaming themselves using cheats and not getting banned.

If Valve is making a better anti-cheat, we need to know

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Valve’s silent development philosophy hasn’t helped either. The way Valve does things with its games is that the devs rarely give us any information about what the next update is, or if they’re taking any input from the community at all. So if there’s some anti-cheat update coming, we have no idea at all.

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said, “I’d like Valve to abandon their obnoxious and dysfunctional philosophy of not communicating with the community.” Without a timeline, roadmap, or regular updates, all we can do is assume the worst. And the worst-case scenario is that no meaningful fix is coming anytime soon.

We really aren’t asking for much, just a working anti-cheat system that keeps blatant cheaters out of ranked matches. The current reliance on third-party platforms for better games is just absurd. The game may be setting records, but how long will players tolerate getting killed from the other side of the match as soon as the game starts?

What’s your bucket list of demands for Counter-Strike 2? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!

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