I got banned on so many servers for being a hacker...
Im glad VAC is automated and bans if im REALLY a hacker.
[QUOTE=Dark Cupid;43683008]The amount of faith you people seem to have in an automated system is disturbing.
I've never had a problem with it, but blatantly stating that "IT'S GOD IT NEVER MAKES MISTAKES IT'S IMPOSSIBLE" is pretty crazy.
It seems like a good system, I'd rather have it than some other third party crap I have to install, but remember that nothing is perfect, especially when it comes to computers and automated processes.[/QUOTE]
When the automated system is designed to detect changes to a game's core files that enable hacking features, it's pretty infallible.
[QUOTE=Dark Cupid;43683008]The amount of faith you people seem to have in an automated system is disturbing.
I've never had a problem with it, but blatantly stating that "IT'S GOD IT NEVER MAKES MISTAKES IT'S IMPOSSIBLE" is pretty crazy.
It seems like a good system, I'd rather have it than some other third party crap I have to install, but remember that nothing is perfect, especially when it comes to computers and automated processes.[/QUOTE]
VAC isn't completely automated? Read my post further up in this same thread. Here, I'll quote it for your convenience:
[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;43680963]The reason Valve does not reverse VAC bans except when they, themselves, make a mistake is because of how VAC detections work.
VAC detects suspicious modifications to key game files, whether they're on disk or while loaded into memory during gameplay. In cases where it's not a known cheat, the code is sent to the Valve mothership, and Valve employees have the ability to extract and run the suspicious code on local systems to see what [I]your[/I] game environment was like while these modifications were running.
When that suspicious code is a new cheat, or a variation on an old cheat, VAC gets updated and detections start piling up for a round of bans a few weeks or a month or two later.
VAC used to be non-permanent; VAC originally banned for one year, and then five. The percentage of people who went straight back to cheating was so unacceptably high, VAC is now permanent. Because it's permanently disabling or crippling the use of what is usually a paid game, Valve does not apply these bans lightly, and they are very sure.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Dark Cupid;43683008]The amount of faith you people seem to have in an automated system is disturbing.
I've never had a problem with it, but blatantly stating that "IT'S GOD IT NEVER MAKES MISTAKES IT'S IMPOSSIBLE" is pretty crazy.
It seems like a good system, I'd rather have it than some other third party crap I have to install, but remember that nothing is perfect, especially when it comes to computers and automated processes.[/QUOTE]
That's why you get the chance to send a ban appeal to the VAC Team but the number of people banned by mistake is so very small that it doesn't really matter.
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