This CS2 Bot Farm Is Disturbing 

Just clicked on the video and already see bot comments

Tf2 🤝 CS2 Tremendous bot farms blowing up player numbers

CS2:we have bot problems 2020 Tf2: first time?

Figures they're essentially treating valve's games like crypto farms.

I've found these Box bot farms several times in different game modes, but mainly in casual. They fill the lobbies if there's any space and then kick all the players, so usually you can't even report them. However if you enter one of these lobbies and before chosing a team you place yourself as an expectator, you can report them and even watch their pathetic method, basically one player takes turns and kill all the players in the other team minus one, which are AFKing in spawn, then that last player alive, goes and kills all the other team, they keep repeating this. I had never found this in CS, but in CS2 I find these lobbies every week the movement and the behaviour of the players suggest that there's actually a person controlling them, probably all 10 characters in a single monitor. And let me tell you, that must be the most unskilled player I had ever seen, dude was having trouble not killing himself when going from spawn to spawn on vertigo.

Asia player here, I cant even play dust 2 deathmatch without getting a bot farm, it usually takes me 15-25 lobbbies before getting an actual deathmatch server.

TF2 player here, thanks for the shoutout 👍

This is why the player count is absolutely huge, I reckon real numbers are about half.

Your commentary at the end I think is 100% on point tbh

China... what a surprise

Makes sense considering how I almost always encounter a Chinese account in the SEA region.

They arent running it 1 account per PC. All they do is collect drops, it's hundreds or thousands of accounts on a select few PCs. It would make zero sense to run one account per PC because your operating cost would be stupidly high and you'd be wasting 99% of the pc's computing power. It's literally just one PC and a bunch of VMs to accomodate a few customers. Anyone can set this up, and it's not even close to being uncommon in the world of gaming.

I stay in South Africa and have experienced the bot lobbies a few times already. Latency is average 400-450 ms for the bots (Latency from Johannesburg in South Africa to Hong Kong is 451ms). After sending Steam a report, I was told that I need to get screenshots of each account profile in the lobby and send that with the profile links to CS2 support which is absolutely impossible as there is no way outside of actually being IN the lobby to obtain the information requested in alternative game modes. 🤦‍♂

There's no way the electricity bill is worth this small weekly handout.

I queued deathmatch the other day for warmup and came in to a match where most of the players are afk but I was kicked immediately.

This would explain the deflation of case prices. From 3 (in my local currency) went down to 0,6.

is that why I see people with very low bitrates in movement?

I’ve already run into ~5 bot only lobbies. Mostly in deathmatch and Arms Race.

When you join casual to have some fun then realizes it's full of bots and gets kicked out after 10 seconds. Pain.

I tried to play a bit of deathmatch in Japan. And my experience was that i would get insta kicked about 40-50% of the time.

I have a friend that knows a bot farmers for apex legends, he just paid him $5-$10 and that dude give him full bot lobby to get a 20 kills badge and 4K badge🤣🤣

Makes sense. I was pretty sure I’ve been queuing against the same 265 people for the last 15 years.

ROFL, Legal Action for showing their 'product' huh? Go right ahead, i'm sure Valve is just fucken waiting for these bot farmers to reveal who they are and what you've done so they can prosecute you as well.

I've been ran into these bot lobbies a few dozen times (I uploaded the video of my first time seeing this) and its a surreal experience since some of the lobbies will actually let you join the xp farm as long as you do the same as other bots while the rest of the lobbies usually just kicks you the moment you joined.

this is how the game has millions of players all time

This is happening in Apex as well. Chinese hackers will rank up accounts to resell them to idiots who buys these accounts. Causing a massive influx of hackers in high elo lobbies.

bro im in that situation before, the whole deathmatch lobby is bots and they kicked me instantly 😂

That's what happens when you basically get half a dollar per week per account minimum, with a chance of up to 300-400$ from the skin and case drops (if you get the Intergale and a bravo case drop best case scenario). People will run farms for it

they do this in WoW too, exact same setups and plenty of accounts open at the same time farming

This is exactly why you shouldn't make games free. God damn I hate people.

I have run into bot farm servers lots of time during CSGO as well and a few time in CS2. They're usually active during night time when there aren't a lot of other people playing. I search for casual match and get put into a lobby of 19 other bots, you get auto kicked within the first round of joining.

every time i've played death match since i came back to cs the entire lobby is filled with bots running into 1 bot that just knifes them all

Valve now has two games with a bot problem :(

just bc we have it worse doesn't mean CS2 players have no grounds to complain-- hopefully VAC starting to work a little bit more will benefit both games

That end part actually might be the reason why content is being released slower - but you have to also consider that they are rebuilding the ground from ground up (so it will take time regardless of the fact of botters / cheaters)

"screenshot of inventories of cases" actually just looking at the shop lmao

It happened to me. For some strange reason I got a casual match in a entirely different server in the other part of the world I was checking strange profiles and they played like literally inhuman and I knew those accounts were controlling with an AI to farm cases.

Took me literally couple minutes to find the exact program they use.

the problem is, these bot farms mostly reside in non-mm games even if you joined spectators and reported them, doubt that would do anything because overwatch exists in those casual games (unless its MM) and they aren't getting banned for getting reported yknow

I just encountered them yesterday. Me and my 3 friends all got kicked then we started all going in one team to kick bots, report and vote. I had to keep checking the scoreboard to see if any bot has joined.

Respect for the Dime hoodie!

I’ve seen many of these “bots” at night in dm server, they can move, shoot, and kill, but in a very strange way literally like a bot. sometimes if they twit it too much, the bots kill you like hackers

Bots in CS are ancient, back when I played Faceit in CSGO I got to top 5 on the daily ladder and needed 1 more win to take first place but then I got 4 bots on my team that would allow the enemy team to kill them [they'd straight up run to them] I think I placed 12th or something because of them. They were all brand new steam accounts with only CSGO on them and they had the same name just numbered 1,2,3,4

i would like a more often switch of the background songs. I personally couldnt stop hearing it (the same song), it broke my focus and made listening a bit "hard". Thanks for the nice footage!

That end clip has some serious "hello fellow cs players" vibe to it

There were times that I joined a game where the players (now I know are bots) were just meeting in mid dust2....frag, and molotov each other. The other one was like in this vid where they immediately try to vote kick me. Didn't know I was up against a supercomputer😂😂

I used to do same stuff back in dota2 battlepass days. You launch multiple instances of dota, queue a match in peru with korean language playing captains draft. Since no one in peru plays in korean and Captains draft - you'll get queued with yourself. The only thing that's left is to do the challenge and end the game. Rinse and repeat.

dude one time i got into a deathwatch where every other player other than me was a bot labeled 1,2,3,4....

I was wondering why I kept getting kicked and voted off of Dust2 when I was in Deathmatch

I got kicked from Flying Scouts bot lobbies so much in go. Interesting to see footage of the setup now in for cs2

Bot farms exist in every game that has in-game purchases. Take Fifa or EA FC for example. Bot farms have been operating on that game on a global scale. And it’s out in the open

Ty for the video I got banned in cs forum by the dev for saying bot farm is what inflated the cs player count number

This is so common in Asian servers that were used to it

Bot that always kicked me in deathmatch lobby

-fps game made by valve -has 2 in the title -massive bot problem Coinsidence? I think not

i cant even farm the weekly case by doing deathmatch, because i get booted by 12 people with the same exact ping, who are farming standing still. Legit I cannot even play deathmatch now, its been happening alot now

This seems actually quite miniscule for how big CS is

Funnily I stumbled a lot of farmers lobby in Office back csgo (least played map), they were farming global elite accounts.

up to two? not anymore, it's fixed when you level up the first time at the week and resets at a fixed time

TF2 has a massive botfarm problem too. Basically the same thing but the botfarms just idle on the main menu because you can still get your two weekly cases without joining a match

This happened in PUBG back in 2018.. 100 Players in lobby, 30 real players and 70 BOTS.. They farmed weekly cases because at that time it was marketable and easy profit

Bot farms is like the advanced and unlikited version of buying smurfs for boosts. League still has a massive paid smurf issue even post Vanguard. Especially for Clash tournaments.

years ago around 2018-19 i do this 😂 multiple csgo running on vm's .

In casual most of these bots just throw grenade at each other at mid at first i thought people just being silly but they kick me the outsider

No wonder the supplies of cases is almost infinite

How high would the price of weapons boxes be without these robot farms?

I thought valve stopped this in go when it was a lot worse with bots just spinning? Didn’t they change how XP works?

Ah so these are the "players" on my lobbies

doing all this for 20$ a week is crazy 😅

Why there wasn't a video about bot farm months ago? This has happened to me daily in ALL asian servers

I'm actually surprise that CS2 is optimized enough to be used on multiple VMs in one pc

it's nowhere near as bad as in tf2, something like half of all accounts playing the game atm are actually just idle bots

This is what happens when a game goes free to play and it also has a market for skins.

Certain CS2 game modes require certain maps. Those maps are being worked on, and will release with their respective game modes. Lake and Safehouse are coming soon.

If you ever find yourself in such lobby, immediately kick any name, without thinking and they will be kicked, then do it again, and again and the server will be bot free. Did this and was laughing throughout.

atm I cannot join a deathmatch server without there being at least one bot

any game with trading option is not worth playing. trading ruined every game. Valve love it because it's generate billions to them, they don't care the bad side effects of it on the game itself.

This is why CS2 is "not dead"

Legit! During Tuesdays to Thursdays, Deathmatch servers in Asia are unplayable due to these bots occupying them. Sometimes, legit players get ousted as these bots join the server one-by-one. They will kick everyone and just occupy the servers and stay AFK with only 1 active player lurking and stabbing everyone with knife.

And in in the end all farmers get exit scammed! :P

Its easier to respect a bot farmer than a cheater, one is actually trying to make money without ruining the core gameplay, the other just sucks ass.

if Valve gets to the point it will use kernel level security like RIOT's Vanguard, I wouldnt be surprised

The worst thing for a gamer living in Taiwan isn't facing possible war, it's having Chinese using these cheats ruining my game every day.

Thats explain when i join a casual server and all bots kik me right away with no picture very weird.

TF2 player, We see bots, We click.

And TF2, Valve's other main multiplayer title, has been dealing with nothing short of a bot crisis for the past 4 uninterrupted years. Welcome to Volvo Neglect boys

this is probably why there are so many active players in CS2 right now, majority of them are literal bot farmers.

TF2 and CS2 are sticking together. Like family

My friends used to do that in 2019-20 to boost and sell accounts lol

this has been happening in tf2 for like 5 years WOAW VALVE BAD YOU JUST FIGURED IT OUT!!!! LOL

Where there is cash, there is gonna be vultures .

When people are willing to invest in a bot farm you know your anti cheat is worthless

I’m happy i’m able to buy Kilowatt cases at a good price to open. But I ain’t stand for bots.

Allow case drops after you reach lvl 20

You don't play TF2? No? you do now

Finally. You can increase your ping and join a dm in the Asian server. You will join a server full of bots farming for one afk account and the bots will automatically kick you.

Happened to me twice recently

easy fix: remove drops from alt game modes, or entirely.

I wonder if games by studios affiliated with Tencent have the same problem or at least to a similar degree? Honest question.

i got overwatched in 2020 cuz i got queued up against derank bot lobbies they were spinning in spawn... got overwatch grief ban cuz of killing them :/