Gamer racks up 116 VAC bans on Steam
Translated with AI from the Russian original.
In some games, developers can ban an unfair player. On Steam, one can sometimes encounter truly massive offenders.
Valve has a dedicated anti-cheat called VAC. The automated Valve Anti-Cheat system is used to detect cheats on players’ PCs:
“If a user connects to a VAC-Secured server from a computer with identifiable cheats installed, the VAC system will ban the user from playing that game on VAC-Secured servers in the future.
The VAC system reliably detects cheats using their cheat signatures. Any third-party modifications to a game designed to give one player an advantage over another is classified as a cheat or hack and will trigger a VAC ban. This includes modifications to a game’s core executable files and dynamic link libraries.”
The raiznews community took note of several “particularly distinguished players”. For instance, a user nicknamed murchar has received 116 VAC bans.
Top 10 Steam accounts by number of VAC bans:
- murchar — 116.
- xeonir — 101.
- Jonatas — 78.
- GILMUTDINOFF — 62.
- Mutoff — 56.
- VAC_MAN — 53.
- Dryg — 52.
- GET ON MY LVL — 51.
- $lv = $lv'n — 48.
- Way — 43.
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Cover art author: Valve. Image source: steamcommunity.com
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