Valve have updated CS:GO again and this time, they mean business. Trusted Mode is being implemented into the game engine. It’s set to restrict cheating in a game notorious for its cheaters – a noble cause for sure.
CS:GO Trusted Mode: What Can We Expect
I’ll just leave these CS:GO patch notes here real quick, so we don’t have to repeat everything twice:
- Players now launch CS:GO in Trusted mode by default
- While in Trusted mode, third party software will be blocked from interacting with CS:GO
- To allow third party software to interact with CS:GO, you can start the game with the untrusted launch option. Note that in this case your Trust score may be negatively affected.
- A backwards compatibility label “1.37.5.9” is temporarily available for players experiencing difficulty launching the latest version of the game.
- If you are a third party developer, all of your DLLs that interact with CS:GO must be digitally signed.
- If your customers would like to use third party software that is not digitally signed, they can start the game with the insecure launch option. Note that they will not be able to join VAC servers with this option.
Today we are shipping Trusted Mode into CS:GO: https://t.co/nFpBdb03bF
— CS:GO (@CSGO) July 8, 2020
What do these sentences mean for the end user? Usually, I’d bet on the end user getting bent over because these installments that depend on reading outside info correctly rarely do what they’re set out to do.
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In this instance, however, I’m willing to give Valve the benefit of doubt. This feature was tested as an optional add-on these past couple of weeks and most shockingly, the community hasn’t made much of it, which should mean that it’s working properly for most if not all users.
If that is the case long-term, then hooray for Valve. A cheater’s daily routine should be meddled with as much as possible and as long as Trusted mode reads files as what they are and keeps from messing with regular people’s s$%t, we’re all good.
There’s a theory that a hacker is willing to do his bidding up to a certain point of effort. If this new anti-hacking attempt is as successful as Valve hope it would be, then there’s a good chance we’ll drive at least part of the scum away. In a game plagued with scum, that’s what you call a good day at the office.
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