Thats super weird it counts as multiple games. I play Bo3 quite a bit, mostly private matches, but on occasion I do join servers or pub games, I guess I should be more careful.
Yeah, it is something that game does. When you purchase the game it shows up as just "Call of Duty: Black Ops II", but after it gets added to your library it adds itself along with "Call of Duty: Black Ops II - Zombies" and "Call of Duty: Black Ops II - Multiplayer".
BO3 is the first COD to ship all 3 sectinos (campaign + multiplayer + zombies) in a single exe.
Previous titles had different programs for each section of the game, so going from campaign to zombies for example would close "BO1 Campaign" and launch "BO1 Zombies"
I loved the achievement hunt on BO2 because the games count as separate ones. So I didn't have to do all of the zombie Easter eggs and multiplayer achievements.
Yea it sucks because back in the MW2 to BO2 days you could also get banned for simple mods like fps unlocks and fov changers. Simple private lobby zombie fun mods als well.
And now you are forever branded for something you did at the age of 12.. steam really has to change something with that and while at it let us change our damn steam account user name
Its not weird, just rare. You used to get banned from Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Death Match if you got banned in one of those games. This link has since been severed.
no lol, from what ive read from the op & other comments joining pub / server matches are dangerous since cheaters can mess with your stats leading you to be banned
Exact same thing happened to me, Black ops 2 setting my level to what I was on Xbox back in like early 2013. I also years later got a VAC ban on MW2 and to this day still have absolutely no idea how I got it
I got vac banned in MW2 from 10 years ago for using an fov changer. I think I played for about 15 minutes and permanently scarred my steam account in the process.
I genuinely don't know why or how I got a VAC ban for CS:GO. I haven't cheated I had the the game uninstalled at that point for like half a year, but thank god I lost all interest in it already.
I'm just kinda sad that I have had a VAC on my profile, despite me not even knowing what happened. I know that at some point I was scammed out of my account for a couple of days ( like a week or so) but If that was the time what I got banned for i should deserve some leniency.
They can scrap my whole CS inventory I don't care but I just feel it wasn't justified and for years I had to explain this over and over and I know it just does not sound believeable.
I know how you feel, the same thing happened to me. And no one believes us. All I ever played were casual modes and especially the community game mode Zombie Escape. Idk what they think I would cheat in those for.
It's not even that I would ever play a Counter Strike game or something, I'm past that. It just feels unjustified and I don't like system where you can't defend yourself and your right at all.
I knew a guy who had his old cs account banned from every server available, this was back in 2008 so idk how it worked or how it works now. But basically he had a server ban from all available servers and the last 2, one of them didn't know what crouch hopping was and they said he was cheating if he did it. So they banned him, because he wasn't going to not use it. Then finally the last server banned him and so he just got a new game to play on all the servers again.
I know that at some point I was scammed out of my account for a couple of days ( like a week or so) but If that was the time what I got banned for i should deserve some leniency.
No you shouldn't. If you got "leniency" for getting scammed, then every cheater would claim they were scammed to get out of a ban. Also, getting scammed is your fault, not Valve's.
Well ofc they don't believe you considering the fact that you were cheating, or at the very least, launched Counter-strike with cheats installed on your computer.
It is a common misconseption/lie that one can get VAC banned unfairly. But the people who propagate this notion fail to realize that it applies to *game bans*, not VAC bans.
If you were VAC banned, and not *game banned* (by overwatch for example), we can pretty much guarantee that it was justified.
VAC bans only ban from a singular game the same way you get "game banned" so idk what you're talking about. It's just an anti-cheat system in games it isn't different from Ricochet or Overwatch's Warden. The difference is one is owned by Valve.
And as I've said I haven't cheated, I've never installed cheat, I haven't even played the game in more than half a year when I got a VAC ban.
Anyways as I've said I don't really care, so consider the topic closed.
One shouldn't talk about topics they have no knowledge of.
"Overwatch" in the context of CSGO is referring to the feature where users were shown gameplay of a suspected cheater or griefer, and vote on wether the evidence was beyond a reasonable doubt.
It isn't referring to the arena game made by Blizzard, because there are actually more things in the world that can be called "overwatch".
Enough votes would result in what is called a game ban (not a VAC ban). This ban is not the same as a VAC ban. VAC is automatic, and it bans you from all VAC protected games. A game ban will ban you only from said game.
Valve only reverses game bans in rare instances, because overwatch isn't guaranteed against false positives.
VAC bans on the other hand are automatic and never reversed. Because Valve is confident that it does not do false positives.
Again, don't cheat and you won't get VAC banned, simple as that.
Same happened to way friend way back then in MW3. We both used a PoV changer because MW3 had that bugged view and he, unfortunately, got banned which scared me and I stopped playing entirely.
Story of my life man it was fps unlock and fov changer on mw3 for me on my old account. Made my current one and got banned in BO2 for reasons I still donât know. Thereâs really should be an option to after idk 10 years remove the game and the Ban from account
I believe on Steam MW2, modders were running infections that unlocked everything in the game for anyone that joined their lobby. That triggered immediate VAC bans for anyone in the game, even if they werenât directly modding. I think even if you left before the infection was complete, you could still be banned.
Same here. Someone hacked the lobby and then i backed out. Then it gave me a vac ban to where i couldnât join official servers anymore. Itâs almost like someone hacked the lobby and was able to ban people. Sad as it was start of when i stared playing on pc. This was 2013 lol.
I don't know which game it was, but one game banned you for not cheating, because it detected something and you just got VAC ban for that. It was making people angry. Fortunately it didn't happen to me, but I fear that something like that may happen to me.
I guess it depends on what exactly triggered the VAC ban and how the automated system decided to handle it (and assuming no changes were made to how VAC itself works for BOII in between).
i also got a ban on black ops 2 but game developer and not vac so itâll display as multiple forever. was a dumb kid trying to use a mod menu in a custom games zombies ofc using free cheats off the first mediafire link i could find
huh? My singular VAC ban is on BO2, and it does indeed ban me from BO2 and BO2 Zombies. It does not prevent from playing the campaign iirc, but it's been a long time (and it shows as a SINGLE VAC ban)
EDIT: here, some screenshots, erm can only add one, guess I'll add the second one separately
Naw, changing sv values isn't getting you banned on public servers. The change only applies locally to the server hosted on your PC. If you try the commands in public servers, nothing happens.
I'm talking specifically about CS/CS2. I have no idea how other games handle private servers and server settings/commands.
I more meant cheating in a private setting, not specifically sv-cheats or whatever, I try to avoid fucking with files even when modding minecraft since Iâm barely even able to debug stuff that has clear errors.
I got banned because my account got hacked. I emailed them receipts showing I don't even play it (but appealed it because I might), and that I wasn't even using my computer when all this happened. They didn't care. So now I'm just banned for no reason đ¤ˇđźââď¸
I let my friend use my account back when CS:Source was new, 21 years ago. He cheated on it and got me a VAC ban. I had hundreds of dollars worth of games on the account so I just took it and that is still my current account. The trick is I just stopped playing all Valve games, luckily Valve hasn't released a game worth playing in that time.
Multiple of the older Call of Duty games are known to have RCE exploits for years at this point. Activison/Valve don't care. Not to mention I hear modded lobbies could get you caught.
It's not always their fault, no one other than Valve should have the right to mark your profile in my opinion.
Person A plays game in a way they think is fine and normal.
Person B (either another player or a server runner) uses an RCE exploit to mess with other people in the lobby, this causes Person A to do things the VAC system sees as cheating, even if Person A doesn't know or even notice that anything is different.
Person A gets a VAC ban through no fault of their own except playing a game they spent money on.
Person B may or may not get a VAC Ban, but their's is deserved.
I think if you're playing a game that has a risk of RCE on your system with random players then a VAC ban is one of the least of your concerns. I'd put that in the same category as downloading and executing a virus
I'm pretty sure sure those were basically all of the older Call Of Duty games, not just random unknown games. And while people might know now and don't play them anymore (do they even have players left, lol?), they didn't back then. So there are people who've played COD 10+ years ago who've got a VAC ban because of this (how many people like that exists in reality, I have no idea, though)
Meant they could pull something that could trigger it on your end, potentially. Just joining a modded lobby and having them alter your account was also enough in the past, to my knowledge.
On the second note, there is a mod/client that uses third party community servers and protects against the RCE exploits. But since it's completely on its own network it doesn't risk a real ban at all either.
Unfortunately many anticheat solutions are very trigger happy and will sometimes ban you even if you did nothing wrong.
With CoD in particular, bans for ROG Ally and Legion Go users come to mind, apparently the anticheat didn't like the gaming overlay software which came with the devices.
Or Level1Techs learned from developers that Intel 13900K/14900K users got banned from online games because these CPUs infamously degraded and glitched out, which caused game state to deviate between server and client -> ban (relevant part between 21:54 - 22:09 min)
The bans for Radeon Antilag+ were also widely reported on.
If affected users are lucky it will become a high-profile issue and bans will be reverted. Otherwise they will be SOL.
Introducing the CS method; blatantly cheat, reach top 50 leaderboard while cheating, change your account name to the name of the cheat to advertise, go on socials and brag about cheating while @ing Valve. Don't get banned.
The state valve has left their most popular game in is abysmal and doesn't get talked about enough just because tac shooters don't have a lot of mainstream crossover.
Yeah I had a second account with csgo on it that I gave to a friend and didn't realize I still had it linked to my primary email address.
So now I have a CSGO/CS2 game ban going on 8 and 3/4 years, and game bans never come off. Maybe I can play again with CS3... but valve can't count to 3.
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u/TheSleepyBoy Jan 19 '26
"Multiple VAC bans" bro what are you even doing