A few days after Valve began revoking player bans for using AMD's Anti-Lag+ feature in Counter-Strike 2, players discovered a reproducible way to trigger VAC bans on their accounts.

As shared by YouTuber Water CS2 and others (and discovered by PCGamesN), some players raised their mouse DPI to over 10,000 (about 9,200 higher than the DPI most people actually play with) and violently moved the camera This has drawn the ire of the VAC. In one example circulating on the Internet, a camera is being swung around during warm-ups. A few have triggered a ban after only one match, but this guy had to play for over an hour before the VAC intervened.

Obviously Valve's new VAC Live system (an advanced version of anti-cheat that can ban players during live matches) still needs tweaking, but I can see why these high DPI players would be immediately determined to be bots. Every time I see a teammate circling around with a beyblade before the round starts, I suspect they have the hack turned on and are trying to instantly jump on every enemy head on the map, or are inactive and trying to shoot wildly in every direction to avoid getting kicked! I suspect that they are not. Unfortunately, the VAC has passed the hacking stage and is on its way to a ban.

The good news is that this VAC bug is easy to avoid once you know about it. No one actually plays CS2 at 10,000 DPI or higher, unless they are doing it for fun. But it would be a great time to warn your friends that the VAC is on the prowl and start warming up for every match by doing stationary donuts at Mach 1.

Valve has yet to comment on these bogus bans, but given that the studio issued a fairly quick unban for the Anti-Lag mishap, one would expect it to be corrected soon.