Valve is taking steps to crack down on smurfing, account boosting, and harmful behavior in Dota 2 and plans to implement an Overwatch-like system (the CS:GO system, not Blizzard's shooter).

First launched in 2013, Overwatch gives CS:GO players the ability to upload gameplay clips that they believe contain evidence of cheating or griefing. However, instead of waiting for Valve to take action, the clips are passed to "investigators," who then examine the clips to determine if a violation has taken place. And because there are far more people scrutinizing activity in the game than there would otherwise be, the probability that violators will be caught increases and, at least in theory, the likelihood of malfeasance being committed in the first place is reduced.

CS:GO's Overwatch focuses primarily on picking out cheaters rather than harmful jerks; the Counter-Strike blog notes that "suspects convicted of griefing are given a modest cooldown, but cheaters are removed from the game entirely."

"With regards to player toxicity and game ruining behavior, we are working on a new Overwatch-style system similar to CS:GO. "Valve said in the latest Dota 2 update, "We are not ready to share any more information yet, but as soon as we can and we will share it as soon as it becomes available. We hope to have this reflected in the game as soon as possible.

Valve also warned that they have improved their ability to detect smurf accounts (new accounts created by experienced players who can basically beat actual newbies for shits and giggles) and are now starting to filter them out in matchmaking.

"Smurf accounts are now more likely to play only with other smurfs," Valve said, "Smurf accounts are now more likely to inherit negative behavior scores from alternative accounts to limit negative impact when playing," Valve said, "New accounts will be We made some additional improvements to help them converge to the correct MMR more quickly. We are working on several approaches to solve that, but at this point we are in the research/experimental phase."

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Similar action is being taken against booster accounts: according to Valve, over 14,000 accounts have been banned in the past 30 days and "we have created a system to ban boosters on an ongoing basis."

Thanks, PCGamesN.