For the purposes of this replay teammates' names are changed, anonymity being an essential part of the process, but the killer touch is that the player under investigation is known only as "The Suspect." Vengeance against those who may have inadvertently annoyed an Investigator is kept to a minimum. The Overwatch has the unmistakable bite of justice to it, though, thanks to a quasi-legal process that asks "Investigators" to "download the evidence," and pore over computer-edited highlights reel of around eight rounds from the perspective of a player accused of cheating or griefing by others. This is not an incidental part of the Overwatch's appeal, but the foundation for it. And yet, cheaters are always spoken of as the lowest of the low on Gabe's green Earth.
The CS:GO community has had an unfortunate, and not entirely undeserved, reputation for being absurdly elitist and toxic. Putting the power to rid the game of cheaters in the hands of those who, by and large, are competitive-minded and thus inclined to hate those that break the rules, has proven to be a smart decision, even if it didn't always seem like it. The Overwatch gives "qualified" players-those that that have fulfilled certain criteria, such as a minimum rank and a minimum number of games-to take on the ultimate counter-terrorist role and strike the ban-hammer down on those that see through walls, or auto-aim their way to a string of unbelievable headshots. Valve's solution is a simple one: let the players police themselves. The OverwatchĪs the competitive first-person-shooter (it had over nine million unique players last month) CS:GO naturally attracts cheaters.
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We know that if we can keep CS:GO free of cheaters, the game-and the community-will be all the better for it. We know that a competitive match of CS:GO is on average a 45-minute commitment, and we know that abandoning it will result in punishment from teammates and game alike.
Overwatch, which lets experienced players like myself ban other players, works so well because we know what it's like to be on the receiving end of a wall-hacking charlatan. It is that shared hatred of cheaters that Valve taps into with Overwatch, its new crowdsourced anti-cheating tool. No matter the game, we all know the pain of going up against an obvious cheater: that person who makes the lives of other players a misery, and griefs them just for kicks. This isn't like being at the whim of some hacker who shows off by messing with the game-you're at the mercy of the weasels who bought or subscribed to their script to "win."