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Looks like Valve did a bit of a woopsie. With the recent updates to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive they implemented a new anti-cheat tool with Trusted Mode but it appears at some point they forgot to enable it.

What is Trusted Mode? It's supposed to be the new default for all CS:GO players, which prevents a bunch of outside applications from interfering with it and hopefully prevent more cheating. It's only a small barrier by itself, just another in the list of ways Valve are trying to clean up CS:GO online play.

At least in the Linux version, it's actually not on by default (bug report - verified here at GOL too). If it's off, Valve noted in CS:GO updates that it may cause your Trust Score to be "negatively affected" so you might see more cheaters and terrible people. If you have the developer console enabled, you can run "trusted_launch_info" and it will tell you if it's on or off.

Thankfully, it's a super simple fix. Add this as a launch option until Valve sort it:

-trusted

So if you plan on settling into some CS:GO this weekend, this quick fix should help and you can carry on gaming on Linux.

Play CS:GO free on Steam.

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einherjar Aug 1, 2020
Does one only have one trust factor? I mean, when a player plays untrusted, does he also get a worse trust factor when playing in trusted again?
Linas Aug 1, 2020
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What's the use case for not enabling it?
Dribbleondo Aug 1, 2020
Quoting: LinasWhat's the use case for not enabling it?

> If it's off, Valve noted in CS:GO updates that it may cause your Trust Score to be "negatively affected" so you might see more cheaters and terrible people.
Linas Aug 1, 2020
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Quoting: LinasWhat's the use case for not enabling it?
> If it's off, Valve noted in CS:GO updates that it may cause your Trust Score to be "negatively affected" so you might see more cheaters and terrible people.
No, i mean is there any situation where you would want to disable it on purpose?
Big_and_donkey Aug 1, 2020
Quoting: LinasNo, i mean is there any situation where you would want to disable it on purpose?
It supposedly prevents other applications from interfering with the game. I'd presume this would include things like mangohud, although I have not tested this myself
bOrviS7000 Aug 1, 2020
Thanks for the tip Liam. I will try it out. I had to add -nojoy to my start up to get the game to run. I think it had issues with my force3d pro joystick.
Counter Strike is a nice game, now if I could just figure out how to silence the silly cussing boys that are saying the same three curse words in their limited vocabularies
pskosinski Aug 1, 2020
Recently I met surprisingly high amount of griefers and that could be the issue. I need to try playing again with that -trusted option, sometime later, because I just finished playing with two team-killers in my team. I played 3 matches today and in all 3 had 2 team-killers in my team.
tombb0019 Aug 2, 2020
Quoting: einherjarDoes one only have one trust factor? I mean, when a player plays untrusted, does he also get a worse trust factor when playing in trusted again?

Trust factor is only affected while launched in untrusted mode. It will go back to normal if you return to trusted mode.
1xok Aug 2, 2020
Thanks for the tip, I wouldn't have known.
NeoTrantor Aug 2, 2020
Well that explains lot! 2/3 games that I play have blatant cheaters :(
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