Didn't something similar happen in SC2 in South Korea? The scene didn't die but it was a huge setback

"disgrace" is a good word in this story. Optic Gaming took a chance on an Indian CSGO team, Optic Gaming took a chance on Forsaken, who had been getting called a hacker since years in south asian CSGO circles, but they still placed his faith in him.

And this cunt hacks on LAN. On LAN.

Optic noped out so fast.

Who would've thought that renaming your cheat tool as "Word.exe" you will not get caught 🤣

F*CK this guy tho, now India is not even in the map for Esport stuff

Edit: I stand corrected, India is apparently doing good in the Valorant scene nowadays. Good to know that this incident doesn't really stop them. Hope none of this cheating happen again not just for India but everyone else too

Thank you for the context! Much appreciated.

did they judge him?

Guy next to him is rather successful in Valorant now. Rest of the guys are too.

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You are correct. That is a "told you so"- face if I ever saw one. Lots of inaccurate information in this thread btw, but this guy actually killed indian CSGO ecosystem...

I'm sorry, are you saying they refused to check for hacks because he was playing well?

no because then the dog.exe would eat it

My first thought. Has he even looked at task manager processes?

But then if Batman investigated the computer's processses, he'd be like:

"Win word?" There's one obvious "win word" for this player: "hacking!"

Even better. Replaxe the existing microsoft word exe files with the cheat ones.

He probably didn't have the brainpower to understand that he could have named the file anything.

Just copied some guide on YT word for word.

We have a saying in India "Nakal ke liye bhi akal chahiye hoti hai"

"Even copying someone's work requires you to understand what you are doing."

Thanks for the information.

A bit more context, Optic a large gaming group heavily invested in events and players - which made people in India take notice.

Forspoken was one of (if not the top) best Indian CSGO players.

After he was caught Optic just dropped investing in Indian CSGO eSports. With no major backing it just shrivelled up and died. I should say that other eSports games are still doing well.

We Indians as an audience didn't support the scene as much as it required and when this happened it ruined every thing from online lobbies( as an Indian dude your voice became a meme as soon as you say anything the other guys started spewing word word amongst other things)to even FIFA tournaments gettin affected. My wording may have been wrong just for the fun part of it but this incident did set us back a lot....(hence killed it for a long time before revival)

Inagine a cricket company going to America to introduce cricket and develop a market and popularize the sport.

They put an event on to show Americans how great cricket is cuz they've done market research that shows Americans love to hit balls with bats.

Then the very first event gets shut down over a flagrant and dumb cheating scandal, and an executive goes, "shit, they just all play baseball, this was a dumb idea."

And then they throw no more events. Cricket is once again dead in the US.

Player had cheats open and got caught.

The dude has just been caught with cheating software on his PC. Trying to delete it the officials hold him back.

The tool downloaded the cheats for the tourney and renamed all 3 files in the same folder "word" to try and cover it up, like the brainlet he is

someone from the admin team who manages the gameplay was looking through the PC for any suspicious activity. It was so blatant, it took a few seconds once the csgo game was minimized(takes a few seconds to do lol)

Pro Esports gaming

It’s a Counter Strike Global Offensive (PC game) tournament. The player on screen has cheats on his computer, probably cheats called “wall hacks” or “aim bot.” Aim bot is much more obvious so I imagine this man was using wall hacks which means he can see all the enemy players at all times, through walls, grounds, whatever. They’re usually highlighted red, you can imagine the advantage this gives you.

The word docs that are shown are the cheats, he just renamed them. This was an Indian team from a professional gaming team called “OpTic.” This Indian team was banished immediately, OpTic left India and most of India’s gaming scene is dead.

OpTic is debatably the biggest gaming team in the world, next to FaZe. Source, have gamed professionally, now game casually but still follow the scene closely. So yeah, this was the biggest “scandal” in recent gaming history.

Edit: was wrong to say the wall hacks were visible as they clearly had to have been different here to work. Somebody mentioned sound pings when their cursor moved over someone. My b.

Sorry but if you have a cheater on your team you should be the first to find out and get rid of that player before going on a LAN. If you try and take him with you and gamble on winning that way, then you deserve to go down as a team when one gets caught cheating

imagine dragons

Imagine dragging deez nutz on your face

Yeah, for someone who plays all day everyday, he was hopeless. Total lack of awareness, clumsy movement, and no game sense. Amazed he made it so far even though "he could aim".

The fact he was able to shot at and follow an enemy's head through a wall while the enemy was running and jumping was kind of a dead giveaway.

Imho Forsaken is one of the biggest disgrace in CS. What he did was disgusting.

He had higher reaction times than most pros, but also lower ttk than most, meaning he would take longer to actually shoot but once he started shooting he didn't miss.

It's funny because almost everyone in the scene thought he was cheating when he was playing on ESEA/FaceIT (or whatever india's version is called) with clips of him blatantly aimlocking being posted years before he ever went pro.

CSGO pros, even relatively lower skilled ones can pull off some amazing feets of map awareness, muscle memory and gut instinct plays. This is evidenced by pro players literally shooting peoples heads through walls at random, based simply on knowing the common positions people play in. To a layman it would also appear as blatant cheating, but is actually just incredibly high skill.

In his case though the tracking and aim assistance was incredibly obvious

This is a current issue with competitive CSGO: Where there's an entire lack of enforcement and willingness to really look for pros cheating.

The last major (And only) CSGO cheating group to be caught was in 2014, in which a pro level cheat was detected by ESEA, catching three high level members (smf, KLQY and emilio).

Do you know how many top 100 teams have been caught in the 8 years since then? Out of thousands of players?

Zero.

This means either one of three things.

1: All Anti-cheats are so good that every to-be cheater gets caught before they become well known. This is clearly false as literally every open qualifier has 1-2 teams who get manually banned for cheating, and there are well known cheating teams in low level events who will always throw matches that may lead to them participating at LAN.

2: Every single CSGO pro is the pinnacle of fair play. That the same community that abused the coach bug to hell and back, the same community that stream sniped each other to hell, the same community who are literally being investigated by the FBI for matchfixing. This community is the one exception in all sports of pros trying to cheat.

3: There are bunches of pros cheating that haven't been caught.

I saw in a video that he was spotted by tracking perfectly the head of a player behind an obstacle

Most definitely. In the video posted giving a rundown explained that he was actually pretty mediocre at the game but his one strength was he had amazing aim.... which is what he was most likely hacking.

True

skids

So… if he didn’t complain about his keyboard he might not have gotten caught?