How to increase the trust factor in CS CS CS

Ever wondered how to increase the trust factor in CS CS GO? I don't think so. Even more than that, many people don't even know what that factor is. And so our task — is to explain the process itself, talk about its pitfalls and its impact on all Valve games in general. 

The initiative itself, developed back in 2017, looks quite sensible: every Steam player is monitored by Valve: behavior in games, general statistics, attitude towards other players, fair behavior, presence of toxicity, etc. Data is collected for each account, based on which you are either promoted or downgraded if you want to play on public CS GO servers for example.

The developers originally planned to use this module to monitor cheaters. Agree, reports regarding such characters are sent almost in 24/7 mode, but they still somehow manage to avoid a ban. 

Introductory parameters

Let's start by looking at what the trust factor is in CS:GO and why it is needed at all. This is a setting that allows players to write directly to the developers if they see cheating, dirty tricks, toxicity, too much matting, and down the list. The gamer opens a dedicated in-game email account and writes to Valve at the following address:

[email protected]

In the description, be sure to include the subject line «Trust Factor Feedback», your nickname and the nickname of the person you're snitching on. And it's that rare case where you don't feel gross after doing something like that.

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How does Valve calculate this factor?

Let's face it: there is no official information about the calculation formula anywhere. At the very least because Valve doesn't provide it. We are waiting for the Chinese, who can sell Gabe on this issue, as in his time with lootboxes and the chance to drop valuable items. Looking at the trust factor in CS CS GO is problematic, but possible. To do this, go to the lobby, select a mode, start searching and look in the chat window.

There are also a few things you should look out for.

To improve the trust factor in CS:GO, you need to:

• Tie a phone number to your account — keep an eye on security;

• Raise your rank in the game — play for results and improve your stats;

• Do not swear on the Steam forum and do not incite general discord —responsible user;

• Buy Prime status — money opens many doors in this world;

• Don't conflict in other Valve games — maintain your reputation;

• Play as much and as often as possible — the system memorizes all the actions of the gamer and creates statistics;

• Get likes from other teammates at the end of the roll as the most helpful/ polite/communicative/important player — allowing others to get the most out of the game.

This will be enough for the VACnet system (which is what «trust factor» is called inside Valve) to let you higher up in the queue instead of leaving you somewhere on the back of the queue. You'll be surprised, but the low (lowered) trust factor in CS:GO makes itself felt very quickly: games load slowly, you sit in the lobby for a long time, your teammates become more and more inadequate every time, and reports come from every corner, if you suddenly look at someone askew. Toxicity breeds toxicity, in a word. 

What to do if you still get to the bottom of the list

So, we have found out that it is impossible to check the trust factor in CS:GO on your own. At least for the moment. The only thing left to do is to wait for the experts who will create a formula by clever calculations and formalize it in the form of a permit. Basically, it's something like «olenemer» in World of Tanks, only more global. 

Now to the point. You're a great player, you don't try «closely» to get to know anyone's relatives, and you don't show yourself in any negative way at all. But you still regularly end up somewhere at the bottom of the lists, where 90% of the time you play against toxic opponents with bad microphones and squealing voices. Where do the legs come from? From that very friend/comrade/random gamer who called you into a party for a few rinks.

Valve themselves say that lobby seats are calculated by the lowest «karma» (red CS:GO trust factor).

Either pull others to your level or change your social circle. Friendship is friendship, but to tolerate inadequates just because someone does not want to develop — so much fun.

What you should put up with

You probably already have a thought about how to disable the trust factor in CS:GO, if it prevents you from playing in normal teams and constantly throws you down the list to toxics and cheaters. There's no way you're gonna do that. There are essentially only two options:

• Urgently change your type of thinking, attitude to what is happening, worldview and so on, so as not to yell into the microphone in a bad voice if something goes wrong. Always give likes to other members who will surely reciprocate. Behave with dignity and don't respond to aggro from your teammates. 

• Make a new Steam account (not in CS GO, but Steam, because statistics are kept on ALL your activities, not on a specific game). But this option will obviously not work for those who have more than 100 games in their collection, a huge number of items, achievements and other game values.

You can't remove the trust factor either — it is embedded by the developers. Maybe someday not particularly decent gamers will find ways around VACnet, but normal, adequate gamers don't need it. Nothing will change for them, for that matter. 

These are the new rules, and they will evolve even more in the future. Is that a good thing? Absolutely. In this way, Valve are trying to offset the shortcomings of the free distribution model of CS GO (it used to be paid). And since it's free, the threshold of entry is instantly lowered, attracting not the most polite audience. Hopefully, we will see the first results of the trust factor very soon. Let me know in the comments how you feel about this approach from Gabe and his team.