FACEIT launch CS2 Limited Access

7-9-2023 18:56

A "Challenger" rank has also been introduced for the top 1,000 players from each region.

FACEIT has launched a limited test of its platform and servers for Counter-Strike 2, offering access exclusively to those who are level 9 or 10 on the platform, have over 1,000 matches played, and already have access to Counter-Strike 2.

A new "Challenger" rank has also been created for the top 1,000 players in each region, mirroring the new Premier mode rank that provides more insight into a player's exact placement among their peers. The numerical badge also gives players "new and exciting goals to grind after reaching level 10."

The launch of FACEIT's servers offers an alternative to traditional Counter-Strike 2 matchmaking, which functions on a sub-tick system rather than the 64-tick matchmaking or 128-tick servers used by FACEIT, ESEA, and professional games in CS:GO.

HLTV reached out to a FACEIT representative to clarify whether the servers for their CS2 Limited Access test are running on 128-tick, but they declined to comment.

However, early comments from Kenny "⁠kennyS⁠" Schrub indicate that matchmaking on FACEIT's servers feels better than traditional CS2 servers, although even the Frenchman admitted it could be a placebo effect.

This Limited Access launch is "Part 1/3," according to FACEIT, who say that Part 2 of their release will roll out when Counter-Strike 2 is open to the entire community.

The platform added that Elo and skill level adjustments will be applied in Part 2 of their release as "the growth of our player base has led to inconsistencies in the distribution across skill levels," although level 10 players in the Limited Access test will immediately experience a "soft" Elo adjustment.

nice

2023-09-07 18:56

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very nice

2023-09-07 18:58

MIBR has improved tremendously last 1 month

2023-09-10 17:11

cs2 premier dead already?

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valve have shit servers, this subtick is sucktick, fucking bad calculated

2023-09-07 19:40

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hahahahahahahahahhahahahhaa

2023-09-07 20:59

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They said that lvl 10 players in the limited test would get a "soft" elo adjustment but then monesy lost 4.1k ELO 🤣🤣🤣🤣

2023-09-08 14:55

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m0nesy elo abuser

2023-09-09 09:28

cuz max elo was like 3100. and a lot of ppl got it

2023-09-10 13:33

yeah, that's completely wrong

2023-09-10 15:25

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Yeah dogs with 2900 elo got 2600 and 6k got 3k elo LUL

2023-09-10 16:33

Faceut using the same servers lmao

2023-09-07 23:36

Idk what other is doing but is everyone ducked their smoke up? Yes I am talking about window smoke, so ez to throw (10/10 for me) when in practice mode cuz you have 0 ping, but will never go in casual/premier mm with the SAME lineup (T spawn trash can straf right)

2023-09-08 00:55

FACEIT is costly

2023-09-07 20:17

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If you can’t afford 5€ a month you shouldnt be playing video games in the first place

2023-09-08 00:12

23 replies

delusional take, don't gatekeep.

2023-09-08 06:02

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How is it delusional, you should be 100% focused on improving your life and situation if 5€ is an issue for you and not waste time on video games

2023-09-08 07:18

2023-09-08 09:44

what about 13 year olds gamers?

2023-09-10 11:53

Dumbest take I've read in a long time

2023-09-08 11:51

12 replies

Focusing on improving your life and economic situation if you’re poor asf instead of wasting time is a dumb take?

2023-09-08 17:59

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My dude, if someone works two jobs for 12 hours a day at minimum wage to make ends meet who are you to tell them they should not play videogames afterwards? Those 5€ can be hard earnt af. In Denmark they aren't worth much, but that's not the case in the rest of the world.

2023-09-08 18:26

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For example in Russia

2023-09-09 16:03

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Guess this is why matchmaking is littered with russians and faceit is not Another reason to play faceit

2023-09-10 15:39

I don't know man, I like to play with russians

2023-09-10 23:08

Do you like drinking bleach aswell? Same result

2023-09-11 00:47

Not at all. Russians are usually the nicest people

2023-09-12 15:16

I think most ukrainians would disagree

2023-09-12 15:37

That's why nobody asks them))

2023-09-12 16:40

im not giving faceit 5 euro a month even if i can afford it lol fuck them

2023-09-10 13:36

Brokie spotted

2023-09-11 00:48

tru

2023-09-11 13:27

can't =/= don't want

2023-09-08 11:56

+1 I easily could but i dont think faceit deserves those euros when the premium barely offers any upgrade to the experience. Teammates are still griefing and toxic.

2023-09-08 13:44

He didnt say he didnt want though did he, he said 5€ is costly

Yeah you flippantly assumed he was poor therefore assumed he shouldn't be playing video games. 5 euros isn't much in Western Europe but I have friends from Romania and Macedonia where 5 euros is like 3% of the average monthly salary. Which if spent just on a video game subscription is indeed costly.

2023-09-08 18:56

i can afford it, i dont want to fucking pay it

2023-09-09 03:31

Yeah i guess matchmaking is better kekw

2023-09-09 03:44

Im encountering some of the worst hackers Ive ever faced like so blatant they don't give a F. Tracing through walls , aimbot , spinbot and the game itself is broken in many ways like the c4 drop location shows wrong and smokes are going through the walls outside the map. We need a better anticheat or this game is gone for good. Though I think as soon as MM is enabled during launch then hackers might shift to playing maps instead of premiere

2023-09-08 09:53

I’ve seen 0 hackers so far in cs2 but I have been accused of cheating like almost every single match I’ve played. People just don’t accept that maybe the enemy is just good and much higher rank in csgo than u. Skillbased matchmaking ain’t working the same in cs2 since people are just getting ranks (low elo players face high elo players). Just stop accussing everyone whos better than u of cheats. +and ye that c4 drop location is fucked sometimes but again this is beta

2023-09-08 10:03

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there are cheaters in cs2, already a good amount of them. Apparently the AC is disabled aswell. Just search "cs2 cheats" on google, there are already tons of publicly available cheats. When you see someone with 400 hrs, hardstuck faceit level 2, whos somehow playing like a god, odds are they arent better than you, theyre cheating.

2023-09-09 05:15

ye bro i have 30hrs and im better than them, doesn't mean im cheating im just playing with smurf acc

2023-09-12 18:35

yea? 400 hrs on a smurf account? And your smurf has 50 matches on faceit at lvl 2?

2023-09-13 23:28

400hrs aint much bro, it can be alt account. you can easily have 500hrs on alt acc while u play with mates

2023-09-14 16:52

maybe if you play with your friends on an alt acc everyday or something? Still doesnt explain bottom fragger bobby lvl 2 on faceit, I swear theyre all faceit 1 2 3

2023-09-14 18:46

50matches lvl 2 aint really nothing that special, some people dont even play faceit, they just test it and play mm

2023-09-14 19:12

going down to level 2 in 50 matches means theyre a bot

2023-09-14 19:21

whatever bro, im not saying there aint any hacker. Im just saying that most of the time people callout someone hacker and they are not, they are just better like 9/10 times its just better player

2023-09-14 20:32

yea bro ropz played against lots of "better players" in his matches!

2023-09-14 20:35

pretty sure they arent hacking but because there is hard "rank" reset when going from csgo into cs2 youre playing against way better players than what youre used to

2023-09-08 13:52

Nope Im around lvl 9 at faceit nothing to brag about but yesterday I was on dubai server and my teammates were on spinbot and every kind of hack they could imagine . What helped was going 5 man because then I got legit opponents

2023-09-09 09:20

declined to comment? they are hiding something.

prob that their platform is dying

2023-09-07 18:59

It's definitely the same exact servers just people think that because it's faceit the servers are automatically better.

2023-09-08 04:43

also valve updated cs2 to make it more responsive so He most likely feels those changes.

2023-09-08 14:37

Most def placebo, french = delusional

Nice, even hltv writer has absolutely no clue about what the subtick system means.

sad no invite for 8lvl people :F

2023-09-07 19:01

Who cares, volvo premier better, same servers anyway and better queue time. And no Loba crying for mama

2023-09-07 23:38

lol

2023-09-08 04:39

i think u kinda drunk mm premier is shit

2023-09-08 13:26

Why?

people already cheating

2023-09-08 14:02

people will always cheat, even with faceit. Also still no big announcments on volvos anticheat. Still coping it will be good.

2023-09-08 19:12

we will see

2023-09-08 19:14

I hope they will get their shit toegether and just get kernel access and make use of hardware bans.

2023-09-08 19:23

that's would be best option

2023-09-08 19:25

At first I thought it was going to say if you are a faceit member you get access to cs2 lol. Still waiting on that beta

level 9 or 10 on the platform, have over 1,000 matches played... 💀💀💀

2023-09-07 19:08

Bro at this rate I'll just wait till release

2023-09-07 19:39

Better prioritizing better players who actually play the game then Valve shitting on the community by giving people with fresh accounts beta access and punishing people for not playing their trash mm system.

2023-09-08 00:14

faceit sweating hard i guess

2023-09-07 19:10

true

2023-09-08 03:49

not really? they could make another queue for ppl lower level than 9 but they dont need because they have enough players how it is :)

2023-09-09 16:11

well, I mean faceit might be sweating as valve is now taking actions in order to make MM way more competitive, which makes faceit feels redundant for the majority of players. Why would I play on faceit if there are leaderboards, pick&bans, and more to come on MM ?

2023-09-10 20:45

so sad I deranked after long vacation

2023-09-07 19:30

niceee but i dont have an access as a 4k elo player :)

2023-09-07 19:33

over 1k matches?

2023-09-07 19:38

How many matches you have?

2023-09-08 00:15

5th account enjoyer

2023-09-08 04:12

Welcome to the club, but its prolly as we did not play any mm or w/e. 2k9 prime, 3k 1.6 hours, 6k csgo hours, got a rank but no acc.

2023-09-08 20:52

there is no 128 tick in cs2. faceit is using the same subtick as cs2 premier MM

2023-09-07 19:41

If FaceIT is caught editing server.dll to get 128 tickrate, that might have serious issues if it's not cleared by valve. I don't think they would want to risk their GSLT account for this

2023-09-07 19:51

why would valve care about that? Lmao

2023-09-09 05:18

Why would valve cares about enforcing their ToS and EULA? oh I don't know, i'm not a lawyer.

2023-09-09 05:22

Youre pretty deluded if you think valve is going to sue someone over changing the tickrate of a community server, they dont care. At all.

2023-09-09 05:23

Sue? My brother in christ, I didn't say anything about "Sue" that's your words. They can cancel their GSLT Account which you need to host servers on CSGO,CS2,TF2 etc

2023-09-09 05:25

They do not care. They arent going to do anything. From what I can find about their rules for GSLT tokens, the only thing they disallow is plugins that "are offering to their players false inventories and/or profiles as a free or paid service.", which apparently refers to servers with !knife !ws etc obviously they dont even care about that rule, as there are hundreds of publicly available servers that have these commands still that have existed for years.

2023-09-09 05:31

Even with subtick the server still has a rate at which it refreshes per second.

2023-09-09 00:22

Just played Faceit. Same shit as premier

2023-09-07 19:53

Even worse

2023-09-08 00:08

As Part 1 of our Counter-Strike 2 release, we're launching limited access to our CS2 Matchmaking in all regions from 15:00 GMT+1 today. Limited access will be available exclusively to level 9 and level 10 players with more than 1,000 matches played on FACEIT.

2023-09-07 20:57

Faceit are worse right now

2023-09-08 00:07

Yeah f these 3rd party ESEA faceit heard faceit uses same subtick anyway

2023-09-07 22:30

i really hope that valve gets their shit together. i appreciate faceit, but if im gonna have to play on seperate clients to have a relevant rank and to get potentiall battle pass points for operations, and won't be able to do both at the same time i'll be really disappointed. also i just don't like using external clients. i get it for 10mans and scrims, but ranked? i hope valve fixes their shit.

2023-09-08 00:02

Kennys aka the puppet

aka "im sending my ass for viewers"

2023-09-08 03:51

why would you bother playing faceshit when their servers are the same shittick like volvo

2023-09-08 00:28

2023-09-08 01:00

esportal.com have it for all, put to ass this babay faceit useless shit

2023-09-08 01:02

if you eat 5gs of protein per pound instead of 1g per pound in a day youll definitely be growing way faster right no it makes no difference they could have 512 tickrate servers but the whole gaming engine has to abide by the law of the 64 sub tick code

2023-09-08 04:53

Exactly, if the subtick system is noting the timestamp of inputs, the feeling of the game will be same regardless of tickrate

2023-09-08 06:25

"The launch of FACEIT's servers offers an alternative to traditional Counter-Strike 2 matchmaking, which functions on a sub-tick system rather than the 64-tick matchmaking or 128-tick servers used by FACEIT, ESEA, and professional games in CS:GO." Valve did such a good job explaining the subtick architecture and majority of CS players still don't understand what it does, suprised even HLTV writers have not understood that.

2023-09-08 06:22

Subtick is a fucking bullshit created by Valve because they are too bad and incompetent to have 128 tick servers but they know dumb ass fanboys like you will sttill eat their shit like a good dog you are

2023-09-08 11:58

Can you tell me the difference between subtick and 128 tick? I am trying to see if you even know what subtick updates are supposed to do

2023-09-08 12:25

it does not do shit, its literally 64 tick, thats the point idiot

2023-09-08 14:32

Clearly you do not understand how sub tick works...

2023-09-08 14:46

Ahahahaha what an idiot

2023-09-08 18:24

yeah this is cs for you man. absolute pinnacle of human retardation is here. they will skip whatever problem there is in the game, the actual state of it (abandoned game with small update once in a lifetime), whatever you can think of even cheaters and smurfs are currently completely ignored by like 95% of those people. instead we whine about 128tick or some other already meaningless bullshit (#103 explains why 128 will make no impact in cs2). good anticheat for those people is having malware on your pc with full control that can't detect anything besides basic rage and first best copypastes from github repos. anything other than that is not detected by faceit ac and zombies will defend this brainwash into the oblivion. i can cheat all day on my main and will never get punished using scraps from github mixed with fake junk code. i just can't believe cs players are that ignorant

2023-09-10 15:41

it gets called only on meaningful input. thresholds were set for the game itself to not ever need anything above 64. changing number from 64 to 128 is not enough, 0 difference, you need to make changes to other values and thresholds to at least maybe get something out of it.

2023-09-10 15:35