If you play against someone who's hacking and you abandon the match, you get banned. You can't surrender the match until someone on your team abandons.

If you find that someone is hacking or trolling on your team in a couple of games in a row and you kick them each time, you get banned for too many team-kicks.

If it turns out that you had a hacker in your game and they then get VAC banned, the match doesn't count so it was a hour-long waste of time making you finish it.

The game punishes you for their failures in designing a competent anti-cheat by preventing you from leaving, surrendering or kicking players that use exploits.

It's great at the core but for a game that is the focus of the e-sports and competitive game world it's a joke that this is a problem. I can't recommend a game that has a clear anti-player mentality.

If you play against someone who's hacking and you abandon the match, you get banned. You can't surrender the match until someone on your team abandons. If you find that someone is hacking or trolling on your team in a couple of games in a row and you kick them each time, you get banned for too many team-kicks. If it turns out that you had a hacker in your game and they then get VAC banned, the match doesn't count so it was a hour-long waste of time making you finish it. The game punishes you for their failures in designing a competent anti-cheat by preventing you from leaving, surrendering or kicking players that use exploits. It's great at the core but for a game that is the focus of the e-sports and competitive game world it's a joke that this is a problem. I can't recommend a game that has a clear anti-player mentality.