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Trust Factor - Everything We Know

By Kernig

This guide will give you an overview of Valves "Trust Factor" along with some solutions to get a better Trust Factor.

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Languages: English

Category: Getting Started, Individual Skill, Competition

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Guide Index

Overview

1. Introduction (TL;DR)

2. Official Statements

3. Things that might help

4. Troubleshooting

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1. Introduction (TL;DR)

Nothing. We do not know.
Jokes aside, you should read the other parts! :)

2. Official Statements

from: Official Counter-Strike Blog

We "have been experimenting with matching players using observed behaviors and attributes of their Steam account, including the overall amount of time they had spent playing CS:GO, how frequently they were reported for cheating, time spent playing other games on their Steam account, etc."
"in general we’re looking at your past experience in CS:GO and on Steam, to ensure the system is as accurate as possible."
"All you need to do is be a positive member of the CS:GO and Steam community."
"all you have to do to improve your matchmaking experience is continue to
play CS:GO and other Steam games legitimately."

3. Things that might help

receiving comments (profile)
receiving commendations (in CS:GO)
receiving commendations from high reputable players (!)
have no reports for cheating/griefing
have many achievements
have many play hours in CS:GO
have medals of service, operation coints etc.
have many play hours in other games (play legitimately, stop hourboosting!)
high steam level
public profile and inventory
having some value in your inventory
many friends
sending a support ticket to Steam support

4. Troubleshooting

Q: I have a very low Trust Factor, what do i do?
A: You could try to solve the things in part 3.

Q: I've heard that the Steam support can reset my Trust Factor. Is this true?
A: Might be. Some people claim it worked. But there is nothing confirmed yet.
If you want to try it out, send a support ticket to
[email protected] with the subject “Trust Factor Feedback”

44 Comments

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Kernig [author] 6 Dec, 2019 @ 11:05am

Haha the guy below this comment got banned, while bragging before about his super nice trust factor

Sometimes you just gotta love Valve

76561197960653144 19 Jun, 2019 @ 1:53am

Yep

Kernig [author] 19 Jun, 2019 @ 1:52am

If the method is working, your TF must be incredibly good, right?

76561197960653144 19 Jun, 2019 @ 12:57am

If you do not play for 2 weeks I'm not sure but I think it goes bad or stays.

Kernig [author] 18 Jun, 2019 @ 3:57pm

Quick follow up: what happens if you do not play for at least 2 weeks in a row?

Kernig [author] 18 Jun, 2019 @ 3:56pm

"it's simply just Matches played divided by number of reports (and it only counts for last 2 weeks)"

I am assuming that the higher the quotient, the better it is? If this WAS true, i would have a much better TF in the first place. I rarely play matches on this account, and when i do, i am pretty sure i never get reported (maybe once in a while).
Having a bad TF for more than 2 weeks also renders your statement false.

Another thing why i am heavily disagreeing with your statement: if this was actually true, people would not constantly complaim about a bad TF, but just wait 2 weeks.
Also: if this was true, it would be common knowledge in no time, rendering the whole method useless.

76561197960653144 18 Jun, 2019 @ 4:57am

Normal DM servers close after a while or if the lobby gets empty so you can not really idle them.
I think you misunderstood me, kindly re-read everything again.

Kernig [author] 18 Jun, 2019 @ 4:25am

Playing normal DM does not get you reported either if you are just in the middle or bottom of the scoreboard. It's not necessary to go on idle servers.

76561197960653144 17 Jun, 2019 @ 11:20pm

Just join a community idle server over one night or two, one way I prove this works is by inviting nearby players to my lobby and almost all of them gives a red warning trust factor meaning mine is above everybody elses.

76561197960653144 17 Jun, 2019 @ 11:18pm

How does it not make sense? If you get reported your trust factor goes down, so don't get reported, by joining an idle server or idling deathmatch no one will report you because you aren't doing anything so Steam will see that you're playing lots and lots of matches without getting reported. It goes up I have tested this, but if you don't believe it then ok. Valve looves to lie about things also such as VACnet to make it seem like they have some advanced shit going on but in reality you can use open source code public cheats from 2015 and they are still 100% undetected. Valve is in reality a really simple company.

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