Hello,
I’m posting here as a last resort in hopes that a Valve developer / admin or someone with insight might see this.
2 days ago (2026-01-29 20:58:07 GMT) we experienced a VAC live during a match, followed by a 7-day cooldown as my friend wezas was falsely detected for irregular gameplay. I want to be very clear: none of us has never cheated or ever used third-party software (outside of Faceit Anti Cheat),
I strongly suspect this may be related to the most recent update, during which many players reported VAC cooldowns & bans.
I know Valve doesn’t manually respond to individual ban appeals publicly, and I’m not asking for special treatment. I’m just asking for this to be reviewed properly, because losing access to playing mm, premier, faceit & esea games over something we didn’t do is honestly very unfair. Also losing 5000 elo + a worse trust factor is extremely unfair!
If any Valve developers / admins happens to read this:
Please take another look our my case. I genuinely know this is a false positive.
If anyone else here has experienced a false VAC live / cooldown and later got it resolved, I’d really appreciate hearing how it turned out.
Info:
All players in our party:
wezas – Steam – Faceit – CSSTATS Received a 7 day cooldown
halalcat – Steam – Faceit – CSSTATS Received a 7 day cooldown
PUNCHRULLE – Steam – Faceit – CSSTATS Received a 20 hour cooldown
Thanks for reading.