Closet cheaters are cheating in subtle ways, which make it impossible to know if they're really cheating.
It's a constant analysis of "is he cheating or am I bad?", and most of the time, I could not really know. It's a psychologically toxic experience as I cannot focus on the game itself. I was enjoying the game, but that paranoia made things just unbearable.
I suspect china/russia are actively paying people to make effective cheating software, as it's also a lucrative business.
Even a few pro players are cheating. Those online FPS are rotten to the core.
Apparently valve doesn't seem to care that much, because they probably know that there is a big overlap between cheaters and people who trade skins, who are a big source of income.
Too bad!
People constantly cry that the other team is hacking and reviewing the demo shows that they almost never are. The reality is they were just better. That seems to be hard for a large portion of the player base to handle. Low ranks and low trust factor are full of obvious hacks because they make an account, get banned and repeat. You don't see the decent hacks until the upper ranks because you need to be good enough at the game to hide it and would just rank up fast through the middle rankd
I didn't notice any tel: links. And that's not the point of the article.
I see you've mentioned your points with a comment on the post itself. No need to mention it here again.