CS2 system doesn't let me play premier, is it a bug?
I have been playing CS:GO since 2015 but ever since CS2 released I am pretty much unable to play premier, I have literally 0 clue why it's happening to me, for sure there are many better players than me playing premiers and I haven't heard about others having this issue.
So what's the problem?
Whenever I start playing premiers after a few matches (usually no more than 10) I just start facing cheaters, and no - not "cheaters" which are just better players than me, I'm being placed in "cheater lobby" every match, usually with multiple people spinbotting, literally EVERY single game, then I stop playing premier for a longer period of time (few months), my rating (if I ever managed to win 10 games before) disappears, I try again and the same thing repeat.
I ALWAYS play with the same 2 friends and it's always the same - we play some matches against normal people, then either one or both of them gets info in a lobby chat that my trustfactor is lower than theirs and again after a few games at most we get placed in cheater lobby every single game (of course I stop playing after that because there's no point in playing). It has nothing to do with their trust factor, they play a lot without me and never had this issue.
Usually I can't even finish placements and get my rating.
Yes, I'm a decent player and yes, I'm top fragging in most of my games, but I'm not a god, not a pro and definitely not the best player out there playing premier games, I'm never griefing, never toxic to the other 2 teammates we get.
I'm assuming I am just getting mass reported by enemy team almost every game because "I'm better" than them which lowers my trustfactor/system thinks I'm a cheater and then we start getting placed in cheater lobbies.
Either any other good player is not getting reported by angry enemies or there's some serious bug going on with whatever system valve is using.
What can I do? I've tried playing "worse" to be in a middle of the scoreboard but where's fun in that?
Some info:
My steam account is over 16 years (bought cs 1.6 in 2009)
Faceit level 10 since 2017 with a peak of 3000 elo around 2021
I have a pretty expensive inventory ($10k-$15k)
Other than usually being a bit better than enemy players there's no indication that I'm cheating
After a long break from CS2 I started playing again (only 6 matches in), yesterday I had a pretty good match (which was the last of that day) and today my friend gets a red warning saying my trustfactor is substantially lower than his.
sorry for the low quality photo, blame my friend not me
I don't recall having this issue in CS:GO after getting global elite I mostly moved to faceit but still occasionally playing matchmaking with the same 2 friends and while there were some cheaters here and there it wasn't anything like that.
Posted Dec 30, 2025, 8:58 PM UTC