However, even if you are removed from games, your account will not be banned from other games.
At the beginning of this week, Valve began punishing players of Counter-Strike 2 who made advantage of a feature known as Simultaneous Opposing Cardinal Directions (SOCD). If you play Counter-Strike 2 and the game detects that you are using it, you will be thrown out of matches. It is accessible on some of the keyboards that are manufactured by Razer and Wooting companies. Valve is not currently going to ban Steam accounts, which is a fortunate development indeed.
Valve’s verdict was put to the test by The Verge, and the results verified that if you play with SOCD, you will be dropped from matches. Despite the fact that the administrators still have the authority to prevent accounts from playing the game, we continue to advise against contesting Valve’s relaxation of the rules. Please don’t come crying if they do as I ask you to.
While Razer refers to the function as Snap Tap, Wooting prefers to name it Snappy Tappy because it is more adorable. According to the tweet made by Valve, anyone who possess these keyboards are required to disable the capabilities in order to “avoid any interruption to your matches.”
One of the features of SOCD is the ability to automate strafing, which means that players can move in both directions without having to release the initial key. To put this into perspective, this means that you are always able to sneak out of cover and go back out of harm’s way as quickly as the game’s constraints let. By way of illustration, if you hit the A key to go left, and then immediately press the D key without releasing off of the A key, you will achieve the ability to travel right. Additionally, because your reticule expands as you move, it is beneficial to your aim to come to a stop sooner rather than later. It is possible to improve your head-clicking rate by using SOCD because it allows you to stop practically instantaneously.
There have been posts on X by both Razer and Wooting expressing their acceptance of Valve’s decision. Wooting, in particular, requested that owners of SOCD keyboards turn off the feature when they were playing Counter-Strike 2.