What is FACEIT and How Does it Work?

FACEIT has always had quite the reputation in Counter Strike. I hope that this video will help make this platform more approachable to the community.

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Timestamps
0:00 What is FACEIT?
0:58 FACEIT's Regions and Servers
1:55 Can You Queue for Specific Maps in FACEIT?
2:19 The Debate Over Faceit’s Anti-cheat
5:10 How Do Picks/Bans Work on FACEIT?
6:10 FACEIT's Ranks and ELO Explained
10:01 FACEIT's Game Format vs Premier
10:45 The In-Game Vibe of FACEIT vs Premier
11:13 FACEIT's Subscription Tiers
11:51 Should NEW Players Play FACEIT?
14:12 Check out this epic monitor
15:30 THANK YOU!!

[Astrs]

A kernel level anti-cheat has access to ALL of your OS, and kernel level programs can directly manipulate your resources to how they see fit. In Faceit's case, the anticheat does nothing but check for hacks, but, if somehow someone gains access to the anticheat, they have access to your whole PC, which is where people have issues with this type of anti-cheat. Its nothing to worry about though, unless it becomes something to worry about, like what happened with ESEA

[w.m.]

Thank you so much for this. Straight and helpful as always!

[lukepollard]

At this point, I think valve doesn’t want to fix the cheater problem because they’d lose over half of their player base

[dougchristman]

Found your video because Overwatch just announced they're integrating with FaceIt. I don't play CSGO so I've never even heard of them. Thanks for the great explainer!

[TegredyFarms]

Huge! I haven’t played any Faceit since CS2 release, but def will once I hit my goal of 25k in premiere. I really hope they allocate time making premier viable, idk why but I just hate the idea of having to third party MM in a game

[imsxcyall]

Watching this in August 2024 and seriously considering trying FACEIT. So sick of cheaters in Valve's sucky servers. Awesome and very-thorough video. Thanks.

[screeperz]

Thanks for the advice, I'm an old school gamer just starting cs2, it is an awesome game, I have a lot to learn.

[dmitriydrozdov]

My main problem with faceit is that unless you have premium the games there are mirage simulators. And I personally hate mirage. The second problem for me is toxicity. I am a person who is highly affected by it. And faceit environment is much more toxic as you mentioned. From my personal experience my level of play hasn't become much higher when I started to focus on faceit games but my will to play and interest in the game fell down a lot. And then my level of play started snowballing down. All of that was during csgo times though, I haven't touched faceit since summer.

Overall I don't think that faceit is a suitable playing environment for me personally.

[Kasslerguy]

Thank you so goddamn much Wilson! You are always so straight forward with the subject you are talking about, and you make everything you say very, very clear. I honestly did not have any idea of what Faceit might could be before watching this video, even though I’ve been playing Counter-Strike for atleast 1k hours. But I guess the reason I didn’t know about faceit is the fact that I’m young and not really have had the time nor interest 😂- to go deep in. But thank you, now I know 🙏

[Connoroh_]

i remeber first playing ESEA back in 2015, I was LEM in CSGO at the time. I was really unprepared for the skill difference in MM I placed C+ but those games still give me ptsd it felt like i was fighting for my life every second but i did improve faster than i ever did playing MM

[labermichnichtzu]

I mean it's without the blatant cheaters, but the amount of smurfing is just atrocious. Got one guy with just 25h on his account and bro didn't even hide his hours on the profile. He actually topfragged the match, but still better than blatant cheating as soon as you win multiple rounds in a row.

faceit is pretty cool, especially that one time I got to be team leader and managed to get Finnish servers on Nuke. Me and my bud were the only Finns in the game, both had ~ 5 ping with everyone else sitting in the 20 - 45 range. Hit some nice AWP shots that game

[Nergal]

Perfect tutorial. You explained very well everything and your advices was so motiviting. Thanks for the video

[strikefreedomgundam]

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[kitakits]

Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.

[techfun]

This saves me tons of time bro Thanks a lots. We face so many cheaters these days :(

[shrtrnd]

Couple comments regarding the anti cheat and what you said.
1. The concern with the ring 0 (or kernel level) AC, is not that the company could spy on you (at least not for most). The issue (and real danger) is, that someone could exploit that AC to get access to your computer. I mean look at the exploit with the kick vote system that came out yesterday. That didn't even need kernel level access to your system and could download a payload on to your computer. And that is developed by a multi billion dollar company. Now imagine what someone could do if they found a faceit AC exploit.
2. Yes cheating on a ring 0 AC is harder, but still very doable. People have been led to believe that this form of AC is somehow the magic fix against cheaters. Well I can tell you, it's not. Valorant has a huge closet cheater problem and so does faceit. You're just not noticing it, because you've been conditioned to believe that there aren't that many cheaters, thus your conclusion is, "he must be pretty good". Also people who cheat on faceit, are just not as blatant as they are in premier. You don't see literal silvers wallhacking, making it easy to know they're just bad and cheating.
Faceit cheaters are already level 10 on their own and just use cheats only to get that slight edge. Low FOV aimbots, radar hacks that sort of thing.

[arc-sdsk]

faceit aka the depression factory lmao

[claus]

Thank you for the good explanation. In premier i was at 9.8k elo and from there with teammates that troll scream and just dont want to really play, i got set back to 6k elo with games losing over 400elo per game. I love playing competetive but thats just crazy. Gonna try face it out and see where it brings me

[leekosuave]

Closing in on faceit lvl 10 with your help Wilson, good video man 🤙