So how do you know if a sever is running VAC ? How does a server set up VAC to run ?

when i looked in the conf.ini file to see whether i could get rid of the visibility-disappearing-bug, i saw that there is a line VAC=1

maybe thats how they do it?
but again thats strange, as it is set to 1 by default ever since,....and people were/are cheating online...

Yes. I haven't played CoD online yet, but I used to play FB/1946 online a lot. I never cheated, but was accused of it many times. If you play well, keep up your speed and energy and use height to build up power and have a good eye for a shot you can easily be called a cheat. People should be careful before they accuse someone of it. It is very unpleasant to be on the receiving end of such an accusation.

yeah ive been accused of cheating as well many times already in cliffs of dover...
its really unpleasant, as you cant really prove your victims wrong...especially when cheating is possible...

Exactly what i thought when i saw this!

Looks like online play takes a hit, too. That's what I don't like about competitive online play - the cheaters turn up. And you can hardly, if ever catch the cautious ones, who only cheat very subtly.

For such a tiny community I highly doubt that anybody is cheating. The regulars who play often know what is possible and what is not. Part of the problem is most of the people who are accusing only fly the aircraft for one side, so they do not understand the capabilities of their opponents machines. Any multiplayer game there are people who will push the game to the absolute limit of what is possible, far beyond the understand or ability of the average player.

Also, I have played multiplayer games on Steam for a long time now and besides games developed by Valve (CS, TF2, L4D, etc..) I have not seen any indication that VAC is effective whatsoever. Red Orchestra had a small community and VAC enabled servers but nobody was ever caught by VAC even though we had known cheaters who were caught in competitive play by watching their demos. Even Valve games, where VAC should work, still aren't 100% protected. I played on a competitive TF2 team in several leagues and little did any of us know that our sniper was cheating. Not until after he head shot several cloaked spies in a match was he caught by the community, not VAC.

Anyway, there is like less than 200 players actively playing this game online. Cheating is not a problem currently but ignorance is.

Well said mate.

+1

I never saw any cheating online.
Only thing I saw is the plane I was following start to go unrealistically faster and that is because disconnection from the server or the game crashed.

It is set in confs.ini with VAC=1 line.

When you click on a server in server browser on the right hand you see server information. One line reads as "security" (in RU version at least) if server has VAC on.

I have not seen any cheating. I think these are just pure rumors spread by people who do not fly every day for 3-5 hours and are shot down by those who do.

If VAC is not working properly and you see any cheating please contact Steam VAC team and ask them to address the issue.