Evidence for Demos [READ BEFORE POSTING]

[Sir_Conor 946]

A Testimony is NOT substantial evidence

This means that telling us how many witnesses you have or who can testify to your ban request will not result in a person being banned as it is too easy to just gather a group of people who don't like a certain player to ban them.

Copy and pasted chat will rarely work as it is easy to rework the sentences

Correct Evidence includes:

Screenshots

Screenshots are good evidence for reports of racism and abuse but isn't sufficient evidence for much else use steam to take scrrenshots by pressing F12 in-game and then uploading the screenshots to your profile.

Videos to YouTube

Recording a video through a free game recorder like http://www.fraps.com/ and uploading the footage to YouTube for our viewing pleasure can be a good way to report any rule breakers.

Demos

A demo has to be the most important reporting tool, it is very easy to do it and you need no software for it

To record a demo

1. You must have console enabled in CS:GO, you can enable it by going into: OPTIONS > GAME SETTINGS > ENABLE DEVELOPER CONSOLE = yes

2. Whilst in a game open the console ( ¬ key next to 1) and type "record (name)" whatever you replace (name) with will be the demo's file name in your steam folder.

3. If you think you've captured enough in-game footage open console again and type "stop", this will end the demo and save it to your CSGO folder in steam.

4. Now you have to find the demo file, simply locate your steam folder in My computer/C:/Program files/Steam/steamapps/common/Counter Strike: Global Offensive/csgo. This is where you will locate your recorded demos.

5. Next you're going to want to upload the demo for us to download I like to use https://www.dropbox.com/ as its free and fast.

6. Once thats uploaded attach the uploaded file's link to your report and we can then review it by playing it back in counterstrike.

Reporting someone for abuse shown in an argument with someone and yourself the ban times will not be severe as demos can only capture the voice of someone else, this is only the case if we see your microphone constantly popping up in the demo, this could mean you're being abusive back etc.

All credit goes to Biggles for this thread's content. Thread has been remade for CS:GO.