Tutoriale

Tell a cvar-caused kick, ban or crash apart from an ordinary crash, bisect the batch you just enabled, and keep a ReHLDS hardening baseline that does not punish real players.

A realistic look at CS 1.6 anti-cheat in 2026: what VAC does and does not cover, the server-side statistical detection plugins that actually help, and how to combine detection with review.

Configure rcon_password on a CS 1.6 server the right way, harden it with ReHLDS failure-limit cvars, and stop leaking the password to your own admins.

How AMX Mod X password- and name-based admin entries in users.ini work, the setinfo field clients use, and why SteamID auth is safer on public servers.

How to source CS 1.6 server files, plugins and mods without inheriting someone else's backdoor: trust SteamCMD and named GitHub orgs, and how to audit a suspicious .amxx.