Call of Duty: Black Ops Message Board  

Just wanna let you guys know, there is a dvar called "seta sv_vac "0" in singleplayer for VAC 2. - Which means Vac2 is activated in singleplayer.

A bunch of people on other forums have confirmed that it is actively scanning single player executables so I think using the trainer is a pretty big risk right now.

A suggestion would be to wait about a week or two and see if any Cheathappens members get VAC banned or not to determine Valve's policy on singleplayer cheating. (We don't want a repeat of Starcraft 2 :/)

Valve has never SP banned before. This includes Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead, etc... I've been using trainer sense day 1 and almost have SP completed with cheats. Haven't had a single issue.

Valve also gives warnings instead of flat out bans you. You can also contest their bans and they'll listen. At any rate I would still keep caution. There's always some risk given they provide SP achievements.

I however believe it's enabled, but not active because even in SP you're still "online", see Zombie Mode with online play, etc...

Usually the value of "0" is off and "1" is on.

Yeah, mine is set to "0" in dvars but the default value is "1". I kinda doubt that'll disable VAC though.

Ahhh... "I see." said the blind man .

VALVe will not ban its customers for single player usage regardless of what you put into the SP mode, trainers, dev console cheats, etc.

Then how come VAC2 is activated in Singleplayer?

I highly doubt Treyarch, Activision, and VALVe would be focused on single player cheats when they announced beforehand, Dev Console enabled.

There has never been a Single Player ban via Steam and probably will not be. If this one is using VAC2 for Single Player, then VALVe is definetly going to be having many lawsuits.