Mods & Online play?

[von Pilsner]

Originally Posted by MadTommy

Can a ban in one game get you banned from all other games on steam?

Sort of... depends on the game.

Valve Anti-Cheat System (VAC)

The Valve Anti-Cheat system is enabled for servers displaying the Secured shield logo. Using custom skins, sounds or maps and playing multi-player mods which do not modify core .EXE and .DLL files will not result in a VAC ban

Cheating in a Source Engine game that was released prior to Left 4 Dead will result in a VAC ban from Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Day of Defeat: Source, and Team Fortress 2.

Cheating in a Gold Source engine game will result in a VAC ban from Counter-Strike, Condition Zero, Ricochet, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress Classic, Half-Life: Deathmatch, and Deathmatch Classic
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

VAC is enabled on all multiplayer servers, public and private. Any modifications to the game other than editing config files can result in a VAC ban. Examples of such modifications include console enablers, VAC disablers, and server hosting mods.

A VAC ban in Modern Warfare 2 only affects Modern Warfare 2.

If sound mods and graphics mods use an external .dll file to load then it could (technically) qualify as a VAC ban...

NO. anything untoward that happens on steam VAC equates to a review of your behaviour by 1C themselves.

It does not equate to a ban. The review might ! That is what we were told isnt it ?.