Who is nocries CS2: Is FACEIT’s #1 NA player cheating?

If you’re remotely online in the CS2 community, you may have heard that North American FACEIT has a new number one player: nocries. Very little is known about this elusive figure, with many simply wondering why they haven’t been banned yet. After all, CS2 has a cheating problem, so when a player emerges from the abyss looking like the new donk, it’s only natural that many would have their reservations.

So who is nocries, CS2’s newest talent and 4.3k FACEIT elo god? Are they cheating, or does North American CS have a glimmer of hope after all? Let’s investigate.

nocries CS2 demos are inconclusive

Usually, with any cheater, it’s easy to tell via demo review. That’s what makes nocries so fascinating. Despite the noise online, their demos (even those in which they utterly dominate) are pretty inconclusive. The best analysis so far comes via austincs, who investigated a few of nocries’ CS2 demos to see what all the fuss is about.

Notably, even in their best games in which every shot seems to land, nocries very rarely gets a no-info kill. Even their craziest clip, a Dust2 pistol round in which they destroy their opponents, austincs confirms that nocries is given all the information to win the round, even if they act on it at breakneck speed. There is only one instance of smoke spam where you may suspect nocries is up to no good, but it’s largely a very clean demo review.

It’s not as though nocries isn’t occasionally caught off guard, either – they’re very diligent in their checks, but are not totally infallible. As austincs notes in his video, this is clearly an experienced player with top-level gamesense, whether cheats are being used or not. Aim-wise, slowed-down footage of nocries’ CS2 demos reveals they make micro-adjustments to their flicks, making even the craziest shots theoretically legitimate for an excellent player. One post on X was recently reposted by MOUZ’s Jimpphat, which is worthy of note:

watched a couple of demos and honestly think he may just be a very good player. Nothing stood out as suspicious beyond reasonable doubt, at all really

whats ABSOLUTELY worrying is the state of na faceit, the stuff you see in these games u dont see outside of matchmaking 😭 https://t.co/ILyodxzfAq

— jelo (@jelohcs) September 16, 2025

If a post endorsed by Jimpphat deems nocries CS2 demos inconclusive, it’s tough to argue with that conclusion. Instead, this raises another question: Is this just a damning indictment of the standard on NA FACEIT? Are things really that dire over there? We all saw viral videos of donk losing it with his teammates on NA FACEIT during his stay there for the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025, and it’s very possible that nocries is simply a level above the rest.

My take is this: nocries may be another “ropz at FACEIT HQ” situation. They are obviously very good at the game, but there’s simply not enough evidence for FACEIT to issue a ban based on nocries’ CS2 demos at the moment. I do however believe that nocries is playing on a second account, which may be a bannable offense if their identity is discovered. Why? As good as they are at the game, reaching this point at 1,108 matches (at the time of writing) just isn’t plausible. This is an experienced player, one with much more playtime in the game than that.

But this all adds to the early legend of nocries, doesn’t it? Are they secretly a CS2 household name playing on a second account to dominate NA? Are they an up-and-coming talent we’ll be speaking about for years to come? Or are they simply a cheater, who we’ll all look back on as being obvious in hindsight? Only time will tell.