Thank you for 200 million views on this channel.
Here you can see 200 million squares. It’s
a lot so it’s just as well I have such a
powerful PC to handle them.
Any way!
When I made my last video, showing these pages,
your match history only went back to last
Octoberish. But now it’s been extended to
show everything! Every match you’ve ever
played, dating back to 2012. That opens up
a lot of opportunities.
To view it all would involve a lot of clicking
and scrolling though, but luckily, walk3 came
to me with a browser extension for Chrome
and Firefox that will do it all for you, which
makes the whole thing a lot easier. I’m
using this for the video.
Then, go to your competitive matches- this
is one of those new pages that Valve has to
show you to comply with the new GDPR’s.
Click ‘Load Whole Match History’, then
go and make a tea or something, as it loads
page after page of matches. My KD ratio used
to be so good.
When you come back, you’ll have the longest
webpage you’ve ever seen, listing every
match. Terrifying, isn’t it.
So many of these matches, I don’t remember.
But at the same time, it’s surprising how
many memories it does bring about. The people
I used to play with, that dry spell in 2016.
Those first placement games where I did really
well! That awkward time I failed to get a
single kill on Italy in 2014. And so on.
There’s so much potential for detective
work as well, which may extend a little beyond
the intended purpose of GDPR.
How many of these players from those early
games are still active? Are they still as
good as you are? Was that guy who thrashed
you on Inferno in 2016 cheating or not? Maybe
you’ll even be able to find that nice teammate
you met on Vertigo 3 years ago and have lost
touch with since!
Remember, you’ll only see matches from the
games that you’ve played, so it’s not
like anybody can view all of your matches
other than you… and any friends who have
queued with you on every game you’ve ever
played.
And guess what, there’s even more! You can
see how many people have been VAC or GAME
banned. This doesn’t necessarily mean they
were cheating in CS:GO specifically. A recent
update to the extension now shows the bans
in grey if they occurred before the match,
and red if after it was played.
Thing is, it only shows bans from the last
10 games. If you want it for your entire match
history, you can do it- but must give the
plugin your API Key.
Before I say how to, I’ll be sensible and
inform you of the risks and stuff. API keys
let you access Steam Data. You’re not supposed
to share this key with other people, but it
exists for the kind of purpose this extension
is trying to fulfil. I think the risk is that
your key might be used to spam the Steam servers.
But since they let you have 100,000 calls
a day, you using it for this extension’s
purpose shouldn’t be a problem. walk3 said
that if he used his and his alone for this
plugin, then all the users combined would
quickly make his key go over this limit. That’s
why yours is required. Which sounds reasonable
enough to me! I entered mine, so that’s
kind of how I feel about it, but hey, if you
do so, it’s at your own risk.
So yeah, if you want to, go to ‘Set Steam
API Key’, then go to the site it links to
to register one if you haven’t already.
You don’t need a website to do this- an
email works just fine. Generate, and BOOM!
You can then copy this into the Custom API
Box, tick ‘Use Custom API Key’, click
SAVE, then press F5 to reload this page. ‘Load
the whole match history’ again, and then
‘check loaded matches for bans’.
And there you go- you can now see every account
with a ban, even though they may not have
been cheating in the match you played with
them.
I wish I had downloaded and stored every game
of CS:GO I ever played. I kept meaning to
start, but never bothered and now I feel it’s
a bit too late. And although I can’t download
these old matches any more, being able to
access them all like this makes me feel a
bit happier. It’s a lovely record to have.
And another couple of hours you could easily
waste, browsing through. I suggest you do.
Walk3 has told me that it only works for 5v5
matches right now, but he’ll be adding wingman
support later and is open to suggestions on
how to improve it. He does say it asks Steam’s
servers for a fair amount of information,
so with this video, we might bring down Steam.
Hopefully not.
If you liked this video, see my earlier video
on the GDPR update. And here’s a blast from
the past- an old Inferno game. With old sounds,
character models and 2kliksphilip content.
