A few months ago, Valve hit numerous CSGO cheaters around the world with its biggest VAC ban wave of the year. However, Valve is not well-known when it comes to banning cheaters which is the biggest concern of the CSGO community. Last day, one of the richest CSGO accounts holding a whopping $5 million worth of skins surprisingly received Game Ban.
The account named “Seacat” was holding numerous rare skins along with the most expensive csgo skins. The collection included four StatTrak M4A4 Howls with four iBuyPower stickers on them. Moreover one of those super-expensive M4A4 skins boasts the best wear rating of 0.0033. Apart from that, multiple factory-new Dragon Lores were there along with a bunch of rare stickers and several knives. The total collection costs around $4.7 million.
"Is this related to CS:GO ?" "Possible case of mass report ?" "Did the owner actually cheat in CS:GO or any other game ?"
Only time will tell us more about this "Game ban". It would be shame to lose all of these skins.
“Exerpas” first came up with a tweet mentioning the ban of the account. The Game Ban has locked all the skins forever. However, the reason for the ban isn’t confirmed yet. There could be several reasons behind the ban. It could be a toxicity ban or maybe the account got mass reported by numerous players. Apparently, the huge skin collection is going to be locked forever.
The second day of the first event saw the field move to the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari, also known as Imola. Blakeley lost the title 2021 as this was where he let loose his hopes and dreams.
The Scot, fresh from winning the season opener Wednesday night around Bahrain’s digital incarnation on Wednesday, had to resist intense pressure once again in order to win. Blakeley was pushed all the way to victory by Marcel Kiefer from Red Bull Racing Esports. The German never got a chance.
It is a great achievement to win the first two races in a season. Brendon Leigh and David Tonizza did it in 2018 and 2019. Blakeley, who already holds a 29-point advantage after just two races, was crowned the year’s favourite driver.
Kiefer, the race leader in the past, put up a good fight to finish second. Frede Rasmussen was home for the double-Red Bull podium. The Dane recovered brilliantly from a crash during qualifying.
THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS 👊 Back to back F1 Esports Victories 🏆🏆
Felt like the longest race of my life, gg @marcelkiefer_ for pushing me like crazy all race 🧡
While data still plays a key role in shaping modifications to agents, telling Valorant devs when an agent isn’t optimal, Riot Games also approaches agent balance through more subjective lenses.
In a recent blog post titled “State of the Agents,” the devs at Riot have lifted the curtain on the process that is used to determine which agents require adjustments and whether those changes should be buffs or nerfs.
Chamber and Fade were two of the most significant additions to the agent meta in the last year, which led to some of the most significant alterations.
The recon sector was formerly controlled by Sova, but Fade has since shown to be a strong alternative, especially following the nerfs that patch 4.08 dealt to his Owl Drone and Shock Bolt.
Simultaneously, Chamber is assuming responsibility for the sentinel position. Even after two rounds of nerfs, he still has a 68 percent chance of being picked at Valorant Champions 2022, making him the most popular agent.
Both of these agents have been singled out for the possibility of nerfs being implemented in the future. Riot must continually assess the influence agents have on Valorant, using several data sources to make decisions.
Win rate and pick rate in solo queue
An agent’s non-mirror win rate across different MMR tiers and maps is a key indicator of their power.
The term “non-mirror win rate” describes the success rate of an agent in situations in which the other team did not select the same agent. Otherwise, popular agents will have a 50% win rate, which is worthless.
Riot additionally categorizes agent pick rates using the same system. This makes it possible to have an understanding of the similarities and differences between popular agents and the ones that players are selecting to represent them.
Player Perspective
Riot, on the other hand, places a significant amount of importance on your opinions. It monitors social media sentiment, but most of the player perception data it utilizes for balance comes from polls.
These surveys ask if particular agents in the current meta are too strong, too weak, or frustrating to play against.
Pro play
Riot also considers professional players to be some of its most important stakeholders. It examines pro-play pick rates and trends to learn which agents, compositions, and utilities are most useful to teams and players.
For instance, the developer recognized that additional changes still need to be made to the agent as a result of the Chamber’s continued supremacy at Valorant Champions 2022. This demonstrated that further improvements are still required.
His Rendezvous teleporters are not yet sufficiently easy to counter, and moving forward, the primary focus will be on the introduction of “real counterplay.”
Design principles
In the end, agents have to conform to the primary design concepts that serve as the foundation for all future game development. When developing a new agent, Riot considers what aspects of Valorant are lacking and designs the agent accordingly. Every agent should have a unique role in the game, ultimately.
It has been rumored that a third-party manufacturer is working on a version of the GeForce RTX 4090, and there are now images of that model online. Assuming they’re true, the card is huge, with a quad-slot design and a heatsink that goes past the PCB.
According to rumors, the latest photos from Baidu reveal the Zotac RTX 4090 AMP Extreme graphics card. It has a rethought cooler that appears to be polarizing people’s opinions; it is unquestionably distinctive.
A single 16-pin PCIe Gen 5.0 (12VPWHR) connector is present on the triple-fan card. This connector has the capacity to supply 600 watts across 12 rails, which is four times as much as an 8-pin connector can deliver.
The card also looks to utilize the brand-new font that Nvidia is rumored to be implementing for its Lovelace series of next-generation products.
Updated versions of features such as Icestorm 3.0, support for dual BIOS, Firestorm software tools, and the Spectra 2.0 RGB lighting suite are displayed on the box.
The RTX 4090 is the center of many of the speculations that circulate regarding the RTX 4000-series. A month ago, there were rumors that work had begun on it and that it would be the first Lovelace card to be released.
Synthetic benchmarks revealed last week showed the RTX 4090 performing 78% faster than the current-gen RTX 3090 Ti flagship in 3DMark Time Spy Extreme at 3.0 GHz. The same rumor indicated the card will have a default TDP of 450W, but it’s intended for 600W to 800W, which matches a previous allegation of an 800W power limit but a lower default TDP.
It has been widely speculated for some time that the RTX 4090, with its AD102 GPU, will be a monstrosity in terms of size, power, and most likely cost. It has 16,384 CUDA cores, 56% more than the RTX 3090 and 52% more than the RTX 3090 Ti.
We’ve heard it could have 24 GB of GDDR6X @21 Gbps on a 384-bit bus, for 1 TB/s of bandwidth. On September 20, we will most likely learn additional information when we get into the GTC.
Riot Games has recently revealed its plans for the Valorant Champions Tour 2023, and it seems that the company has some significant changes for the upcoming VCT season. Let’s take a look at all the new changes unveiled by Riot that fans can expect to see in VCT 2023.
The heavily anticipated VCT 2023 will kick off in the month of February with what Riot claims will be “the largest international tournament in VCT history.” The tournament will be organized in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and will exclusively feature teams that have secured partnerships with Riot Games.
Regional Valorant Leagues
VCT 2023 will feature three regional leagues that only the partnered teams will be able to compete in.
The first international split is set to start in March, with teams across America, EMEA, and the Pacific meeting in Berlin, Seoul, and Los Angeles for LAN tournaments.
The best teams from the split will make their way to the second international event of the year, VCT Masters, where they’ll have a chance to secure a slot at the prestigious Valorant Champions 2023.
Valorant Last Chance Qualifiers: Valorant LCQ 2023
The Last Chance Qualifiers will be held in July, where teams that haven’t qualified for Champions will get a final shot. The winning teams from each Last Chance Qualifier will make it to the Champions 2023.
Valorant Challengers Circuit 2023
The Challengers Circuit will be running alongside the regular VCT 2023 to give smaller teams a chance to participate in the VCT 2024 season.
The first Challengers split is set to begin in January and the second will start in March. The Challengers Circuits will conclude with the Ascension tournaments in July 2023.
Neon is easily one of the most fun Duelists in Valorant as long as you know what you’re doing. Her kit enables her to outmaneuver her opponents at ease and rotate faster than any other Agent in the game.
However, playing Neon isn’t easy. Mastering her sprint and slide requires a lot of practice, but once you manage to get the hang of it, you can impress your teammates as well as your opponents with your movement skills.
There are a bunch of mechanics that you need to grasp to be able to play Neon properly. The ‘backward slide’ is perhaps one of the most useful techniques that you can learn to take your Neon gameplay to the next level.
Neon Valorant
Let’s take a quick look at how you can slide backward with Neon in Valorant.
Valorant: How to Slide Backward With Neon
The backward slide in Valorant is not that tough, but you’ll need a lot of practice to be able to do it consistently in the heat of the battlefield.
When playing Neon, there are a number of ways to do the backward slide in Valorant. Let’s take a look at the simplest method first:
Activate your sprint and start running forward.
Jump
When you’re just about to hit the ground, let go of the ‘W’ key, tap the ‘S’ key on your keyboard and execute your slide at the same time.
It may take you a few tries to get it, but this method is rather easy to pull off consistently.
There’s also the ‘running backslide’ which is a bit trickier:
Activate your spine and run forward.
Simultaneously release ‘W’, Tap ‘S’, and activate your slide (right-click by default)
If done correctly, you’ll be able to execute a back-slide while running forward with Neon.
Make sure to practice these back-slide mechanics in a practice lobby beforehand before trying them out in a competitive game.
India should establish a regulatory body that can classify games on the internet as being either based on skill or luck and introduce rules to ban illegal formats, and adopt more strict stances on gambling on the internet as a panel of a government agency said in a report viewed by Reuters.
The long-awaited report is viewed as determining the future of game industry for mobile devices in India which is expected to grow to 5 billion dollars by the year 2025. This is up from $1.5 billion at present.
Here are a few points of this panel’s regulatory framework recommendation contained in the draft report:
-The federal government should consider enacting a separate law to regulate online gaming as a “long-term measure”. As an “interim measure”, until such a new law is enacted, the industry can be regulated through rules drafted under India’s existing IT law.
-India’s IT ministry would act as the central ministry for online gaming, except for e-sports and games of chance.
-Any new legal framework should apply to both real money and free games of skill, including esports, online fantasy sports, card games and such other casual games that may impose significant impact. The rules would apply to both gaming companies in India and those operating outside but targeting Indian users.
-Creation of a regulatory body for online gaming industry, which among other things will determine what qualifies as a game of skill, and certify different gaming formats.
-Inclusion of provisions for a “Code of Ethics” for the gaming publishers; have due diligence of online gaming platforms, including a robust greivance redressal mechanism and mandatory know-your-customer norms.
Activision, the developer of the first-person shooter video game franchise “Call of Duty” has announced the launch of pre-registration for their upcoming COD: Warzone Mobile on the Google Play Store. The publisher will reveal more details through their official livestream franchise event, which is scheduled to start at 10 PM IST onwards.
Call of Duty is one of the most loved and oldest franchise games which was launched in 2003 based on World War II. Besides the introduction and reveal of the COD: Warzone Mobile, the publisher will share more information about Modern Warfare II and the future of Call of Duty: Warzone.
How to Pre-register for COD: Warzone Mobile?
Interested players will get the opportunity to pre-register for the game in advance. Presently, the option is only available for android device users. Below are the mentioned steps to easily pre-register the game.
Open the Google Play Store app on your device and search for Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile through the search bar.
Click on the game from the list of options. Now the screen will be opened with the game information
Now press the green button “Pre-registration”.
After clicking on the button, a box will open on your screen showing the options “Got it” and “Install when available.”
To download the game automatically after launch, click on the “Install when available” button, otherwise you can choose to go for “Got it.”
Users who pre-register will also receive some rewards after the game’s worldwide launch. However, Activision is yet to disclose the release date of Warzone Mobile.
About Call of Duty
Call of Duty is a first-person shooter video game based on id Tech 3, which was released on October 29, 2003. The game was developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision. The game simulates the infantry and combined arms warfare of World War II. The game has multiple franchises such as World War II, Modern Warfare, Black Ops Story, Standalone games, etc.
Valorant Champions 2022 is well underway, and the best Valorant teams throughout the globe are battling it out to get their hands on the lion’s share of the massive $1,000,000 prize pool.
For the uninitiated, Valorant Champions is an annual Valorant event and the most prestigious tournament in the game. Valorant Champions 2022 is currently being held in Istanbul, Turkey, and it features a total of 16 teams contending for the trophy.
There are a total of 19 Agents in Valorant, some of which are certainly better than the others. This is why fans of the shooter often choose to follow their favorite pros to determine which Agents are currently in the meta.
In this article, we’re gonna take a look at the most picked Agents in Valorant Champions 2022 to try and identify the current meta of the game.
Most Picked Agents in Valorant Champions 2022
Here’s a list of all the Agents in Valorant and their pickrates in Champions 2022:
Taking a glance at the chart, it’s obvious that despite all the recent nerfs, Chamber remains a favorite among Valorant pros with a pickrate of 70.45%.
Fade seems to have taken the place of Sova as most teams’ primary Initiator with a pickrate of 54.48%, followed by the Controller Viper at 46.27%.
The only Duelist making it to the top 5 list is Raze, who currently has a pickrate of 35.82% in the tournament.
As the real-world Formula 1 season continues at an accelerated pace while it is expected that the F1 Esports Series Pro Championship hosted by Aramco will be back this week, with a more comprehensive selection.
Starting on September 14 The new three-day per event format is scheduled to be followed, and there will be more live events than ever before, as teams and drivers race to win a huge $750,000 prize pool.
The year 2022 will see four races will be held, each with 3 days of racing with the qualifying and race for each event being held on separate days. The new season will begin with Sakhir International Circuit on Wednesday. Sakhir International Circuit on Wednesday and will then take visits towards Imola and Silverstone on Thursday and Friday.
The additions to this year’s F1 Esports schedule comprise Suzuka along with Suzuka and Yas Marina Circuit, with the Abu Dhabi venue playing host to the season’s final race that will mirror F1 championship. F1 championship.
Every race qualifying event will be broadcast at a live stream on the Official F1 YouTube, Twitch and Huya channels The race itself will be broadcast on the same platforms as well as Facebook. The race stream will be broadcast by selected television broadcasters, such as Sky Sports F1, Viaplay and ESPN.
Like every year, the production will stream direct from Gfinity Arena in London, however, the drivers will race at Esports team factories or facilities or at their home, and will race in an official F1 22 video game, created in collaboration with EA along with Codemasters.
2022 F1 Esports calendar
Round 1 – Bahrain – 14th September
Round 2 – Italy (Imola) – 15th September
Round 3 – Great Britain – 16th September
Round 4 – Austria – 12th October
Round 5 – Belgium – 13th October
Round 6 – Netherlands – 14th October
Round 7 – Italy (Monza) – 2nd November
Round 8 – Mexico – 3rd November
Round 9 – USA (Austin) – 4th November
Round 10 – Japan – 14th December
Round 11 – Brazil – 15th December
Round 12 – Abu Dhabi – 16th December
A number of high-profile driver changes took place in the last few years since the championship, including finishing third Lucas Blakeley swapping Aston Martin for McLaren Shadow, Manuel Biancolilla making a move to Aston Martin as he returns after a break of a year and Filip Presnajder switching out of Alfa Romeo to Alpine.
In the meantime, reigning champion Jarno Opmeer remains in Mercedes, Brendon Leigh stays at Ferrari along with teammate Davide Tonizza. Red Bull have retained all their drivers, including the dependable pair comprising Marcel Kiefer and Frede Rasmussen.
In terms of fresh potential, Alpine have signed Luke Smith who was 2nd in 2022’s Pro Exhibition – with Aston Martin signing Pro Exhibition semi-finalist Josh Evans and Haas secured that the 2022 Pro Exhibition champion Thomas Ronhaar.
In all, there’s been nine changes of drivers across the grid. In addition, 7 new players have also been selected for the 2022 Pro Exhibition after qualifying through one of F1 Esports Series’ qualification routes, which includes that of the DHL Time Trial.
