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New CSGO update brings upgraded chicken models

Bhavya Shah
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New CSGO update brings upgraded chicken models

With an update shipped by Valve earlier today, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has met with several major changes. The size of the update is approximately 1 GB. 

The Operation Broken Fang which began on December 03, 2020, has concluded. Ancient has replaced Train in the Active Duty map pool and the developers have introduced Snakebite Case featuring 17 new skins.

Users who still haven’t finished their missions can do so until May 15 and claim the rewards as well. The view models of chickens have apparently received a “visual upgrade”. With Train moving to the Reserve pool, several new maps have been added for scrimmage, casual, deathmatch and wingman mode.

Valve has also added a premium subscription service called CS:GO 360 Stats for users who wish to continue viewing competitive and wingman statistics like they did during the Operation Broken Fang. The subscription, similar to DotA+, is worth $1 per month.

Several users are outraged over the removal of Train, instead of Mirage, from the Active Duty map pool and the inclusion of CS:GO 360 Stats which, the critics say, should be made accessible for nothing.

The Snakebite Case has the gloves from Broken Fang Case as rare special items. The update also brings in enhanced security and stabilizes the game. Several maps including Nuke, Ancient and Frostbite have received minor tweaks as well.

CSGO Map Pool:

  • Dust 2
  • Mirage
  • Overpass
  • Inferno
  • Vertigo
  • Nuke
  • Ancient

New CSGO Update Patch Notes:

OPERATION BROKEN FANG

  • Operation Broken Fang has come to an end. Players who have unredeemed operation stars will have until May 15th to claim their operation rewards.
  • Introducing CS:GO 360 Stats – A subscription service for players that want to continue collecting official Competitive and Wingman stats.
  • Premier Competitive remains available for all players featuring pick/ban process across the entire Active Duty Group map pool.
  • Retakes remains available and has been moved into Wargames.

SNAKEBITE CASE

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  • Introducing the Snakebite Case, featuring 17 community-designed weapon finishes, and the Broken Fang Case set of gloves as rare special items.

MISC

  • Chicken models have received a visual upgrade.
  • Fixed community maps whose textures would appear black as a result of previous security fixes.
  • The \ key can again be bound to commands. If you were using this key before, you will need to bind it again.
  • Additional security and stability improvements.
  • Added an option for large community maps to fade the Boost Player Contrast feature beyond the far-Z fog plane by setting fadeplayervisibilityfarz to ‘true’ in info_map_parameters.

MAPS

  • Ancient has been added into the current competition map pool Active Duty Group and Train has been removed from Active Duty Group.
  • Grind and Mocha have been added to official matchmaking in Scrimmage, Casual, and Deathmatch game modes, replacing Apollo, Engage, and Anubis.
  • Calavera and Pitstop have been added to official matchmaking in Wingman game mode, replacing Elysion and Guard.

Ancient:

  • New route from CT spawn to A site
  • Widened T entrance to left side of mid
  • Opened up skylight in T tunnel to A site
  • Extended plantable bomb zone in B site
  • Opened up ledge in A site
  • Various minor bugfixes

Nuke:

  • Fixed a clipping issue on window in T lobby
  • Centered a lamp that was bugging me

Frostbite:

  • Overhauled interior lighting
  • Fixed delivery drones being stuck in the bottom right corner of the map
  • Added drone clips to improve delivery drone navigation
  • Fixed rare cases of loot spawning in inaccessible areas/inside terrain
  • Made a window frame in Alpha non solid (thanks Musti)
  • Clipped wood railings in the frozen lake area
  • Improved the look of the ice texture when Shader Detail is set to Medium or lower
  • Fixed a missing face on a wooden beam in Town
  • Added a sound effect in server room

Ancient replaces Train in CSGO Active Duty map pool

Bhavya Shah
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Ancient replaces Train in CSGO Active Duty map pool

With an update shipped by Valve earlier today, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has met with several major changes. The size of the update is approximately 1 GB.  The Operation Broken Fang which began on December 03, 2020, has concluded. Ancient has replaced Train in the Active Duty map pool and the developers have introduced Snakebite Case featuring 17 new skins.

Users who still haven’t finished their missions can do so until May 15 and claim the rewards as well. The view models of chickens have apparently received a “visual upgrade”. With Train moving to the Reserve pool, several new maps have been added for scrimmage, casual, deathmatch and wingman mode.

Valve has also added a premium subscription service called CS:GO 360 Stats for users who wish to continue viewing competitive and wingman statistics like they did during the Operation Broken Fang. The subscription, similar to DotA+, is worth $1 per month.

Several users are outraged over the removal of Train, instead of Mirage, from the Active Duty map pool and the inclusion of CS:GO 360 Stats which, the critics say, should be made accessible for nothing.

The Snakebite Case has the gloves from Broken Fang Case as rare special items. The update also brings in enhanced security and stabilizes the game. Several maps including Nuke, Ancient and Frostbite have received minor tweaks as well.

CSGO Map Pool:

  • Dust 2
  • Mirage
  • Overpass
  • Inferno
  • Vertigo
  • Nuke
  • Ancient

New CSGO Update Patch Notes:

OPERATION BROKEN FANG

  • Operation Broken Fang has come to an end. Players who have unredeemed operation stars will have until May 15th to claim their operation rewards.
  • Introducing CS:GO 360 Stats – A subscription service for players that want to continue collecting official Competitive and Wingman stats.
  • Premier Competitive remains available for all players featuring pick/ban process across the entire Active Duty Group map pool.
  • Retakes remains available and has been moved into Wargames.

SNAKEBITE CASE

  • Introducing the Snakebite Case, featuring 17 community-designed weapon finishes, and the Broken Fang Case set of gloves as rare special items.

MISC

  • Chicken models have received a visual upgrade.
  • Fixed community maps whose textures would appear black as a result of previous security fixes.
  • The \ key can again be bound to commands. If you were using this key before, you will need to bind it again.
  • Additional security and stability improvements.
  • Added an option for large community maps to fade the Boost Player Contrast feature beyond the far-Z fog plane by setting fadeplayervisibilityfarz to ‘true’ in info_map_parameters.

MAPS

  • Ancient has been added into the current competition map pool Active Duty Group and Train has been removed from Active Duty Group.
  • Grind and Mocha have been added to official matchmaking in Scrimmage, Casual, and Deathmatch game modes, replacing Apollo, Engage, and Anubis.
  • Calavera and Pitstop have been added to official matchmaking in Wingman game mode, replacing Elysion and Guard.

Ancient:

  • New route from CT spawn to A site
  • Widened T entrance to left side of mid
  • Opened up skylight in T tunnel to A site
  • Extended plantable bomb zone in B site
  • Opened up ledge in A site
  • Various minor bugfixes

Nuke:

  • Fixed a clipping issue on window in T lobby
  • Centered a lamp that was bugging me

Frostbite:

  • Overhauled interior lighting
  • Fixed delivery drones being stuck in the bottom right corner of the map
  • Added drone clips to improve delivery drone navigation
  • Fixed rare cases of loot spawning in inaccessible areas/inside terrain
  • Made a window frame in Alpha non solid (thanks Musti)
  • Clipped wood railings in the frozen lake area
  • Improved the look of the ice texture when Shader Detail is set to Medium or lower
  • Fixed a missing face on a wooden beam in Town
  • Added a sound effect in server room

New CSGO Case ‘Snakebite’ revealed in the latest update

The Crew
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New CSGO Case ‘Snakebite’ revealed in the latest update

Valve has shipped out an update which finally marks the end of Operation Broken Fang. Along with it, a plethora of changes have been inculcated within the first-person tactical shooter while a new csgo case called “Snakebite” has been revealed by the game developer. This update will see Train to be excluded from the Active Duty map pool though the map will still be played in the upcoming European RMR (Regional major Ranking) Tournament.

NEW CSGO UPDATE PATCH NOTES:

OPERATION BROKEN FANG

  • Operation Broken Fang has come to an end. Players who have unredeemed operation stars will have until May 15th to claim their operation rewards.
  • Introducing CS:GO 360 Stats – A subscription service for players that want to continue collecting official Competitive and Wingman stats.
  • Premier Competitive remains available for all players featuring pick/ban process across the entire Active Duty Group map pool.
  • Retakes remains available and has been moved into Wargames.

New CSGO Case: SNAKEBITE

  • Introducing the Snakebite Case, featuring 17 community-designed weapon finishes, and the Broken Fang Case set of gloves as rare special items.

MISC

  • Chicken models have received a visual upgrade.
  • Fixed community maps whose textures would appear black as a result of previous security fixes.
  • The \ key can again be bound to commands. If you were using this key before, you will need to bind it again.
  • Additional security and stability improvements.
  • Added an option for large community maps to fade the Boost Player Contrast feature beyond the far-Z fog plane by setting fadeplayervisibilityfarz to ‘true’ in info_map_parameters.

MAPS

  • Ancient has been added into the current competition map pool Active Duty Group and Train has been removed from Active Duty Group.
  • Grind and Mocha have been added to official matchmaking in Scrimmage, Casual, and Deathmatch game modes, replacing Apollo, Engage, and Anubis.
  • Calavera and Pitstop have been added to official matchmaking in Wingman game mode, replacing Elysion and Guard.

Ancient:

  • New route from CT spawn to A site
  • Widened T entrance to left side of mid
  • Opened up skylight in T tunnel to A site
  • Extended plantable bomb zone in B site
  • Opened up ledge in A site
  • Various minor bugfixes

Nuke:

  • Fixed a clipping issue on window in T lobby
  • Centered a lamp that was bugging me

Frostbite:

  • Overhauled interior lighting
  • Fixed delivery drones being stuck in the bottom right corner of the map
  • Added drone clips to improve delivery drone navigation
  • Fixed rare cases of loot spawning in inaccessible areas/inside terrain
  • Made a window frame in Alpha non solid (thanks Musti)
  • Clipped wood railings in the frozen lake area
  • Improved the look of the ice texture when Shader Detail is set to Medium or lower
  • Fixed a missing face on a wooden beam in Town
  • Added a sound effect in server room

New CSGO Update Patch Notes: 3/5/2021

Bharat Kotwani
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New CSGO Update Patch Notes: 3/5/2021

Valve has shipped out an update which finally marks the end of Operation Broken Fang. Along with it, a plethora of changes have been inculcated within the first-person tactical shooter while a new case called “Snakebite” has been revealed by the game developer. This update will see Train to be excluded from the Active Duty map pool though the map will still be played in the upcoming European RMR (Regional major Ranking) Tournament.

New CSGO Update Patch Notes:

OPERATION BROKEN FANG

  • Operation Broken Fang has come to an end. Players who have unredeemed operation stars will have until May 15th to claim their operation rewards.
  • Introducing CS:GO 360 Stats – A subscription service for players that want to continue collecting official Competitive and Wingman stats.
  • Premier Competitive remains available for all players featuring pick/ban process across the entire Active Duty Group map pool.
  • Retakes remains available and has been moved into Wargames.

SNAKEBITE CASE

  • Introducing the Snakebite Case, featuring 17 community-designed weapon finishes, and the Broken Fang Case set of gloves as rare special items.

MISC

  • Chicken models have received a visual upgrade.
  • Fixed community maps whose textures would appear black as a result of previous security fixes.
  • The \ key can again be bound to commands. If you were using this key before, you will need to bind it again.
  • Additional security and stability improvements.
  • Added an option for large community maps to fade the Boost Player Contrast feature beyond the far-Z fog plane by setting fadeplayervisibilityfarz to ‘true’ in info_map_parameters.

MAPS

  • Ancient has been added into the current competition map pool Active Duty Group and Train has been removed from Active Duty Group.
  • Grind and Mocha have been added to official matchmaking in Scrimmage, Casual, and Deathmatch game modes, replacing Apollo, Engage, and Anubis.
  • Calavera and Pitstop have been added to official matchmaking in Wingman game mode, replacing Elysion and Guard.

Ancient:

  • New route from CT spawn to A site
  • Widened T entrance to left side of mid
  • Opened up skylight in T tunnel to A site
  • Extended plantable bomb zone in B site
  • Opened up ledge in A site
  • Various minor bugfixes

Nuke:

  • Fixed a clipping issue on window in T lobby
  • Centered a lamp that was bugging me

Frostbite:

  • Overhauled interior lighting
  • Fixed delivery drones being stuck in the bottom right corner of the map
  • Added drone clips to improve delivery drone navigation
  • Fixed rare cases of loot spawning in inaccessible areas/inside terrain
  • Made a window frame in Alpha non solid (thanks Musti)
  • Clipped wood railings in the frozen lake area
  • Improved the look of the ice texture when Shader Detail is set to Medium or lower
  • Fixed a missing face on a wooden beam in Town
  • Added a sound effect in server room

TSM bench reltuC

Bharat Kotwani
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TSM bench reltuC

Team SoloMid (TSM) are the first team to make a changing post the conclusion of Valorant Champions Tour (VCT) Stage 2 Challengers events. TSM on Twitter have announced the departure of the Stephen “reltuC” Cutler from their Valorant division. 

reltuC have been shown the door at TSM after the team has struggled in their recent showings following the recent debacle at the VCT Stage 2 Challengers 2 event where they were stomped by Andbox in the Lower bracket. Previously in Stage 1, 100 Thieves managed to breeze past the Yassine “Subroza” Taoufik side in the Lower Bracket. 

Originally from mouseSpaz, reltuC and co were acquired by TSM in May 2020 making the former one among the original and founding members of the team. Under Stephen, TSM were able to bag two major A-tier events at the T1 X NSG followed by FaZe Clan Invitational, grabbing a total of $50,000 USD in winnings. Before setting up for their VCT runs, they were the second-best team at the Valorant’s First Strike in North America after they lost to 100 Thieves in the Grand Finals. 

According to TSM, reltuC will be moved to the inactive position and will take up streaming under the team’s banner. At the end of March, TSM signed Braxton “Swag” Pierce as a sixth player to their squad who has until now played just one match for the team, during the Stage 2 Challengers 1 Open Qualifier event. For now, it’s unclear whether the team will sign yet another player for their professional Valorant or field Brax as their permanent fifth.

TSM Valorant are now:

  • James ‘hazed’ Cobb
  • Matthew ‘Wardell’ Yu
  • Yassine ‘Subroza’ Taoufik
  • Taylor ‘drone’ Johnson
  • Braxton ‘Swag’ Pierce
  • Taylor ‘Tailored’ Broomall (Head Coach)

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PUBG Mobile India: Social Media handles renamed to Battlegrounds Mobile India

Divyesh Moghe
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PUBG Mobile India: Social Media handles renamed to Battlegrounds Mobile India

The social media handles of PUBG Mobile India have been renamed to Battlegrounds Mobile India, confirming a change of title for the Indian variant of PUBG Mobile. A discord announcement has confirmed that the usernames of the official PUBG Mobile India YouTube and Facebook accounts have been renamed.

Recently, a report unveiled new information which hinted that PUBG Mobile India could be potentially renamed. The team discovered a new creative-asset on the official website which highlighted a new title “Battlegrounds Mobile India” instead of PUBG Mobile India. This change has now been confirmed through a discord announcement.

The following announcement was published on the PUBG Mobile India discord server, confirming this change.

The names Facebook and YouTube channels of PUBG Mobile India have not been changed and only the links to these handles are affected so far. The complete name change is expected to follow soon as these links redirect to the official handles and the Facebook nametag is changed as well.

These changes could be followed with a good news for Indian PUBG Mobile fans but no solid proofs are given by the officials yet. Players can view this change as a positive development. PUBG Mobile India will now be termed as Battlegrounds Mobile India with this new announcement. The new links for the social media handles are given below:

Sony picks minority stake in Discord in Series H, PS5 Integration Coming Soon

Arundhati Dutta
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Sony picks minority stake in Discord in Series H, PS5 Integration Coming Soon

Voice-chat gaming software Discord has had an investment from the technology giant Sony, the later has announced through a press release. The audio chat gaming application is in the news for multiple fronts in the past few weeks.

For once, it was valued at $10 billion and for the second time when it apparently turned down Microsoft’s offer, as per several reports.

SIE President and CEO Jim Ryan has declared that the organization between the two will begin mid 2022. The work has effectively begun with the PlayStation group interfacing Discord with the social and gaming experience on PlayStation Network.

“Together, our teams are already hard at work connecting Discord with your social and gaming experience on PlayStation Network. Our goal is to bring the Discord and PlayStation experiences closer together on console and mobile starting early next year, allowing friends, groups, and communities to hang out, have fun, and communicate more easily while playing games together,” says Ryan.

SIE has made a minority investment as a component of Discord’s Series H round. More subtleties will be partaken in the coming months. It was likewise reputed that Xbox and Discord had plans, yet the latter abandoned the arrangement.

Hope to have a fascinating blend among PlayStation and Discord when this gets carried out one year from now.

OpTic H3CZ hints CDL LAN events to resume from Stage 4

Bharat Kotwani
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OpTic H3CZ hints CDL LAN events to resume from Stage 4


Hector “Hecz” Rodriguez, OpTic Chicago CEO in the OpTic pre-show event revealed that the Call of Duty League LAN events may return from Stage 4 onwards.

Since the Coronavirus pandemic hit the globe in 2019, we saw many LAN events being transitioned to an online format including some of the top event organizers doing the same followed by the CSGO major and Dota 2’s The International getting called off.

With the Vaccinations being rolled out by the government officials, we might soon see the crowd return to the arenas to witness their favorite teams play and this might be a delightful moment for the Call of Duty fans as Stage 4 of the CDL event may go on to be held on LAN. The latter has been hinted by Hecz on the OpTic Pre-Show event where the organization’s CEO stated,

We’ve just received some clarity on that LAN. We won’t see a LAN event until the following stage. And then after that, the next stage is the OpTic Chicago homestand. Yet to be announced as for where it is, not that it matters because no one’s showing up anyway. I don’t think that we’ll see fans until… maybe Champs. Maybe Champs.

The CDL Stage 4 major is scheduled to run from June 16-20 and if it’s proposed to be held on LAN, the whole tournament will transition to an offline play from June onwards only if the situations are eased by then and the infection is brought under control. Otherwise, as per Hecz, the whole offline thing might be put into effect by the start of CDL Championships 2021.

To know more about the ongoing Stage 3 schedule, click here.

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Women Deal With Harassment & Discrimination Almost Everyday In The Esports Industry

Dr. Sumeet Dahiya
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Women Deal With Harassment & Discrimination Almost Everyday In The Esports Industry

Inter Esports Exhibit Federation (IEEF) Conducted a survey in Esport community among reputed organisation and random female players and what came out as a truth is really disheartening. Our female gamers, streamers of competitive esports athletes face tremendous difficulties in community of Esports.

There are few major step backs which are obstacle in growth of female players.

Society

Our society contains specific gentry which demotivate female esport player to carry on Esports as a career because they are seen as disgrace to society for playing games.

Lack of support

Parent doesn’t see esport as a career hence they prevent girls to play games in professional way on second thought they try to convince them to leave Esport saying that after marriage you can’t do such things hence they are willingly not providing set ups needed to play games.

Gender discrimination

Gender discrimination is one of the biggest problems in the Esports industries. Our Constitution states that men and women have equal rights yet female players are in limited numbers and so are the opportunity for them.

Harassment and abusive toxicity online

Whenever a female player try to play among regular opportunity and tournament they get abusive language in there and player harass them in every possible way online. Hence in frustration they leave Esports. Number get leaks and later on female get abusive calls and messages over their phone numbers.

Lack of opportunities

There are limited numbers of opportunities for female player in form of practice and earning from Esport community. Less tournaments, less practice scrims so they are forced to play in limited area of a sport which are again run by male esports organisations.

Sexual comments

If a female player open ups social media to showcase their gameplay, other players or male players visit them and give sexual comments and send her are harsh messages to their inboxes which demoralize female players to carry on with their progress in Esport. This Continues in voice chat that is in game feature which makes it impossible for a female to play

Many male gamers even try to suppress them in many different ways hence preventing them to play independently and fearlessly

Viewer mentality

Viewers also take big part in demoralizing female player by saying she is getting views and followers just because of being a girl and if she support any gender then she got judged as she is interested in them or wants to get fame.

Even if she plays with a male fellow gamer then automatically viewers decide that they are in relationship hence demotivating players to practice or play female players can’t even say this to any anyone as she will be judged later on for this.

This needs to stop. Every player in community needs to understand it that everyone has equal rights to spread their wings, see dreams and to change them and becoming professional in Esport sector.

IEEF (Inter Esport Exhibit Federation) is working to empower sportsmanship and to clean his put community from scams and unethical procedures. This organisation helps all the players from being scammed and spread awareness in every possible social platform to aware players not to get involved in such activities.

The Indian government issued a woman helpline number 1091 to help women to report such harassment they are facing not only in Esport community but everywhere. Fearless female players who are facing such difficulties can directly go to their local administration and law-enforcement and file a complaint. They keep your identities anonymous, so no harm will come to you in any way .

Next time you come across these online threats and comments, report them to the Cybercrime department.

League of Legends Animated Series, Arcane releases on Netflix this fall

Mohammed Sadiq
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League of Legends Animated Series, Arcane releases on Netflix this fall

League of Legends is a fairly popular franchise that started off from a MOBA game and expanded to various other media as well as spin-off titles.

During Riot Games’ 10-year anniversary celebration two years ago, Riot announced Arcane, an animated series in the League universe which was scheduled to release last year but was delayed due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The series is “set in utopian Piltover and the oppressed underground of Zaun, the story follows the origins of two iconic League champions—and the power that will tear them apart.”

A 19-second teaser trailer revealed by Netflix pretty much confirms that the two central characters are Vi and Jinx along with a quick look at Zaun and Piltover, two steampunk cities obsessed with advanced technology.

There’s a strong possibility that other champions might show up as supporting characters, notably Ezreal, Singed, Ekko, Janna and Caitlyn along with their own backstories.

The series is developed and produced by Riot Games and will release on Netflix in Fall 2021. Given Netflix’s track record with Video game adaptations, this is unsurprising as Netflix has also produced Castlevania, The Witcher, as well as upcoming shows Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness, Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell. Dota: Dragon’s Blood recently released on Netflix this March, the series is also based on another MOBA game, Dota 2.

League Of Legends Arcane trailer

League Of Legends Arcane Release Date:

Arcane, the first animated series based on Riot Games’ League of Legends universe, is coming to Netflix this fall.

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