The upcoming Valorant Episode 2 Act 3 is set to bring a plethora of exciting new changes to the competitive shooter by Riot. One of the most anticipated changes in the next update is perhaps the new Act 3 Battle Pass, which will bring with it new sets of rewards for Valorant players to enjoy.
The Act 3 Battle Pass will feature a bunch of new skin collections and other rewards for players to obtain through grinding XP. One of the new skin collections is the ‘Songsteel’ collection.
Let’s take a look at everything you need to know about the Songsteel skin collection in Valorant.
The world of Counter Strike woke up to the shocking development yesterday with the news of Nicolai ‘dev1ce’ Reedtz leaving his former team. The move from Astralis to join NiP sent tremors in the industry. Nicolai was one of the key assets in Astralis who help the team win several dozen trophies including four CS:GO majors.
The news of dev1ce leaving Astralis did come as a shocker to the community. The most likely scenario of a transfer would’ve been between NiP, Fnatic, GODSENT, and other Swedish counterparts. Or under an extreme ordeal, Cloud9 or Team Liquid would’ve made the move to complete their roster with such talent.
But it didn’t happen and NiP apparently won the bid.
In a conversation yesterday with TalkEsport’s Founding Editor Deepak ‘DpK’ Ojha, Nicolai ‘Dev1ce’ Reedtz responded in the most candid manner on how the decision on moving to NiP followed up. Nicolai opened up on how tough the decision to move to Sweden was and how the new language will affect the communications among the players.
Why did dev1ce leave Astralis?
In the discussion yesterday it was unveiled that the decision was simply not based on a reason, rather it was the complexity of thoughts and concerns of the future.
To-and-Fro to Denmark
Nicolai is staying with his girlfriend in Sweden for over four years, in the city of Stockholm where NiP has a base. Astralis, which has its quarters in Denmark is 650 K.M. away, creating a problem of commutation.
In other terms, Reedtz had to travel a lot to maintain his personal and professional commitments, which will now not be a problem when he’s already in Sweden and joined a Swedish organization.
Aspirations & new experiences
Although Reedtz holds a reputation of being among the topmost CS:GO players in the world. There always has been an undercurrent on how he can do better or if there was a need to explore for him to become better.
It was confirmed by the man himself yesterday. In another question asked by a fellow journalist, “Do you think you will have a better chance in becoming the world’s best CS:GO player in NiP,” to which Reedtz responded, “yes, I do.”
Mental health, burnout
In a statement to the press on the choice to move to NiP, Nicolai had said “the major factor in joining was the way NiP takes care of mental health.“
At the live interview session though, he did clarify that it was misconstrued. He added that this was a misleading issue and he didn’t have any problems with mental health or overworking issues at Astralis either.
The reasons as aforementioned didn’t strike to be singular in nature but were little on the misty side of things. The move has most certainly stirred the discussion in the CS:GO community which was rather dozing off.
And yeah, no one saw this coming. Great job Ninjas & Astralis!
James ‘PhantomL0rd’ Vargas has emerged victorious in the lawsuit he filed against Twitch following his ban back in 2016, but the settlement is worth far less than the $35 million of his initial asking.
The former Twitch stream was banned alongside several other streamers for misleading the masses into CSGO skin gambling. After his countless appeals failed, Vargas filed for wrongful termination of his channel, demanding around $35 million in damages. Spending 3 years in court, PhantomL0rd finally came out on top but the settlement’s worth way below his initial asking.
Twitch’s legal team tried capping his fees to $50000 but the court didn’t comply with it, however, the lawsuit was a roller-coaster and Twitch got what they wanted. PhantomL0rd received only $20,720.34 in damages and big fat W.
I WONNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!
I WON MY LAWSUIT VS TWITCH ON ALL COUNTS!!!!!
Twitch LOST EVERYTHING, including the fraud claim against me for the CSGOShuffle allegations!!!
This is a win for ALL streamers! Twitch can’t bully, lie & treat streamers unfairly the way they have for years!!! pic.twitter.com/G0gxqiBkRQ
“Twitch LOST EVERYTHING, including the fraud claim against me for the CSGOShuffle allegations!!! This is a win for ALL streamers! Twitch can’t bully, lie & treat streamers unfairly the way they have for years!!!” his Tweet read.
His victory means more than just the money he received; over the years, several streamers have appealed against a wrongful ban/termination of their channel, and this would motivate them to follow the footsteps of PhantomL0rd.
Free Fire is continuously striving to become better than its competitors and to encourage the players who have influence in the community, they have introduced a partnership program. Under this program, a player gets officially recognised and recieves huge perks than any normal player.
Free Fire is launching the partnership program to very limited regions for now, and once full scale, other regions can also expect the same with almost similar perks and rewards. Not only those who get signed, but their influence in the community will get recognised as well. Starting with a few in-game rewards, the game has also promised to provide other facilities to help boost their career.
Free Fire Partner program is currently running only for Indonesia region and it can be expected to go to other regions soon. influencers like streamers, content creators, casters, analysts or any personnel with good Free Fire content on any media platform can opt for this program.
Those who opt to become recognised as an official partner recieve gifts as their sign up bonus. This ranges from diamonds, official jackets and game set-ups, depending upon numbers that the player brings on the table.
Giveaway
Credits: Free Fire
Not only the partner, but its viewers and supporters also gain from this collaboration. The player can set various giveaways in form of redeem codes for their subscribers.
Official Promotion
Credits: Free Fire
Partners get promoted on the official social media handles and various channels of Free Fire to further boost their careers.
Content Partnership
Credits: Free Fire
Players will recieve information about various events before they even take place. This also provides an early access to some big events and some special reservations in live events as well.
Streaming equipment
Credits: Free Fire
Free Fire promises to aid its partners with various equipments to boost their streaming career. This will help them create more quality content. More perks are set to come along the way.
How to become an official Free Fire partner:
Here is a list of necessary requirements to become recognised as one of the partners:
Participant needs to be either influencer or content creator on streaming and media platforms.
80% of the content on YouTube channel should be based on Free Fire.
Must have atleast 10,000 subscribers.
Players eligible can opt and then a finals assessment will be done by Free Fire team before the confirmation.
This program offers the influencers to create a stabilized career out of Free Fire. If you are from Indonesia, opt for this program if you fit the eligibility criterion. For others, wait for some time before the officials launch this program for your region.
Garena has released a new redeem code specifically for the Americas region where players can get the weapon loot crate for free. This crate can be used to unlock several rewards in the Rebel Academy skin range. Use the redeem code given below to get a Rebel Academy Weapon Loot Crate in Free Fire.
Garena always makes extra efforts to keep its fan base satisfied and one of the ways to ensure this is by gifting the players with freebies on a regular basis. One of the ways to give away free rewards is by redeeming codes and Free Fire codes are popping up very often, sometimes global and otherwise regional, where players can get many rewards by simply typing the code.
Redeem Codes can give a wide range of in-game items, from frames to gun skins but it depends on the type of code that is released.
Free Fire Redeem Codes For Today –
U8S47JGJH5MG
VNY3MQWNKEGU
How to redeem free fire codes-
If you don’t know how to redeem codes in Free Fire, follow these simple steps to recieve the rewards:
Visit the Reward Redemption center of Garena Free Fire. Click here to visit.
Log in with your Free Fire account. One must have either Facebook or Google ID signed in as a Guest account does not work.
Enter the code and get free rewards in your in-game item vault.
Make sure you hurry up before the offer ends and let us know if you got some freebies or not.
ShivFPS has been banned by Twitch for using slurs after getting the better of a cheater who was harassing him for several days.
ShivFPS is one of the biggest Apex Legends streamer out there, naturally his streams attract massive viewership. While most come to his streams to spend a quality time but there are some who visit his channel with intentions far from good. Shiv, for the past few days was getting harassed by a cheater who was constantly stream-sniping.
However, the cheater did not stop there, he managed to lock him out of his own main account forcing him to use alternate ones to continue streaming. In his last stream, Shiv faced the cheater yet again but this time he had his number. He managed to knock him out and started throwing slurs.
Day 1 one of a hack user locking me out of my account on @PlayApex, but i clap back by making alt accounts. FeelsGoodMan. Good night, see you all tomorrow.
Though Shiv was able to take revenge, Twitch were far from happy about it. The slurs did not sit right with them and served him with a week-long ban.
“Alright well i recieved an email that i’m gonna get a 7 day suspension on twitch. This one however in my mind is bullshit and i’m pretty sure it was for raging at that idiot hacker who was locking me out of playing apex when i had him on my team prior. not deserved in my mind.” said ShivFPS
Shiv has said that he will appeal for a shorter sentence to Twitch and given the situation they might actually reduce the duration of his ban.
Cheating in esports is nothing new at this point and the latest player to get caught is Luiz, a Rainbow Six Siege player hailing from Parabellum Esports.
The players went through a turbulent time after qualifying for Six Invitational 2021, Altiora backed out, choosing to leave R6 landscape, however, Parabellum picked them up while retaining their spot in the North American League for the 2021 season. Their qualification was a shock for many and with the recent ban, a big question mark has been put on all their achievements after Luiz joined the roster.
Having joined back in March, Loïc “Luiz“ Langlais has been banned by R6’s in-house anti-cheat. The community had concerns before the ban after a series of suspicious clips surfaced.
Allegations of using wallhacks were thrown at Luiz, but the player credited all of it to sheer luck but seems like it ran out real quick. According to reports, he was using an Intel HD Graphics based exploit to see through walls. Following the ban, Luiz shared an public apology accepting his fault.
Parabellum since then has suspended the player and requested further assistance from Ubisoft, possibly arranging a substitute for the season. Only a few days after suspending their coach for making inappropriate comments, the drama doesn’t seem to end for the organizations.
Looks like the long wait is over, as Riot Games has officially announced a new Valorant map ‘Breeze’ that’s set to arrive to the title this week.
This news doesn’t come as a surprise to many, however, since data miners had managed to dig up the map name and the loading music a couple of weeks ago as we had reported earlier. Riot had also teased the map through a mysterious picture they released a few days ago.
VALORANT BREEZE MAP
Breeze is set to be a tropical-themed map that’ll challenge players’ skills to hold down important choke points across the map. Set in a remote island located somewhere within the southern part of the Bermuda Triangle, Breeze features a “bright, playful and colorful environment with wide open spaces and opportunities for long range encounters,” the devs confirmed.
Valorant New Map BreezeFeatures
Here’s what you can expect from the upcoming Valorant map:
Long Range engagements
Large open spaces
Wide choke points
Important territory control
Valorant New MapBreeze Release Date
As confirmed by the Valorant devs themselves, Breeze will hit the live servers on 27 April, 2021, the same date as Episode 2 Act 2 comes to an end. Breeze will likely be introduced to the shooter alongside its Act 3 release.
Looks like the long wait is over, as Riot Games has officially announced a new Valorant map ‘Breeze’ that’s set to arrive to the title this week.
This news doesn’t come as a surprise to many, however, since data miners had managed to dig up the map name and the loading music a couple of weeks ago as we had reported earlier. Riot had also teased the map through a mysterious picture they released a few days ago.
Valorant Breeze Map
Breeze is set to be a tropical-themed map that’ll challenge players’ skills to hold down important choke points across the map. Set in a remote island located somewhere within the southern part of the Bermuda Triangle, Breeze features a “bright, playful and colorful environment with wide open spaces and opportunities for long range encounters,” the devs confirmed.
Valorant New Map BreezeFeatures
Here’s what you can expect from the upcoming Valorant map:
Long Range engagements
Large open spaces
Wide choke points
Important territory control
Valorant New MapBreeze Release Date
As confirmed by the Valorant devs themselves, Breeze will hit the live servers on 27 April, 2021, the same date as Episode 2 Act 2 comes to an end. Breeze will likely be introduced to the shooter alongside its Act 3 release.
The second act of Valorant Act 2 is nearing its end, and fans across the world are eager to know what Riot Games has in store for them in the highly anticipated Act 3.
Alongside an all-new map and the ‘Forsaken’ skins’ collection, the Act 3 Battle Pass is something that the majority of the Valorant fan base is looking forward to.
Luckily, details about the Act 3 Battle Pass have already been revealed by Riot, and we at TalkEsport had the chance to take the first look at it. Here’s everything you need to know about the Act 3 Battle Pass:
Valorant Act 3 Battle Pass Release Date
The Episode 2 Act 3 Battle Pass will go live on April 27, 2021, the same day as the Act 3 update.
Valorant Act 3 Battle PassEnd Date
Players will be able to grind the Battle Pass for rewards till June 21, 2021, which is when the Pass will come to an end.
Valorant Act 3 Battle PassRewards
As usual, the Valorant Battle Pass will contain separate reward lines for free and paid tracks. While players can receive the free rewards without having to buy the pass, buying the pass will significantly improve the number and quality of rewards obtained from the pass.
Here are some of the rewards included in the Act 3 Battle Pass:
Free Track
⦁ Lightwave Frenzy and 3 Variants
⦁ Lucky Rabbit Buddy
⦁ Lobster? Spray
⦁ Bloodline Card
⦁ Paul’s Pizza Party Card
Paid Track
⦁ Lightwave Phantom (Level 25)
⦁ Depths Vandal (Level 45)
⦁ Songsteel (melee)
⦁ Mementos Pt. 1 Card
⦁ Knife Fight Card
⦁ Dan the Penguin Buddy
⦁ Get Carried Buddy
⦁ Ancient Mysteries Revealed Buddy
⦁ This is Also Also Fine Spray
⦁ Dabbing Dan Spray
Valorant Episode 2 Act 3 Battle Pass Price
Like the previous Battle Passes, the Act 3 Pass will also cost players a pocket pinch of 1,000 VP.
