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COD Mobile Season 2 Patch Notes

Activision has released the new update for Call of Duty: Mobile and this marks the start of a new season. The developers recently revised their seasonal system for 2021 and started back with season 1. This update will be season 2 in COD Mobile and here are the patch notes.

New Battle Pass Premium Rewards

  • New epic Blueprints
  • 4 new epic Soldiers
  • New Legendary Calling Cards

New Free Battle Pass Rewards:

New Weapon AS VAL: A special rifle with a high firing rate as well as damage, the subsonic design creates a silencing effect. However, the price is paid with slow bullet speed with visible bullet falling trajectory. Soldiers will require a lot of practice to master it.

New Scorestreak: Napalm. Scorch nearby enemies and fill the battlefield with flames.

MULTIPLAYER

New Maps

Shoot House: The popular Modern Warfare map is now available in CODM! The map features a military training ground located in the middle of a desert, including the classic 3-route design. Join the fierce combat with your best maneuvers!
Available for Team Death Match, Domination, Hard Point, Kill Confirmed, and more

Shipment – Modern: This classic map in the Modern Warfare series has been renovated! The WWII-style shipment port is now in modern style. While fighting fiercely between containers, don’t let your guard down!
Available for Team Death Match, Domination, Hard Point, Kill Confirmed, and more!

New Featured Game Modes

Gunfight: Sniper
Eliminate or capture objectives by using only acquired sniper rifles. Kilo-Bolt Action, SKS, and NA-45 are also available in this mode.
Available on Cage, Shipment, Pine, King, and more!

Loadout New Features

Blueprint Overview: Players can select and change blueprints in the Loadout conveniently by clicking the “OVERVIEW” icon.
Recently Acquired Items: The Notification clearing icon (the exclamation mark with a slash) now shows all new items players recently acquired, including weapons, attachments, soldiers, camos, and others.
Blueprints Available: Players now can see new blueprints available in the Loadout.

BATTLE ROYALE

New Featured Game Modes

Tank Battle:

  • Available for ranked mode.
  • Collect five components to assemble your tank. You can also assemble the tank by blueprint in the airdrop. More soldiers have the opportunity to fight in tanks.
  • Parts of the tank: A tank chassis, Components for tank’s engine, Components for tank’s armor, Components for tank’s primary weapon, Components for tank’s secondary weapon.
  • Anti-Tank weapon: Delay Bomb, Proximity Mine, Anti-Tank Sticky Grenade,
  • Anti-Tank Sniper, Anti-Tank War Machine.
  • Tank repair tools: Welding Gun.
  • Tank blueprints: Three types.

New Vehicle – Cargo Truck: The truck has only two seats for the driver and the co-driver, but the body can accommodate multiple soldiers who can move freely. The acceleration is slower, but equipped with high durability and provides great protection.

New Custom Airdrop Weapons
Soldiers now can equip pistols as custom airdrop weapons.

IMPROVEMENTS & OPTIMIZATIONS

Multiplayer


– Increased MSMC’s OWC Marksman barrel attachment vertical recoil control.
– Increased S36, UL736, RPD, and M4LMG’s YKM combat stock attachment ADS time reduction.
– Decreased HBRA3’s OWC Marksman barrel attachment’s negative effects.
– Increased DL Q33 damage to 90 and grants it higher wall-penetrating damage.
– Increased DRH’s the No Stock attachment ADS time reduction to 12%.
– Decreased DRH’s No Stock attachment hit flinch to 15%.
– Slightly decreased ICR’s No Stock attachment and YKM Combat Stock attachment accuracy.
– Slightly increased ASM10’s No Stock attachment hit flinch.
– Decreased Arctic .50’s wall-penetrating damage and MIP Stopping Power Reload attachment’s damage ratio to legs. Now a wall-penetrating leg shot will not be lethal.
– The capacity of blocking fire bullet for Arctic.50 is decreased from 20 to 15 and its maximum capacity is decreased from 40 to 30, ADS time increased from 12% to 30%, and shot interval from 40% to 50%.
– Decreased the explosion range of War Machine.
– Decreased the damage reduction of War Machine operator.
– Decreased Gravity Spike damage range.
– Slightly decreased the damage of Annihilator dealt with Stealth Chopper, XS1 Goliath, VTOL, Shield Turret, and Transform shield.
– Soldiers equipped with Dead Silence Perk no longer hear the footstep of themselves, and the audible range of running has been decreased.
– Players are now able to jump while moving alongside a wall.
– Optimized the speed adjustment when moving alongside a wall/obstacle,
– Optimized the server tick rate.
– Optimized player’s hitbox when switching among standing, crouching, and prostrating.
– Increased characters’ FPS. Enemy’s movements and actions are more precise and smooth.
– Optimized sound effects based on different scenes so that players can locate their enemies more accurately.
– Fixed an issue that players might get stuck in window frames when climbing through.
– Fixed an issue when Soldiers are stuck for a while after crossing the shortcut of LAUNDRY SIDEWALK in Raid.
– Fixed an issue of wrong collisions in the Takeoff’s scene.
– Fixed an issue of wrong collisions in Tunisia’s scene.

Battle Royale


– Increased ADS accuracy for all weapons.
– Increased horizontal recoil control for all weapons.
– Popular weapons such as AK47 and AK117 have much lower recoil control compared to other weapons.
– The locking time for FHJ18 is changed to 1 second.
– The launching speed of projectiles from FHJ18 is decreased to 110m/s and accelerates to its maximum speed.
– Significantly increased SMG and SHOTGUN hip-fire accuracy.
– Significantly increased SNIPER rifle recoil control.
– Increased Tempest’s damage and damaging radius.
– Increased Annihilator range. It now can eliminate the enemy in all range with 2 shots
– An increased projectile distance of all lethal and tactical weapons.
– Cluster Grenade now has an alarm when it sticks to an object, and directions of small grenades will be shown on the screen.
– Discarded guns will no longer show the amount of remaining ammo.
– Optimized wingsuit landing action.
– Optimized the server tick rate.
– Optimized player’s hitbox when switching among standing, crouching, and prostrating.
– Increased characters’ FPS. Enemy’s movements and actions are more precise and smooth.
– Optimized sound effects based on different scenes so that players can locate their enemies more accurately.

Game Mode Optimization


Going Dark
– Battery limitation feature has been added to night vision devices, with an exception for the undead in Attack of the Night.
– EMP can temporarily paralyze night vision devices.
– Scorestreak items and trip mines show team color even when the night vision device is on.
– Fixed the issue when visual effects of weapon blueprints and firing effects were overexposed when the night vision device is on.
– Fixed the issue when the touch screen of controlling Scorestreaks is blurred when the night vision device is on.
– Optimized the lighting of related maps.

Hardpoint HQ
– New scoring rule added to Hard Point: continuous capturing. Soldiers who continuously capturing the Hard Point will earn extra scores.
– Fixed the issue that the soldier revives too far from the objective.

Ranked Mode


Multiplayer
– Optimized the algorithm of evaluating players’ strengths and abilities in every rank, especially legendary players. Legendary players around 6500 scores won’t match up with high-score legendary players frequently.
– Optimized the UI of the ranking lobby.
Battle Royale
– Optimized rank point calculating algorithm. Players get more rank points in the new season in total.

These are the detailed changes that are introduced in COD Mobile with the season 2 update. A lot of new content will be introduced as the season progresses and most of the new features like guns and scorestreaks might be available in the seasonal tasks. Let us know what you like the most about this new update.

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Netflix shares DOTA: Dragon’s Blood promo featuring SirActionSlacks

18 years ago, Defense of The Ancients (DOTA) originally started off as a Warcraft 3 mod and quickly rose to fame in the hardcore gaming community with it being recognized as one of the most influential and popular mods in any video game as it single-handedly defined the tower defense battle arena genre. After purchasing the rights for the franchise, Valve released a full-fledged standalone successor dubbed DOTA 2 in 2013. Since then, the franchise has ventured into other media such as comics, books but the announcement three weeks ago of the anime adaptation set to release on Netflix this month was surely a welcome surprise for fans of the series.

This is perhaps the first time that DOTA2 is being promoted at a larger scale and with it, Netflix has been marketing the series quite aggressively. Earlier today, Netflix shared a new and unique promo on their NX Twitter handle for newcomers and veterans alike as it focuses on the entire Dota mythology and storyline and how it connects to the upcoming animated adaptation.

But there was yet another surprise awaiting fans as Jake “SirActionSlacks” Kanner, a prominent figure in the Dota community who is well known for his over-the-top gameplay streams and videos, narrates the lore in this (almost) 6-minute trailer. But that’s not all as Owen “ODPixel” Davies & Jorien “Sheever” van der Heijden, who are also well-renowned figures and Dota 2 content creators were narrating the latter half of this promo. 

It’s clear that Netflix is putting in some extra effort on being as accurate as they can as the series’ lore is an integral part of the Dota experience. 

Dota: Dragon’s blood releases on March 25 exclusively on Netflix.

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Genshin Impact Patch 1.4 Release Date and Timings Revealed

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The highly anticipated patch 1.4 of miHoYo’s open-world action RPG Genshin Impact is just around the corner, and fans are growing more and more eager to know more about the release date and time of the upcoming patch. Luckily, the release and pre-install date and timings have already been revealed by miHoYO. 

Genshin Impact Patch 1.4 Release Date

As confirmed by the developers earlier, Genshin Impact patch 1.4 will hit the live servers on March 17th, which is less than a week away. 

Genshin Impact Patch 1.4 Pre-Installation Release Time

Genshin Impact patch 1.4 will be officially up for pre-installation on March 15th, at 3 AM GMT, which translates to March 14th, 8 PM PT, and March 15th, 8:30 AM IST.

Players can choose to pre-install the patch ahead of its actual release from the above-mentioned dates to get a head start when the patch finally drops. Players can also continue playing the game while downloading the patch if they choose to pre-install. 

Genshin Impact patch 1.4 “Invitation of Windblume” is set to bring a bunch of new stuff to the title including new characters, new weapons, and some exciting events. 

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Rockstar Leeds Founder and Developer of Red Dead Redemption Gordon Hall passed away at 51

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Gordon Hall, the founder of Möbius Entertainment Game Studio, now known as Rockstar Leeds, has passed away at 51. 

The news of his passing came from a report by GameIndustry, according to which various figures in the Yorkshire development scene were discussing the news of his passing. Rockstar Leeds is largely based in Yorkshire.

Hall started his journey by producing various Gameboy and Gameboy Advance titles under Mobius Entertainment. After his work on the 2003 Gameboy Advance version of Max Payne, Rockstar acquired Mobius entertainment and rebranded it as Rockstar Leeds in 2004. Halls became the Studio president of the new studio and was known as Rockstar’s handheld specialist. 

Under Hall’s leadership, the studio worked on porting various Rockstar games and helped in the development of titles like Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and GTA: Chinatown Wars. Halls later moved to Rockstar San Diego in 2009, where he contributed to the development of Red Dead Redemption.

In 2011, Gordon Hall resigned from Rockstar and in 2013 joined Activision Blizzard Mobile as the chief creative officer. During his 2-year sabbatical, Hall worked on a research paper on player psychology and micro-transactions strategies. 

No cause of death was released at the time of writing. We will update this article as soon as more information is available. 

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Dafran blasted for sexist remarks by Pokimane

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Former Overwatch star Daniel ‘Dafran’ Francesca has been blasted by Pokimane for sexist remarks he made on the allegations brought forward on Sinatraa by his ex-girlfriend.

Jay ‘Sinatraa’ Won has been under fire ever since his ex-girlfriend Cleo ‘cle0h’ Hernandez accused him of sexually abusing her at multiple points during their 9 months-long relationship. Ever since these allegations surfaced, only a few have spoken in the favor of the suspended Sentinel’s star.

Dafran is one of the prominent names who publicly defended Sinatraa. “We have to wait for Sinatraa‘s side of the story. E-girls can be fucking scary as a twitch streamer. They will try to jebait or photoshop evidence and then fuck you. I’m not saying she is one, but she could be. People have been waiting for something to cancel Sinatraa over” he said.

https://twitter.com/dafran/status/1369563442319925251

Dafran’s opinion of the situation did not sit right with Pokimane. She was very critical of his remarks to the point where she found them to be sexist. “He’s not saying ‘be careful of who you believe on the internet,’ he’s specifically saying she is a girl therefore be careful because they will trick you,” she said. “Like we are in a fantasy erotica and all the women around us are succubi”.

“Pokimane calling me a sexist, I don’t give a f**k. Get f**ked, dude. Doesn’t change my opinion,” argued Dafran on stream. “Just because they have 60,000 viewers or whatever doesn’t mean that they’re right.”

“The world is f**ked if it keeps going like this where we just instantly believe the girl with their accusations. Like, it’s just f**ked up. We need both sides,” he added.

As of now, this is where the debate stands. Sentinel’s are conducting an internal investigation on the allegation that will certainly shed more light on the situation.

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Peruvian Dota 2 Pro Aretes Suspended by Latam Defenders for Using Racial Slurs in Pub Game

Peruvian professional Dota 2 player Aretes has been indefinitely suspended from his team, Latam Defenders, after screenshots of him using racial slurs in a pub game against Andrew “Jubei” Evelyn, a player from team Black N White, have surfaced on social media platforms.

The series of screenshots showcasing Aretes making racist remarks were exposed on Twitter by popular Dota 2 commentator Andrew “Zyori” Campbell. The screenshots were taken directly from Jubei’s stream, who was on the receiving end of the remarks.

“Does your organization tolerant active racism from your players?” Zyori asked Latam Defenders.

A reply from the org followed shortly afterwards. “In Latam Defenders we reject any act of discrimination, racism, or unsporting behavior,” they said in a Tweet. Latam Defenders also announced that they would be indefinitely suspending Aretes from the team until further notice.

BTS also proceeded to ban Aretes from further competing in the BTS Pro Series Season 5: Americas and prohibited him from receiving any portion of the prize money that Latam Defenders would receive from the event.

Phoenixverse: Shady, Shoddy, Superficial

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India, Counter Strike and a scammy Tournament organiser. Sound familiar? It’s probably because this scenario has become common for the Indian region. So much so that people that are not stakeholders in the sham we are about to talk of have not bothered to raise an eye over it.

For people who have guessed it and those who haven’t, we are talking about Phoenixverse – a Tournament organiser so premium they proceeded to have an invite-only players’ exhibition event before their actual event; one with ludicrous amounts of money on offer for a day’s performance, with the cream of the crop on display. One of the players that partook in the event was none other than Debanjan ‘DeathMaker’ Das, widely regarded as the best Indian csgo player prior to his switch to Valorant.

As one would have expected, DeathMaker or DMKing, won the MVP award and with it, a lucrative 33,000 INR purse. Sadly, that is yet to be credited into his Bank Account as we write this. DeathMaker has made numerous attempts to contact and communicate with the Phoenixverse team, in particular, Neha Navindra, who is the Managing Director of Transformation Studios. For people unaware of Transformation Studios, Phoenixverse is affiliated to the same and is owned and managed by nearly the same core team.

The buck does not stop here, though. Phoenixverse has laid bare a trail of lies, deception and manipulation of their staff and freelancers to the degree of even forcing one or more of them to reconsider their future in the esports industry itself.

We were taken aback by how brazen the Phoenixverse team was despite their actions and their behaviour towards their unpaid staff spoke volumes, what with zero successful events conducted in the esports sphere and several thousands in unpaid remuneration/compensation. Let us go through the experiences of the aggrieved parties, one by one.

Enter: Mayank ‘Moon’ Dutt, someone we had indirect contact with previously while drafting the eSamurai report. Moon was hired as an intern on a remuneration of 15,000 INR, which was supposed to double after the first month as the internship culminated into employment.

Moon worked for 3 months and has still not been paid. The former eSamurai staff, by semantics, is due 75,000 INR in total but is hopeful that he can atleast recover 45,000 INR (even if they assume the three months as internship although he had been intimated of his employment thereafter). Moon is currently working as a Video Editor and still looking for a way back into Esports event and/or team management.

Uphar Dutta was employed as a caster, with an advance pay of 4,000 INR and promise of the remaining 14,000 INR to be paid. Uphar is yet to receive the remaining amount. He is currently a Streamer and Game Reviewer for Gameffine.

Moon was accompanied by fellow unpaid worker, Sai Kuntia. Sai is due 32,000 for the work done for Phoenixverse as social media manager. Sai is no longer employed in nor is he searching for opportunities in the esports industry right now.

The other caster in question, Shivendu ‘Sh1bZ’ Mishra, was asked to perform the casting duties for the online and a potential offline phase, depending on the restrictions due to the ongoing pandemic.

Sh1bZ had quoted ‘a five-figure sum’, despite discounting his normal quote for travel and stay, which is usually an obligation fulfilled by the Tournament Organiser separately. Sh1bZ is yet to receive more than 2/3rd of the total quoted sum along with other future promises that are yet to come to fruition.

To the main event itself, the tournament format and schedule went through several mutations and even the modified version of the Main event left a lot to be desired.

That Phoenixverse stopped all forms of communication with staff and teams after the semi-finals is damning in itself. However, the treatment that the staff had to experience thereafter in an attempt to recover their money was disheartening.

Teams were still under the illusion that staff like Moon and Charnjit ‘s3rius’ Singh Mudhar were still connected to the organisation and continued to contact them up until February in attempts to ask for clarity about the Final between Bl4ZE Esports and 2ez gaming that are yet to be played.

The delays in the event, according to rumours, were due to Phoenixverse’s efforts to have the Finals on LAN. But, there was no form of communication made to the teams, staff and the fans, with everyone left in the dark over the true intentions of the Phoenixverse team.

As we were building this report, Phoenixverse owner Nithin N Nayak iterated in a Whatsapp Group Chat that included representatives of the two teams that the scheduled Finals will be held soon before he proceeded to remove Moon and others from the group. Moon has since been blocked without any communication about the payment due to him.

Subrajit Guha, who is another party left unpaid by Phoenixverse, told us he is due nearly 14,000 INR and that he has been trying to recover the sum.

Apart from this, their continued barrage of lofty promises of better pay and a long-term vision built a sense of grandeur that when examined closely, was found to be merely a series of fallacious arguments.

While defaults and delays have become a rare commodity in the Indian esports industry by now, the brazen responses the staff received while attempting to recover their dues was disappointing. They were told they were out of line and that the owner(s) don’t want such quarrels or headaches over such small sums – small sums that remain unpaid.

Phoenixverse was a Colossus built of feathers, not steel. It stayed true to the name somewhat – hyped to be in existence for as short as a verse and being the absolute inverse of what a phoenix resembles.

A phoenix rises from the ashes into the void. Phoenixverse rose from the void and buried themselves into ashes quicker than anyone could say their name.

P.S. We tried to establish contact with Neha Navindra and Nithin N Nayak to ask some clarifications on this matter but our message was left on read/seen. There are audio clippings that we unfortunately could not include in this report due to obvious reasons.

CSGO Servers are Down Today [March 12]

On 12th March, CSGO players across the Globe reported outages of the game servers. It’s still unclear what caused the outage, but it could be due to a number of reasons.

The first and common cause of server outages is a new update. When a new update is shipped to the game, the servers can go down for a short while. However, in case of an update, the servers can be up quite quickly.

Another reason behind server outages may be a technical fault in Valve’s servers. This is very unlikely to happen but has happened on more than one occasion in the past.

In case you’re finding yourself unable to launch CSGO or join a game, you can check for yourself if CSGO servers are down.

There are a number of websites to check server statuses of popular games like CSGO or DOTA 2, and even the server status of Steam itself. One of the most reliable websites to check server issues is steamstat.us; it shows detailed stats on the statuses of game coordinators of Dota 2, Artifact, CSGO, TF 2 along with reports of server outages.

So next time you find yourself in a similar situation, don’t panic and take your time to check if the servers are down. Another renowned website to check server outages is down detector. Besides those, you can always follow TalkEsport to see the latest updates on server outages throughout the world.

Virtus pro add “karzheka” to Rainbow Six Siege 6 roster

Eugene “karzheka” Petrishin from Rogue has joined Virtus.pro Rainbow Six Siege roster.

Eugene “karzheka” Petrishin: “It didn’t take me a long time to accept the offer from Virtus.pro. I’ve known the players for quite some time: played with some, met some at the tournaments. So I have a good understanding of who they are. The guys are young and ambitious and I hope that my experience will help them to put their energy in a right direction. I’m delighted to play for VP and will do my best to meet the expectations of our fans and management.”

Kirill Zolotov, Virtus.pro R6 team manager: “We are happy to have karzheka in our team. Eugene is one of the most decorated CIS players with Invitational Finals and a lot of international trophies under his belt. His experience will complement our roster really well. The guys already know each other so it won’t take long for him to adapt. I’m sure karzheka is a great pick and he will soon be able to prove it to everyone.”

Look out for RS6 roster in action in European League 2021 – Stage 1 on March 18.

Updated Virtus.pro roster in Rainbow Six Siege:

Artyom “wTg” Morozov

Alan “Rask” Ali

Eugene “karzheka” Petrishin

Pavel “p4sh4” Kosenko

Andrey «m1loN» Mironov 

Andrey “Andreezy” Bavian (analyst)

Sentinels may sign TenZ on loan, to replace Sinatraa for VCT Masters

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According to a report from @neLendirekt on Twitter, Sentinels may sign Tyson “TenZ” Ngo to their Valorant Division as their fifth for the VCT’s Masters tournament.

This news comes amidst the ongoing situation where Sinatraa, Sentinels’ Duelist was suspended by the organization and Riot following accusations of sexual assault placed over by his Girlfriend Cleo ‘Cle0h’ Hernandez. The 20-Year-old’s actions were brought under light by Cleo who elaborated the entire extract through a Google Docs page. In the document, Cle0h elaborated on the topics she faced during her relationship with Sinatraa where she alleged he abused her during their 9-months long relationship. She even included some proofs with the document she shared in her Twitter post, which includes a dozen text messages and private Discord conversations screenshots. She alleged Sinatraa would force himself upon her and wouldn’t stop if she asked him to during sex; claiming he was “so close” each time.

https://twitter.com/cIe0h/status/1369497186740928512

neLendirekt from 1pv.fr has reported a possibility that would witness Sinatraa getting replaced with TenZ, a streamer and an inactive professional Valorant player for Cloud9. During his time at C9 as a player, Tyson steered the NA-based side to a couple of runner-up titles including the one at the Pax Area Invitational along with a plethora of third-place finishes at Pop Flash and Renegades Inv by NSG. In January, Tyson stepped down from the Cloud9 Blue roster to pursue content creation within the organization. 

If the deal goes through, Sentinels will have:

  • Shahzeeb “ShahZam” Khan
  • Hunter “SicK” Mims
  • Jared “zombs” Gitlin
  • Michael “dapr” Gulino
  • Tyson “TenZ” Ngo (On Loan)