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Brimstone to Receive Buffs in Valorant Episode 2, Leaks Suggest

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Brimstone has undoubtedly been one of the most underwhelming agents in Valorant as of late. Not only are his win-rates quite low compared to other Valorant controllers, but his pick rate in the professional scene has also taken a drastic hit over the last few months.

For instance, stats reveal that Brimstone had a zero percent pick rate in the Valorant First Strike North American Finals, while he made only four appearances in the European Finals. For comparison, fellow controller Omen had a whopping 100% pick rate in the North American Finals.

However, some recent leaks are suggesting that Brimstone is about to be buffed quite significantly in the upcoming Valorant Episode 2 update. 

According to a tweet by Valorant Leaks, three of Brimstone’s abilities will receive buffs in the next major update. 

  • Sky Smoke: Smoke cast range increased from 4200>5000 units. Smoke duration increased from 14.25 seconds to 19.25 seconds. 
  • Incendiary: Price reduced from $300 to $200.
  • Stim Beacon: Equip time removed, will quickcast from now. 

These much needed changes are certain to increase the agent’s winrate by a margin. The buffs may also be enough to boost Brimstone’s pick rates significantly in the competitive scene and make him a much more viable controller overall. 

Zuckles banned from OTV Rust server after metagaming xQc

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Zuckles follows Zer Winter’s footsteps to get himself banned from OfflineTV Rust server after compelling evidence surfaces, proving that he metagamed xQc to get the upper hand.

Metagaming involves a player utilizing real-life resources to get an unfair advantage in a game, and that exactly is what Zuckles is convicted of. The seriousness of the issue has far exceeded standard allegations after ample evidence has surfaced proving that he is guilty. Zuckles himself has acknowledged his mistake and in total agreement with OfflineTV banning him off the server.

https://twitter.com/Zuckles/status/1348089736716423168

“Alright, I’ll try to get him kicked from this f**king server,” “F**k it. Just go next. How is that fun? I’m done, dude. This is just killing it. I have to be honest. This is just kind of sad.” said a frustrated xQc after he failed to kill Zuckles.

Zuckles chat gave him pre-emptive information about an incoming raid by xQc. This information he gained from his fans helped him to prepare a counterattack in advance that let him fend off the threat in xQc. He can’t help if his chat is giving away unfair information but what he can do is, keep his integrity and ignore anyone giving away plans of other streamers and not thank them for it.

Instead of ignoring, Zuckles used his chat to gain the upper hand against xQc and now he must part ways with the OfflineTV Rust Server. Not just some of his fans but the entire gaming community considers this as a violation of integrity. This just adds more drama surrounding the Rust server as things continue to go south for them.

Valorant Yoru: All Abilities

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Valorant on their YouTube channel, revealed their new agent’s first look, YORU.

Ahead of Valorant’s next Episode, game developers today revealed the upcoming agent which will feature in their next update. Yoru, a native japanese agent has officially been shown in action in the latest video by Valorant.

As reported earlier by TalkEsport, the description of this brand new agent states, “ “Yoru can create gaps, in reality, itself to sneak into enemy territory unnoticed. Strength and stealth allow him to take enemies by surprise – they won’t even have time to understand where death came from.”

Yoru’s abilities have clearly been defined in this latest video where the agent seemed to trigger a portal that allowed him to teleport when in trouble.

At the start of the retake, we saw the Japanese inhabitant deploy his ultimate into his opponent’s territory in a sublime state, only at the cost of his footprints being revealed in the snow.

At the end of his ultimate, he revealed himself from the realm and joined Phoenix in the action.

Before today’s reveal, it was known by many that Yoru might be a time traveler who’s related to the samurai on Icebox which was discovered soon after the map’s release.

According to the speculations, Yoru time traveled from the past to Icebox, which is located in Bennett Island, Russia to retrieve the samurai armor.

Yoru will probably transition to depict a duelist role who will engage while lurking and performing a back-stab. His ability set simply works better for joker plays and round-winning scenes rather than for consistently getting entry frags.

Valorant Yoru Abilities:

C – Fakeout

Equip an echo that mimics footsteps when activated Fire to activate and send the echo forward, Alt Fire to place an echo in place, Use the inactive Echo to send it forward.

E – Gatecrash

Equip to harness a rift tether Fire to send the tether out moving forward, Alt Fire to place a tether in place, Activate to teleport to the tether’s location.

Q – Blindside

Equip to rip an unstable dimensional fragment from reality. Fire to throw the fragment, activating a flash that winds up once it collides with a hard surface in the world.

X – Dimensional Drift

Equip a mask that can see between dimensions. Fire to drift into Yoru’s dimension, unable to be affected or seen by enemies from the outside.

Gospel preacher banned from Twitch over “hateful conduct”

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DrWitnesser, has been banned from Twitch for an indefinite period over engaging “in hateful conduct against a person or a group of many.” “esports missionary” or so he likes to call himself uses time between his Fortnite matches to preach the teaching of the Bible which in his recent streams contained something that went against the community guidelines.

Religion has always been something sensitive, that makes it very hard to deal with, especially for companies like Twitch who deal with the masses. Twitch users form a cosmopolitan community, including people of various agenda, religious views and opinions, thus a standard set of guidelines might often fall short to satisfy everyone’s needs.

https://twitter.com/DrWitnesser/status/1346970460668506118

Twitch didn’t publicize what in DrWitnesser’s content was found to be a “hateful conduct against a person or a group of many”, which they don’t for any bans they hand out. Naturally, forcing him to shift his content over to YouTube as his ban period remains indefinite. He might as well go through his streams to point out what exactly caused this for future references, or YouTube might give him a similar treatment for the same violation.

“Twitch has yet again showed they have no tolerance for a #Christian streamer who preaches what the #Bible teaches. They are a bias, hypocritical organization that shoves their agenda down everyone’s throats. I’m glad to be gone…taking some time off to decide my next move.” read his Tweet.

His immediate move was to continue his preaching over at YouTube, that he announced shortly after showing his frustration on Twitter. With his return date nowhere in sight, he might continue stream on YouTube incase their community guidelines fall in place with DrWitnesser’s content.

Dream responds to Minecraft speedrun cheating controversy

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Popular Minecraft YouTuber Dream has issued a final statement related to the Minecraft Speedrunning Moderator team’s decision to reject his record submission in the 1.16 patch.

The 2020 Gaming Streamy Award winner seems to have ‘accepted’ the decision made by the moderators to not consider his submission on his Twitter thread.

Dream did however, support the claim made by his math expert that the odds presented by the mod team was far more than what is the case here while also stating that his own conclusion from the number does ‘support’ the argument that the chances of drops the YouTuber received during his speedrun record were still unachievable fairly.

Although, Dream has accepted the decision while urging fans and the community to put this issue behind them and continue to grow the community.

How to find your Steam ID?

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Players are always prompted to enter their Steam ID when they try to link the same to a third party website.Some do make it while the rest seem to be lost when it comes to finding theirs. Steam ID is a series of numbers that are assigned to each Steam User Profile.

Below, you’ll see how to find your Steam ID. You can also set your custom URL from the “Edit Profile” setting if you wish to remember it.

Here are the steps to get your Steam ID :

> Log onto your Steam.

> Choose Settings from the top left corner. 

> From there, select interface. 

> Tick “Display Steam URL address bar” if you haven’t.



> Hit Ok to confirm and save the settings.

If you wish to set a custom link for your Steam ID :

> Click on your in-game nickname and select “Profile”
>  Hit “Edit profile”

> From there, enter your custom URL in the form of “https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/*your desired details*/ in the text box.

> Scroll down to the bottom of the page and hit “Save”  

Valorant Infinity Skin Collection Leaked: Everything We Know So Far

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The highly anticipated Episode 2 of Valorant is nearly here, and it’s about to bring a plethora of new changes to the competitive shooter. These changes include not only the sneaky new agent Yoru, but also balance updates, bug fixes, and a bunch of new cosmetic items.

One of the upcoming cosmetic items is the ‘Infinity’ skin bundle, the images of which have already been leaked on the internet.

Recently, popular Valorant dataminer ‘ValorLeaks’ has revealed a video showcasing the upcoming skin line in a tweet that has managed to garner the attention of thousands of Valorant fans worldwide.

As you can see from the video, the Infinity skin bundle features several different variants with the following finishes:

  • Dark green and Yellow
  • White and Pink
  • Yellow and Silver
  • White and Red

The Infinity skin bundle will feature these skins:

  • Classic
  • Spectre
  • Bulldog
  • Phantom

Valorant infinity skin bundle price

The individual prices of the skins or the bundle price hasn’t been revealed as of yet. 

FalleN joins Team Liquid | CSGO News

After months of Brazilian CSGO pro Gabriel “⁠FalleN⁠” Toledo going inactive in his (now former) team MiBR, Team Liquid has finally confirmed adding the legendary AWPer to their CSGO roster to fill the void left by the stepping down of Russel “⁠Twistzz⁠” Van Dulken. 

FalleN had asked MiBR to bench him from the active CSGO roster in protest of the removal of his former teammates Fernando “⁠fer⁠” Alvarenga, Epitacio “⁠TACO⁠” de Melo and coach Ricardo “⁠dead⁠” Sinigaglia by the organization. 

“Joining an organisation like Team Liquid feels like an amazing accomplishment,” Fallen said. “I feel that in Liquid I will be able to accomplish a lot of things.

The 29-year-old is likely to become the primary AWPer in his newly-joined org. 

Following this move, FalleN will be able to reunite with his former teammate Jacky ‘Stewie2K’ Yip. The duo played alongside each other for a span of eight months between April and December 2018 in SK and MIBR before Stewie moved to Liquid while FalleN continued his CSGO career in MIBR. 

Also Read | MiBR’s 2021 Downfall – Brazilian drama summarized

Team Liquid CSGO roster consists of:

  • Jonathan “⁠EliGE⁠” Jablonowski
  • Keith “⁠NAF⁠” Markovic
  • Jake “⁠Stewie2K⁠” Yip
  • Michael “⁠Grim⁠” Wince
  • Gabriel “⁠FalleN⁠” Toledo
  • Jason “⁠moses⁠” O’Toole (coach)
  • Russel “⁠Twistzz⁠” Van Dulken (benched) 

Valorant Cinematic Retake: All you need to know

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Today Valorant on their YouTube channel revealed the new cinematic and upcoming agent Yoru, an agent from the Japanese origin. The latter was seen in action along with Phoenix while they tried to retake a site post plant. 

In the cinematic, we witnessed a plethora of potential teasers and the Valorant agent Yoru’s tactics. Talking about the new agent, the Japanese inhabitant may provide his team with some insane lurking manoeuvres by using his Ultimate ability.

When activated, Yoru enters a realm and can traverse across the map but at the cost of his footprints getting revealed while doing so.

This was depicted via the short video today where he sneaks into his opponent’s territory only to take down the sniper (Cypher) camping above while Phoenix popped out a flash and knocked out Viper.

Photo: Riot Games

It was Yoru Vs Jett in the end where the latter on offense was trying to defend the planted spike. This was ultimately won by the Japanese as he deployed a portal right behind Jett only to teleport when she took a shot at him.

Phoenix who joined Yoru to celebrate their win met an odd fate where we witnessed the latter kill the former. It was revealed that Phoenix was in his ultimate “Run it back” and got lucky. Upon being confronted, Yoru replied, “Well, she shot first.”

We saw Yoru teleport behind Jett eventually taking her down. But the question arises, how did she manage to get back at Phoenix? Will Valorant bring in the “Self-revive” ability at a certain point? 

Ser Winter banned from OTV Rust server post PvP abuse

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The drama surrounding OTV Rust server continues to grow and things have gotten far worse with Ser Winter banned by OfflineTV over PvP abuse.

A large part of the blame has zeroed in on Ser Winter utilizing more experience of Rust to abuse other players with less experience. He at first shielded himself from the allegations of ‘clout pursuing’, yet his situation on the server has regardless been since repudiated.  

“Guys, the Rust OTV servers are great for our community right now, and I did have a lot of fun on there, but it’s the end of an era. I’ve been humbly banned, which is completely fair and fine.” read his tweet.

The offlineTV Rust server was aimed at bringing Rust streamers closer to other popular content creator, and put together an organization for everyone to enjoy the beauty of Rust. However, things turned far from that as the plan was followed by a string of disagreements among the ranks of streamers leading notable streamers like Pokimane to part ways with it.

With things multiple things going south with the OTV Rust server, OfflineTV might chose to shut down the project in its entirety. No one would like to bid adieu to the Rust games, so we can be hopeful that the players fix thier internal issues and maintain a healthy competition.