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CSGO implements new ‘Text Filtering’ feature to curb in-game toxicity

Pranav Nalawade
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CSGO implements new ‘Text Filtering’ feature to curb in-game toxicity

Online toxicity has forever haunted the world of multiplayer gaming. Cyber-bullying is not a new thing in hardcore games like CSGO, where it’s easy for people to heat up in the intense competitive environment and vent their frustration on other players playing the game.

According to a recent study, it was discovered that CSGO ranked #2 among the popular esport titles of the world in terms of the most foul-mouthed community,  just second to Dota 2.

With the CSGO update which Valve has released on June 12th, it appears like they’ve given players the freedom to set up a text filter for the in-game chat.

Upon enabling the newly implemented ‘Text Filtering’ features, the system will automatically detect swear words in chat and block them for the player. This feature will be enabled by default and if a player wishes to disable it they’ll have to do it manually using the in-game settings.

This sort of ‘Text Filtering’ feature is also being used by games like League of Legends, where toxicity is a very common problem.

While today’s patch is extremely tiny, here’s what the official blog of the update reads:

– Added a new game communication setting “Text Filtering” which is enabled by default and blocks profane words used in text chat.

– Fixed a trigger_bomb_reset regression.

However, no restrictions on abuses through the microphone has been set as of yet. It’s also true that identifying profanities through the microphone is a much more difficult task than filtering a set of swear words in the chat, especially due to the possibility of triggering false positives. For now, fans will have to hope that Valve comes up with a solution to the microphone abuse and till then, the option of blocking communication will have to do the task.

Gigabyte Teams Up with G2 Esports for its New Z490 AORUS ULTRA G2 Motherboard

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Gigabyte Teams Up with G2 Esports for its New Z490 AORUS ULTRA G2 Motherboard

Gigabyte has teamed up with G2 Esports to announce the release of a limited edition Z490 AORUS Ultra G2 Edition motherboard, inspired by G2 Esports dominance and passion for gaming. In order to satisfy the high-performance low-temperature needs of professional gaming teams, the Z490 AORUS ULTRA G2 uses direct 12 phases digital power design and tantalum capacitor array, providing strong and stable power delivery and minimizing oscillation, bringing you the 10th gen Intel® Core™ i9-10900K excellent high-class processor. Daisy Chain memory routing and anti-interference design deliver improved memory overclocking and stability. In addition to ESSential USB DAC’s vocal cohesion and immersive sound, it makes the Z490 AORUS ULTRA G2 Motherboard a must-have for every pro player, even more so the best pick for any gamer at home assembling their own gaming PC!

“Continuing our previous success, GIGABYTE and G2 Esports once again launches the Z490 AORUS ULTRA G2 Motherboard. Not only does it meet the high-efficient, stable, low temperature, and high audio quality standards of a pro team but it also verifies the dedication of GIGABYTE’S roots in Esports and definition of a high-quality competitive gaming motherboard.” said Jackson Hsu, Director of the GIGABYTE Channel Solutions Product Development Division.

GIGABYTE engineers have worked closely with G2 Esports to develop the best gaming motherboard. Taking into account all the feedback from pro players, GIGABYTE engineers tweaked even the slightest details or nuances to optimize the gaming experience. With its 12-phase digital power design, Tantalum Capacitor array, Fins-Array, advanced thermal and M.2 thermal offers. Meanwhile, the latest memory routing and anti-interference design reaching DDR4 XMP 5000 high performance left G2 Esports in awe. In addition, the motherboard built-in 2.5GbE fast-speed internet and Intel® WiFi 6 802.11ax wireless internet are both equally excellent. While using PCIe 4.0 design, it undoubtedly lets the Z490 AORUS ULTRA G2 sit among other high quality AORUS motherboards and bring both pro players and gamers the ultimate experience of a top-quality motherboard product tailor made for professional teams!

What’s worth mentioning is G2 Esports specifically emphasized the importance of audio. They hoped for GIGABYTE AORUS to improve the audio on motherboards, in particular for competitive gaming the most common front audio panel, which is one of the most important areas they were focused on. Because when you are in a competition and there is unnecessary noise disrupting or unclear reception, it can easily cause the team to be out of sync resulting in mistakes. GIGABYTE’s AORUS ULTRA G2 particularly comes with a Type C interface ESSential USD DAC, through the built-in ESS SABRE HiFi ES9280C PRO high-end audio transfer chip. This lets G2 Esports pro players the freedom to not settle for the audio loss caused by routing inside the case, all they need to do is connect their headset to the ESSential USB DAC to immediately enjoy the USB DAC to 3.5mm audio output. The ESSential USB DAC can also support the USB Type C interface on laptops, Android cellphones, and pad…etc. devices, making it even more flexible and useful. Addition to the motherboard adopted ALC1220-VB audio codec paired with WIMA FKP2 recording studio level capacitor provides the best audio. Doesn’t matter if you are a pro gamer from G2 Esports connecting the headset to ESSential USB DAC or using the rear I/O panel can provide you the same audio level of a recording studio, giving you an immersive audio experience.

Starting from June 11th to June 22nd, Team AORUS will host a giveaway campaign to celebrate the new Z490 AORUS Ultra G2 edition launch in the market. Users can join the campaign by inserting the secret code announced on AORUS India page, and like AORUS social media.  With all the gaming-oriented features, you can play like pros with this Z490 Ultra G2 inspired gaming-ready motherboard.

For more AORUS Ultra G2 Motherboard information, and join the giveaway campaign.

AORUS Ultra G2 Motherboard will be exclusively available on Amazon.in soon!

We will be giving away 10 codes each Day till 22nd June via Instagram & Twitter. Make sure you’re following us on our Instagram & Twitter.

Perfect World announces Perfect Asia League (PAL)

Kanishka Thakur
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Perfect World announces Perfect Asia League (PAL)

Perfect World has recently announced the details about the Asian Regional Major Rankings (RMR) that is going to be held this summer.

Perfect World Asia League (PAL) will have a prize pool of $100,000 and a total of 10 teams will be competing in this tournament out of which eight were invited after competing in the previous RMR tournament, hosted by ESL.

The tournament will start from 24 June till 19th of July and the top ten teams will face each other in a best of three round robin stage. The last two teams will be decided by a qualifying process for teams from China and the rest of Asia. 

The following teams will be taking part in the PAL Summer :- 

  1. TYLOO
  2. TIGER
  3. Mazaalai
  4. Lucid Dream
  5. China qualifier winner
  6. ViCi
  7. Beyond
  8. D13
  9. Divine Vendetta
  10. Asia qualifier winner

CSGO: s1mple breaks self record with a 2.77 rating on Mirage on DreamHack Masters

Sonu Banerjee
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CSGO: s1mple breaks self record with a 2.77 rating on Mirage on DreamHack Masters

After a disappointing defeat against G2, Natus Vincere has pulled off an exceptional performance on their 11th June match against MAD Lions to crush them 2-0 without giving them any window of opportunity to retaliate. While the entirety of the Na’Vi lineup lived up to the team’s standards throughout the series, the one-star who shined the brightest was none other than Aleksandr “⁠s1mple⁠” Kostyliev.

Photo: ESL

Na’Vi got off to a head start by defeating their opponents 16-5 on Mirage, before finally owning the series 2-0 with a 16-7 victory on Overpass. Living up to the fans’ expectations, s1mple performed consistently in both the games, but calling the first game a one-man show would in no way be an understatement. 

S1mple had a whopping 37 kills in the first game on Mirage followed by electronic on the second place who had less than half the number at 18. With only a measly 8 deaths in the entire game, s1mple rocked a ridiculous ADR of 158.5, which is certainly not very common for a game on the professional levels.

The second game on Overpass also saw s1mple annihilating his opponents, but this time electronic was one step further with a K-D of 25-12, with s1mple at 24-15. The domination on Overpass was although not unexpected due to it being the map pick of Na’Vi.

The sight of s1mple outplaying his opponents isn’t new in the CSGO scene, but his performance on Mirage was unprecedented. The Na’Vi star had an unbelievable rating of 2.77 in that game, a personal record in his lifetime.

With each passing day, the 22-year-old keeps on proving to the world why he’s considered by many as the greatest player to ever have touched CSGO. With all the upcoming matches of Na’Vi, we’re sure that we’ll get to see a lot more of what this man has to offer for his fans.

PMPL 2020 adds a couple of slots for South Asia, SynerGE pulled in

Abhinesh Kourav
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PMPL 2020 adds a couple of slots for South Asia, SynerGE pulled in

PUBG mobile Esports has decided to increase number of slots in PUBG mobile world league East from 16 to 18. Both of the added slots will be filled by teams from South Asia region. Earlier, five slots were given to teams from South Asia region. Now, seven South Asian teams will be rewarded with a PUBG mobile world league slot. Orange Rock, TSM Entity and GodLike already qualified for the PMWL East after their incredible performances in PMPL South Asia league stage.

One of the two added slots has already been rewarded to the team that ranked 4th in PMPL SA league stage i.e. SynerGE. This a delight to team SynerGE as it just missed the third spot by 9 points in PMPL SA and compete with other teams again in the finals for PMWL slot.

Another added PMWL East slot will be awarded to the team that will rank third in PMPL SA finals. Earlier, only top two teams were to be selected for PMWL East. All top three teams of PMPL SA finals will now be rewarded with a PMPL slot. If any of the top 4 teams from PMPL SA regular season finish in the qualified area, PMWL slot will then be given to the next team/teams.

PMPL SA finals are being held on 12th, 13th and 14th June with five matches being played each day. Top 16 teams of PMPL SA will be fighting for a massive prize pool and three PMWL slots. PMPL SA finals will be streamed live on PUBG mobile esports youtube channel. The stream will start at 6.30 PM IST. Which three teams will top the leaderboard of PMPL finals according to you? Comment your answers below.

You Can Now Play Counter Strike 1.6 on your Browser

Bharat Kotwani
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You Can Now Play Counter Strike 1.6 on your Browser

Starting out as a Half-Life modification on the Goldsource engine, Counter-Strike 1.6 grew in popularity and became one of the most popular first-person shooters of all time. As a mod of Half-Life, it was released in its beta Phase in June 1999 before being launched in a fully-fledged version.

If we take a look back, playing CS 1.6 on a LAN setup did used to mean a ritual for the FPS enthusiasts as everyone’s passion did scale their epitome of happiness. All you had to do is rush to the gaming café and voila. But after the launch of its successor CS:GO, we did see a turn in the events where most of the community shifted their area of expertise to the former.

Recently some of CS-ONLINE.CLUB’s altruistic minds have provided the community with an altered version of CS 1.6 where you can relive those nostalgic movements with your friends while playing the same on your web browser. You might get to experience a whole different GUI with some asserted mods but the guns along with the maps and game mechanics haven’t been tampered with. Here you won’t need any 3rd party client to download the same unlike the one on Steam. One can easily play this altered version of CS 1.6 on the latest updated browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge. Just like Krunker, you just need to send a browser invite to your friends to get started.

Head over to CS-ONLINE.CLUB to play Counter-Strike 1.6 on your browser.

Major CSGO update tweaks Dust 2, Mirage, Cache and improves visibility of Agents

Sonu Banerjee
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Major CSGO update tweaks Dust 2, Mirage, Cache and improves visibility of Agents

Valve has once again released a new update for CSGO and this time it’s apparent that they’ve finally listened to the demands of the community.

Photo: Dexerto

Only a few days ago, we had reported on how the new agent skins’ implementations in CSGO had made an avid colour blind CSGO player of five years quit the game after experiencing difficulties in identifying the models across the maps. Well, it looks like he can come back now, since the update Valve issued on June 10 primarily focuses on addressing the visibility problem.

For starters, Valve has implemented a ‘Boost Player Contrast’ button in the advanced graphics option setting, which improves the legibility of the player models across every map. Since agent textures too, were changed for the same purpose.

Apart from a minor rendering improvement and some misc. changes, the update added a lot of tweaks on the major maps like Dust 2, Overpass, Mirage and Cache, most of which are aimed at improving visibility of player models across parts of the maps.

Here’s the detailed list of tweaks to the maps as mentioned in the patch notes by Valve:

Overpass:

– Removed large ivy-models near bathrooms by A site

– Removed thin windows in bathrooms by A site

– Removed bicycle by picnic by A long

– Brightened up connector tunnel

– Brightened up T spawn

– Added nice stone trims

Dust2:

– Flipped B site doors

– Simplified background when looking from B tunnels towards truck in mid

– Changed fog start distance from 1000 to 512, changed max density from .2 to .4

– Raised windows by A site ramp to make characters stand out more

Mirage:

– Removed trash pile at top of mid

– Trimmed plant by T spawn, towards apartments

– Boosted light in market window

– Fixed silent dropdown bug from B site balcony

– Changed angle of ladder in ladder-room

Inferno:

– Trimmed ivy by CT spawn towards A site arch

– Fixed CSM shadow from tower in mid

Train:

– Added new train bumper model with flat top

Cache:

– Replaced ladder to sniper’s nest with a box

– Cleaned up several important angles. (Thanks LangeThorup!)

– Added 1v1 Arenas

– Replaced cargo containers with new model for improved performance

– Visibility improvements in T entrance to A Main (Thanks Slender_CS!)

– Fixed unwanted/unintuitive wallbang in Mid

Other than the visibility improvements, the addition of 1v1 arenas to Cache are certain to be welcomed by the community. Another significant change is that the ladder which was previously found in sniper’s nest is now replaced by a box.

“It was just banter, not quitting CSGO”: Simar “psy” Sethi

Abhishek Bajaj
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“It was just banter, not quitting CSGO”: Simar “psy” Sethi

Simar ‘Psy’ Sethi, one of the renowned faces of the Indian CSGO professional scene was recently in the news for declaring his departure from the competitive scene. It seemed highly unlikely at this stage since VALORANT has just been launched. Adding to that fact that there will not be Indian servers until later this year.

Recent reports from media outlet Sportskeeda alluded to the fact that Simar ‘psy’ Sethi was going to follow in the footsteps of fellow esports athlete Tejas ‘Ace’ Sawant by announcing his retirement from competitive CSGO in favor of trying to go pro in Valorant.

We reached out to Simar in order to get clarification on the rumored story. The Indian CSGO star was swift to deny the rumors while stating that it was just a tongue-in-cheek statement meant for the stream.

“That was just a casual banter.”

Photo: ESL India

“It was just banter. I have no plans to leave CSGO. I am committed and passionate about the game and am trying my best to represent India at the highest level. I have tremendous support from my fanbase but unfortunately, it is tough to get organizations on board right now. I will not give up though. I love CSGO and will always do. I’m just learning Valorant like every other esports enthusiast,” said Simar Sethi.”

Sethi further clarified that it will be months before there is any concrete conclusion regarding a potential switch to other games or even Valorant for that matter.

CSGO: Snappi to join c0ntact

Kanishka Thakur
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CSGO: Snappi to join c0ntact

Marco ‘Snappi’ Pfeiffer is about to complete a signing with c0ntact after the organisation has reached a deal to buy Dane out from TIGER. 

The current Astralis player was originally set to play for TIGER alongside Own ‘smooya’ Butterfield after his contract ended with Heroic but that did not happen due to some surprising turn of events.

Astralis who brought in ‘Snappi’ as a stand-in for Andreas ‘Xyp9x’ Højsleth has been playing for them for just 2 weeks now and is about to make his move to another team. It is not confirmed who he will be replacing in c0ntact but it is sure that he will be competing with them in the Major Ranking Tournament in Europe. 

Astralis who has already declined the invitation to the RMR Tournament will now be looking for another player to play for them in the coming tournaments. On the other hand c0ntact was once a great team with the likes of ‘hunter’ and ‘nexa’ but unfortunately both the players moving to G2 and leaving c0ntact with bringing Georgi ‘SHiPZ’ Grigorov and ‘emi’ transitioned from a coaching to a playing role.

C0ntact’s lineup will now look like this :-

  • Nestor “LETN1” Tanić
  • Luka “emi” Vuković
  • Rokas “EspiranTo” Milašauskas
  • Otto “ottoNd” Sihvo
  • Georgi “SHiPZ” Grigorov
  • Marco “Snappi” Pfeiffer
  • Neil “NeiL_M” Murphy (coach)

Head & Shoulders sponsors G2 Arctic

Pranav Nalawade
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Head & Shoulders sponsors G2 Arctic

Spanish League of Legends team G2 Arctic has welcomed Procter and Gamble shampoo brand Head & Shoulders as its latest sponsor. The main purpose of the partnership is to create content featuring players.

This agreement represents a further step in our project and what better way to continue growing together than with H&S. At G2 Arctic we are ambitious and as such we need to move forward with the best and with agreements like this we are achieving it.

H&S is a brand associated worldwide with the world of sports and leader in its category, so this agreement we believe is not only a huge step for us, but also for the esports sector as a whole. I am sure that thanks to H&S we are going to bring great moments to our fans.

Luis Garcia, CEO of G2 Arctic

At H&S we have been a brand associated with sports for years, for us it is a natural step to enter the fascinating world of esports. We are very excited about this agreement and we are looking forward to entering this sector, and what better way than to do it with the help of a great team like G2 Arctic.

Fátima Collarte, Marketing Director of H&S in Spain

This agreement will see G2 arctic collaborate with the Procter & Gamble brand to create content featuring Teams & Players.

Head & Shoulders is the second sponsor of the team, after Nabisco brand Chips Ahoy!

Source: Esports Insider

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