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Sage Nerfed In Valorant Patch 1.01

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Sage Nerfed In Valorant Patch 1.01

It has only been a week since the official launch of VALORANT, and Riot has already come up with a new patch for their competitive shooter. The patch focuses on performance improvements and tweaks to the Spike Rush game mode, along with a nerf for the healer of the game, Sage.

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The Spike Rush game mode will now feature a set of three new orbs to make the mode more exciting. “Our new mode, Spike Rush, gets an injection of new Orb types to play with. For example, a Golden Gun Orb that lets you one-shot anybody with the quickness,” Riot mentions in their official blog post.

Also Read: How To Play Sage In Valorant

Here are the changes to the Spike Rush mode as stated in the patch notes:

  • Each game of Spike Rush now features a set of 5 randomly selected orbs
  • The Full Ultimate orb will always be available
  • 4 of the remaining 7 orb types will be chosen at random
  • Chosen orb types will be shown in a description widget both in character select and during pre-round

The three new orb types which are introduced through this update include:

Health Orb – Grants teamwide health regen (instant)

  • 20 second duration
  • 12 HP per second (3HP per tick)
  • SFX/VFX only play while actually healing

Deception Orb – Applies “Paranoia” to the enemy team 3 seconds after capture

  • 10 second debuff
  • Vision is greatly reduced (and a small Field of Vision shift)
  • Fake footsteps and gunfire play for affected players
  • Minimap is disabled

Golden Gun – Grants capturing player a Golden Gun

  • One-shot, one-kill
  • Perfectly accurate at all times
  • Agent moves at knife speed
  • Only has a single bullet in chamber and 2 backup rounds
  • Kills grant an additional round

Besides the change to this game mode, another notable change is the nerf to Sage. The VALORANT support character had already experienced significant nerfs previously and this time, the cast range of her Barrier orb was halved from 20 meters to 10 meters.

“As a Sentinel, Sage is supposed to be most effective when defending territory that she already controls. The 20m cast range was allowing Sage to aggressively take control of neutral territory in a way that was inappropriate for her role in Valorant. This range reduction aims to keep her strong while defending territory but reduce her efficacy at taking ground.”

Patch 1.01 also witnessed some changes to the callouts of the maps and major performance improvements on mid and high tier computers. “The game should feel even smoother in combat and many scenes will likely have higher average FPS depending on your spec,” Riot said. They also added multithreaded rendering support for high end machines, which can now be toggled from the Graphics Quality menu.

As usual, this update also made several QoL changes and bug fixes which can

HBO’s Last Of Us TV series to be directed by Chernobyl director Johan Renck

Prateek Jain
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HBO’s Last Of Us TV series to be directed by Chernobyl director Johan Renck

New details about HBO’s upcoming TV series Last Of Us surfaced online after an interview of Discussing Films with director Johan Renck went live. In the interview, Renck revealed that he is an executive producer of the series and will direct the pilot episode.

The writer and creative director of the game, Neil Druckmann, will work with Mazin to pen and executive produce the series.

While answering the questions about his next endeavor, Renck said:

“I’m an executive producer on it and attached to it. It’s an ongoing TV series. So that’s not something that I will be able to take on to that extent, but I’m part of that series and I will be directing at least the pilot.”

Last Of Us is one of the best Sony Playstation exclusive games which is story rich and also has a very large fan following. Following the success of game series turned TV series like Netflix’s Witcher, Sony in March 2020 announced its upcoming HBO production of the award-winning The Last of Us game.

Following the announcement, The Hollywood Reporter in early March revealed that the HBO series will “cover the events of the original game… with the possibility of additional content based on the forthcoming sequel The Last of Us 2.”

With this interview one fact is also clear that The Last of Us HBO series is described as an “ongoing” TV series, perhaps suggesting that it won’t be a one-season series or a miniseries like Chernobyl and may in fact involve multiple seasons. Generally, the Pilot episode is shot months before the full-scale production of the series. So we expect more details to surface as soon as full production starts.

Paytm First Games partners with Riot Games to launch Teamfight Tactics Tournament in India

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Paytm First Games partners with Riot Games to launch Teamfight Tactics Tournament in India

Paytm First Games, the country’s leading gaming destination has today announced that it has teamed up with the globally renowned developer and publisher Riot Games to organize the region’s first Teamfight Tactics mobile tournament. The mobile gaming tournament will be held from 17th to 21st June, and 512 Indian gamers will compete to win a prize pool of Rs. 75,000/- in this first edition of the tournament. To participate in the tournament, gaming enthusiasts across the country will be able to register from 9th June onwards on Paytm First Games app. This tournament will be held online and will use multiple elimination formats depending upon the round.

Teamfight Tactics: 10 playing tips for mobile | Guide

Teamfight Tactics is an eight-person free-for-all strategy game where players combine League of Legends champions and items in different formations to defeat the seven other players in a match. As the leading game in the auto-battler genre, players tactically place an army of characters on a grid-shaped game board for a last-player-standing automated battle. Teamfight Tactics has emerged as the top contender in the genre, with 80 million players globally since its launch, providing a fun and deep chess-like gameplay experience for all types of players on multiple platforms.

We continue to stay committed to our mission of bringing world-class gaming experience to our users and this partnership will help us to move a step ahead in this direction. This Teamfight Tactics tournament will be the biggest one ever organized in India in terms of prize money and participation. We are going to live with it in the next 2 days and hope to expand our partnership with Riot in the near future.

Sudhanshu Gupta, COO, Paytm First Games

Namaste India. We are extremely proud to partner with PFG to bring TFTm to where it matters most to us at Riot, which is our players. We have great plans for India considering that we have just started our journey on mobile this year. Our relationship with India is just starting and we will work hard to constantly delight our fans and players here.

Sukamal Pegu, RIOT GAMES SOUTH ASIA’S PUBLISHING HEAD

Paytm First Games is committed to bringing the world’s best esports tournaments to India and is partnering with leading publishers. Recently, the company launched ‘Clash Royale’ that saw over 11,000 registrations for the tournament, making it India’s biggest eSports tournament ever.”

CSGO: ESL Pro League returns in September, to be played on LAN

Sonu Banerjee
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CSGO: ESL Pro League returns in September, to be played on LAN

Through their official website, ESL has announced that they’re looking to bring the ESL Pro League back during this fall. The tournament will feature 24 best teams in the world who’ll fight for the throne through four weeks before the grand finals. The tournament is scheduled to start from September 2nd and will consist of the best teams across Europe, North America, South American, Asia and Oceania.

The qualifiers for Europe, Asia and Oceania will be played as BO3 double-elimination brackets, while the grand finals will be a BO5. Due to the South American qualifiers only consisting of two teams, it will only feature BO5 series. The North American qualifier will see three teams battling it out in a round-robin format.

The participating teams for season 12 will contain 13 partner teams who jointly govern and participate in revenue for ESL Pro League, 3 teams which were participants in season 11 but failed to join due to travel restrictions and 6 slots are reserved for teams advancing through the special qualifier. The remaining slots will be filled by the best teams from Mountain Dew League.

ESL have made it clear that if the COVID-19 situation improves within the given time frame and the travel restrictions are contracted, they’ll organized LAN tournaments as announced in the following format:

However, if the situation gets worse and travelling becomes a cause of concern, ESL mentions that they’ll shift the tournament which will then be held online, “Should travels not be possible, we will take ESL Pro League online again and divide it into regional online leagues covering all five regions: Europe, North America, Asia, Oceania, and South America. More details on that will follow soon.”

The participating teams for ESL Pro League Season 12 will include:

Partner teams

  • 100Thieves
  • Astralis
  • Faze
  • Complexity
  • Ence
  • Evil Geniuses
  • G2
  • Fnatic
  • Mousesports
  • Team Liquid
  • Team Vitality
  • Ninjas in Pyjamas

Invites

  • Renegades
  • Sharks
  • Boom

Special Qualifier

  • 2x EU Teams
  • 1x NA Team
  • 1x SA Team
  • 1x Asia Team
  • 1x Oceania Team

CSGO agent skins are a nightmare for colour blind players

Sonu Banerjee
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CSGO agent skins are a nightmare for colour blind players

The month of November 2019 shook up the CSGO community by witnessing the release of an in-game operation after two years. The Operation Shattered Web had also implemented new agent skins into the game which could be obtained as rewards for reaching certain levels in the operation pass.

The new addition was soon facing resentment from the community as some of them were causing visibility issues across several maps like Overpass or Cache. Valve was quick to address those issues not by altering the agent skins, but by changing the ambient lighting of the maps themselves. However, one particular issue was still prevalent even after the changes were implemented to fix the visibility problems. 

Reddit user u/csgopleasehelp has shed light on the problem his colour blind problem was facing and which ultimately led him to quit CSGO as a “last resort.”

Hi Reddit, my colour blind friend quit the game after almost 5 years of playing due to the agent skins. This is our last resort. Here is what we think could solve the agent skin problem for the colour blind player-base.
by u/csgopleasehelp in GlobalOffensive

He states that his friend, who he introduced to CSGO almost 5 years prior to the incident, suffered from deuteranomaly which is the term for red-green colorblindness. His condition made it almost impossible for him to spot the models in some parts of the maps, which led him to quit the game.

The Reddit user also mentions a simple solution to this major problem which doesn’t require outright disabling the agent skins.

“We understand that it’s simply not realistic to add an option to disable all custom models in csgo,” he said. Instead, he opted for a minor adjustment which can potentially fix the problem entirely.

According to him, adding something of contrasting colour to the agent skins on them would enable colorblind players to identify the models in every place. He also made small edits in paint to elaborate on the solution.

Take a look at this image and try to find out the CT in it.

Chances are, you struggled to find the model, even if you aren’t a colour blind player. Here’s where he was.

However, identifying the character becomes a lot easier when you add a small contrasting colour around the neck and helmet of the model.

Deuteranomaly is the most common form of color blindness accounting for about 8% of the male population. Not only is this small change really easy to do from Valve’s side, but it’ll also help improve the visibility of the models across all the maps, preventing such colorblind players from quitting CSGO.

GetRight, Coldzera named in Valve’s legal notice served to CSGO teams

Bhavya Shah
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GetRight, Coldzera named in Valve’s legal notice served to CSGO teams

The Counter-Strike esports scene is highly diverse with numerous teams in different tiers and a minimal skill difference amongst them. Within this prospering community, several professionals competing in the Regional Major Ranking (RMR) tournaments are shareholders in other participating teams or a person owns a stake in multiple teams.

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According to an email accessed by HLTV.org, Valve has issued a 5 months ultimatum to seven teams that participated in the recently concluded RMR tournament – ESL One: Road to Rio 2020. Developers have provided time until the commencement of the $2 million ESL One: Rio 2020 major. The RMR events for Summer and Autumn are yet to begin.

After going through the “declaration of interest” submitted by the participating teams, Valve concluded three substantial conflicts of interest that are “a threat to the integrity of the Majors”. The teams that received the notice are:

  • Yeah Gaming
  • MIBR (owned by IGC)
  • FaZe Clan
  • Evil Geniuses
  • Ninjas in Pyjamas
  • Team Dignitas
  • ENCE Esports

Last time in May 2019, the community outraged over the conflict of interest and revenue share between Astralis and BLAST – two subsidiaries of RFRSH Entertainment.

Yeah Gaming is owned by Marcelo “coldzera” David from FaZe Clan, Wilton “zews” Prado – coach of Evil Geniuses and Epitacio “TACO” de Melo & Ricardo “dead” Sinigaglia from MIBR. MIBR, interestingly, is a subsidiary of Immortals Gaming Club (IGC). On April 23, MIBR played against Yeah Gaming in the ESL One: Road to Rio 2020 (North-America).

Swedish veteran Christopher “GeT_RiGhT” Alesund who currently plays under the Dignitas banner owns a minor stake in his former team Ninjas in Pyjamas. While a popular CS:GO talent and a former professional Tomi “lurppis” Kovanen owns a minor stake in ENCE Esport is also the general manager of Immortals Gaming Club (IGC) that owns MIBR.

DeathMaker joins Paper Rex on loan for ESL Pro League

Abhishek Bajaj
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DeathMaker joins Paper Rex on loan for ESL Pro League

South-East Asian organisation Paper Rex have acquired Sunny ‘DeathMaker’ Das on loan from Global Esports. The organisation co-founded in 2020 by Counter Strike legend Harvey ‘dsn’ Orwall have loaned DeathMaker in for the purpose of ESL Pro League.

Photo: ESL India

Paper Rex have recently revamped their roster once again, with Shamir ‘subbey’ Zaman and Leslie ‘Bobosaur’ Soen leaving the active lineup.

Interestingly, DeathMaker will be the second Indian to be a part of the Paper Rex csgo squad, with Prashant ‘Aequitas’ Prabhakar coaching the lineup.

The 21-year-old, who topped our 2019 Indian players ranking list, will be the second Indian CSGO player in recent past to join a South-East Asian organisation, with Tejas ‘Ace’ Sawant having a successful stint with XCN before returning home to join Signify.

PUBG Mobile India official relaxes cutoff for PMIS 2020 online qualifiers

Abhinesh Kourav
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PUBG Mobile India official relaxes cutoff for PMIS 2020 online qualifiers

The results of PMIS 2020 in-game qualifiers were announced on 5th June 2020. 248 teams were selected to play in the in-game qualifiers. However, PUBG mobile india faced a backlash from the gamers after the results. Players alleged teams with lower kill scores than them has been qualified but they have been eliminated. This resulted in the players demanding transparency in the results. 

After the controversy, PUBG mobile india has decided to to increase the number of qualified teams for online qualifiers from 248 to 992. Earlier, 64 teams out of 248 qualified teams were to be selected for quarter finals. However, the officials will now change the format of the tournament to accomodate all 992 teams. PUBG mobile india official posted a message to the players on the social media platforms to announce this.

Photo: PUBG Mobile India

However, it is still not clear when we will get the new list of the qualified teams. PUBG mobile India said that they will release the new list of qualified teams and format changes soon. 

PMIS 2020 is the best stage for new underrated teams to prove what they are capable of. They can prove their worth in this tournament by playing against big guns of PUBG mobile india community. This news is a delight for those teams that did not qualify for online qualifiers earlier.

How to convert your Rainbow Six Siege’s sensitivity to Valorant

Bharat Kotwani
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How to convert your Rainbow Six Siege’s sensitivity to Valorant

With Riot finally bringing its famous first person tactical shooter out of its closed beta access, we have been witnessing a major part of the community shifting tides from their old interests. Players across various FPS titles like Valve’ CS:GO and Tom Clancy’s R6 Siege have already joined forces at Valorant in a bid to re-define their area of expertise where they might pursue it as their career as well.

Transitioning to a brand new FPS game might have some barriers to hop across but they can sometimes be perfectly dodged if you get the right motivation to face it along with some perfectly tuned in-game settings. Keeping tabs on the latter might definitely help you to get in the driver’s seat whenever you would engage yourself in some duels. Engaging in aim battles would help you and your team as well to gain an upper hand if you choose to slay your enemies along with being an informant where you can watch your team’s six and cancel out the lurk.

For these aspects to be on point, you must guarantee you mouse sensitivity settings to be thoroughly tuned as it would totally help you to simulate your Field of View (FOV) with some inhuman reflexes (in-game ofcourse).

Upon the launch of Valorant, many players did struggle upon entering the game where they had a tough time to set their crosshairs and edit their settings. You finally need not worry about this as North American Organization Cloud9’s Professional Apex player Jamison ‘PVPX’ Moore seems to have figured out a solution for this dilemma. On his Twitter ), he did post a conversion chart for every FPS Player where they can do the desired math in order to calculate their sensitivity for Valorant.

According to PVPX, you would have to divide your current R6 Siege Sensitivity by the number 12.2. 6Siege does sport two kinds of the same ie the Horizontal and Vertical Sensitivity and you would have to tweak both the settings in order to get a perfect match while competing at Valorant.

For Eg, if your Horizontal sensitivity is 30 and vertical is 25 and then you would have to divide these parameters each with 1.2 which would provide you with 2.45 and 2.04 respectively. Now you would have to choose a parameter from the range of 2.45 to 2.04 which will help you to get back your old aiming ability powered by a perfect sensitivity.

If you’re looking to transition from other FPS titles, here is the conversion chart for the same.

Credits to Jamison ‘PVPX’ Moore for helping us out for these simulations and we are really thankful for the same. Cheers.

PUBG Mobile: Orange Rock, TSM Entity and GodLike qualifies for World League

Abhinesh Kourav
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PUBG Mobile: Orange Rock, TSM Entity and GodLike qualifies for World League

PUBG mobile pro league South Asia league concluded after three weeks of intense action in the battlegrounds. The top three teams of the league got their PUBG mobile world league slots. Top 16 teams qualify for PMPL finals and will be fighting for the two remaining world league slots.

If any of the top 3 teams from the regular-season finish in the top 2 in the finals, PMWL slot will then be given to the next team/teams. PMPL SA finals will be held on June 12, 13 and 14.

After three weeks of hard work and focussed gameplay, Orange Rock has finally won the PMPL SA league stage and a PMWL slot for itself. A long and intense skirmish was witnessed in the last week between Orange Rock and TSM Entity for the top spot but OR finished at the top on final day.

TSM Entity finished second in the league and also got a spot in PMWL. GodLike and SynerGE fought hard for that third spot but SynerGE could not make it unfortunately and missed the third spot by just 9 points. GodLike got the third spot in the PMWL and SynerGE will be fighting for the other two slots in the finals. 

The massive prize pool of  the tournament was divided between all top 16 teams. The prizes for top three teams is

  • #1 Orange Rock – $10,000
  • #2 TSM Entity – $8,000
  • #3 GodLike – $6,000

The bottom four teams in the leaderboard are eliminated and will not be playing in the PMPL finals. These teams are DeadEyes Guy, INES, Team Hype and JyanMaara. All indian teams that played in the league are qualified to play in the finals as well.

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