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In a conversation with a CSGO cheats provider

Sajid Paik
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In a conversation with a CSGO cheats provider

Its past eight weeks of total lockdown with no hope for a vaccines of COVID-19, I’m not sure what the future would look like, our freedom will be dependent on this. Although, the only thing I like about this period is the game time we’re getting. The time to explore a lot of stuffs including the ones which are the most notorious.

A couple of weeks ago, I had a surprise chatter in a CSGO competitive game with one of the players who was ‘apparently’ testing his hacks. In between Valve’s match-making, I lobbied with one of my friends, we both are LEMs. The server was CS:GO Dubai West or so as I recall. They were playing casually in the warmup.

The queue had five “Flawless” or that’s what their clan tag suggested, on opponents side and 2 in ours. They were trying to do a ‘hvh’ session to test out who had the best hacks. One of them who was on our side, appeared reasonable to me as the rest of the opponents were doing nothing but hurling abuses. Let’s the call the guy with whom I was chatting, ‘Fettish.’

The chatter begin

The game started and just after warmup me and my friend started to feel something was off, they were bhoping in the outer area of de_train and just at contact, headshot. Eventually, after a couple of rounds Fettish told us, we can’t beat them so stop even trying. I asked, why? He responded, they are all hackers and have subscribed to our hacks called [NAME REMOVED].

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I astonishingly said, what the hell? why even play in match making if you want to hack? He responded, a recent update of Valve, which looked like just a regular one with map reforms, Valve secretly upgraded their Anti Cheat. Hence, they were trying to test a few features. I jumped in to ask, which update? which he obviously didn’t want to reveal.

Progressing around round 14th I asked, how does these hack work and what’s the user base? Fettish said he charges roughly around $19.99 per month for one user with limited features & $29.99 for unlimited usage. The hack simply draws over the game which enables the exploit.

Obviously my ridiculous excitement was in no mood for containment, I asked, I know about wall hacks, aimbots and what not, do you guys even offer health-pack hacks? Just to be sure if I was the noob or the opponents were over 100HPs. Fettish said, his services don’t offer healthpack boosters, nor they intend to.

Streamers & Pros

The streamers & pros around the world also have the subscription, he said. I quickly countered what about the live streaming? Will it not reveal? Fettish said, there are tweaks provided by them to customize streaming software, OBS is one which they support as of now.

“In our subscribers base, there are thousands of semi-pros,” Fettish claims. Although when I wanted to dig into the regions, the base, and the organizations, he obviously hesitated and refused to speak. The market is big, the cheat market brings in hundreds and thousands of dollar every year. In a famous game like CSGO, the cheat developers also have to keep their A-game all the time.

It’s like a heist. Once mistake and thousands of people get swiped away. There are challenges for them too, Fettish says before allowing anyone to access their tool, they also need to be sure the customer isn’t an undercover Valve developer. I was shocked to hear this, it seemed like a Hollywood movie where FBI agents go undercover to bust a drug-racket. But Fettish says, that’s their concern.

Updates & Keeping up with Valve

Fettish says to stay in the business we’ve to stay one step ahead of Valve. A wave of VAC ban and lots of users stop the services, which hurts them commercially and their brand reputation.

As soon as Valve pushes a CSGO update, the cheat coders have their task set. They have to be fast to evade any potential detection of their script. I tried to get the numbers of active subscribers from Fettish, he didn’t disclose it all but given by the scale they’re giving away their service, it was sure somewhere around tens of thousands.

Their website is DDoS protected. They use AWS. They use secured payment gateways. There’s absolutely nothing these people don’t offer. It’s incredible.

It is incredible that a Free to Play game where cheat markets are worth millions.

Video showing FaZe Dubs cheating in Cash Cup finals surfaces

Sonu Banerjee
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Video showing FaZe Dubs cheating in Cash Cup finals surfaces

Controversies seem to be tailing Daniel “Dubs” Paul Walsh these days as only weeks after returning to Fortnite, he has managed to get himself in trouble once again. The Fortnite star playing for FaZe clan has allegedly teamed up with another player during the Cash Cup finals on May 1st.

A video had recently been brought to light by Twitter user Leaffr on the platform which provides evidence hinting towards Dubs breaching the official rules by teaming up in a solo tournament. The video, which was later deleted, put forward several points which could almost conclusively prove that Dubs was indeed teaming with another player with the username “waffleslul”.

For starters, both Dubs and waffleslul landed all six times at the Rig and followed specific patterns to move through the map so as to not engage in combat with one another. Both of them also focused on killing any other player that landed nearby while not killing themselves. They also took turns to coordinate looting the “Vault” to get an advantage in the game. Moreover, waffles and Dubs were also seen playing as a duo in the Contender Cup just the day before. All these incidents put together are too much to be considered as simple coincidences and directly hint towards them teaming up and thus, cheating.

However, it was not before long that the video got taken down by Leaffr. He also tweeted a statement clarifying why he had taken down the video.

https://twitter.com/Leaffr/status/1256816668921249792?s=19

In his statement he claimed that he didn’t thoroughly check all the replays before making the video and that the last clip in the video was “in a custom” which he didn’t realise while making the video.

He added, “Personally I think you should watch the replays yourselves and decide if what they are doing is wrong.”

Some people were clearly unhappy about Leaffr’s decision to take down the video.

Teaming up in solo tournaments has always been a recurring problem for battle royales like Fortnite. Epic Games also had to come up with specific rules against teaming up and have previously handed out temporary bans to its players teaming up in tournaments. However, Epic hasn’t made any comment regarding the Dubs incident yet but a response can be hoped soon.

Vitality upset Fnatic in ESL One Road to Rio

Kanishka Thakur
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Vitality upset Fnatic in ESL One Road to Rio

The ESL One Road to Rio had an exciting game this evening as Fnatic the current #1 team in the world faced Vitality in a best of 3 series. Fnatic have not really been in their best of their form lately and have been facing difficulties to win matches since their rank update. Vitality are having a decent tournament and they last defeated Dignitas 2-0 and were hoping for the same result as well. We saw Vitality winning the series 2-1 (16-13 on Dust2, 20-22 on Inferno and 16-11 on Mirage).

The map veto began with Vitality banning train and Fnatic removing Vertigo, Vitality then picked up Dust2 as the first map of the series and Fnatic chose Inferno to be played as the second map and in the end Mirage was left over to be played as the third and final map of the series.

The first round of Dust2 was quite quick and ended in just over 20 seconds with Ludvig ‘Brollan’ Brolin and Maikil ‘Golden’ Selim taking some very quick kills with their USP and starting off well in the first map. Although Vitality replied back with the gun round win and later taking on the scoreline to 7-3 and then we saw ‘shox’ clutching an insane 1v4 with his AWP and adding cherry to the top. Vitality closed the half 12-3 in their favor quite comfortably.

The second half started with Fnatic winning the pistol round and tried to recover the lost rounds of the first half and actually played quite well and took the scoreline to 10-12 until Vitality broke their 7 round streak and then played amazingly by securing the first map 16-13 and moving to Inferno.

The second map was Inferno and it started with Fnatic again winning a pistol round and opening up their scoreboard. Later on we saw Mathieu ‘ZywOo’ Herbaut winning a 1v1 against ‘KRIMZ’ and securing a very important round for his team. The first half ended with Fnatic winning the half 9-6.

The second half saw surprisingly Vitality winning the pistol round with a B site play and securing the round easily. However we saw ‘KRIMZ’ taking 3 kills from just his Five Seven and giving his team an eco round win. Later on we saw how good ‘ZywOo’ is with his AWP on this map and he was just going insane throughout the map and helped his team take the score to 14-11 but Fnatic was not ready to give up on this map so easily and they played well and tied the score 15-15 taking into overtime

The overtime started with Fnatic picking up the first round but Vitality replying back quickly with the next round win and after that it was just rounds going back and forth because both the teams were giving their all in and finally Fnatic won the map 22-20 and wasting the efforts from ‘ZywOo’ who had 48K-24D in the map.

The third and the final map of the series was Mirage and Vitality began with winning the first round with a stellar pistol round and starting the map on a good note. They later on went to give a good performance throughout the half and winning it 9-6 in their favor.

The second half was the same story as well as Vitality again won the pistol round with 3 USP kills coming from ‘RpK’ and taking the scoreline 10-6 in favor of Vitality. Fnatic did try to comeback on this map as well but were denied with the brilliant plays coming from both ‘shox’ and ‘ZywOo’ and then Vitality finally closing out the map 16-11 and winning the series 2-1.

This game saw Vitality upsetting Fnatic in a best of 3 series and winning 2-1 and actually defeating the current #1 team in the world. We will now see Fnatic play against Complexity and Vitality will take on Ence on Wednesday.

Upto 10 Years Jail Term For 5 Men Involved in CSGO Match Fixing in Australia

Sonu Banerjee
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Upto 10 Years Jail Term For 5 Men Involved in CSGO Match Fixing in Australia

Match-fixing and betting-related frauds have seen an influx lately. After the recent ban of a professional Dota 2 team from the WePlay! Pushka League for alleged match-fixing, this time it’s CSGO which has made it to the headlines.

According to a recent report by the Victoria Police, five Australian men are facing serious charges over alleged match-fixing in a professional CSGO tournament. This is in relation to an investigation that started in March 2019 for “suspicious betting activity” after the police received reports from a betting agency about fishy activity linked to a CSGO league.

The report stated that “It’s alleged that players were arranging to throw matches and subsequently placing bets on those matches.”

The charges launched against the individuals are:

  • Two 20-year-old men from Mill Park have been charged with three charges for use of corrupt conduct information for betting purposes. 
  • Another 20-year-old man from Mill Park has been charged with two charges for engaging in conduct that corrupts or would corrupt a betting outcome of an event or event contingency and another two charges for use of corrupt conduct information for betting purposes. He also reportedly possesses cannabis. 
  • A 20-year-old man from South Morang also faces three charges for use of corrupt conduct information for betting purposes.
  • A 27-year-old Sale man has been charged for five counts with use of corrupt conduct information for betting purposes.

All five men are set to appear in court on 15th September for their trial.

According to an ABC report, some of the charges can carry a maximum penalty of up to 10 years in jail. The police had said earlier that up to AUD 30,000, which is about 19,260$ was won by betting on the involved matches in ESEA MDL.

New Dota 2 patch 7.26c released, brings several talent changes to heroes

Sonu Banerjee
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New Dota 2 patch 7.26c released, brings several talent changes to heroes

A new patch for Dota 2 was dispatched today and it brings lots of changes to the talent trees of heroes. While most of the changes are primarily nerfs to the heroes, some heroes were also buffed through better talents.

Icefrog has taken a detour from the routes of 7.26a and 7.26b with the new patch 7.26c not being a witness to any new changes in gameplay mechanics. While there were two small item changes, the majority of the patch focused on reworking heroes’ talent trees.

The only receivers of the item changes were Royal Jelly and Illusionist Cape.

ROYAL JELLY

  • Buff is now duplicated on illusions
  • Now has a global cast range

ILLUSIONIST’S CAPE

  • Illusion now dies if the item is unequipped

The global cast range of the Royal Jelly will certainly make it more convenient for it to be passed on to the Weaver who refuses to be farming anywhere remotely close to his supports.

Most heroes only received a rework in their talent trees but some heroes also had one of their abilities changed to an extent. While the searing arrows of Clinkz took a hit in the damage, it was more than compensated by buffs in his talent tree.

CLINKZ

SEARING ARROWS

  • Searing Arrows damage reduced from 30/40/50/60 to 25/35/45/55

TALENTS

  • Level 10 Talent changed from +8 Strength to +9
  • Level 10 Talent increased from +6 Agility to +7
  • Level 15 Talent increased from -24s Burning Army Cooldown to -30s
  • Level 20 Talent increased from +275 Death Pact Health to +325

Another insanely popular hero, Juggernaut received a tiny change in his ultimate mechanics and will now always be affected by Helm of the Dominator during omnislash.

JUGGERNAUT

  • Fixed Helm of the Dominator not affecting your hero during Omnislash

OMNISLASH

  • Omnislash now waits for 0.15 seconds before ending when it doesn’t find any valid target, rather than instantly ending

TALENTS

  • Level 15 Talent increased from +60 Blade Fury Movement Speed to +80
  • Level 25 Talent increased from +0.8s Omnislash Duration to +1s

Mars had his manacost for his Spear of Mars increased along with a change in Bulwark mechanics. He also had his talent tree reworked.

MARS

SPEAR OF MARS

  • Spear of Mars manacost increased from 100 to 110/120/130/140

BULWARK

  • Bulwark toggle will now be turned off when casting Spear of Mars

TALENTS

  • Level 10 Talent changed from +6 Strength to +15 Damage
  • Level 10 Talent changed from +15 Movement Speed to -2s Spear of Mars Cooldown
  • Level 15 Talent changed from +20 Damage to +20 Movement Speed

Other popular heroes like OD, Pangolier, Terrorblade and Slark also had some changes along with talent tree reworks. Those, along with all the other changes can be read in detail in the official Dota 2 blog.

With the WePlay! Pushka League currently underway, fans will be eager to see how the pros deal with the sudden update in the middle of the tournament. There can potentially be a shift in the meta if the pros tilt towards certain heroes in this new patch.

Why Counter Strike 1.6 isn’t showing signs of departure

Bharat Kotwani
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Why Counter Strike 1.6 isn’t showing signs of departure

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.

CS 1.6 has been among the most prestigious FPS titles where the community cherished the best days in their lives. Upon the release of Valve’s Counter-Strike:Global Offensive, the players didn’t seem to have much enjoyed the former title like they used to in CS 1.6.

Though CS:GO has topped the Steam Player count chart, a part of the player base still craves for the lost long golden moments from their 1.6 days where things were different from now which we get to experience in CS:GO and they haven’t took a step back from the Classic version of the same. Clan matches, being an actual legit thing where the players used to showcase how good they were all thanks to the PUB matches where we used to play on servers featuring 16 players on each side.

40% Surge in Counter Strike 1.6 Active Players Amidst COVID-19 Lockdown

With Warzone (Non-Steam version) culminating its dominance in the scene where we saw them promote their Community servers having featured a plethora of Extra mods and stable servers along with the most profiting fact that it didn’t require steam to run, unlike Global Offensive. Extra Plugins on PUB servers which are powered by amxmodx do kick in a hell of an experience for the players as they get to witness some exciting maps being inculcated with multimods and in a bid to provide the servers with proper stability.

Aspects like modding the servers with some extravaganza stuff is something which the servers of CS:GO lack no matter what of the fact that a majority of player base have transitioned themselves into the now Valve’s dominant FPS title. Being a better skill-oriented where communication between the players was a thing unlike today where one can resort to the Radar gaining intel about the enemies, CS 1.6 did haunt its players where keeping tracks of your enemies was a nightmare yet so exciting and challenging, something which everyone loved about it.

If you talk about the shooting registries, one might not adjudge the same to be more precise than now where getting a one-tap kill might cost us some surreal practice sessions. Spamming the walls or any penetrable surfaces really used to put the team into the driver’s seat which one can barely notice in this present scene.

Modding was surely a thing and the majority of them were available for free but who knew what future held for the Counter-Strike Scene in the store which made us witness Skins, Agents come in the play. From a group of 10 players, 5 among them would absolutely go for these pixels thus ending up spending a plethora of cash on the steam market and this was eventually followed by the ranking system where most of the players used to play in a bid to be on the top of the leader boards. This eventually made them neglect the fun which can be squeezed from playing Clan/PUB matches. Spamming the walls or any penetrable surfaces really used to put the team into the driver’s seat which one can barely notice in this present scene.

Looking into the hardware scenario, in those early days, even a normal desktop with a mediocre configuration initially purchased for office work would allow us to get around 100 FPS on the highest resolution as compared to it’s successor which would barely grant us with 50-60 FPS. Conclusion: You just saved a stack of dollar bills.

On July 14, 2017, ESEA did release a statement where they stated about their actions of completely shutting down the servers of 1.6.

Collectively, no offense for other titles who gave a tough competition to Counter Strike 1.6 but as of yet, there still exists a formidable player base who won’t hesitate to go back and play the same even on a professional level.

forZe eSports is Establishing School for CSGO Aspirants

Bhavya Shah
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forZe eSports is Establishing School for CSGO Aspirants

With rosters across various titles – CS:GO, DotA 2, FIFA 20 and Rainbow Six Siege, Russia’s forZe eSports has launched an online school for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players who intend to excel the game and professionally compete against the best. The enrolment process is pretty simple.

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Кто знает, возможно, через год мы будем восхищаться именно твоими хайлайтами? Может быть, ты – именно тот игрок, про которого все будут говорить «Почему мы не слышали о нём раньше? Откуда взялся этот талантище?» ⠀ А ведь у тебя всё ещё есть возможность получить уникальный шанс в разы ускорить свой путь к мечте. Переходи по ссылке в профиле, заполняй анкету и жди приглашения на собеседование с одним из тренеров forZe School! Миллионы людей по всему миру мечтают стать киберспортсменами, конкуренция растёт с каждым днём. Подумай, может именно сейчас стоит начать действовать решительнее? Иначе эта мечта непременно исполнится у кого-то другого. У того, кто хотел этого сильнее. Выбор за тобой! ⭐️

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For enrollment, fill an application form (parental consent for minor) followed by an interview with either of forZe’s coach. Based upon the outcome, the school with enrolling you in either of the three skill groups – Beginner level, Amateur level & Advanced level. At the end of each level, an exam or a test shall be conducted to transit upwards. On passing the advanced level, one would be recognized as semi-professional.

The organisation also ensured access to psychologist and media specialists besides theotrical lessons and working on raw skills of the applicant. Three coaches at forZe who would facilitate the schooling process are Alexei “DSTR” Baranov, Konstantin “Pr1zraK” Krivosheev and head coach Anatoly “liTTle” Yashin.

In an interview with the organisation, Konstantin “Pr1zraK” Krivosheev said, “When I started my career as an esports-man, there were no coaches, no sponsors, no organizations, but what was there, there was no Internet, and everyone played in computer clubs. Actually, such a situation made me leave esports at one point, because it is very difficult to combine work and professional sports.”

“After the release of CS:GO, I have repeatedly gathered strong teams from scratch. In most of them, I was a leader in the game. In addition to eSports, I have managerial experience, and I know for sure how to form a strong team. It is important to identify weaknesses and develop the strengths of each, correctly set goals and motivate for high results.”

forZe eSports’ CS:GO team has won Copenhagen Games 2019, DreamHack Open Winter 2019; qualified for StarLadder Berlin Major 2019 and were runners-up at BLAST Pro Series: Moscow 2019. With this school, the organisation proposes to nurture young and bright talent to become the stars of tomorrow.

Vanguard blocks access of CPU clocks and temperatures of Valorant players

Sonu Banerjee
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Vanguard blocks access of CPU clocks and temperatures of Valorant players

Ever since the news of VALORANT’s Vanguard letting a rootkit run on computers 24×7 has surfaced, players have raised repeated concerns about the safety of the “revolutionary” anti-cheat system by Riot. With a recent Reddit post surfacing on May 2nd, matters are appearing to get out of hands.

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Reddit user u/vortex40 revealed through a screenshot that the kernel-mode anti-cheat system by Riot wouldn’t let him access his own files even when he’s not playing VALORANT. “This is getting way out of control,” he said. “I’m starting to think Vanguard is mainly used for datamining purposes” he claimed while mentioning the fact that “there are already cheaters in the game and Riot can’t do anything about it.”

His allegations are partially true, because recently there has been incidents of cheaters blatantly using cheats in Riot’s competitive shooter and even livestreaming it. Professional CSGO player dev1ce also claimed to have encountered such cheaters and got called as a cheater himself.

In an edit to the original Reddit post u/vortex40 further clarifies that he has “uninstalled the game right after I took the screenshot.” He also warned others to uninstall Vanguard separately if they’re planning to follow his footsteps, “because they uninstall separately, which is very shady as well.”

The comments in the thread seemed to be supporting him, as most people mentioned that they also felt insecure about the anti-cheat that runs on “Ring 0 with most privileges”. Some also claim to have uninstalled the game entirely as a result of Vanguard invading their privacy.

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Another user fueled the fire by mentioning it messes with the fan settings set in his bios and also blocks his “ASUS software control”.

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Riot developers have previously addressed this issue multiple times on Reddit and through their website. Through an official statement released by VALORANT’s security team through their website, they had claimed that “Vanguard does not collect or process any personal information beyond what the current League of Legends anti-cheat solution does. Riot does not want to know more about you or your machine than what is necessary to maintain high integrity in your game. The game data we collect is used for the operation of the game and integrity-related services such as Packman and Vanguard.”

The constant communication from Riot’s side regarding the scenario cooled down the situation momentarily, but it was only a matter of time before the allegations had resurfaced. Perhaps it’s due to the influx of cheaters invading VALORANT recently that players have lost faith in it and began to think that the kernel-mode anti-cheat is being used for data mining purposes. However, looking back isn’t an option anymore. Relaxing the security of the anti-cheat system now would be sending invitations to hackers to try out Riot’s new title. It seems like the only possible way for Riot to restore the faith of players in the system would be to develop Vanguard into an even better anti-cheat engine which will be able to successfully curb cheaters and keep in touch with the community while doing it.

Is Dr. Disrespect Fueling Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories on his Stream?

Sonu Banerjee
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Is Dr. Disrespect Fueling Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories on his Stream?

It’s sort of an unwritten fact now that where Guy “Dr. Disrespect” Beahm IV goes, controversies follow. The 38-year-old American professional streamer is quite frequently found in the centre of online controversies, which are fueled further by his on-stream character – a funny yet toxic stereotype gamer.

A recent Kotaku report sheds light on how Dr. Disrespect has sparked a controversy yet again, and this time it’s quite a major one. On a recent stream of him on Twitch, Dr. Disrespect had pulled up two coronavirus related controversies and expressed his opinions on them. While it’s unclear if he was serious regarding his statements due to him being in his on-stream character the entire time, there’s still a possibility that such bold and controversial statements might affect many of his 4 million followers who were present during the stream at that time.

Initially, he read on-stream an article which Elon Musk had previously retweeted. A thorough read on the article from the hill reveals some shocking insights.

The article points out the concept of “herd immunity” and how it can be achieved and that it was time for America to open up workplaces and small businesses with precautionary measures. It also explains a Stanford University study which puts a number to the mortality rate of the virus much lower than is widely believed. However, the study came under fire by scientists for faulty methods involved in it.

While Elon Musk didn’t make a strong statement regarding the article, Dr. Disrespect sure did. After going through the article he “agreed” on it and came to the conclusion that “facts matter.” This can certainly be misleading for his viewers, because herd immunity is not a very viable concept currently for COVID-19. Generally, without proper vaccination there’s a chance of reinfection of the disease which can even be worse for the countries.

This wasn’t the end of it, as he then pulled up a viral video by Dr. Thomas Cowan who claimed that 5G causes COVID-19. Despite how baseless this claim sounds, this rumour has actually turned mainstream even after being debunked. While Dr. Disrespect didn’t completely agree on it, he mentioned that it “gets me upset.”

It’s not wrong for him to want people to think rationally and not blindly follow orders. But with such a huge follower count, it’s upon him to not mislead his viewers into believing something that is entirely false. Making highly controversial statements aren’t rare for Dr. Disrespect, but when the world is facing a pandemic which has a confirmed death toll of over 227,000 people, rumours and conspiracy theories certainly aren’t gonna help.

Pokimane requests anonymity option after repeated harassment in Valorant

Sonu Banerjee
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Pokimane requests anonymity option after repeated harassment in Valorant

Imane “Pokimane” Anys is a professional streamer who is seen regularly streaming on Twitch and has been a part of the VALORANT play-test since the game was in alpha. The 23-year-old Canadian streamer has recently resorted to Twitter to speak up against the sexist remarks she regularly gets while playing VALORANT.

Photo: Riot Games

Now toxicity in competitive multiplayer games aren’t rare. If you’re a regular player of any popular title like CSGO or League, chances are you’ve come across some form of toxicity and insults; Riot’s new title wasn’t an exception to this either.

Females have always been the prime victims of insults and vulgar remarks online, especially in video games. Only a few days ago, a League of Legends developer, Riot Greenily was harassed in VALORANT while livestreaming the game. This time it’s Pokimane who raised her voice against such acts.

Pokimane being an insanely popular streamer, has it even worse. She claimed to have gotten tired of sexist remarks like “skank, thot or other rude and vulgar things” even when she doesn’t use her microphone in-game. As a solution to this she demands Riot to implement an “anonymous mode” for the game. Such a mode could potentially be helpful to every big streamer, especially females who would want to play for anonymity.

Initially, Pokimane was advised by one of his fans to turn the voice chat off to prevent her from hearing her teammates’ remarks on her. But Pokimane mentioned how this wasn’t an efficient solution since she’d be “missing out on important call outs/information.” This is true, because in a competitive game like VALORANT callouts are the key to locating your enemies on the map.

A Riot dev had previously assured players that they were looking for “long-term solutions” to this issue.

For now, fans of the franchise can only wait for Riot to come up with a solution to this toxicity problem which is discouraging a big part of the female player base to play the game.

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