Twitch: S1mple s Fourth Ban In October 2020

One of the game's newest additions allows terrorist and counter-terrorist operatives to vacation at Kaer Morhen, the home base of Geralt of Rivia. The map is an impressively detailed recreation of The Witcher 3 's fortress and the witcher training ground, which functions as a surprisingly good playground for firefights. While the map may not represent a radical gameplay shift, like CS:GO 's Mad Max custom map , the blind corners, ramparts, and courtyards of the keep provide an interesting mix of cover and vantage poi


The map creator, ZelezoBeton, notes that the map is not a perfect, 1:1 replica, but a specific transformation made with CS:GO in mind. The map requires the Trouble in Terrorist Town plugin to run, which is an alternate game mode where terrorist forces have secret traitors seeded in their ranks. Despite this requirement, the map supports the standard, classic multiplayer modes as well as other custom modes. The map will likely never be featured in official competitive play, but it seems to stack up solidly against CS:GO 's official roster of ma


One of the streamers that benefitted greatly from the popularity boom of Fornite was Tfue. His Fortnite streams helped his Twitch channel become the second most subscribed on the platform. As of February 2021, he has 10,036,786 followers and 12,072 active s


Like many popular streamers, Tfue has been involved with multiple widely-reported controversies . This includes multiple allegations of cheating, lawsuits, and the buying and selling of Epic Games accou


At time of writing, no duration has been provided for S1mple's ban. As with all Twitch bans, Counterstrike2Pedia.Com visiting the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive streamer's page currently displays the message "Sorry. Unless you've got a time machine, that content is unavailab


Twitch has also recently made waves for a spate of content bans stemming from copyright violations without clear citations , leading a number of viewers to cry foul. S1mple's case seems more cut and dry, and the streaming platform seems to take hate speech violations on high-profile streams seriou


Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has been on the market for over 8 years, and during that time it has accrued a truly impressive variety of custom maps, including a number of levels adapted from earlier iterations of the series. But modders are still contributing fresh arenas to the game, including an impressive recent rendering of one of The Witcher 3 's most famous Loca


This has been a big year for high-profile bans. Dozens of high profile accounts have been hit with temporary and permanent bans in 2020 for inappropriate behavior including the use of sexist, homophobic, and racist slurs. For example, the extremely popular German Twitch Partner and YouTuber MontanaBlack88 was banned for posting videos of himself harassing women last mo


It's currently unclear why Valve moved forward with these changes in France, in particular. So far France has not enacted any new regulations to account for loot boxes in video games, though French courts did recently rule that Steam has to allow users to resell their digital games . In 2018, the French online gambling regulatory body even assessed that loot boxes were not gambling under the country's current regulation. Perhaps Valve is using France as a testing bed or perhaps the decision is intended to shift discourse within the country or Europe. Either way, Valve certainly appears to be taking steps to protect the profits it receives from loot boxes amid the growing international controve

It's definitely worth noting that the other effects of a VAC ban will still be held in place on the affected account, greatly restricting the banned player's ability to actually play the competitive online game in the first place on the original account. It's more noteworthy as a reprieve on the personal level, with individuals who have been barred from the professional level of CS: GO play being allowed in after this lengthy probation per


One community-made Counter-Strike: Global Offensive map is seemingly offering Russians an alternative view of the war in Ukraine. While Valve's Counter-Strike has been among the most popular live-service titles to date, the game is currently seeing a notable uptick in interest thanks to the recent reveal that Counter-Strike 2 is officially in the works . Now, it appears one community is looking to leverage this popularity to shed light on the situation in Ukra


The fifth most followed Twitch streamer is xQcOW, also known as xQc. Previously a professional Overwatch player on the Overwatch League team , Dallas Fuel, he was released from the team and now streams on Twitch full-time. As of February 2021, he has 7,657,102 followers and 56,406 active s


As if that isn't frustrating enough, Valve has apparently "preloaded" the X-Ray Scanner with an item already. Meaning that players will have to purchase this item, regardless of whether they want it, in order to use the X-Ray Scanner on a loot box. The X-Ray Scanner may appear to be beneficial to players, but ultimately is just another effort at encouraging players to begin purchasing microtransactions . There's little reason to believe it's significantly beneficial over