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			<title>Leonel Fitzwater posted a blog.</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<br>According to Valve, the game uses a modified Glicko-2 ranking system that gives players a hidden matchmaking rating (MMR) depending on their performance during a match. A string of bad performances will bring players to a lower rank while winning matches and becoming MVP of the match multiple times will increase the chance of going up a r<br><br> <br>"Cheaters never prosper." A phrase that has been around for hundreds of years, but in the world of gaming, it too often fails to be true. Gamers who are fed up with seeing cheaters romp to victory should take a moment to enjoy the amazing work of You Tuber ScriptKid. He created a fake cheat mod for the recently resurgent Counter Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) which causes the cheaters in the first-person shooter to be trolled endlessly with misfires and mish<br><br> <br>In order to further contain CS:GO 's French marketplace, perhaps to avoid market manipulation through the use of X-Ray Scanners, Valve is making one additional change. Loot boxes can no longer be purchased from the Steam Community Market in France. All CS:GO players in the country will have to earn their own loot boxes. Though, naturally, Valve will still allow those players to sell their loot boxes to those in other countr<br><br> <br>Everyone loves to win, especially when playing against others, but cheating ruins the game for all players . Cheaters end up with no challenge, players using fair-means lose out and get frustrated, and ultimately developers and publishers lose, as fed up gamers stop playing games they would otherwise still be enjoying. It is a shame that some people still want to cheat, but with people like ScriptKid on the side of fair players, perhaps eventually they can be stop<br><br> <br>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<br><br> <br>Indeed, the glorious cherry on top of the cake, is that should Valve's VAC system detect ScriptKid's fake cheat mod, it will help bring the trolled cheaters to their notice, and towards the just punishment of a ban. Viewers of the latest video have suggested Call of Duty: Warzone , Team Fortress 2 , and Dota 2 , as the next games that need help to tackle the cheat<br><br> <br>While Valve and others have tried to take action against cheaters , using software to detect and ban them (Valve Anti-Cheat in the case of CS:GO ), they can still run rampant in many games. Gamers who recognize ScriptKid's name may remember him from a previous video where he trolled PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) cheaters in a similar fashion. Causing them to be ejected from their cars once they were traveling over 85 km/h, to shoot their teammates when trying to revive them, and to be prevented from throwing cooked grena<br><br> <br>Players will not be able to know how many competitive matches it will take before seeing a rank change, and it is possible to continue staying within a rank if performance is steady and does not change. However, players who take an extended break from playing ranked matches will have their rank suspended until they win a specific number of matches to be placed ag<br><br> <br><a href="https://Counterstrike2pedia.com/">Counter-Strike 2 strategy|https://counterstrike2pedia.com/</a> players have often found creative means of using the game's community map aspect with some CS:GO players recreating popular locations from franchises like The Witcher . Now, a Finnish newspaper called Helsingin Sanomat is using the same feature to share details about the war in Ukraine among Russian gamers owing to the title's popularity within the community. A custom-made map dubbed "de_voyna," a fictionalized Slavic city, was released today that aims to echo some of the cities that have been destroyed over the course of the war. More interestingly, the map contains images and voice recordings captured by the newspaper's journalists on the ground situation, all of which players can interact with in-g<br><br> <br>Not only did ScriptKid fool thousands of Counter-Strike cheaters into downloading and becoming victim to his script, their most embarrassing moments have been made available to watch. By including a script that sent the replay footage of every cheater mishap directly to him, ScriptKid created a magnificent video, including the funniest trolling mome<br><br> <br>There are nine punishments inflicted on the would-be CS:GO cheaters , which are activated largely at random so cheaters can't try and correct for them. They include: Burning Man, which throws grenades straight down and unbinds the movement controls for a few seconds; Butter Fingers, which drops the cheater's weapon every time they try to shoot; and Blood Brothers, which automatically fires a weapon when the cheater's aim is over an a<br>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Leonel Fitzwater updated their profile information.</title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
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