While Code Vein might seem to have the market cornered when it comes to anime-tinged Dark Souls knockoffs, that's just not the case. People are going to keep making these things despite not really understanding why Dark Souls works so well. People are also going to keep putting cherubic anime girls in games because it prints mo

2020 is a year of the rat. It's been an inauspicious year due to the coronavirus outbreak, but at least some good things came from the gaming world. The release of new first-person shooter (FPS) games like DOOM Eternal, Half-Life: Alyx, and Call of Duty: Warzone foreshadows a year with great releases to c

When it comes to first-person shooting game series, there are few as renowned as Call of Duty . Call of Duty: Warzone is one of the latest installments to join the battle royale club. The game is a massive success with play

Few games have been the blueprint for a genre like Counter-Strike is for economy-based FPS games. In Counter-Strike, players receive money each round — depending on numerous factors — that they can spend on weapons, armor, and utility items such as grenades. Not all weapons were created equally and a gun's effectiveness does not correlate to its price point, tho

Counter Strike ’s most famous assault rifle received this skin in 2013, alongside the release of Operation Bravo. The weapon’s metallic body changes when the skin is equipped. It features a green Aztec serpent, along with bright blue clouds behind

People who were born in the year of the monkey relish the opportunity to truly indulge in their lives. Horror first-person shooter games are right up their alley. They thrive in urban settings like in F.E.A.R instead of other rural setting ga

Although a snake can be depicted as frightening, they are also the most intuitive. People from the snake Chinese zodiac follow their gut feeling in the direst circumstances, which seems to work in their favor. Snakes are wise and intellig

As it stands the map is heavily CT-sided, especially at the casual level. While there are many options for the T-side to combat a lot of the strengths the CT-side has, many players have cited this to be difficult to execute outside of coordinated and disciplined teams. Meta changes since the map's introduction have done little to change this leading to most matches feeling boring and predictable as to the outcome of the g

Created by renowned map creator Chris "Narby" Auty for Counter-Strike version 1.1, Inferno would go on to be included in every Counter-Strike game and remain a mainstay of the competitive scene. Since the map has such a legacy it made sense that it would be an ideal candidate for a revision and would get just that on October 13, 2

Geographic location on the other hand is a strange one. Perhaps a player needs to move often, and that is outside of their control. Perhaps players need to use VPNs for undisclosed reasons, and that too may be out of their hands. Whatever the case, it would be fascinating to know more about how Valve uses this d

It is fascinating that before even mentioning the skill-based aspects of matchmaking, it is behavior associated with cheating or what we could interpret as toxicity is addressed first. Obviously there needs to be a focus on isolating cheaters from non-cheaters, but one might have guessed that skill would have taken a predominate spot in determining the Trust Factor for placing one player with similarly skilled oth

The first two points quite literally seem to indicate that more money spent in game on cosmetics translating to being more trustworthy. Perhaps there is some truth to this, as spending real money in a game may dissuade a user from cheating and risking the lose of an account, but it still seems odd without confirmation of that i

As the newest map to be introduced into the active pool, Anubis has had some controversy upon its inclusion, to say the least. Designed by Roald, jakuza, and jd40, the map was first added to the game on March 31, 2020, to the Scrimmage mode before eventually being moved to Competitive 10 days later. This is notable as it was only the second map to be added to Competitive via this method as before this Cache was the only one to make it. Given this fact, there seemed to be a lot of positive feedback for the Train Map Update since Cache is a very well-loved

The title still has a large player base thanks to the great gameplay and constant patches — bringing with them new content, skins, and metas. These skins give the game that extra splash of color by sprucing up players’ weapons, making the cosmetics very desira

Ultimately, we can only really guess as to how Valve weighs each of these points, or if it even uses all of them at all in determining a Trust Factor value per player account. There is much more to consider, and everyone should take the time to check out the patent for themselves. It can appear to be a long, daunting read, because it is, but there are some interesting pieces of information to glean from such an endea