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• CSGO player discovers incredible trick for surviving AWP shots

  <strong>CSGO</strong> players shudder, or perhaps silently rage, at mere mention of its name. The herald of the headshot, the devil of Dust_2, the double-handed snipe saber - from the earliest days of Counter-Strike, nothing has wrought more death and destruction than the <a href="https://www.pcgamesn.com/15-best-pc-first-person-shooters" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">FPS game</a>'s immensely powerful rifle, the AWP. With Counter-Strike 2 imminently inbound, and <a href="https://www.pcgamesn.com/counter-strike-global-offensive" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CSGO</a> skins and cases jumping all over the market, one Global Offensive player finds a novel method of surviving Valve's most-feared gun, by somehow batting the bullets away using another gun. See it to believe it. <a href="https://www.pcgamesn.com/counter-strike-global-offensive/csgo-awp-trick">Read the rest of the story...</a> RELATED ...

  source: PCGamesN

• Incredible CS:GO clutch sees player spared from death by the bomb

  We&apos;ve already seen one miraculous CS:GO play recently, in which a player killed an <em>entire </em>enemy team with an incredible, <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/csgo-player-destroys-entire-opposing-team-with-single-one-in-fking-billions-miracle-shot/" target="_blank">one-in-a-million shot</a>. Now, the Counter-Strike gods have intervened again, with a player surviving a dramatic 4-v-1 clutch all thanks to the bomb... <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/incredible-csgo-clutch-sees-player-spared-from-death-by-the-bomb?utm_source=steam&utm_medium=referral" target="_blank">Read more.</a>

  source: PC Gamer

• Ingenious Counter-Strike players are exploiting Steam's new notes function to score noscopes

  Valve put out a <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/new-steam-feature-lets-you-pin-windows-over-games-including-guides-notes-and-web-pages/" target="_blank">beta client update for Steam</a> yesterday that aims to significantly expand the usefulness of its overlay functionality. Users running the update are now just a Shift-Tab away from a redesigned layout, a refreshed screenshot manager, and, crucially, a new note-taking function, which lets you pin notes to the screen even while the overlay is minimised, and adjust their opacity so that you can still see the game behind them... <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/ingenious-counter-strike-players-are-exploiting-steams-new-notes-function-to-score-noscopes?utm_source=steam&utm_medium=referral" target="_blank">Read more.</a>

  source: PC Gamer

• 7.33b Gameplay Patch

  The 7.33b Gameplay Patch is now live! Check the latest patchnotes here! Also, throughout the last few days, we addressed some ongoing gameplay-affecting issues: Fixed Killing Roshan not giving the team control of enemy Watchers Fixed Phylactery not applying damage/slow if a spell is re-applied Fixed Phylactery not triggering on spells that would otherwise trigger Spell Absorption Fixed Immobile units able to go through Twin Gates Fixed Wraith King not applying Aghanim's Scepter buff to allies if he didn't die Fixed Invoker Aghanim's shard reducing Meteor cooldown by 15s Fixed Fallen Sky counti...

  source: steam_community_announcements

• Dota 2's New Frontiers update is out and it makes the map 40% bigger

  <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/dota-2">Dota 2</a>'s New Frontiers update has been released and it's a big one. As well as tweaking UI and balance and reworking heroes, it also makes sweeping changes to Dota's single, three-lane battlefield. Specifically: it makes it 40% larger than it was before. <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/dota-2s-new-frontiers-update-is-out-and-it-makes-the-map-40-bigger">Read more</a>

  source: Rock, Paper, Shotgun

• Dota 2 players say the New Frontiers Update might as well be Dota 3

  The <strong>Dota 2 New Frontiers Update</strong> has finally arrived, heralding perhaps the biggest overhaul the hit MOBA game's ever received. Featuring an expanded map, new and reworked POIs, a whole new hero attribute type and so much more, developer Valve has gone to town on what is being dubbed 'Dota 3' by some fans due to the scale of the changes. Having just dropped with <a href="/dota-2">Dota 2</a> patch 7.33, the <a href="https://www.dota2.com/newfrontiers">New Frontiers Update patch notes</a> expand the game's iconic map by 40% - the extra breathing space has been added to the edges of the map, ensuring lanes are still as close to one-another as they were before. Of cou...

  source: The Loadout