


Hopping into a Competitive match only to find that your team is an unbalanced mixture of Silvers, Gold Novas, and Legendary Eagles isn't exactly a new phenomenon. This feels like a positive step towards combating toxicityĪs always, Valve's matchmaking continues to fall under criticism. So, hopefully Valve has more updates rolling out this year to address these issues.
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There's still room for trolls and cheaters to have their fun with this new update at the detriment to the rest of the team. In the lower rank brackets in particular, some players would rather have a bot that could be used as a second life, than a real teammate. In the past, if someone was having a rough match it was far too easy for the rest of the team to kick them. Competing in a 4v5 from early on is frustrating, but this feels like a positive step towards combating toxicity in matches. While I understand the arguments to bring the bots back in specific circumstances, I think this is a sensible change overall. While it's nowhere near as dramatic as the introduction of the R8 Revolver, which was horrendously broken when it released, the decision not to replace players that have abandoned the match has been contested. Valve has a habit of springing major changes on the community by surprise, and banishing our beloved bots from CS:GO's Competitive and Wingman modes didn't go down particularly well. While there are no glaring game-breaking bugs at the moment, there have been a couple of complaints circulating Reddit and Twitter. With a game as popular as CS:GO, there's always going to be something that needs fixing. Scrimmage: Ancient, Engage, and Apollo.Competitive: Mirage, Inferno, Overpass, Vertigo, Nuke, Train, Dust II, Anubis, Cache, Agency, and Office.If you're returning after a break, here are the current map pools: So, if a teammate abandons the match, or you vote to kick another person, you're really down a player for the remainder of the game. Bots have been removed from classic Competitive and Wingman modes.
