Octane, Clayster & other CDL pros call out FaZe\u2019s Cellium for snaking Call of Duty League \/ ActivisionAs the Atlanta FaZe beat the Paris Legion at the Call of Duty League\u2019s Super Week, Octane and other CDL pros jumped on Twitter to call out Cellium and condemn the return of snaking to professional CoD. Put simply, \u201csnaking\u201d is when a player abuses the crouch and prone movement mechanics to quickly bob up and down behind cover. This enables someone to shoot enemies while remaining practically invulnerable themselves (as playing a \u201chead glitch\u201d effectively breaks an opponent\u2019s camera). The issue has existed for years as a recurring GA (gentleman\u2019s agreement) and FaZe\u2019s McArthur \u2018Cellium\u2019 Jovel is no stranger to snaking accusations. The FaZe star used the overpowered mechanic to pull off a 1v2 clutch in the game five Search & Destroy vs Legion, allowing Atlanta to secure the victory. WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!@Cellium follows @SimpXO’s 1v3 with his own 1v2 and @ATLFaZe win the series in game five \ud83e\udd2f pic.twitter.com\/Tt7w2OV2wu \u2014 Dexerto Esports (@DexertoEsports) February 27, 2021 Almost instantly thereafter, Seattle Surge\u2019s Sam \u2018Octane\u2019 Larew and other pros hit Twitter to complain about the mechanic\u2019s sudden resurgence. Some pros joined Octane in simply critiquing the nebulously GA\u2019d mechanic\u2019s return, but the discussion quickly honed in directly on Cell himself. As Octane mentions from the outset, the FaZe and Legion match seemed to confirm that the professional scene has fully accepted snaking out of nowhere. As fans keyed in on Fire, the Los Angeles Thieves\u2019 Kenny \u2018Kenny\u2019 Williams quickly referenced Cellium in response. First joking about a timeless story between Matthew \u2018FormaL\u2019 Piper and Cell, in which the latter told the veteran he could match his play instead of complaining, Kenny then remarked on the game-winning 1v2: \u201cAs we just said this, it just happened for the W.\u201d The issue is obviously not perpetrated by just one player, a point which Tommy \u2018ZooMaa\u2019 Paparatto felt compelled to bring to light. Noting the difficulty of Cell\u2019s position, he aimed to put the emphasis on the mechanic itself. Pointing out that, even if he stopped snaking, Cell would immediately return to it once someone did it to him \u2014 ZooMaa redirects the problem: \u201cUnless snaking gets nerfed, it will always be used and abused by MULTIPLE players.\u201d Dissatisfied, outspoken LA Thieves veteran Austin \u2018SlasheR\u2019 Liddicoat maintained that it could be solved by a GA, as evidenced by the fact that it was \u201c\u2018banned\u2019 for 5-plus years.\u201d That response reinforces a focus on Cell\u2019s behavior, as echoed separately by Octane \u2014 who shut down those defending the FaZe player, before continuing on to elaborate that he doesn\u2019t even need the mechanic to excel. Based on these arguments, it\u2019s clear that some pros blame Cellium\u2019s behavior directly, some blame the mechanic and some are simply surprised by an overall acceptance of what used to be condemned. The New York Subliners\u2019 James \u2018Clayster\u2019 Eubanks reiterated that final perspective, expressing shock during the FaZe and Legion\u2019s match. While SlasheR pointed to the superior competitive integrity of 2016\u2019s pros, Clayster simply showed disbelief at current behavior: \u201cStill mindblown certain individuals\/teams just don\u2019t care and do it anyway.\u201d Overall, the situation is a complicated one. GA\u2019s are difficult to enforce generally, but especially so when they are mechanics-based and context-dependent (e.g. ZooMaa\u2019s widely justified snaking in 2020). Until the crouch and prone mechanics get addressed by developers themselves, it\u2019s possible that veterans will continue to be frustrated with newer, upcoming players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Octane, Clayster & other CDL pros call out FaZe\u2019s Cellium for snaking Call of Duty League \/ ActivisionAs the Atlanta FaZe beat the Paris Legion at the Call of Duty League\u2019s Super Week, Octane and other CDL pros jumped on Twitter to call out Cellium and condemn the return of snaking to professional CoD. Put […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}