G2 kennyS explains why he \u201cdoesn\u2019t like\u201d CSGO\u2019s latest AWP update ESLG2 Esports star Kenny \u2018kennyS\u2019 Schrub has revealed his thoughts on the latest CSGO AWP updates which arrived in the FPS title\u2019s February 24 patch, and the French marksman is less than pleased with Valve\u2019s tweaks. Counter-Strike\u2019s hefty February 24 patch may have been mainly focused on a UI refresh for the title, well as a series of agent skins patches for players wanting to spice up their characters, but hiding in the miscellaneous changes was a big tweak. Far from the headlines of the 600mb update lay a seemingly small swap to AWP crouching acceleration. While the change \u2014 which sees acceleration no longer spike after firing a shot \u2014 doesn\u2019t seem big, it may have far-reaching effects. According to the long-standing G2 Esports star, who is renowned for being one of the FPS title\u2019s most eagle-eyed AWPers, the tweak is going to have a big impact on anyone wielding the must-have Magnum Sniper Rifle in-game. In particular, many pro stars won\u2019t be rushing in while armed with the $4,750 weapon option, but will spend most rounds creeping around \u2014 often crouched. Slowing down that option may change the way AWPers play, kennyS said. Read more: Gen.G stun FURIA to win DreamHack Anaheim – \u201cAfter trying that new update [on Feb 24] I don\u2019t like it. Here is my feedback: Valve just want to make it slower all the time, the crouching movement was a pretty usual thing to do for an AWPer, definitely a big change,\u201d he said on Twitter. After trying that new update, I don\u2019t like it. Here was my feedback \ud83d\ude02 Tbh they just want to make it slower all the time, crouching movement was a pretty usual thing to do for an AWPer, definitely a big change \u2014 kennyS (@kennyS_) February 25, 2020 kennyS also agreed with the suggestion it feels \u201cextremely weird\u201d balancing the stop-start movement of the AWPer after the patch, and joked that wielding the game\u2019s heavy machine gun option the Negev is \u201cmuch faster.\u201d The Frenchman also joked the next step was for Valve to \u201cremove the scope,\u201d after another of his fans said they believe the Counter-Strike devs are constantly trying to nerf the sniper rifle after watching kennyS\u2019 highlight reels from his time on Titan. Whether or not it\u2019s a targeted ban \u2014 it\u2019s unlikely CSGO\u2019s balance team is still trying to mitigate Schrub\u2019s impact from when he was popping off five years ago \u2014 it is still a strange change for AWPers across the game, and may take some getting used to. kennyS did get one last chance to see out the old AWP crouch movement in style as G2 Esports ran over 100 Thieves 16-3, 16-2 to book a second-round battle with mousesports and bump the Australian roster into a lower-bracket scrap. The Frenchman clocked up a game-high 17 AWP kills across the two-map series, and added 29 eliminations to the pile overall. It was Nemanja \u2018huNter-\u2019 Kova\u010d who shone brightest in the opener though, piling the hurt on 100T with 41 kills. The European squad\u2019s marksman wasn\u2019t without his own personal highlights either, however, and he reminded the world why he\u2019s considering so deadly with the AWP as he nailed three struggling 100T members on Mirage. G2 Esports next take on European rivals mousesports on Wednesday evening, before potentially stepping into a heavyweight battle with the winner of Team Liquid vs Evil Geniuses, to be played just hours later. Read the full CSGO Feb 24 Patch here, and keep track of all the ongoing action at the IEM World Championship in Katowice with Dexerto\u2019s dedicated coverage hub, which includes everything from streams, to highlights, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
G2 kennyS explains why he \u201cdoesn\u2019t like\u201d CSGO\u2019s latest AWP update ESLG2 Esports star Kenny \u2018kennyS\u2019 Schrub has revealed his thoughts on the latest CSGO AWP updates which arrived in the FPS title\u2019s February 24 patch, and the French marksman is less than pleased with Valve\u2019s tweaks. Counter-Strike\u2019s hefty February 24 patch may have been […]<\/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-38349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38349","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=38349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}