So, hopefully Valve has more updates rolling out this year to address these issues. 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 (opens in new tab) 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.

CS:GO is now over eight years old, and while it still feels like the classic series we've played for decades, Valve is clearly open to adding new features, even if they are a bit slow to roll out. If anything, this competition has encouraged Valve to push updates more frequently and make bold changes.

While Valorant managed to steal away a sizable portion of CS:GO pros (opens in new tab) and some of its player base, its average player count (opens in new tab) remains sturdy as we venture into 2021. has been spotted clutching rounds on Inferno (opens in new tab). In fact, it's so popular that even Neymar Jr. But if 2020 is anything to go by, it couldn't be farther from it.

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