CSGO may soon let you buy multiple molotovs, share with team – CS:GO News

Kenneth Williams • 30/Jul/21 • 18:57

Counter-Strike: World Offensive gamers will quickly have the ability to go grenades to mates and go above the conventional limits on grenade varieties, assuming current Twitter posts aren’t simply an elaborate bait by Valve.

On July 29, CSGO’s official social media posted a reply to Basic Offensive developer ZooL_Smith. In it, the event staff hinted {that a} new grenade-drop function could be added to CSGO. The message was predated by one other short-term submit that merely learn “Think about a world the place urgent ‘g’ drops your grenades…”

The official CSGO Twitter has been sending out a ton of cryptic messages over the previous few days about grenades. A picture of Inferno’s A bombsite with some slight adjustments was posted the day earlier than the grenade-stacking challenge was raised. Quite a lot of vital CSGO updates could also be making their method down the pipeline, presumably even the long-awaited replace to Supply 2.

It’s doable that the builders wish to drastically alter the CSGO metagame earlier than the $2 million PGL Stockholm Main, much like what occurs yearly in Dota 2 earlier than The Worldwide. Sharing concepts by way of social media lets them take fan suggestions and concepts into consideration. And make no mistake, the power to purchase a number of smoke grenades or molotovs and share them with teammates can be an infinite shift for CSGO.

Would sharing grenades in CSGO be overpowered?

If Valve is seeking to change issues up by the top of 2021, dropping grenades to teammates would definitely match the invoice. Valve has beforehand experimented with weapon buffs and map adjustments to mess with the meta. Grenade adjustments are an unexplored avenue for additional creating CSGO. 

The variety of grenades a single participant can carry could be fully uncapped to accommodate this transformation. Valve returned to the identical thread to indicate that grenade buying limits may also be deactivated. The concept of piling 20 smokes or molotovs on a single rifler appears fairly damaged, however 5 smokes, three molotovs, and eight flashes with no utility on anybody else doesn’t sound that dangerous. 

The obvious downside with grenade stacking is the way it impacts post-plant methods. Why even defend the location if one participant can hurl molotovs on the bomb for 30 seconds straight? Having a ton of grenades on a single participant might result in many “checkmate” conditions for either side. In fact, there’s additionally the danger of getting your grenade-stacked participant picked off and being left with very restricted utility on the remainder of the lineup. Valve has a ton of labor to do earlier than enabling this transformation in CSGO.