By now, CS:GO already has several dozen agent skins, and players willingly buy them to diversify the game or stand out from the crowd. It would seem that skins have a purely cosmetic effect, but in some cases they can also affect the outcome of the match. In most cases, differences in agent skins can be ignored, but sometimes even such a subtle difference can decide the outcome of a match.
From the very beginning, the very idea of adding skins that changed the appearance of players raised doubts among professional players. In a situation where every little detail affects the outcome of the match, the use of agents could be unfair. For example, a player who chose the agent “Twice” McCoy, who wears many shades of green, will have a slightly easier time remaining undetected on maps with a lot of vegetation, such as Cache or Overpass. As a result, the use of agents was banned at most major championships.
Professional esports athletes – are not the only ones who have encountered problems. Another category of players for whom the update caused difficulties – people with color vision disorders. The most common form of this problem is that humans have difficulty identifying shades of red, green, and brown, which are the colors that often dominate agent designs. There are quite a few players with this visual impairment, and as a result, Valve was forced to add an option for them that makes colors more contrasty.
In the cases described above, choosing an agent gave the player an additional advantage, but situations are also possible when using a skin different from the “default” option, on the contrary, makes him more vulnerable. This can happen if a player chooses an agent skin with a helmet or backpack, that is, with a model shape that differs from the standard one. Due to protruding parts, a player may inadvertently give away his location in a situation where the owner of a standard skin would go unnoticed.
A new reason to return to discussing problems with agents appeared in September of this year. One of the community members, known under the nickname Ansimist, analyzed agent models and found that the difference in the size of the head hitbox compared to the standard version can reach 16%, which gives a very noticeable advantage. It turned out that it is most profitable in terms of the size of hitboxes to use agents from the “Professionals” team.
However, regardless of what guides you when choosing agents – their appearance, style or subtle gameplay nuances, you know where to buy them. In the catalog Lis-Skins.ru there are agents for CS:GO from various collections at affordable prices.
