By now there are already several dozen agent skins in CS:GO, 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 a match. In most cases the differences in the agents' skins can be neglected, but sometimes even such a subtle difference can decide the outcome of a match.
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From the very beginning, the idea of adding skins that change the appearance of players was questioned by professional players. In a situation where every little thing affects the outcome of a match, the use of agents could have been unfair. For example, a player who chooses Agent «Twice» McCoy, who wears many shades of green, will find it somewhat easier to go unnoticed on maps with lots of vegetation, such as Cache or Overpass. As a result, the use of agents has been banned at most major championships.
Professional cyber athletes – are not the only ones who have encountered problems. Another category of players for whom the update caused difficulties – people with color perception disorders. The most common form of this problem is when a person has difficulty identifying shades of red, green, and brown, which are the shades that often dominate agent designs. Players with this kind of visual impairment are not few and far between, and as a result Valve has had to add an option for them that makes colors more contrasty.
In the cases described above, the choice of agent gave the player an additional advantage, but there may also be situations where using a skin other than the default «», on the contrary, makes the player more vulnerable. This can happen if the player chooses an agent skin with a helmet or backpack, that is, with the shape of the model that differs from the standard one. Because of the protruding parts, a player can carelessly give away his location in a situation where the owner of a standard skin would go unnoticed.
A new reason to return to the discussion of problems with agents appeared in September of this year. One of the community members known under the nickname Ansimist analyzed the agent models and found that the difference in head hitbox size compared to the standard variant can be as much as 16%, giving quite a tangible advantage. It turns out that the most advantageous in terms of the size of hitboxes to use agents from the team «Professionals».
However, regardless of what you are guided by when choosing agents – their appearance, style or subtle nuances of gameplay, you know where you can buy them. In the catalog Lis-Skins.ru will find agents for CS:GO from various collections at affordable prices.