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https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffen...r8_is_a_decoy/

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Hello It is quite obvious to me that the new pistol is no more than a decoy to distract us from the actual changes in the patch. I mean, Valve implemented a deagle which was waaaay weaker than in CSS, and they even nerfed the awp. So why would they implement this gun into the game? They only implemented this game breaking overpowered gun to distract us from the rifle changes, the timer changes and the other pistol changes. THEY WILL NERF THE R8 VERY SOON, and in the meantime they will get very little critisism for the lasting changes in this game. It is a very "Valve" thing to do something like this. So please, can we look at the ENTIRE patch and not just the soon to be obsolete R8?

EDIT: What I am trying to say is just that the devs most likely have proper and balanced stats ready to go, and that the gun was never intended to stay this way, it was just released this way so as not to bring much attention to the other changes in the patch, which will most likely stay. Another reason is obviously to release it overpowered in order to sell more skins for it, then nerf it, like Riot does.