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Seems like the Viper nerfs is gonna be a precursor to more gameplay changes that's gonna be coming after VCT Shanghai, possibly bigger changes than Viper nerf?

Source: https://twitter.com/Altombre/status/1785333802388337065?t=TSG4tZnlA5_9EyT5j0Q2xw&s=19

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Originally posted by Pojobob

"overly disruptive in the interim" They heavy heavy nerfed the most used agent in the game lol. How are they going to be more disruptive than that?

I talked about this a bit on Twitter, it's hard to convey the context in that few characters. Masters Shanghai itself is on 8.08, but they'll play on 8.07 until then. So, our hope was that by getting these changes out for 8.08, teams will have to time to actually adjust to them before having to play on them competitively rather than flipping things immediately. We also wanted to get ahead of Cypher and Viper and are trying to be more proactive with balance changes this year.