The Weekly Clutch: British weather on Inferno

Welcome to another edition of The Weekly Clutch: your all-in-one stop for competitive CS2 updates, community chaos, and the meta insights you didn’t know you needed.

This week, we’ve got a weather report straight out of Inferno, an $11M shock in the CS2 market, the pure adrenaline of buying a knife, and the friend requests that follow that. All served with strategic context so you can turn this chaos into smarter plays and sharper Pick’ems (not really).

Inferno Weather Update: Rain is expected

Imagine this: you queue into Inferno, the round is tense, and then the skies open. Actual rainfall mid-match. Then, half of the team leaves (most probably!).

u/fihogeh7834 on Reddit captured it perfectly (with the help of Skynet):

Waited all the way until it rained on Inferno.

The $11M Market Drop: Panic or Profit?

So, as the game evolved into a stock market simulator I guess I will comment on this high-rated news (meme?). Even the chart looks like the stock market - you have 24h, weekly and monthly price indicator - Jesus, what have we done to the game?

Anyway, the market dropped and as Sun Tzu said in 500 BC - “Buy low, sell lower”. This mantra was also repeated recently by the "Oracle" of Omaha - Warren Buffet: “Freak the fuck out and sell everything right now. It’s fucking over”. Yes, everything you read in this article is fact checked and true.

POV: You Just Bought a Knife

How would you know if you got a rare, good priced, skin?

By the friend requests that follow.

Picture this: You stay all day in your parents’ basement. Playing CS 2. Opening boxes.

Suddenly, in the matter of minutes, you get 5 friend requests??? That’s strange.

Even stranger is that all these “friends” identify as girls? At least one of the profiles is in Chinese characters. You should know something is wrong. Just accept them.

Kernel-Level Nostalgia: BF6 Before CS2

Veteran players know the pain of early kernel-level anti-cheats: error screens, driver conflicts, and praying your match didn’t implode before warmup.

The “BF6 kernel-level AC before CS2” post hit hard for anyone who had to troubleshoot their way to the buy menu. While modern CS2 anti-cheat is more stable, the lesson remains: a smooth setup is as much a competitive edge as knowing the CS2 weapon stats meta.

There’s a huge discussion below if anticheat would work at all, against hackers with 10/15/20 years of experience, looking for the next challenge. And this sounds legit.

OH MY FUCKING GOD WTF

OK, here’s another one, from the real game, inside the game - the CS 2 stock market.

Here’s a guy opening a P250 Sand Dune which made him so excited that he posted the pic with a sentence in CAPS LOCK.

You could guess what the comments looks like - gz and jealousness memes. Gz dude, hope you finished your luck for this year.

That’s all for this week’s Clutch. The next edition might get renamed to The Weekly Skin Market Review. And remember - please don’t use cheats or I would punch you through the computer screen.

P.S. Check out our investigative journalism article about the dark secret behind S1mple’s new team.