Tencent's Honor of Kings - only recently released outside China - is another participating titleįor two, with all of these big names in one place, and all these huge tournaments at the same time, viewers might run the risk of being overwhelmed. For one, it's betting big on the popularity of esports, which has proven to be problematic to make into something as profitable as a big sporting event for years now. While it's not been short of big names in everything from PC to mobile, the Esports World Cup is something we can already see some problems with.
The Esports World Cup is not just a big political and economic bet, but it's also a big entertainment gamble. It comes off the back of events like Gamers8, an eight-week set of esports tournaments and events centred around gaming. The Esports World Cup meanwhile is another part of Saudi Arabia's initiative to promote the country as a center of gaming. A $3m prize pool will be up for grabs, as this competition - the new PUBG Mobile World Cup - is set to replace the already lucrative PUBG Mobile World Invitational. PUBG Mobile has been confirmed as the latest game to appear at the inaugural Esports World Cup in Riyadh this year.
The event is taking place in Saudi Arabia off the back of other major events like Gamers8.Other major mobile titles like Free Fire and Honor of Kings are set to appear.
There's a whopping $3m prize-pool up for grabs.Although that one seems to have disappeared in recent times. There’s also some hacks that allow players to use flying vehicles that travel at a rapid pace, and one amazing cheat that allowed players to have extendable arms so their body would still be in cover but they could reach up into the sky and still shoot. Some players have also claimed to have working lag switches, which are designed to make other players in the game lag and give the hacker an advantage, but we must say we have never seen one actually being used. Admittedly this isn’t that useful, as most skilled players can do this with a drag looting technique anyway. Quick looting is a common one, which allows players to pick up everything on a loot pile and automatically equip items they need within a second. There are quite a few other cheats out there, or ones that we have seen in the past. If a hacker is smart they can use a wall hack and still remain undetected, because it’s difficult to prove that they didn’t hear you or have some other legit information that lead to your death. This means that hackers don’t see the location of players on the other side of the map, but can use the information to their advantage to get a drop on unsuspecting players who think they are hidden. The most common versions show an outline of players, or their skeleton, to the hacker if they are in close proximity. Wall hacks basically allow cheaters to see other players through walls, or add extra UI elements to reveal a players location.