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The thing about patches in video games is that they are usually designed to balance the game, fix bugs, and make general improvements to it. However sometimes patches can go awry and do the opposite and wreak havoc on the game, which is why it’s not surprising to hear that Valve will not be releasing patches during major tournaments.

This is according to a tweet by the company who states that for the upcoming patch, it happens to land during a tournament which means that they’ll be delaying its release until the event is over. It is assumed that this will be Valve’s approach from here on out with regards to release of patches whose release might fall during an ongoing tournament.

For upcoming Majors where the Thursday patch would land during the tournament, we will instead be releasing the patch at the end of the event.

— DOTA 2 (@DOTA2) April 28, 2018

This follows a previous event, the Epicenter XL tournament, in which Valve released a patch in the middle of the tournament which messed up the entire event as players had less than a day to adapt to the changes that Valve made. While the average player might not necessarily feel the impact, when it comes to the eSports scene, every little change can have a huge impact.

For example cooldown of a particular skill might have been increased by a second, which doesn’t seem like much, but it also means that during the heat of the moment, players will have to deal with that extra delay which could be the difference between victory and failure. That being said, hopefully Valve’s new approach towards patch releases will be taken into consideration by other developers in the future.

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In case you didn’t already know, Tesla comes with an autopilot mode which while it sounds like a self-driving mode, it is really more of an enhanced cruise control feature. In fact Tesla in the past has warned against drivers using autopilot mode as a self-driving mode, but it’s hard to control what their customers do once they’ve purchased it.

Unfortunately for one Tesla owner, a Bhavesh Patel, aged 39, of Alfreton Road, Nottingham, he decided that he would put autopilot to the ultimate test by engaging it and then shifting over into the passenger seat. Unfortunately for Patel he was caught on camera performing that rather dangerous stunt. Granted due to traffic conditions, the car was only moving at 40mph, but it is still rather dangerous.

Man pleads guilty to dangerous driving after switching on his car’s autopilot and moving over to the passenger seat while travelling along the M1 near #HemelHempstead: https://t.co/GrKppSLVZT pic.twitter.com/JPYgk9eyDM

— Herts Police (@HertsPolice) April 27, 2018

Patel has since pleaded guilty to dangerous driving. According to PC Kirk Caldicutt, from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Road Policing Unit, “What Patel did was grossly irresponsible and could have easily ended in tragedy. He not only endangered his own life but the lives of other innocent people using the motorway on that day.”

As a result of this reckless stunt, Patel has been banned from driving for 18 months, given 100 hours of unpaid work, ordered to carry out 10 days of rehabilitation, and will also have to pay £1,800 in costs to the Crown Prosecution Service.

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