After years of dominating the game over its unsilenced counterpart, would the M4A1-S meta finally be replaced by the M4A4? Several large voices in the community stated that they would be switching to the M4A4, and before long so did much of the community.
In doing this, Valve sent the Global Offensive community into a spiral of panic. After limiting its magazine size to 20 bullets in June of this year, Valve continued to nerf the weapon by significantly dropping its long distance accuracy.
Along with cutting the magazine of the notorious AWP by 50% and replacing one of the most well known video game maps of all time: Dust II, with a community map by the name of Anubis, Valve made the second major balance change to the M4A1-S in just a few months. On 18 November, 2022, Valve made a change to CS:GO that stirred up quite the chaos within the community. Topic: Best CS:GO M4A4 Sticker Crafts & Combos