[GAMEPLAY] — Enabled shotgun spread patterns on official matchmaking servers as described here. [MISC] — Co-op Strike, Wingman, and Flying Scoutsman tags have been added to the workshop, so map authors can now tag their maps as playable in those modes. — Co-op Strike, Wingman, and Flying Scoutsman tagged maps can now be launched into those modes from...
[BOSTON 2018 PICK’EM CHALLENGE] — Enabled playoff Pick’Em bracket for Boston 2018 Major Championship. Build your bracket and predict all Quarterfinal, Semifinal, and Grand Final winners. You’ll earn 12 points for each correct Quarterfinal pick, 10 points for each correct Semifinal pick, and 7 points for picking the Grand Final winner. All brackets will be locked...
[BOSTON 2018] — 100 Thieves have withdrawn from the Boston 2018 Major: – Their sticker is no longer a valid game piece for the Boston 2018 Pick’Em Challenge. The sticker and graffiti are no longer available for purchase directly or through the ELEAGUE 2018 Boston CS:GO Major Championship Mega Bundle. – Boston 2018 Attending Legends (Holo/Foil)...
[AUDIO] — Enabled streaming audio by default, making use of the ‘sound cache’ unnecessary. The sound cache can be forced back on by setting snd_disable_legacy_audio_cache 0 if any issues are found. — Weapon reload sounds now follow the reloading players as they move around. — Fixed sound device override exploit to cancel sounds. [GAMEPLAY] — Replaced custom Terrorist one-handed...
[MISC] — Guardian lobbies will now show full mission name in the nearby public lobbies list and game invites. — Updated Guardian warning sound rules for players too far from the bomb site and lowered volume of warning sound. — Fixed a bug where sometimes 9 players could join same team in War Games. — Fixed offline with bots...
[THE ELEAGUE BOSTON 2018 CS:GO MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIP] — Team stickers, team graffiti, and stickers autographed by CS:GO pro players are now available for purchase in-game, from the Steam Community Market, or from the 50 piece Mega Bundle on Steam. 50% of the proceeds go to the players and organizations at Boston 2018. For more details, visit...
[AUDIO] — Made bomb plant and bomb defuse sounds more audible with sound occlusion on. — Fixed an exploit that allowed ambient sounds to be completely disabled. [MISC] — Re-enabled SSE4 optimizations for string tables and added -nosse4 command line option to disable SSE4. — “find” console command now allows specifying multiple search strings. For example, “find decal r_”...
[AUDIO] — Improved performance of 3D audio. Positional audio is much more responsive when turning quickly. [War Games] — Players can now select from 3 maps during end-of-match voting in War Games. — Added convars controlling end of match voting setup to simplify management of War Games community servers. [MISC] — Server HTTP log delivery will now have correct...
[MISC] — Updated to latest version of SteamNetworkingSockets library to better support relayed connections. — Fixed a regression where Aztec and Dust particle systems were failing to load in other maps. — Updated Skill Group icons. [SDK] — Removed an unintentional dependency on Dynamic C Runtime in vvis map compiler, which should fix map compilation problems in some recent...
[CSGO] — Operation Hydra has come to a close. [GAMEPLAY] — Added Wingman and Flying Scoutsman to the available game modes. — Wingman changes: – Added Wingman-exclusive skill groups for better matchmaking in Wingman. – Added ability to select maps. – Added Nearby Lobbies for Wingman. — Moved Arms Race and Demolition into War Games (with Flying Scoutsman). — All War Games are...