[OPERATION VANGUARD] – Six community maps added to the Operation Vanguard map group, available for free to ALL CS:GO players. — de_marquis, de_facade, de_season, de_bazaar, cs_workout, and cs_backalley – The Operation Vanguard Pass is now available. With an operation pass, you’ll receive: — A personal Operation Vanguard Journal — Exclusive access to the new Operation Vanguard weapon case as a separate timed drop. — TWO all-new Campaigns: Weapon Specialist and Vanguard. Choose your own path through a series of missions that span the globe, and receive extra weapons or Operation Vanguard weapon cases as a reward. — Access to two optional campaigns: Maghreb and Eurasia. — An Operation Vanguard Challenge Coin, which can be upgraded by completing branches of a campaign. — Active Duty and Vanguard Scorecards, and Friends Leaderboards to track and compare your Competitive Matchmaking performance throughout the Operation. – Operation runs until February 10th, 2015. [ARMS RACE] – Friendly Fire has been turned off. – de_stmarc, de_lake and de_safehouse are now available in Arms Race mode. – Fixed game reporting the wrong name of the player who got to knife level in Arms Race. – Major update to Arms Race mode: — Leaders (players with the highest weapon index) from each team now glow for a short time after attacking. — The weapon progression list now picks a weapon randomly from 5 fixed weapon categories. — The number of levels to reach Golden Knife have been reduced to 16. — Two kills are needed to upgrade with each weapon (unless you get a knife kill or kill the enemy leader). — Added some new sounds to AR mode. — To see more of the Arms Race rules changes, see this guide: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=336510139 [DEMOLITION] – Friendly Fire has been turned off. – de_shortdust added to Demolition mode [DEATHMATCH] – Changed Deathmatch bonus weapon to support all guns. [GAMEPLAY] – When FF is off, bullets no longer penetrate teammates [UI] – Fixed grenades icons in weapon panel obeying the user’s HUD color setting – Fixed Mini-Scoreboard panel not properly hiding a few avatars slots on a full server in casual when you had the Mini-Scoreboard Style set to “Just Show Player Count” – Fixed the freeze panel overlapping with the info panel. [MISC] – Halloween has come to a grisly end. (sv_holiday_mode set back to 0) – Fixed rebuy not rebuying nades, defuse kit, or taser correctly. – Volume of ambient and 1st person sounds have been slightly reduced in “headphones” setting. – Death Camera music no longer plays while spectating. – Half-time / Game-end music no longer plays in overwatch mode. – Fixed bug where 10 second countdown music(s) would play after round end when round end music volume was set to 0. – Addressed hitches that were caused by synchronous file i/o. Continue reading...
