14 DAY TRIAL // The development team at Valve is launching a new update for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, designed to fix a number of gameplay-related issues and improve the general experience for all players.
The list of core Gameplay modifications includes, according to the official announcement:
- Reduced fade to black time to 0.3s to better hide enemy movement when playing with "mp_forcecamera 2". - Buy Time now lasts the entire Warmup period. - Fixed the Defuse Kit making a pickup sound that everyone could hear when walking over it. - In official competitive mode players now accumulate end of round money even if they are disconnected at the moment when end of round money is awarded to their teammates. - In official competitive mode players who disconnect from the game server while alive are treated as having committed suicide and don't receive end of round money for that round.
There are plenty of other changes listed by Valve linked to maps, the user interface, and the way spectating works.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is one of the most important competitive multiplayer titles in gaming, and the development team is constantly updating it with new content and making sure that the balance is as close to perfect as possible.