Operation Phoenix launched

21-2-2014 11:40

Valve has rolled out another update for CS:GO, which, among other things, introduces Operation Phoenix.

Following the success of previous Operation packs, Valve has now released another collection of top-rated community-made maps, this time called Operation Phoenix, which will run through June 4th.

Together with these eight maps, including de_cache, which was also available in Operation Bravo, you will be able to get your hands on a new Operation Coin as well as 13 weapon finishes created by community members.

That's not all there is tell about update 1.32.3.0, however, as Valve has also done some modifications to the scope of both the AUG and the SG556 and tweaked de_nuke and de_overpass.

Below you can find the official patch notes:

[ OPERATION PHOENIX ]

Started Operation Phoenix http://blog.counter-strike.net/operationphoenix/
Operation Phoenix Passes are available for purchase. They provide access to:

Eight maps, chosen by the community, available on official CS:GO matchmaking for all game modes.

An upgradable Operation Coin, that tracks all competitive matchmaking statistics for the duration of the event.

Exclusive access to the new Operation Phoenix Case, with 13 Community-Created Weapon Finishes.

[MISC]

Teammate Colors:

Added convar cl_color to allow players to set their preferred teammate color index.

Renamed teammate colors convar to cl_teammate_colors_show and added option to display Color Letters over teammate colors in competitive ("cl_teammate_colors_show 2").

Teammate preferred color can now be chosen when in a lobby and displays above player avatars.

Damage can no longer be done to teammates during a freeze period in any mode.
Fixed cs_baggage skybox texture.
Fixed cl_draw_only_deathnotices 1 and cl_teamid_overhead 0 not hiding the overhead player arrows.
Fixed player flair icons getting cropped on avatars in the lobby.

[Aug and SG556]

Scope dot no longer fades too quickly during online play.
Scope dot is slightly more visible against bright backgrounds.
Scope dot is now tinted using the player's crosshair color settings.

[MAPS]

Overpass

Smoothed out movement on truck in Bombsite A

Simplified cover in bombsite B

Removed some trees in upper park

Smoothed out ground in canal

Removed small walls near playground entrance

Tweaked cover in playground

Small fence at birthday area no longer block bullets/grenades

Simplified corridor to CT sniper position

Improved player visibility

Improved performance

Nuke

Made wallbanging through large metal doors consistent

Added back pretty lighting in bombsite B

Made it possible to throw grenades through skylights in warehouse

Fixed some graphical bugs

[NETWORK]

Added support for threaded socket processing on clients and servers.
Significantly reduced the size of client connect packet to be below MTU.
Optimized split packet processing sequence.
Client address is no longer transmitted in official game events or saved in official GOTV demos.
Client P2P NAT requests are now always rejected when connected to a game server.

fUcK YEAH good update!!! always new things :D

2014-02-21 11:42

1 reply

poor you

2014-02-21 17:56

Good update! Hope this will prevent some DDOS'ing

2014-02-21 11:43

money money and more money

2014-02-21 11:44

64 replies

Things don't run for free in this world.

2014-02-21 11:46

13 replies

Well, Valve has no shortage of money also. All these skins and boxes are purely a way for Valve to bank money. They did some PR and increased the pricepool for DH and EMS (they did not give 250k but only a part of it). Valve has already made a huge profit from GO so they are not covering any expences here, they just make money. I would never spend mine but some people are willing to so then again you can't blame Valve for doing raw business. There is no ethics in business, just business.

2014-02-21 12:15

12 replies

What a stupid company are you when you say ye we dont need any more money? most stupid thought ever

2014-02-21 12:32

You pretty much repeated what I said, business is business. Your point being?

2014-02-21 12:59

My teacher once told me. The business of business is business.

2014-02-21 13:01

Without this there Wouldnt have been any 250.000 dollar Dreamhack or EMS And i see your reply to somone Else... Without this there Wouldnt have been trust me, some People actually are better informed

2014-02-21 14:43

7 replies

Like I said in the other reply, 250k did not give anything for the community. DH has had the same number of viewers (and more) earlier. Even if Valve did not raise the pricepool DH would still have had the same amount of views. Your english ain't too strong so I'm not quite sure what your point here is. If you mean to say Valves part taking on the DH prizepool was due to skins, you are 100% wrong.

2014-02-21 14:52

6 replies

I was writing from the phone, i didn't care much about getting my English right... We are talking about money, not the amount of views a tournament would get, and going personal regarding my English .. You just need an excuse to write something .. Valve is a part of the 250k.. But you seem to know alot more than the rest of the community and some people that actually speak with the people that are in charge.. but please share everything you know.

2014-02-21 14:56

5 replies

I wasn't going personal, I just did not have a clue about what you were saying. "Without this there Wouldnt have been trust me, some People actually are better informed" What am I to take from that? And yes, I do know way more than the rest of the community because most people never study these things.

2014-02-21 15:00

4 replies

I would be thrilled to see theese studies you are talking abou.. The ones where you know the financial status of Valve and how they spend their money. Especially from the eSport Cases, all the fine knowledge you are throwing out, be backed up by thoose studies. Please Elaborate and Share :)

2014-02-21 15:03

3 replies

You could use google a bit dude Edit: Not that I care about people never learning/studying anything, I will make a thread about this soon to give you all the data you ask for (eventho the facts are clear for everyone).

2014-02-21 15:15

2 replies

Now that you've done such a fine piece of work, i would let you do the honor of sharing the knowledge you got from searching on google :)

Of course I use google but I use it carefully. I don't just pick one site/topic but go thru all the work people have done already. Why wouldn't I?

2014-02-21 15:23

Why are you making it more than it truly is? Business is just that, business. Don't try to market it in any other way.... Profit.

2014-02-21 19:22

We wouldn't have 250k tournaments if there were no skins, dumbass.

2014-02-21 11:53

49 replies

Ofc you would :D Nothing to do with skins whatsoever

2014-02-21 12:08

48 replies

Not sure if idiot or trolling

2014-02-21 12:12

47 replies

What? :D

2014-02-21 12:16

46 replies

NOT SURE IF IDIOT OR TROLLING

2014-02-21 12:20

30 replies

That was a bit unecessary don't you think? If you guys have no clue then don't flame on me

2014-02-21 12:22

29 replies

The money from esport keys goes towards the $250,000 tournaments

2014-02-21 12:27

28 replies

Some of it does yes. Also, Valve is not paying 250k but only a part of it. Like I said, they make millions and millions from them. In stead of continuing with these operations I feel like they should make a move towards the whole community, especially putting more money on cheat prevention. The 250k from DH or EMS goes for a few teams, not for the community.

2014-02-21 12:40

27 replies

according to forbes, valve is worth around 2-4Billion$, and this is a 2011 estimate. so i guess you are quite right, they give "nothing" to esports.

2014-02-21 13:19

They gave us counter-strike ;)

2014-02-22 10:45

All of it does, taxes from esports keys & cases on market and all the money from esports keys goes to tournaments. All of it. Period.

2014-02-21 13:53

21 replies

2014-02-21 14:00

much naive

2014-02-21 14:01

18 replies

Why does it matter? Who would expect them to give all away? Before all, Valve is a business, and a business is made for profit. As much profit as possible. Good for them that are redirecting a part of the money towards esports. Sure, they are still doing other bad stuff, but at least on this they did some good.

2014-02-21 14:25

it doesnt matter, i dont expect them tog ive 100% anyone who does is foolish and naive like i said in my last post, ruoved is obviously one of those people.

2014-02-21 15:28

hahaha, ok. Come up with facts. Oh wait... you dont have any. You just made this up. kthxbai

2014-02-21 15:49

aaaaand ur facts are where? exactly, now you're foolish, naive and retarded. grats

2014-02-21 16:26

much clueless

2014-02-21 15:17

Dude, either post something worth posting or don't post. Trolling does no good for anyone

2014-02-21 15:25

11 replies

Im not trolling. You are the one who is "trolling" here and acting like a pseudo intellectual. You should appreciate that valve is doing this but instead of doing that you come up with this "conspiracy" that valve is keeping the money from esports cases & keys. Ofcourse that its a business and by sponsoring tournaments liek dreamhack they are sky rocketing the sales of csgo, because more and more people gets interested and actually buys the game, they aint saints, but stop talking bullshit. Come up with facts and maybe then i will listen to what you have to say. One of my best friends is a valve employee, i know much more about this than you do, so please stop embarrassing yourself with these silly theories.

2014-02-21 15:39

10 replies

How am I being "pseudo intellectual" here? All I have stated so far is: 1. Valve banks on skins and boxes 2. Part taking in the pricepool was PR 3. Valve should do more for the community. That's all I have been saying and those 3 are pure 100% facts. Edited: facts and a wish Edited2: and I also stated that instead that Valve should spend the money more on preventing cheating, hacking and ddosing instead of releasing new skins and boxes. I'm completely fine with kids buying skins but I also feel very bad for the audience, players and teams suffering from constant hacking, scamming and ddosing

2014-02-21 15:52

9 replies

#146 you said im trolling about them giving away 100% earnings of esports cases & keys. Did you even understand what are you writing? I replied to you explaining my thoughts. Now instead of arguing further you say that you havent stated it in any way. sick guy. How youre being pseudo intellectual? You state (ofcourse not directly) that only your opinion is "the right one", you reply to everyone in this thread who doesnt agree, trying to "enlighten" them by trashtalking and theoretical bullshitting.

2014-02-21 15:57

Where did you explain that?

2014-02-21 16:00

#152 are you disabled?

2014-02-21 16:02

Edited2: and I also stated that instead that Valve should spend the money more on preventing cheating, hacking and ddosing instead of releasing new skins and boxes. Hmmm. seems fair enough, unless... have you ever thought that they are doing the best they can to fix these things? Probably not, because you are clueless and talking about things you have no knowldge aboout.

2014-02-21 15:59

So you replied when you didn't even read? Camoon dude

I was trying to be polite and explain why you are wrong, i wont bother anymore, since you cant understand a thing im saying. Cya.

2014-02-21 16:03

"Much clueless" really is a polite way to start :D E: you also stated "All of it does, taxes from esports keys & cases on market and all the money from esports keys goes to tournaments. All of it. Period" which is 100% wrong. What am I doing wrong here?

2014-02-21 16:15

We can agree to disagree here. Why not call this a quit right now. You don't even read the replies. Edit: If you wanna continue arguing let us PM, otherwise this is gonna get to the point of inch wide bromance on forum :)

2014-02-21 16:05

More, more and more. Nothing but entitlement. They do so much for the community and no matter what they do it'll never be enough for you people.

2014-02-21 19:24

Fix your english, brah. I don't even know what you're talking about.

2014-02-22 10:47

the REAL sam chamma? or just another RtqeX

2014-02-21 17:26

pls spare us ur trash talks..we dont need em

2014-02-21 15:24

So if Valve didn't put the money from these cases into it, we probably wouldn't have $250,000 tournaments, they'd be $200,000 or less kinda thing, correct?

2014-02-22 00:09

Everytime someone buys a skin, a key, a case etc. Valve will give money to different tournament hosters to improve the pricepool. And the reason Dreamhack had record-high viewership was largely because you would get skins for watching. Valve has helped the scene grow a lot and, essentially, only because of skins.

2014-02-21 12:24

14 replies

Valve has made tons of money from the CS franchise. Increasing the prizepool for DH and EMS is pure PR. Also, they did not give 250k for either one. Of course it's nice they give something back but bare in mind, the prices of tournaments do not go for the community but only for a few teams. Valve is a business and they work as such. They make tens of millions with these bullshit Operations. There could be ways to distribute that more to the benefit of the community, fe. working on VAC and other methods of cheat prevention. We can only wait and see what Valve does next. They might very well give us something much more than a mere increase on specific pricepool.

2014-02-21 12:33

The fact is that they are helping the community by donating 100's of thousands of dollars to tournaments. And of course Valve is a business, their priority is to make money so they can keep updating the game and keeping it alive. Also, bare in mind that it's completely one's own choice if one wants to buy any of these operations, skins or anything like that.

2014-02-21 12:39

100's of thousands? Nowhere near that. Also, Valve giving the +100k for DH barely increased the audience much. The PR there was Valve taking part. And I stated the same what you did about people willing to pay and I'm fine with that. The one who asks is not stupid, the one who pays is. My point here remains that there is a lot Valve could do for the community. They are not doing it.

2014-02-21 12:44

they are. Just by releasing updates week after week. That's way more than we know from other dev's and we should appreciate it. Also Valve supported DH not only with money, but with helping the organizers to run the tournament (it used for example the team tournament mode, seen on a screenshot, which wasn't even released). Another point is, that I think you overestimate the money Valve makes from sellings on the steam market.

2014-02-21 13:12

I completely agree on that update part. But then again, they are kinda forced there. After GO was released the game got a lot of displeased feedback. In order to make the game succesfull the only choise they had was to come up with updates. I'm not overestimating the money they make but I also did not mean it's only skins they make money of. Valve does make millions with skins, tens of millions. Valve taking part in DH was 100% PR, nothing else.

2014-02-21 13:29

You throw out numbers, where did you get these numbers?

2014-02-21 19:26

"Valve taking part in DH was 100% PR, nothing else." - it's so easy to understand... About the updates: people don't seem to understand the point in here. They like skins, cases... it requires so much time and knowledge to really understand what really happens on the outside, so you're wasting your time in here explaining the difference between an UPDATE and "throwing grenades through skylights in warehouse" :) Just stop and hope for the best, no one will give a fuck. Just wait... a tournament hosted by VALVE will rise again (with DDoSing attacks and such)

2014-02-23 21:06

the "fact" is that the more successful these operations are and the more the community continues to invenst in them, the more time and effort valve will put into cs. their team for dota2 for example is a lot larger than their team for csgo but recently thats started to change. back when nip visited them in seattle there was a photo of them with the 'entire' csgo team and it was something like 8 guys. the more people they have working on it the more frequently we'l get new content. so yes the amount of money people spend on the keys and cases is a good thing

2014-02-21 13:13

That is true, they need money to put money in the game. You hit the point, 8 guys while Valve could easily afford to double the amount. Those are the little things I was talking about. Of course it's clear Valve has had to spend a lot of money on GO cause their original release was a disaster. It was their duty to make it right, and if they didn't there would be no players to sell skins to. But at this point the game has become quite solid, it has a lot of players and they have already made a huge profit. Selling skins isn't all bad but after banking shitloads of money and yet again coming up with new useless shit they are not working for the community imo. Edit: typos, typos everywhere

2014-02-21 13:41

Do you even have any source for all your "facts" you care to share to us? It seems like you have alot of "information" about valves economic situation. Some quotes in previous posts from you: "You hit the point, 8 guys while Valve could easily afford to double the amount." Oh really? Please share any trustworthy link that shows us this. "They make tens of millions with these bullshit Operations." Please share this trustworthy link link where valve says this. And don't say that this is common sense to know this because if you don't have any trustworthy source then you should not make all these statements. And i do hope valve makes alot of money of these operations so they can keep develop the game we love and so we can keep watch they teams we love to see play.

2014-02-21 14:04

I have tried to find specific statistics but they are hard to find. 1. "You hit the point, 8 guys while Valve could easily afford to double the amount." That has nothing to do with statistics. Valve is a billion dollar company and they could have easily afforded to hire, not only double but 4 times the amount. They didn't and they released a poor game and therefore have had to spend more money fixing it than they would have spent hiring 100 people to develope it. 2. ""They make tens of millions with these bullshit Operations." Never said anything like that. Edit: You can try to find any specific details of revenue of ANY company and you can't find it. Those details are in the "high security" domain of business. But you can easily see the trade traffic. It still remains a fact Valve makes millions from skins and boxes Edit: These are the revenue numbers from just searchin the Steam trades: The top 10 list of traded items (item, transactions, trade volume) * Mann Co. Supply Crate Key 2.907.399 $6.379.261,63 * Treasure Key 1.133.212 $2.597.117,52 * Operation Bravo Case 264.389 $772.927,74 * Dragonclaw Hook 6.910 $634.037,39 * CS:GO Weapon Case 1.069.672 $631.635,91 * eSports 2013 Case 831.591 $608.528,91 * CS:GO Case Key 244.824 $537.881,25 * RoboCrate Key 217.611 $508.363,25 * eSports 2013 Key 222.474 $477.409,19 * Vintage Timebreaker 6.604 $336.529,13 * Lockless Luckbox 4.849 $335.884,63 Over 58 million revenue for Valve overall, those were just top10

2014-02-21 14:41

If you have tried to find specific statistics then you have not find anything so don't post all these so called "facts". 1. I've never said anything about statistics. But since you know so much how valve is working as a company and since you know how they spend their money and you say the can "easily" double the amount of guys that works with CS:GO you must have read that somewhere. If you haven't read this then this is only a stupid statement. 2. Yes you said that in post #48. And you wrote this: Valve is a business and they work as such. They make tens of millions with these bullshit Operations. There could be ways to distribute that more to the benefit of the community, fe. working on VAC and other methods of cheat prevention. 3. Exactly. Information like this is secret. So how can you know all the things you do? 4. "It still remains a fact Valve makes millions from skins and boxes" Good! They make alot of money from the boxes and skins and that is awesome! 5. Please post the link of top 10 list of traded items or where you found that information.

2014-02-21 16:14

Well it is quite clear a billion dollar company can afford to pay people. 2. I did say that but I also said that it's not the operations alone. 4. Goes with 2. they do make millions with skins and boxes. How is that hard for you to beleive? Thousands of players spend money on them every day. 5. The top10 list was copied from reddit. The list was made by using a crawler. I did the same. Like I said, it's close to impossible to get real numbers. And overall, so far I have only stated simple facts that everyone is aware of. I have only stated my oppinion how ripping kids off is not cool, how Valve taking part in tournament pricepool is pure PR and how Valve should spend their money on preventing cheats instead of releasing new boxes. Why are you guys hating me here?

2014-02-21 16:46

2. No you said they make tens of millions with these operations, that means only because of those operations. Don't try to cover that up with some bullshit. 4. I do think they make alot of money out of the skins and boxes and i think it's freaking great. They do not rip of anyone actually. It is a free choice to play and it is a free choice to buy skins, key and boxes. "Valve should spend their money on preventing cheats instead of releasing new boxes." Oh god... The one who makes the boxes is probably designers, they are probably not any programmers. And they who try to prevent cheaters is probably programmers. And since it seems like you haven't seen the post Valve did on reddit i will give you this link (which you seem to have problems with): reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1y70ej/valv.. So what you want Valve to do is fire all the designers and try to hire really expensive programmers. We are not hating you (at least not me), but you write here like you are some kind of smart-ass that knows better than Valve.

2014-02-21 18:33

Have anyone got a good stuff from the new case? Just wondering.

2014-02-21 11:45

ak-47 redline

2014-02-21 13:39

same here

2014-02-21 16:07

Really cool skins this time, and the server updates seems really promising. Me like!

MM's reg is much better though peek advantage still haunt. Btw remove -threads 4, it fuck up your reg.

"Btw remove -threads 4, it fuck up your reg. " are you sure about that? have u tested it?

2014-02-21 16:01

I wasn't sure at first, thought it was just my imagination as I always play horrible leaving the -threads 4 in my launch parameter, but a friend of mine went to LAN and he complain of how the computer is shitty. I ask him did he added -threads 4 in the launch parameter, he answered that it does give more fps but the reg fucks up. I always thought its just my imagination EDIT: in MM. never tried playing non MM as there's no PUG available

2014-02-21 17:21

Well, my reg is just fcking terrible at MM, so I'll definately try it out

2014-02-21 18:11

also, use -high

2014-02-21 18:48

Nice update :D

2014-02-21 11:47

NEW MAPS VOLVO?

2014-02-21 11:54

puu.sh/74tsN.jpg

2014-02-21 11:55

hahaha

2014-02-21 12:01

hahaha make my day xD

hahahha

hahahaha nice one

2014-02-21 13:08

Ahahaha, this just made my day :D

2014-02-21 13:59

hahahah

2014-02-21 14:09

ahahah

2014-02-21 14:16

LMAO volvo\!!11!

2014-02-21 14:36

ahahahahahah

2014-02-21 15:07

Total WIN!

2014-02-21 16:31

hahahah n1

2014-02-21 18:12

hmmm

so, should I remove threads 4 now?

2014-02-21 11:57

kewl

2014-02-21 11:58

cases drop onLy for coin holders :((((

2014-02-21 12:00

valve plz drop cases for no coin holder :P :D

That new awp and ak, hoooly fuck so smooth

2014-02-21 12:03

Agree! Enig.

Pics?

2014-02-21 12:41

Go to market and type ak red line and awp asiimov

counter-strike.net/operationphoenix/ :)

2014-02-21 15:32

Thanks, they're looking fine indeed.

2014-02-21 18:14

Om 13 min vil du sikkert ha unlocka begge i StatTrak...

2014-02-21 18:58

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

2014-02-21 19:02

FUCK VALVE!I HATE VALVE!

2014-02-21 12:06

whats the problem this time dude? :D

2014-02-21 12:13

He is used to hating on valve.

2014-02-21 12:17

for no reason? XD because nothing's wrong with that last update!

2014-02-21 12:50

It has become like a habit for some hltv users to hate on valve even if the update is good.

2014-02-21 12:56

Nice update!

New shitty skins...awp asiimov? No comment :D

2014-02-21 12:19

Can phoenix case droped on normal server??

yes but you need to pay for the operation to get the drop

2014-02-21 12:46

just add cache to mm, don't need other shit maps :/

2014-02-21 12:21

Now players with drops like AK Redline Stat FT/BS want to trade it for kara fade/crimson etc :DD ,after 1-2 weeks will be price 30-40 euros :DD

2014-02-21 12:29

Shhh let some ppl make some profit out of it ;-)

2014-02-21 13:16

no de_marquis and de_toscan. ty volvo, you cant even add maps from workshop.

AAAAAAAAAAAnd fucked up my fps. Fuck me im not playing anymore.

every update fucks my fps GG.

300 000 keys purchased :D

[NETWORK] update <3

omg this ak skin is fucking nice

2014-02-21 12:43

Decent update

hm, was looking forward for new maps to try out. Pretty lame imo, i don't think i will buy this operation coin

2014-02-21 12:47

omg awp asiimov... i need!

2014-02-21 12:55

usp looks pretty good :)

Still waiting for 128 tick....

2014-02-21 13:09

128 tick in dream only -.- :D

de_tuscan? :(

emmm can i get the phoenix case drop without purchasing the coin?

2014-02-21 13:17

I believe not

2014-02-21 13:30

could you explain me how to upgrade operation coin ? they count your playtime or kills or what?

2014-02-21 13:32

playtime and victories on the operation maps. Like 15Wins on the "new" maps and 20 hours logged for example. That will make you gold I think

2014-02-21 13:33

No you can't

2014-02-21 14:20

they improve reg for bad networks?

2014-02-21 13:34

dat ak <3

2014-02-21 13:36

On the "Operation Phoenix Pass" is written "Bring your friends for free!", what does it mean?

2014-02-21 13:37

They can also play Operation Phoenix maps even if they didn't purchase it.

dat awp asiimov lOl

2014-02-21 13:40

dat lighting on B (nuke) is sick :D :O

2014-02-21 13:49

Client P2P NAT requests are now always rejected when connected to a game server. can someone explain what purpose this change has? maybe to stop server crash scripts?

2014-02-21 13:51

Sort of yes, but this is a client side change. The idea is to stop DDOS attacks directed at players.

2014-02-21 16:36

That AK that USP that AWP :D nice update :)

2014-02-21 13:58

No season (updated), no tuscan. We pay again 2.99$ for cache. Nice update guys.

2014-02-21 14:11

It's about the crates, I bought the coin, played one game of DM, got a phoenix case, sold it -> profit 50% :)

2014-02-21 14:21

and you will profit a lot more. Some guys fail to understand this

2014-02-21 14:24

yeah :) you just need good drops and get lucky if you open the cases :)

2014-02-21 14:34

you buy it for 2€ you sell the first box for 3.5€ or 4€. Then you get 1 box per day. It won't drop lower then 2€ in the first week. Profit. Then you have drops till june/july (I bet they are extending it) and they wont go for lower than 0.5/1€

2014-02-21 14:39

Can anyone explain what are them??? [NETWORK] Added support for threaded socket processing on clients and servers. Significantly reduced the size of client connect packet to be below MTU. Optimized split packet processing sequence. Client address is no longer transmitted in official game events or saved in official GOTV demos. Client P2P NAT requests are now always rejected when connected to a game server.

2014-02-21 14:17

yes can explain someone this?

2014-02-21 14:29

dunno but there are guys saying that this improves the reg on the servers and prevents DDOS.

2014-02-21 14:35

As far as I know if the threaded processings is better, so will the hit reg. MTU also assists with that (there's a lot of guides to set MTU used in game to the ideal one for your connection) I'm not too sure about split packet processing, but I'm assuming it will assist with updates between server & client, which in turn will improve hit reg. ^^Those are the hitreg updates. How big a difference it makes is another question though. Client address is no longer transmitted in official game events or saved in official GOTV demos. Client P2P NAT requests are now always rejected when connected to a game server. ^^Those 2 are to prevent DDOS attacks directed at players.

2014-02-21 16:39

thankyou

2014-02-22 17:06

I'm wondering the same...i would imagine it's an attempt at preventing ddos.

2014-02-21 15:08

aw fuck. bravo cases halved in price overnight - i had 550 of them... lost 100€

2014-02-21 14:30

WTF ? That's what you get for being too greedy lol Why not buy only 10 and then sell ? That's what I did, bought 10 at 0.1€ and sold them at 0.3€

Sold my knife to invest, they probably will rise sooner or later, and fyi I still made money :D

2014-02-21 14:40

8 replies

ahah we will see. But I don't think they will go above 0.45€

Looks like my greed paid off, right now I have a value of 385€ :D

2014-03-14 07:28

Happy for you then :DDD What Knife was it btw ? and now you can get a high tier kara or something like that :D

2014-03-14 12:47

I sold an M9 Bayonet Safari Mesh, looking to buy an M9 Bayonet Fade, not really a fan of the karambit :D

2014-03-14 13:15

Nope, the price is only going down from now :b That has happened with every case whenever a newer version drops.

They will go up again, look at the Weapon Case 1

2014-02-21 17:12

I hope so for your sake :D But I'm pretty sure they will never reach the old price. Same story with weapon case 1. All though I have to edit this: Would be sick if you waited like half a year, untill no bravo cases were left. You could pretty much dictate the market :D

2014-02-21 17:41

Right now I own 2% of all the cases on the market :D Thanks for the good wishes xD

2014-02-21 17:42

Wow nice! I bought operation bravo to play cache now i have to buy op. phoenix.Maybe u should buy Esea acc and play competitive maps for free

good update, but we need tuscan and season in new operation + 128 tick servers !!!!!!!!!!

give more gameplay change. Case-Strike: Global Offensive

2014-02-21 14:54

good job valve in readding the lame blue light in Bombsite b. now cts will blend again with the environment

2014-02-21 14:55

Ok, I lost my job last night Picked up my paycheck But 35% of it's gone already cuz Uncle Sam ain't get paid yet Mom and them bitchin bout this rent I ain't even gon' say shit

2014-02-21 15:11

StatTrack 22kills on all weapons

I was so sure season and tuscan were gonna be in this operation that I bought it without even doing research..... WASTE of fucking money.

2014-02-21 15:35

imo valve should be taking the most popular de_ map and most popular cs_ map and integrating them into the vanilla rotation after each operation, so now we'd have 4 new maps, 6 incl. cbbl and op

2014-02-21 15:48