New update touches on smokes

24-4-2014 14:08

Valve has released a new update for CS:GO that reshapes the way smokes behave after popping.

Following last night's update, the volume of the smoke is now more consistent, with the shape changing from square to round. Valve has also made it harder for players to see through a smoke grenade when they are right in the middle of it.

There were some minor fixes to both de_mirage and de_vertigo as well as a number of UI changes.

For the first time, Steam accounts that have never played CS:GO can now purchase and receive inventory items from the game via Steam Trading.

Release Notes for 4/23/2014

[UI]

The options menu now has a setting for specifying which command will enable the mouse on the scoreboard. The option has a few presets but any command may be set using the convar cl_scoreboard_mouse_enable_binding directly (e.g. 'cl_scoreboard_mouse_enable_binding +jump').
Fixed uninitialized scorecard for competitive matches being visible.
Improved lobby performance.
Added saving of inventory sort and filter dropdowns.
Fixed chat window scroll bars getting stuck at the top/bottom.
Fixed scoreboard mouse input when watching gotv.

[SDK/MAPPING]

Added a new trigger (trigger_bomb_reset) that teleports dropped bombs back to a valid in-play position. This is intended to be used in player-inaccessible areas where a dropped bomb cannot be retrieved.
Bots no longer see through tools/toolsblock_los func_brushes (npc line-of-sight blockers).
Bot maximum vision distance can be set per-map by "Bot max vision distance" in info_map_parameters. Default is unlimited.
Prop doors (prop_door_rotating) that are in the process of opening or closing can be checked to see if they are "Locked" and if so, ignore player +use.

[MAPS]

Mirage

Enabled collision on arch corners (Thanks NBK!)
Fixed some spots where C4 could get stuck

Vertigo

Added bomb teleport trigger to prevent bomb falling out of playable area
Closed off dumpster in chokepoint near bombsite B
Improved signage
Fixed players being able to climb down elevator shaft

[MISC]

In Official Competitive matchmaking, the initial warmup timer will now start at 5min and reduce to 30s when the last player connects.
In Official Competitive matchmaking, if any player has not connected by the end of warmup, they will receive an abandon and the match will be aborted.
Fixed vote accounting in cases when players disconnect while the vote is in progress.
Fixed a bug related to purchasing armor.
Fixed smoke grenades popping again when thrown into more than one molotov fire in a row.
Smoke volumes are now more consistently shaped with the particles more evenly distributed. The overall shape is now round and no longer square.
Increased minimum distance from the center of a smoke grenade volume in which a player's view will be completely obscured by smoked.
Fixed some "micro hitches" related to picking up weapons with custom finishes and new players joining a game.
Fixed several potential crashes.
Fixed some Coach bugs
Fixed radar and overview maps for coaches not behaving like players.
Fixed scoreboard item status for coaches not behaving like players.
Added support for concommand spec_player_by_name for in-game spectators.
Improved Official Competitive matchmaking scheduler to support more than 65,535 users playing competitive matches concurrently.
Default USP, M4A1-S, and CZ-75 Auto weapons that are on the ground will show the correct names in "swap for" message.
Decoy grenades now work properly for the USP-S, M4A1-S, and CZ75 Auto.
Steam accounts that have never played CS:GO can now purchase and receive CS:GO inventory items via Steam Trading.

n111

2014-04-24 14:11

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Sry for the reply. Im wondering about this command letting us bind it to another key now, "cl_scoreboard_mouse_enable_binding +jump" can u bind it like to f.ex "cl_scoreboard_mouse_enable_binding /" or does it need to be an +"action" like attack etc.?

2014-04-24 21:25

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Put this in your autoexec: alias "Slash" "" bind / "Slash" cl_scoreboard_mouse_enable_binding "Slash" Although I think it should be something close to your hand like alt for example (this is what I'm using): alias "Alt" "" bind alt "Alt" cl_scoreboard_mouse_enable_binding "Alt" (got this from a post on reddit)

2014-04-25 02:34

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Didnt work:) But thanks anyways!

2014-04-25 15:35

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?? i just tested it and it works.. don't forget to put host_writeconfig at the end of your autoexec or some commands won't work.

2014-04-26 08:55

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It doesnt work for me, dunno why. But it's fine, thanks for the try!

2014-04-26 11:02

HOPPAAAAA

2014-04-24 14:15

goud update

2014-04-24 14:19

nice

n1 gj ez

2014-04-24 14:20

Seriously we wait for update for 3 weeks, the best thing about this update is removing one-way smokes and its advantages and yet they fuck something up. :( smokes are bugged again (If you throw smoke on hut on de_nuke, terrorists will see nothing in the hut)

2014-04-24 14:22

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one-way smokes still work

2014-04-24 14:23

okay, they did not remove it. They decreased ability to throw one way smoke grenades.

2014-04-24 14:24

In what map spot? inferno yellow car 1 one way still working?

2014-04-24 14:31

yes both car and cart smokes on banana working, dd2 long door smoke working too.

2014-04-25 02:39

Weren't Valve employees just on a vacation? Isn't this excusable considering they're just getting back to the office? I feel like people judge a the small dev team that works on this game far too harshly

2014-04-24 14:27

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people prolly thinks that there is a lot of ppl working on CS. But in reality this is only team of few ppl, that doesn't give you to much of manpower for bugfixing. Folks should consider that they are doing probably some big feature implementations in same time for future releases, and fixing issues takes them maybe 10% of worktime ?

2014-04-24 15:03

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If it is so. I would feel responsibility for staying in touch with community in form of their csgo_dev twitter. They barely inform us what are they about to do. What was it last time? Some news about tuscan? They should interact with us more through social media and make us impatient for next updates

2014-04-24 15:14

Brute works on tuscan, he has nothing to do with valve.

2014-04-24 15:47

ok, it did kinda sound wrong. My point is their last update was ----------------------------------------- cs:go ‏@csgo_dev 20 h CS:GO Mappers: We’re playtesting your submissions for the next operation, and we’ll try to make our decision soon. Stay tuned! ----------------------------------------- That is why it confused me and I misinterpreted the message :) I mean, they posted this tweet 20hours ago and the previous tweet was posted at April 1st (!!!)

2014-04-24 15:53

I agree, I really hope they would let us know more about whats going on in terms of development. They would only benefit from it.

2014-04-24 15:55

They were on holiday over Easter.

2014-04-24 17:13

Actually from the information I've gathered, the amount of people that work on CS:GO at any moment can range from 10-20, those are numbers of devs that made games like DOOM or work for Mojang, and not a modern, competitive FPS (in contrast, imagine the size of a COD dev team). Yeah ok, this example is kind of shitty and has a lot of holes in it, but I guess it's still worthwhile considering the small size. I know it's also kind of a cop-out to support the devs, and I disagree with some of their decisions (in particular whenever they patch out boostable areas or nerf bugs that are fun to exploit), but I think they do a hell of a job given their limited manpower for such a popular game

2014-04-24 18:22

Decent update specially for MM! But I hope they have done something about hackers.

128 tick?! oh nooooooooooooooooo, wtf this smoke

2014-04-24 14:25

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U high m8?

u should know, that pushing 128 tickserver has nothing to do with team that is doing game fixes and shipping updates. It fully depends on valve managment related to CS:GO future if the decide to allow changing 1 variable in servers config ;]

2014-04-24 15:06

changing that value, would also mean they would have to greatly increase amount of servers, and decrease servers per machine... it's not just simply changing a value, that could in fact make worse issues than a low tickrate :)

2014-04-24 16:38

any of those said problems are minor nuisances to a company the size of valve.

2014-04-24 20:50

lolno

No, it's not... you need to remember that valve is a business... their main goal will be to make money. end of story. - sorry for the late response, havent been around this site alot.

2014-06-16 18:49

best bumperino

2014-06-16 19:02

thats why I wrote that is managment decision. Just ommited resource allocation problem, cause prolly everyone by now should now that simple 'var' change value is not so simple ;]

2014-04-24 22:52

valve gonna launch 128 tick server if only you play 10$.

2014-04-24 17:54

There actually should be a "save leaving" like in DOTA2 if someone gets kicked or abandonds the match.

2014-04-24 14:26

------------------------- one way smokes is way better now.. people remember the smoke on top of hut on nuke? yea that works again and so does all the other, increased one way smokes **** edit; its not as effective but some of them still work*

2014-04-24 14:35

BIG NO! I just tried it now and you can CLEARLY see when you enter on hut with smokes on his roof. But there is a bit smoke on your vision BUT you can CLEAR SEE!

2014-04-24 14:48

edit; its not as effective but some of them still work*

2014-04-24 14:54

idk because I tested it, even placing the smoke into the most lower part of the roof, still I can CLEARLY see when I come and go out to A site. But the one way smoke on inferno yellow is still working I think.

2014-04-24 15:46

youtube.com/watch?v=z13qnzUQwuI

2014-04-24 14:32

"In Official Competitive matchmaking, the initial warmup timer will now start at 5min and reduce to 30s when the last player connects. In Official Competitive matchmaking, if any player has not connected by the end of warmup, they will receive an abandon and the match will be aborted." Finally.

They should done better like in dota2 the "safe to leave" when 1 players will abandon maybe 5-10 minutes after the game starts. And the cooldown system because i've been banned 7 days in multiple times because of electricity shortage(black out) or internet disconnection. But it's decent update about MM ;)

2014-04-24 14:41

they should do something about that CZ... increase the price or nerf it

2014-04-24 14:34

24 bullets .. nothing more to say .. same firepower like p250 but automatic .. BUT low of ammo

2014-04-24 14:38

No they shouldn't. Anti-ecos must be played a lot more carefully, and especially avoid short-range confrontations, where the CZ is king. Use your brain.

2014-04-24 15:35

"and especially avoid short-range confrontations" Wanna tell me how to go plant without getting in a short-range confrontation? :)

2014-04-24 16:25

don't waste your time

2014-04-24 16:35

I don't know I'm an idiot.

2014-04-24 16:45

pretty nice update, I was annoyed by the wrong sound of decoys for newer guns ))

2014-04-24 14:36

No fucking smoke performance update? from 140-160 to 80 fps simply by standing in a fucking smoke? fucking retards.

I think you have no idea how a smoke works, but yeah they could actually do something about it.

2014-04-24 14:47

story of my life :/

Vertigo: Added bomb teleport trigger to prevent bomb falling out of playable area Stupid :( I like that peeking some of the cliff corners comes with a risk of dropping the bomb if killed. Same with running the bridge, or running the bombspot outer sideways. Closed off dumpster in chokepoint near bombsite B. It was kind of OP spot, but still i guess they could do a lot of other stuff to make B more an option. 90% of rushes is towards A still. Fixed players being able to climb down elevator shaft It was a nice gun save spot, and totally unnecessary to do anything about it. I rarely see anybody hide there just for the fun of it. Im quite surprised they didnt fix ct´s jumping to T spawn.. which they already tried to elimite before, only the invisble box they placed back then was too small, and it can still be strafed around successfully.

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How did I know that it would be you the first to comment the vertigo changes ? ahah jk I actually like the map although I don't play it that often now

:D who else!

2014-04-24 14:59

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How do you not get bored of playing vertigo 24/7

2014-04-24 15:52

steamcommunity.com/id/BATISTUTA9/ Currently Offline Last Online: 5 days ago Would not call that 24/7, but i get your point. I like to get deep down into the maps.. Know every single possible move, peek,wallbangs, position, patterns, jumps, tricks. Now i have 1040 wins on this map, and yet i find new stuff every second week or so. :)

2014-04-24 15:57

Do you actually keep count or are all your wins on Vertigo? XD

2014-04-24 17:11

I dont keep count and 1040 is mu current wins. I can safely say min. 900 is from vertigo

2014-04-24 18:56

You just said you have 1040 wins on that map, that's why I was wondering :) Aight!

I know.. It was just quickly written. Not precise.

2014-04-24 19:10

wow n00b, so that's how you have global elite.

2014-04-24 20:08

I admire your perseverance, and yet wonder... does your dedication come with a prize? You might lose your job, gf, house even! Be watchfull my friend, I've been there!

2014-04-25 00:32

I guess they removed the elevator shaft jump because DM and Casual on vertigo was full of people trying to jump down there. Might increase the overall enjoyment of playing vertigo, dunno

2014-04-24 15:51

Have to be something like that yes. If they added a second entrance to B, i think this map could be absolutely awesome on pro level. You can get from spawn to spawn in 5 seconds, this adds something to the tactic aspect we havent seen before. I really love the upper/lower design, partially like nuke..

2014-04-24 16:01

too many "one-way" gaps and poor visibility for it to be taken seriously, but its a great map for having fun when you're just dicking around at 4 in the morning :)

2014-04-24 16:30

"Enabled collision on arch corners" Can some1 explain it in details please :D?

2014-04-24 14:42

-In Official Competitive matchmaking, the initial warmup timer will now start at 5min and reduce to 30s when the last player connects. -In Official Competitive matchmaking, if any player has not connected by the end of warmup, they will receive an abandon and the match will be aborted. Oh yeah!

'Improved signage' gg our console developers

Tralala smoke bug again youtube.com/watch?v=VazTFiwQ5UE They even test these updates?! Anyway, I really like the matchmaking tweaks.

i dont think so, we need csgo test...

2014-04-24 14:51

I love valve but they are just so good at trying to fix one thing and then fucking up something else. It amazes me every single time xD

2014-04-24 15:04

"In Official Competitive matchmaking, if any player has not connected by the end of warmup, they will receive an abandon and the match will be aborted." FINALLY

2014-04-24 14:52

where are the DM servers!??!

2014-04-24 14:56

I don't know what you're Tolkien about.

2014-04-24 15:01

nip, titan, clan mystik dms are gone for me

2014-04-24 16:20

Because Valve f* up sourcemod.

2014-04-24 18:41

and two bug: rank down

2014-04-24 14:58

In Official Competitive matchmaking, the initial warmup timer will now start at 5min and reduce to 30s when the last player connects. I didn't understand that yet..:/

You don't join the server right away when playing MM. So the timer will start at 5 minutes warmup, but when the last player connects, clicks on that OK thing or whatever, the timer will change to 30 sec automatically. Like the timer is on 2 minutes, last man joins and it changes to 30sec

2014-04-24 15:02

When u get to server, warmup time is 5mins TILL the last player joins (10th player), warmup time goes down to 30seconds and game will start.

Ohh ok Ty, n1 volvo

2014-04-24 15:08

good update, appreciate it. :)

2014-04-24 15:16

"Improved lobby performance " What did this do?

2014-04-24 15:20

Hopefully it has something to do with restricting a lobby to a max of 5 players. It's annoying when you're queueing 5 guys and suddenly some random dude decides to join the lobby, and your queueing gets fucked up ...

2014-04-24 15:28

Put it to invite only and don't invite 20 people.

2014-04-24 16:34

Or simply have the possibility of being +5 persons in a lobby fixed. And as for the "dont invite 20 people", I don't know where you got that from.. just sounds like you wanna be a douche :-) It just shouldn't be possible to be 6 man (or more) in a lobby, when you can't queue more than 5v5 games. That should be logic. :-)

2014-04-24 17:10

Yeah. I don't know what's this all about too. lol

new update ruins game

2014-04-24 15:33

nq they brought smoke bug back!!!

2014-04-24 15:36

The bomb still can drop in the water on de_seaside ??? It's so damn stupid when it happens.

2014-04-24 15:39

Aliansijs :)

2014-04-24 17:18

good: one-way smoke nerfed bad: smoke OPness increased good: Fixed decoy bad: Decoy still appear on radar

2014-04-24 16:10

in fact, the decoy is near useless, because of that radar issue... they really gotta do something about that.

2014-04-24 16:44

Yes. They decoy should work like a player model or a bomb, appearing on the radar only when you look at

2014-04-24 17:02

I smoke everyday :)

2014-04-24 16:11

Everyone will go to take a dump in warmup, just to troll players. I think this will be very annoying.

2014-04-24 16:14

2014-04-24 16:39

That's exactly what i thought... let the trolling begin :(

Just imagine, when you search for a match 5 mins, then some random douche just won't connect in another 5 mins. You spend 10 mins doing nothing and yet you have no match to play. HF

2014-04-24 17:39

I would rather lose 10 minutes than 40 and playing with f* bot.

2014-04-24 18:45

I would rather not get trolled and make it dota style. 2 min waiting time, then automatically abort.

2014-04-24 19:06

^this

2014-04-24 19:08

same

2014-04-24 19:19

why some people need 5min to connect?

2014-04-24 17:08

because of low-end pc's i guess

2014-04-24 17:12

Anything can happen, the world around don't stop existing when you are playing.

2014-04-24 18:57

In Official Competitive matchmaking - means no more pistol rounds with BOTs

2014-04-24 18:02

2014-04-24 18:11

Improved lobby performance. Good!!! still waiting for an anticheat

2014-04-24 19:07

What we need now?! - improved anti-cheat - 128tic servers for MM (I would pay for it) - pistols need better balance (Deagle) - grenades fix (he grenade hitboxes, flasbangs constistency) - hitboxes needs major changes - Try to come up with new maps - movement major changes - game is only gray and brown (make it more colerfull) - price for pistol CZ75 is low - make AWP kill again 300 dollars . . . much more, these are major changes that needs to be down asap

2014-04-24 19:13

cz75 has like no ammo why i should pay 400 or 500 for that? lol

2014-04-24 19:46

It's OP as fuck. Players rarely buy SMG's after pistolround win anymore because the CZ is so ridiculously good, they just go straight for famas / galil. You should not be able to kill 2 fully armored guys in less than a second (close range) by just ducking and pressing mouse1 with a "pistol". This happens all the time. Low ammo is a bad argument imo because you can pick up weapons. If 24 bullets isn't enough to kill one opponent and find another weapon for you i'd say l2p noob. My opinion on CZ is they should raise the price to 600, so players can't go helmet, kevlar and CZ after losing pistol round with no kills. OR, I would prefer if they just nerfed firerate and accuracy a bit.

2014-04-24 20:23

"If 24 bullets isn't enough to kill one opponent and find another weapon for you i'd say l2p noob." if u cant kill a guy with pistol while u are using Riffle you are noob.

2014-04-24 20:25

It's not a pistol it's almost the same as an M4 on close range. That's my point.

2014-04-24 20:28

It's barely a pistol though

2014-04-25 10:00

- improved anti-cheat VAC works. people like you obviously just don't realise how it works. it's always being updated to detect the latest cheats (see the news about the big organner banwave). valve wont make VAC visibly better akin to ESEA anticheat client. There is always going to be cheaters its unavoidable. - 128tic servers for MM (I would pay for it) They wont ever add 128 tick servers i don't think. but having it as a more premium service is a good idea that i hope they take onboard. - pistols need better balance (Deagle) Yes, maybe still greater accuracy improvement. Only the first shot is remotely accurate then its just awful. Either make it better still, or reduce its price back down to $650. - grenades fix (he grenade hitboxes, flasbangs constistency) grenade hitboxes and collisions with players were fixed several patches ago. flashes are still ok imo - hitboxes needs major changes why? they match the player models almost as closely as is possible. this doesn't need revising - Try to come up with new maps Valve don't make maps that are viable for competitive play. They never have. All of the original CS maps that were updated for CSS and CSGO were made by the original HL mod for 1.6 and 'polished' by valve. Anything good competitive wise that we get will be community driven into the 'operations' like cache was. (hoping for tuscan) - movement major changes just enough to remove the peeker advantage would be nice. people should have just gotten used to the csgo movement by now that it isn't so much a problem. - game is only gray and brown (make it more colerfull) wont happen. too much work to retexture all of the maps and they arent that bad. just fiddle with your own monitor/gcard color settings (particularly digital vibrance) - price for pistol CZ75 is low it's a suitable alternative to the p250. if they increased cz cost, they'd have to increase p250 cost. imo for a 24 bullet automatic pistol it's a good alternative to the p250. - make AWP kill again 300 dollars $200 would be fine. it obviously isn't that much of an issue atm in competitive play. least it isn't still $50

Pretty sure I've been killed behind a wall plenty of times without having the wall penetration icon displaying and I completely disagree saying the grenades have been "fixed" as they are extremely inconsistent with damage vs distance

2014-04-24 20:54

if u got killed and u were behind a wall it wont be hitbox it must be lag or netcode issue. and i've not noticed much issues with the nades damage / distance myself

2014-04-24 21:16

I got the impression that hitbox/netcode are kinda related? In that interp can lead to your hitbox/model displaying in different places?

2014-04-25 09:58

yes it's probably that

2014-04-25 12:56

Pretty sure it's significantly different from any other version of cs I've played. I do play MM more than any thing so 66 tick etc, and I actually recognise an improvement even on 128tick DM's

2014-04-25 14:00

well when you say the hitboxes are the problem that still isn't exactly correct since the netcode and/or interp lag is forcing them out of position. hitboxes are fine :p

2014-04-25 18:49

still no fix for the ice skating movement... slowly getting frustrating

2014-04-24 20:05

why no info about updates inside csgo news panel?! :(

fps 30-50 less after every update

Story of my life. Someone help us!!

2014-04-25 14:52

get a decent computer. my fps is the same (200+) since the last few patches.

2014-04-25 19:16

it's not the computer. i had 300fps locked before. now it's 200-300 with decreased graphics settings. definitely a big difference. it's still good, but it was better before

2014-04-26 18:29

Every small "bug" that players started using valve fix trough this updates,and it makes game more and more usual and boring. :S

2014-04-24 20:30

I can tell you abused one way smokes... bad

2014-04-25 18:39

still no custom ui..

2014-04-24 22:39

Great job valve :D buy time in warmup again 45sec :D Great warm up when you can not buy any other weapon :D 3 party plugins sucesfully get_rekt Client fps now more unstable Enjoy this game ...

2014-04-24 22:44

New smoke update is even worse. radar bug is back, and the smoke is so thin in the bottom corners. Fucking valve

2014-04-25 04:14

2014-04-25 06:36

better anti cheat would be great.. oh wait its valve

2014-04-25 11:25

ok good updates, but we want 128tick rate servers on mm for fuck sake it's really so hard get them with all money they got from keys and cs:go items transactions..

2014-04-25 12:52

There are far more important Things to fix than 128tic on MM! Recoil, movement, weapon accuracy, wallbangs.

2014-04-25 12:57

How can i fix my fps?!

2014-04-25 13:17

is the scoreboard bind command bugged for anyone else? Doesn't work for me at all.

2014-04-25 20:31

somewhat off/ontopic I've been playing CS 1.0 til mid 1.6 (2006-07 ish) and played some source casually yonks ago. The last 3-4 months I started watching pro csgo via Anders and semmler twitch streams and oh boy it got worse, both in terms of gameplay/community. While HE grenades were somewhat overpowered in 1.6 but valve went complete bonkers and made them pretty much useless. Pistols are now pretty much rifles... nothing against the idea of making them somewhat stronger and eco rounds a little bit more tense but valve again went completely insane. Again, nothing against changes. I'm not one of those crybabies and actually like change and new things but don't go overboard. Don't get me started on the whole skins issue. And there is the lack of top pro clans, it's always the same guys playing. Also, kinda funny that pro players complaining about minor things like one-sided smokes but they don't care about the non-existing fixed graphic settings/resolution rule which is an even worse issue on paper... "esport" (cringworthy term) or should I say semi-serious competitive-gaming is a joke. Can't wait until sponsor support stops because they're playing on ultra low settings/800x600 with their I7 machines. It happened with 1.6 and it will happen again.

2014-04-26 00:30

The best update for valve will be to fix the hackers in high rank. Put every new account must have 300h to play after Master Guardian becouse the cheaters want i think to be global elite thats will be problem for them to waste the time for nothing. or get banned in first 100h if they start to using cheat when start to play cs go. Sorry for my bad English.

2014-04-26 03:10