Nuke, audio changes in new update

8-12-2016 03:10

Valve have shipped a new update to CS:GO, which brings a variety of changes to Nuke and new algorithms to enhance vertical and horizontal sound positioning.

In another extensive update, Valve have approached the audio issues in the game and added a new option for sound processing, which uses the HRTF (head-related transfer function) algorithms.

According to the announcement, the new option will help enhance "360-degree vertical and horizontal sound positioning while using headphones."

The new update brings a variety of changes to Nuke as well, such as the removal of plant spots on top of silos on both bombsites. The entrance to squeaky has been moved and the window in toxic room replaced with double doors, among other minor changes.

[Holidays]

Deployed Holiday Cheer for your festive fragging season.
You can spread the Holiday Cheer! Gifts are now available for a limited time.

[Sound]

Added new audio option that enables Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) processing on in-game sounds. The goal is to vastly improve 360 degree vertical and horizontal sound positioning.
By default, Speaker Configuration in Audio Settings has been set to “Headphones with HRTF.” Selecting an alternative speaker configuration will disable HRTF.
NOTE: For an optimal experience with HRTF, we recommend turning off any external 5.1 or 7.1 surround audio driver options.

[Public Lobbies]

In the friends panel “Steam Groups” have been renamed to “Public Lobbies”.
The “Public Lobbies” tab now shows nearby public lobbies and suggested steam group lobbies in addition to your steam group lobbies.
Lobbies now support broadcasting to nearby players. Players can use this setting for friend or steam group lobbies.
Steam Group lobbies now display the country associated with the majority of lobby members.

[Gameplay]

Third-person weapon angles now visibly match first-person weapon recoil.

[MISC]

Fixed 5 Year Veteran Coin to be granted to accounts that cancelled and later reactivated their old Counter-Strike license after they restart their CS:GO client.
Loading screen tokens can now be localized when loading Overwatch evidence or maps created by community members.
Bot names can now be localized in game language.
Added experimental plugin support for managing network channel encryption keys on community servers.

[Maps]

Nuke

Removed railing on crane in A site rafters
Removed ability to climb up on/plant the bomb on top of silos in both bombsites
Moved T entrance to squeaky to make movement smoother
Removed window in Toxic, replaced with double doors
Removed yellow bollards near Garage and Secret
Removed cover on top of Mini
Added some full cover in cubby next to ramp in bombsite B
Replaced exposed bombsite silo with simple version in bombsite A
Fixed small collision bump on ramp in ramproom where players could get stuck
Added white, flat surface on fence at T side of yard
Fixed various bugs listed on CSGOBugtracker.com (thanks to all contributors!)
General optimizations

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2016-12-08 03:11

1 reply

Omg 70% christmas discount, thank you northamerican

2016-12-08 17:15

Thank god now I can actually hear where people are

2016-12-08 03:10

Valve in a Nutshell = Soundupdate > I lose about 80-100 FPS on every map Fucking test your shit valve u retards Even fucking runescape is better nowadays

2016-12-11 11:56

The only thing about audio Valve changes is volume of complaints they listen to LUL

2 replies

prolly thats the only thing they can fix it ez and free :D

2016-12-08 06:51

Lmaoooooo

2016-12-08 21:26

O_o

sick

FINALLY AUDIO UPDATES

bad

7 replies

its only its only game why u have to be mad

2016-12-08 10:24

4 replies

no. he was saying he is bad. bad at games

2016-12-08 10:50

i said bad to get first comment, but i didnt get it

2016-12-08 13:16

fuckin nerd

2016-12-08 13:20

2016-12-08 16:19

2016-12-08 16:20

oh thank you volvo

sound is bad good job valve

Unlike 90% of people, I actually like the changes. Directions seem much better.

3 replies

i am on cobble, its a 1v1, i hear the last one running to b from platform (im on site), my whole team says 'platform!' as well, then he peaks rock and kills me... I changed to the old one immediately, the sounds were giving me aids, especially the window braking

2016-12-08 18:53

lol yeah xD my Brother had a even worse 1v2 on cobble. He plants A site with other enemies on B. Hears footsteps from connector. Hears one going on heaven. Hears footsteps from mid. Turns to kill the guy on mid. Both peak from doors and kill him xD

2016-12-08 22:44

ikr... fucking volvo, even flusha was mad

2016-12-09 00:40

expected

Cant even open csgo n1 volvo

HYPE

2016-12-08 03:13

SHIT UPDATE NOW MY CS NO OPEN FAAK

2016-12-08 03:15

5 replies

same here

2016-12-08 03:20

help pls

2016-12-08 03:33

Valve don't give a shit

2016-12-08 03:38

see this im fix the game reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/5h..

2016-12-08 03:52

ty my texas friend, now works

2016-12-08 04:06

NOTE: For an optimal experience with HRTF, we recommend turning off any external 5.1 or 7.1 surround audio driver options. People need to pay attention.

8 replies

ok i use razer kraken chrome with razer synapse, what do i need to disable?

6 replies

virtual surround sound

2016-12-08 03:46

synapse.

2016-12-08 04:51

system 32

2016-12-08 10:10

Xddddddd

2016-12-08 10:25

Grats on having worst headset in the history of headsets

2016-12-08 11:11

csgo

2016-12-08 13:34

doesn't matter, the hrtf is just PLAIN AWFUL. really.

2016-12-09 04:52

nice

Nice

2016-12-08 03:16

new nuke looks a little bit cleaner :O

2016-12-08 03:23

20 fps on 1000 dollar computer great

2016-12-08 03:24

9 replies

makefps great again

2016-12-08 05:20

2016-12-08 05:21

20 fps more cinematic

2016-12-08 08:33

my game is stuttering as fk right now...

2016-12-08 06:05

may be u spent $900 on cases, ram, and ssd :>

2016-12-08 07:19

rekt

2016-12-08 12:24

250+ fps on full hd on less than 500€ PC xD

2016-12-08 07:25

Lol

2016-12-08 10:26

When did you buy this PC? 10 years ago?

2016-12-08 09:28

can not run CS after update. Gaben rekteteted me, why? =(

2016-12-08 03:26

SHIT UPDATE ...

2016-12-08 03:29

nice update :D

2016-12-08 03:31

from 140-200 to 90-130 fps lul but gud opdate

rofl from 300 to 130 fps

2016-12-08 03:37

2016-12-08 16:58

It turns out soon we do not see Inferno on the Major? 7 days before the Minor. I want to delete this game, and will not watch the major without inferno...

haha okay see you later

2016-12-08 06:49

Inferno was removed 6 months ago, no way they are gonna put i back right now. Maybe in the next major, after Eleague's.

2016-12-08 17:22

no new gloves?? fuck valve

2016-12-08 03:41

At everyone complaining about fps drops... Go buy a new PC Kappa

2016-12-08 03:42

gj. ppl with low fps, git gud & new pc scrubs xD

2016-12-08 03:51

RIP molotov through the window of toxic.

2016-12-08 04:04

fck valve, asked me to restart steam 10 times

2016-12-08 04:05

my ears! That new surround is so shit for my Logitech G430 Edit: Please fix the FPS! I'm not the only one losing about 50 - 100FPS after that glove update! I go under 100 FPS sometimes and it's unplayable on faceit (which has 128tick )

2016-12-08 04:25

16 replies

I've the same headset, is it shitty even if you disabled the virtual 7.1? Haven't tried the game yet...

2016-12-08 12:25

I have tried the game. I tried to use either DTS or Dolby Digital, even stereo mode. HRTF just sucks, has a poor quality audio and I can't focus at all with that one. I am still using Dolby with 5.1 surround in game settings. I can hear the same except I have a really good audio quality

2016-12-08 13:06

Yeah, i would use "headphones" without any 5.1/7.1 stuff. Games are usually made perfect for stereo.

2016-12-08 14:24

I did a test and somehow 5.1 fits better for me

2016-12-08 16:09

i use 5.1 too, sounds are also louder, which is better.

2016-12-09 11:13

fps /= tick rate They are completely unrelated.

2016-12-08 13:30

10 replies

You probably havent seen having fps under tickrate

2016-12-08 14:12

...You have no idea what you are talking about. Logical loops per second has no relation to drawn frames per second.

2016-12-08 14:43

If you read what I wrote you'd probably understood. I said, I have less FPS than the tickrate's server which causes massive lags! It's the games fault. ffs

2016-12-08 16:08

I did read what you wrote.. What do you think a tick is? What do you think a frame is? You lag because your fps is low, not because it's lower than the tick rate. (Or because of another reason, I am not a psychic.)

2016-12-08 19:29

You don't know what you are talking about

2016-12-08 20:30

Yeah, keep telling yourself that.

2016-12-08 21:56

Brain dead?

Ok, so tell me, wiseass, what's a tick? And how does the frequency of ticks relate to the frequency of drawing on the screen? Because that's what you are saying.

2016-12-08 19:28

128tick = "kind of" server's FPS. If you have under that tickrate you miss server's information so out of 30 bullets maybe 20 are going out of your weapon. Brain?

2016-12-09 16:38

Nope, not even close. Well, maybe I shouldn't say "not even close," but it's not correct. gameprogrammingpatterns.com/images/game-.. gameprogrammingpatterns.com/images/game-.. The update is the tick, the render is the fps. And even that is not the whole truth, but a generalization. And neither of them deal with the amount of network traffic that gets through.

2016-12-09 17:17

WTF im deaf i dont give fuck about audio, WHERE ARE NEW OPERATION???!!!

2016-12-08 04:26

next fix/update 10mb right now

2016-12-08 04:37

128 tick and better anti cheat update is better

2016-12-08 05:02

Next Update Chicken-HD skin

2016-12-08 05:04

I am using the HRTF and felt that the new system has low normalization of audio, with big variation of sound intensity. ps.: i'm using Kraken HS.

2016-12-08 05:08

can finally hear which site bomb is planted at on nuke for the first time in 5 years people still complain

2016-12-08 05:10

nice fps now i cant play. fk you valve

2016-12-08 05:13

same shit =( from 200 to 100 with big drops

2016-12-08 06:02

same here... fk this game

2016-12-08 06:06

:/ rip

2016-12-08 15:47

Audio changes are really good, first time i can actually hear where sound is coming from. FPS on Nuke has nearly doubled for me. Wp valve

2016-12-08 05:22

but dropped on the other maps :D

2016-12-08 07:55

am i the only one that doesn't like the new sound update? i feel like they sound too far away.

2016-12-08 05:57

change ur settings and ull be fine

2016-12-08 06:33

I had to up the volume from 0.6 to 0.8 to have the same kind of levels as before. Maybe try that?

2016-12-08 19:31

im just using the old sounds now, xD

2016-12-09 14:42

fail update

Big change if the HTRF has been improved. Been after this for a while.

2016-12-08 07:06

fckn valve, ive been plying csgo for 2 years with the same pc and it never had passed 4-8% of the cpu and now ... constantly at 40-45% even in idle, mfckrs

2016-12-08 07:09

Eh what kind of cpu do you have? Cause if it never passed 8% usage while running csgo you either have some extreme thing out of this universe or it's broken...

2016-12-08 08:27

I have a shitty one quad core 9300, but i got it fixed, the problem was the audio shit headphones HTRF, just changed to speakers and the cpu went from 40-45 to 4%

2016-12-08 08:31

what is the command for always get no htrf? just speaker

2016-12-08 12:06

go to sound options

2016-12-08 15:09

there's no such thing as one sided map. Just nail one CT camper, then attack the bombsite. You must be halfway there within 30 seconds period after spawning at base.

I went from 250 fps to 500. Fuck you valve.

2016-12-08 08:01

Why is that bad?

2016-12-08 08:44

Damn newbies crying about their framerates always.

2016-12-08 08:03

As usual, about 20+ retards complaining every update when Valve fixes something. Find something else to whine about.

2016-12-08 08:14

+1 Many think that to be a true CS player one needs to be a major crybaby.

2016-12-08 08:16

2016-12-08 17:03

And in the next sentence they worship 1.6 which was a fucking bugfest. inb4 Crouchwalking was a feature!

2016-12-08 19:32

1.6 nostalgic users on here are up there with the kinds of users that trigger me the most, probably 2nd-3rd who are only rivalled by female CS:GO fans.

2016-12-08 19:39

tbh almost everyone on hltv is too young to not be triggered by... anything and everything. They have no self-distance and no perspective to not be biased as fuck.

2016-12-08 19:37

Most things on here don't really annoy me/trigger me and I'm not 'old' in that sense. Only a few things do which I blatantly see as wrong or just ridiculously biased such as for example an article about women in e-sports. Also forgot the people who shit on Valve for every update they make, who are so pedantic that they feel the need to point out every little mistake that Valve makes without seeing that they'll fix the bug a week later after it's been reported. They annoy me a lot. I agree with you though, every time Valve makes an update is the time where you get to see a large amount of HLTV's user base in action.

2016-12-08 19:42

I wonder when they will atleast try to fix the hitboxes :D

2016-12-08 08:28

Be more specific, what is wrong with the hitboxes?

2016-12-08 08:54

they fixed them a couple of months ago friend

2016-12-08 17:04

Ur just bad

2016-12-08 17:23

Bad when they're still glitching? They were better in 2015, how am I supposed to be more specific?

2016-12-08 17:24

Swap nuke with inferno in active duty maps pls

2016-12-08 08:41

2016-12-08 09:21

+1, i actually like the new inferno a lot

2016-12-08 14:38

2016-12-08 14:40

Don't like the new update.

2016-12-08 08:43

FIX FUCKING ANTI CHEAT

2016-12-08 08:46

2016-12-08 12:26

It only took Valve four years to realize that the sound needed to be corrected?? Wow...

2016-12-08 09:01

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it isnt actually broken any more for a while now its just hard to place footsteps with stereo sound when its delayed by 50ms and theyre very soft and sound the same on nearly every surface lots of people intentionally fuck up their audio placement by changing settings like snd_headphone_pan_exponent and snd_headphone_pan_radial_weight if you set these correctly for flat positioning and use a decent headset and sound card you wont have any sound problems. i know i dont. if i hear someone i know what direction he's in pretty exactly.

2016-12-08 09:24

which should be done by default, like it used to be in 1.6. anyway, Valve sucks and everyone knows that. shitupdate as expected

2016-12-08 10:54

cry more

2016-12-08 17:05

if u think that I care about csgo u are very wrong. just saying obvious things

2016-12-08 18:41

snd_mixahead 0.05 should get rid of some of the delay you're talkin about. What values do you use for the two snd_headphone commands? Just wondering - personally I don't have any problems hearing where the opponents are. Think mine are at 2.

2016-12-10 11:48

what commands? radial weight and pan exponent or speaker positions? i use mixahead 0.05 but 50ms delay is still way too much on windows i can use 0 because i have a sound card linux drivers for it are generic alsa

2016-12-10 11:51

snd_headphone_pan_exponent and snd_headphone_pan_radial_weight :-)

2016-12-10 11:52

1 and 0 for me i dont like sound postprocessing

2016-12-10 11:53

I see ^^, - Well I've been playing with "2" for so long - found the values in a guide years back afaik so no sense in changing them now :-)

2016-12-10 11:56

both on 2? then its no wonder people have a hard time hearing shit around them like 90% of your sound comes from straight in front well whatever works for you

2016-12-10 11:58

I just gave it a look while I was playing last night. Both values are actually at 0 when ingame I think. Atleast there aint a value when I check the console :-)

2016-12-11 10:39

From 300 to 120fps. Great job valve, keep going!

2016-12-08 09:04

After reading all the comments about FPS, I think i am fucked FeelsBadMan

2016-12-08 09:26

Any map builders here who can hypothesize how removing loads of textures/objects actually lowers the GFX performance as is being reported here? Seems strange. +1 on the sound. Glad this is finally being addressed.

2016-12-08 09:37

hltv.org/?pageid=18&threadid=1335399#r19.. HRTF must be overloading CPU, it doesn't concern those texture updates.

2016-12-08 11:47

Thanks Valve my friend, thank you for not fixing the hitboxes and thanks for the not-existing 128 tick servers and thank you for the very bad VAC system and the cheaters.

2016-12-08 09:38

I'm ok with 128 ticks, but hitboxes BRUH ? Wtf ?

2016-12-08 10:03

Check Nick Bunyun´s Video on youtube. He explains everything.

2016-12-08 13:13

I will

youtube.com/watch?v=3EsDMYQmYaE check it out

2016-12-08 13:48

people still watch that crappy video? that hitbox issue has been fixed months ago.

2016-12-08 19:04

My murican friend. You are about 1 year late with the hitbox party. They were fixed at the end of last year, september maybe? #runSKG

2016-12-08 13:11

hitvoxes were fixed a couple months ago friend

2016-12-08 17:57

new sounds sounds like someone fucking me to the ears at the moment

2016-12-08 10:05

Now you guys gotta get new headset. Go to razers site and Use code "hiko" at the check out to get 10% discount

2016-12-08 10:07

nt Hiko

Also if ur looking for a new monitor/video card enter code "Puppey" at the nvidia/asus store for a 10% discount

2016-12-08 10:14

sound imvprovements are great, fps drops are visible though, still usually they fix these drops with hotfixes..

interesting HRTF vs Normal youtube.com/watch?v=4BltHXngvlk

2016-12-08 10:32

fkin gaben die die

2016-12-08 10:35

-1 ruski gj volvo

2016-12-08 10:44

Oh, never expected, audio update

2016-12-08 10:56

Finally they lowered fps. Now i can buy a new pc. Thanks valve

2016-12-08 11:12

To all those complaining about sound update. You can buy headset even for $1000, it doesn't change anything when you plug it to you shitty integrated soundcard. So when you have some realtek (xD) just don't post comments about audio.

2016-12-08 12:15

>Headphones >5.1 and 7.1 pick one :D

2016-12-08 12:17

Public lobbies seem nice, especially with the country flag!

2016-12-08 12:27

MM with country flag?

2016-12-08 13:07

Yes, if you go under the public lobbies tab you can see all the "nearby lobbies" from your groups and it shows a small flag which represents the majority of player's country.

2016-12-09 11:14

I didn't test it yet when you posted. Then I tried it (thanks to you xP) and I made friends from France (4 premades and strong players to play with :D , cheers)

2016-12-09 16:39

Nice! :D Happy to know that!

2016-12-09 22:02

just turn off the new sounds = simple

2016-12-08 12:32

how

Audiosettings ? Just turn it back to Headphones

2016-12-08 14:15

how?

2016-12-08 15:46

Still shit? Its not the same as before. Maybe just a bug they will fix?

2016-12-08 15:49

it's exactly the same

2016-12-08 18:58

2016-12-08 19:02

you must be confused.

2016-12-08 19:03

I dont think so, are you being racist?

2016-12-08 21:48

12-08-2016 the day i quit csgo <3 10 fps

2016-12-08 14:16

Worst update possible (I'm talking about sound update) :|.

2016-12-08 14:22

you can turn it off

2016-12-08 17:58

guys! snd_use_hrtf 0

2016-12-08 14:26

shit sounds lol

2016-12-08 14:37

very very bad

2016-12-08 14:54

VALVE suck as fuck, my cs is lagging now, wp volvo

2016-12-08 14:56

valve should remove this stupid map

Worst update in csgo history and it was not even necessary woow well done payback is coming

then just don't use it, in stead of crying. it's actualy a good improvement, but ok..

2016-12-08 18:59

2016-12-08 19:43

minor changes [FPS] · Added Fps Destroyer

2016-12-08 15:52

I just want the old nuke back

2016-12-08 16:00

Yeah, great stuff. Before the update i had 120-140 fps and now i have sth like 20-30. Also sound changes sucks so much that i won't even say anything more now. Right now cs is unplayable for me.

2016-12-08 16:15

Same here R.I.P

2016-12-08 16:30

newbie tip: verify game cache when an update gives you framerate issues.

nuke changes video anyone?

2016-12-08 16:25

Audio update= FAIL LuL fucking bullshit. I think 2018 csgo DiE.

2016-12-08 16:43

tested it fully now. it sounded bad with my old sound config, but when i got rid of custom snd_headphone_pan_exponent, snd_headphone_pan_radial_weight and snd_headphone_position values and reset to default it sounded great. this is the best positional audio you can get within csgo. afaik. everyone should stop complaining. it might not sound pretty, as a lot of sounds are muffled. but the most important thing is that the sound engine plays the most accurate postional audio and this is a definitely and upgrade. valve did good for once. so stfu silvers.

2016-12-08 17:06

operation!

2016-12-08 17:07

THIS IS so good really. you hear everything very crisp and clear. it feels 1.6 to me... the only thing is to fix the fps issue because it is painful -40%

2016-12-08 17:08

It truly is painful.

2016-12-08 17:26

You kidding me right? The new sounds are much worse than 1.6 sounds.

2016-12-09 08:30

Its an option. I changed back to headphones, more fps (avg 70 on dust2 lol). HRTF was quite disturbing and laggy to me. Tried Nuke, must buy new cpu if i want to play that.

2016-12-08 17:35

this new audio update is so bad...I can bearly hear shit..

2016-12-08 17:46

u can set it back in audio-options.

2016-12-08 18:54

bad update lags on 64 and 128!!!!!!!!!!!1

2016-12-08 18:05

wtf is this shit do they even test this b4 actually letting it out valve bunch of downies tht dont know shit about their own game

2016-12-08 18:27

they dont test member the r8 and double crouch?

2016-12-10 12:02

In 2018 only NASA workers will be able to play cs:go with 200fps on cobblestone.

verify game cache, like always with micro-stutters after update.

2016-12-08 19:00

the sounds are awfull. jesus.

Not only did they add the HLTR thing or whatever its called. They clearly also messed with the 5.1 surround, cause i have been using it for 2 years no probs, and now i cant hear what directions or anything :( The new nuke looks crisp tho!

2016-12-08 19:24

lobby bug lul

2016-12-08 19:34

lobby bug shit sound FCK VALVE

sounds like the 7.1 function on my Cloud2 headsets... /turned off

2016-12-08 19:38

i feel like the toxic door changes were meant to benefit the cts but i think it will do the opposite. harder for cts to clear now, and ts can just shoot a hole in the door to spot the bomb

2016-12-08 19:57

Ts can just close them everytime CT tries to open them? Should be some kind of delay to close doors when they were opened

2016-12-08 20:59

i think that's how lower site doors worked in css iirc

2016-12-09 03:13

Yeah true. Cancer tbh

2016-12-09 11:37

Awesome, don't have to focus or anything, direction of all sounds feels clear as day.

2016-12-08 20:15

Nice, from 55 fps to 15. THX valve

2016-12-08 21:13

the new sound is absolutely aids. so muffled and low quality.

2016-12-08 23:34

+1 couldnt hear almost anything so had to disable hrtf And please valve make fps great again

2016-12-09 03:39

people with shitty headphones complaining lul. if you had some beyerdynamics, sennheisers or akgs you would hear the improvement. instead of your razer 5.1 and steelseries siberias lul.

2016-12-09 08:06

played last night just a small DM to experience the supreme audio quality of cs:go :D after 2 mins, reverted to standard headphones thanks valve, another useless feature in cs:go next to: grafitti gloves music kits st music kits stickers revolver etc

2016-12-09 09:03

fps drop a lot

2016-12-09 11:05

2016-12-09 11:26

I think volvo implemented the same 7.1 logic that exists on my Cloud2 :)

2016-12-09 11:49

Do they even test these things before release someone has to think

2016-12-09 23:07

rip fps... from 300 to 100. fuck you valve.

if you want high fps and high sound quality, you need a good pc, if your pc sucks, you can choose one or another. I guess many peoples will upgrade theirs pc. So its good for gaming pc comapanys and others pc/lapton companys. I hope you get paid for this Valve! :)

2016-12-10 16:32