Valve pushes audio bug update

In a small release, Valve has put out an update to the game client which possibly fixes the footsteps bug that several teams said impacted their games at the Major.

During and after the New Challengers stage of the FACEIT Major, a string of players took to Twitter to address a specific audio problem which apparently meant some players footsteps couldn't be heard by either side.

Now Valve has pushed an update to the game that, according to the official Counter-Strike blog, 'switches footsteps near the player from using a mix of client-simulated and server-authoritative to purely server-authoritative'.

Neither the blog post nor the tweet from the official CS:GO developer's account adress the apparent problems at the FACEIT Major, but the wording in the changelog suggests that the update does indeed relate to some kind of problem regarding the audibility of footsteps in-game.

Coaches and players from teams such as Renegades, Astralis, Liquid and Complexity originally pointed out the problems with inaudible footsteps, with North in-game leader Mathias "⁠MSL⁠" Lauridsen being the one of the most critical after his team was eliminated on Saturday.

MSL went on to say that the team did give feedback to FACEIT 'through their channels' about several tech issues during the New Challenger stage.

The full changelog for the update can be found below:

[ SOUND ]
– Added a server setting “mp_footsteps_serverside” which is enabled by default and switches footsteps near the player from using a mix of client-simulated and server-authoritative to purely server-authoritative.