Valve adjust demo playback system in update

Players can now access a demo playback option that will more closely match the player's perspective, rather than the server's.

Valve has released a new update for CS2, focused primarily on adjustments to the demo playback system.

The new "TrueView" demo playback system has been introduced with the purpose of matching "the player's original experience much more closely." This stands in contrast to the old demo playback system, which showed players the server's perspective of events instead.

Along with the addition of TrueView, Valve also included some minor tweaks to movement associated with surfing.

The full patch notes are:

[GAMEPLAY]

• Fixed a case where air acceleration was clamped incorrectly while surfing.

• Fixed a case where slowly surfing up a ramp was handled incorrectly due to misidentification as a jump apex.

• Fix a bug causing "Delay Sniper Rifle Un-Scope after Shot" to be inconsistent.

[DEMO]

• Added TrueView demo playback, which reconstructs the observed player's original experience more accurately by re-running client-side prediction.

• TrueView playback will show the effects of Damage Prediction, if it was enabled by the observed player at the time.

• TrueView does not reconstruct the precise timings of rendered frames, so some differences between the original player's experience and TrueView playback will remain, especially in very slow motion playback. The player's frame at the time when the mouse was clicked, which is used for hit registration, is shown accurately to the nearest demo playback frame. However, reaction effects such as recoil, muzzle flash, blood splatter, and ragdoll are delayed while playing the game by one or two frames due to the way CPU and GPU work is pipelined, and will not appear at the same time during demo playback.

• TrueView demo playback might not work properly on old demos and is disabled by default if the playback client version does not match the client version when the demo was recorded. You can set cl_demo_predict 2 to override this.

• Fixed a bug causing third person models to not animate smoothly.

• Fixed a bug causing time to lurch forward by one tick when unpausing a demo.

[MISC]

• Animation fixes for G3SG1 bolt.

• Fixed developer console scrollbar to accept mouse clicks.