[MISC]
– Added a new game communication setting “Text Filtering” which is enabled by default and blocks profane words used in text chat.
– Fixed a trigger_bomb_reset regression.

[GAMEPLAY]
– Added the ‘Boost Player Contrast’ advanced video setting, which improves the legibility of players in low contrast situations.

[AGENTS]
– Adjusted some agent textures for improved visibility.

[MISC]
– Adjusted dropped C4 collision geometry.
– Fixed Danger Zone drone pilot camera getting stuck when drone received burn damage.
– Added Desert Eagle shell eject event for last bullet fired.

[RENDERING]
– Minor texture streaming optimizations.

[MAPS]

Overpass:
– Removed large ivy-models near bathrooms by A site
– Removed thin windows in bathrooms by A site
– Removed bicycle by picnic by A long
– Brightened up connector tunnel
– Brightened up T spawn
– Added nice stone trims

Dust2:
– Flipped B site doors
– Simplified background when looking from B tunnels towards truck in mid
– Changed fog start distance from 1000 to 512, changed max density from .2 to .4
– Raised windows by A site ramp to make characters stand out more

Mirage:
– Removed trash pile at top of mid
– Trimmed plant b...

[RENDERING]
– Texture streaming now loads textures flagged with no mip maps or no lod at full initial resolution.

[MAPS]
Chlorine
-Added missing glowy eyes texture

Anubis
-Fixed many minor issues such as z fighting, prop reflections and invisible faces
-Improved player readability at canal
-Improved performance
-Redesigned B main path & entrance
-Moved up CT spawn

[ GAMEPLAY ]
– Grenades can no longer apply impact damage more than once.

[ OPERATION SHATTERED WEB ]
– Added all operation missions for Week 16.

[ MISC ]
– Materials now store an internal parameter precache to reduce the need for disk access during gameplay.
– Fixed a regression with player models in Danger Zone.

[ MAPS ]
Vertigo
– Fixed server lag exploit
– Fixed minor graphical bugs

[ MISC ]
– Updated Diamond Operation Coin materials.
– Fixed several respawn-related bugs in the Co-op Strike mission.
– Fixed a bug in exploding barrels sometimes awarding multiple points towards mission progress.
– Fixed a UI error showing negative number of missions for Diamond Operation Coin owners.
– Fixed a UI error in workshop maps.
– Updated Mac-10 texture UVs for Inferno 2019 Collection.

A new build (“texture_streaming_beta”) is now available in the CS:GO beta depot. This build is compatible with public matchmaking.

For instructions on how to opt into a CS:GO beta depot build, visit the following page: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9847-WHXC-7326

[MISC]
Texture Compositor
– Optimized texture generation by giving composite textures destined for models that are already rendering higher priority in the generation queue.
– Added a trailing cache of composite inputs, designed to optimize composite generation for sequences of similar jobs.
– More asynchronous texture requests are allowed per cycle, allowing composites to generate faster on some systems.

Texture Streaming
– Added an experimental graphics setting; ‘Texture Streaming’ in video options. Texture streaming allows the game to defer loading of high-resolution textures until they are needed for rendering, potentially saving a significant amount of video memory. On systems with slower disk access...

[GAMEPLAY]
– Improved reliability of picking up weapons with +use when nearby dropped grenades are present. (Thanks birkir!)
– Explosive grenade damage around small obstacles such as stairs will now apply damage to players more reliably.
– Hostages will no longer obscure flashbang traces, allowing players behind them to be blinded.
– Players that start the round with a taser and no pistol no longer have their taser deleted, and rechargeable tasers are now recharged at round start.
– Fixed Danger Zone piloted drone self-destruct timer resetting due to zone damage or repeated player input.

[PURE SERVERS]
– Added a setting sv_pure_allow_loose_file_loads for game servers to control whether third-party files can be loaded by clients. Users are allowed to have third-party files on disk, but the files will be ignored when playing on such pure game servers. If users already loaded third-party files into game memory, then their game client must be restarted in order to connect to such pure game...

[GAMEPLAY]
– Added kill feed icons for blind shooter, kills through smoke, and no scope sniper kills; all kill feed icons feature the bullet on the same line.
– When spawn immunity time is set to a negative value then spawning players will not have immunity even during warmup period.
– Fully disabled player immunity in 1v1 Wingman warmup period arenas, and added logic to clear blood decals for each encounter.
– sv_pure servers will now kick clients that have loaded asset files into game memory from files not present on game server filesystem.

[UI]
– Fixed showing observed player crosshair in the editor menu.
– Fixed strings on crosshair import dialog being truncated in some languages.
– Fixed crosshair codes storing incorrect values for values out of range.

[MISC]
– Updated third person pose for G3SG1, and taught Terrorists a better way to hold AUG in the buy menu.
– To welcome the sunny weather outside, switched main menu movie scenery to Nuke.
– Added ability to purchase coupon items...

Update 4/17/2020: Regional Major Ranking has been updated, visit this page for up to date information: Regional Major Ranking.

Update 4/8/2020: The invites have been updated to reflect C0ntact’s return to the EU.

The Rio Major will take place in November and, as the only Major of 2020, the prize pool will be $2,000,000.

It will have been more than a year since the last Major. To ensure that the Rio Major features the top teams in the world, we will require that current Legends and Challengers demonstrate that they are still in top form. Due to the difficulty in travel for the foreseeable future, we’re going to do that regionally.

Regional Major Rankings

All teams participating in the November Rio Major will earn their invites through regional rankings, which will be updated based on their performance in upcoming Regional Major Ranking competitions.

Teams competing in an RMR series will receive Major Ranking points based on their placement. We will have more details on the point di...

Half-Life: Alyx launches March 23rd, and we’re celebrating the release in CS:GO! Half-Life themed Stickers, Collectible Pins, and Patches are now available for purchase in-game.

Valve Index

If you purchased Valve Index hardware prior to Alyx’s release, you’ll receive a Genuine version of the Alyx Pin from the new collection, as well as an exclusive Half-Life: Alyx Music Kit!

[ MISC ]
– Updated Diamond Operation Coin materials.
– Fixed several respawn-related bugs in the Co-op Strike mission.
– Fixed a bug in exploding barrels sometimes awarding multiple points towards mission progress.
– Fixed a UI error showing negative number of missions for Diamond Operation Coin owners.
– Fixed a UI error in workshop maps.
– Updated Mac-10 texture UVs for Inferno 2019 Collection.

[ OPERATION SHATTERED WEB ]
– Added all operation missions for Week 16.

[ MISC ]
– Materials now store an internal parameter precache to reduce the need for disk access during gameplay.
– Fixed a regression with player models in Danger Zone.

[ MAPS ]
Vertigo
– Fixed server lag exploit
– Fixed minor graphical bugs

[ UI ]
– Added a game setting to control buy menu starting mouse position.
– Added a game setting to allow ignoring number keys in buy menu.
– Fixed a regression with Mac-10 model preview in buy menu.
– Optimized amount of models loaded for agent scenes in UI.

[ DANGER ZONE ]
– Paradrop crates now have a chance to contain a giant money bonus instead of a rifle.
– Enabled visual item pick up effect for some non-weapon items.

[ ANTI-CHEAT ]
– Users can now report players from their own recently played matches provided the demo is viewed from the Watch Tab.
– Matchmaking has been adjusted to increase the weight of Trust Factor. Users with High Trust who experience cheating in their matches going forward should report those experiences to [email protected] with the subject “Cheating in High Trust Matches.” Please include a link to your steam community profile, approximate time of your match and which game mode you were playing.
– Overwatch users should experience significa...

[AGENTS]
– Updated Balkan, FBI, and ST6 sleeve textures to closer match 3rd person model.

[DANGER ZONE]
– Added a death notice icon for stomp damage.

[MISC]
– Fixed a rare server crash during Guardian wave restarts.
– Disabled holiday mode
– Fixed startmovie sound not being synchronized with the images.
– Added support for recording sound with surround sound devices, channels are recorded as mixed originally by the game.

Bring your favorite character into battle with all-new equippable agents! Earn rewards featuring the new agents, all-new weapon collections, stickers, graffiti, and more through a new battle pass format. See all of the rewards and more info here!

Agents, Weapons, and More

Operation Shattered Web features CS:GO’s first ‘agents,’ characters that can be equipped on the T or CT side. In addition to their unique look, Master Agents have special voice lines and animations–you’ll get one Master Agent when you earn your final reward.

Along the way, you’ll earn several Operation Shattered Web Weapon Cases, along with weapons from three brand new weapons collections featuring designs from community artists. You’ll also earn all-new graffiti and community-designed stickers!

Missions Accomplished

Each week, you’ll get access to new missions in various CS:GO game modes, including cooperative Guardian missions and an all-new Strike mission. Missions are available to all players, but you’ll need an...

[OPERATION SHATTERED WEB]
– Introducing Operation Shattered Web, featuring all-new equippable Agents, weapon collections, missions, and more!
– For more details visit www.counter-strike.net/shatteredweb

[ GAMEPLAY ]
– Increased price of SG553 to $3000 to bring its price more in line with its value.
– Reduced the price of FAMAS and Galil by $200 (to $2050 and $1800, respectively)
– Improved full-auto spraying accuracy of FAMAS and Galil.

[ Danger Zone ]
– Buymenu price adjustments for ssg08 and radar jammer.
– Minor timing adjustments for locked door and safe interaction.
– Automated sentries now fire M249 bullets.
– Added killfeed icon for automated sentry.
– Added more explosive barrels.
– Tablet crate icons now show an above/below annotation if significantly above or below the player.
– Minor change to zone effect visuals.

[ MISC ]
– ‘AWP | Hyper Beast’ and ‘P90 | Nostalgia’ updated to correct wear at Factory New

[ WORKSHOP ]
Pearlescent coatings:

We have added support for applying a...

A quick update on our plans for 2020 Majors:

Some of the feedback we’ve received in response to our blog post “Keeping Things Competitive” from teams and tournament organizers is that the business of leagues (specifically, shared ownership of leagues between TOs and teams) does not create new conflicts of interest, because similar arrangements have existed in the past and those conflicts of interest are not significant.

While we can point to clear cases where relationships between teams and TOs have generated distrust in the community, we agree that our near-term priority should be collecting more data and requiring more transparency so that conflicts of interest can be properly evaluated.

Therefore, for 2020, teams and players registering for the Majors will be required to publicly disclose their business relationships with other participants and/or the tournament organizer, so that public conversations can be had about the value that leagues and other entanglements offer versus the ...

[MISC]
– Berlin 2019 tournament items are no longer available for purchase.
– Enabled display of overhead equipment for teammates by default.
– Fixed simulated grenade trajectory preview ending one tick too soon.
– Fixed water sounds to not play for simulated grenade trajectory previews.
– Fixed a bug in deathmatch AI where bots wouldn’t shoot breakable items in certain situations.

We’re back from the incredible StarLadder Berlin Major. While the teams were busy with record-breaking 60-round matches, the community was busy as well: tournament items for this major will pay out over $11 million for participating teams and players!

During the Major, we followed conversations in the community about leagues, media rights, and the future of CS:GO events. And while we typically don’t weigh in on these conversations, there are a few issues we want to clarify to make sure everyone is on the same page.

Leagues

We make it free to get a license to operate a CSGO tournament because we want to get out of the way of third parties creating value for our customers. Often that value comes from experimentation–tournament operators experiment with presentation, technology, formats, locations, etc. We support experiments that are scoped large enough to identify new and interesting opportunities, but not so large that if they fail it would be hard for the ecosystem to recover. With t...