Counter-Strike: Global Offensive patches/August 22, 2013

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August 22, 2013 CS:GO Update Released

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Patch Notes

[GAMEPLAY]

• SSG08:
  • Reduced price from 2500 to 2000.
  • Reduced standing and crouching accuracy recovery times.
• Reduced Molotov price from 500 to 400.
• Reduced Incendiary Grenade price from 850 to 600.
• Reduced Glock damage from 33 to 28.
• Fixed bug that NiP discovered where the aimpunch experienced when compensating for recoil was incorrect.
• Third person silenced muzzleflash light brightness is no longer a portion of unsilenced brightness, instead it is now completely removed.
• Chickens are no longer scared when moving silently near them or shooting near them with silenced weapons.
• Fixed a bug where removing/adding a silencer would also drop a magazine on the ground.

[MAPS]

• Fixed map placed weapons not working properly.
• Aztec:
  • New connector between A and B bombsites.
  • More cover in underpass.
  • More cover in overpass.
  • More cover at bombsite A.
  • Changed cover at CT side of bridge.
  • Removed railings on bridge.
  • Added player collision inside large vegetation models.
  • Removed collision on some props.
  • Clipped stairs.
  • Reduced fog.
  • Reduced noise in textures.

• Train:
  • Tweaked shower room.
  • Moved ladders to ends of traincars.
  • Made T entrance into bombsite A wider.
  • Reduced size of CT sniper position.
  • Removed some cover from CT sniper position.
  • Blocked visibility under electrical box at bombsite A.
  • Blocked visibility through yellow barrels at bombsite A.
  • Brightened textures near bombsite A.
  • Removed some wires at bombsite A.
  • Blocked visibility under traincars.
  • Rearranged trains at bombsite B.
  • Widened back of bombsite B, T side.
  • Replaced cover at back of bombsite B, T side.
  • Clipped stairs.
  • Optimizations.
  • Fixed radar naming.
  • Blocked visibility through concrete bags near Ivy.
  • Brightened door near Ivy.
  • Removed railing at top of ladder.
  • Brightened environment light.
  • Reduced fog.

• Inferno:
  • Fixed missing collision in an area in mid.
  • Made railing at back of bombsite A easier to see through.
  • Widened doors in construction.
  • Reduced wall penetration in construction.
  • Removed wall supports in apartments hallway.
  • Increased C4 explosion radius to make it consistent with other maps.

• Nuke:
  • Fixed a bug in ramp room.
  • Widened door in rafters.
  • Fixed some radar naming bugs.
  • Increased C4 explosion radius to make it consistent with other maps.

• Mirage:
  • Added more light to CT window into bombsite B.
  • Fixed some graphical bugs.
  • Removed small trashbags that could be mistaken for players.

• Dust2:
  • Made it easier to spot enemies at back of long A, CT side.
  • Removed center scaffolding in tunnels.

[UI]

• Added warning message for when there is a new update available.
• Fixed Main Menu for 21x9 monitors.
• Weapon Case Unlock Animation:
  • Fixed animation stopping on an item when the connection to the item server is actually unresponsive.
  • Fixed animation not closing if error dialog occurs.
  • Fixed animation restarting if space bar was pressed.
• In-game previews of StatTrak™ weapons and unusual knives now correctly display those attributes in the name.
• Weapon target ID text now colors the weapon the color of its rarity.
• Fixed StatTrak HUD element for knives hiding.
• Fixed Tooltip backgrounds disappearing when browsing Workshop maps.
• Fixed Matchmaking ACCEPT button not reappearing after you accept a match and not everyone accepts.
• Fixed spectator player panels were showing up when they shouldn't be (wrong team, wrong mode, etc).
• Fixed the spectator panel not using the new knife icons properly.
• Moved the “flashed” icon from the center of the screen, made it more subtle and added fringe fades for when your target is flashed when connected via GOTV.
• Fixed Rescue Kit displaying as Defuse Kit in hostage maps.
• Fixed pause menu missing entries.
• Fixed item drops displaying for 'Unknown' players.
• Fixed formatting of AWP kill award text in Classic Competitive.
• Teammate’s names now always show overhead during freeze time.
• Additional work on inventory, addressing edge cases where HUD positions would not update properly after a weapon had been added or removed.

[MISC]

• Added "Five Year Veteran Coin" awarded to players who were a member of the Counter-Strike community for over 5 years.
• Fixed Overwatch not displaying new cases after viewing one case.
• Fixed extended delay in the end of Classic Competitive games that had GOTV spectators.
• While watching matches in GOTV, the Autodirector is paused, not deactivated, if the spectator follows a specific player.
• Added weapon_m4a1_silencer and weapon_usp_silencer FGD entries for map makers.
• Fixed several exploits affecting dedicated servers.
• Added a server convar sv_quota_stringcmdspersecond to allow rate-limiting client string commands.
• Reduced memory usage on dedicated server.
• Fixed weapon switch and knife swing animations being choppy at low ping.
• Stability fixes in shaders
• Identified a memory allocation bug involving nVidia Geforce Drivers version 320.49 or earlier. We suggest that you update to the latest beta driver version 326.80.