Unlocked Drone Pilot Tablet, Bonus Wave Money, Bonus Explore Money, and Armor+Helmet as starting item options.
Drone Pilot upgrade is now available for purchase in the Tablet Buy Menu.
Tasers will now always open the crate they are fired at; they no longer sometimes do partial crate damage.
Shields dropped from death have a slight delay before being automatically picked by nearby players.
Fixed some instances of safe models spawning in midair.
Fixed item outline colors on dropped grenades.
Map collision fixes and stuck spot removals, and a few visual bugs squashed too.
GAMEPLAY
Loss bonus money will now always step down to $2,900 after a team with a $3,400 max loss bonus streak wins a round.
UI
Introducing the “Looking to Play” feature: players can now advertise themselves as available for party invites, can be invited by other parties from the “Looking to Play” tab of their CS:GO friends list, and can accept party invites from the CS:GO main menu.
Introducing CS:GO Events: players can now see an HLTV-provided schedule of professional LAN events in the Watch tab. Favorite your preferred community tournaments and get notified about professional live matches on the CS:GO main menu.
MISC
Friends and other players can no longer join lobbies that already entered matchmaking queue.
Fixed exploits related to vote commands.
MAP
Latest updates to community maps Ruby and Workout.
Ruby:
Minor bug fixes
Clean up
Added setdressing
Added boost in Alley
Added boost spot in mid for Ts
Overall gameplay tweaks
Trimmed excessive areas
Improved overall gameplay flow
Large changes to mid to improve flow
Rerouted alley from A main to mid
Removed ladder bug
Removed pixel walk
Workout:
Fixed boosting into the hole in Kids Zone
Deleted a rogue spawn point
Fixed some shadow issues in the court area
Brightened the shower area slightly
SDK
VBSP: Fixed a rare bug in displacement physics hull generation during map compilation that could result in large gaps near the edges of completely flat displacement surfaces.
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