Via the CS:GO blog:
Valve[ THE ELEAGUE BOSTON 2018 CS:GO MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIP ]
– Team stickers, team graffiti, and stickers autographed by CS:GO pro players are now available for purchase in-game, from the Steam Community Market, or from the 50 piece Mega Bundle on Steam. 50% of the proceeds go to the players and organizations at Boston 2018. For more details, visit http://www.counter-strike.net/pickem/boston2018
– Team stickers can be used as game pieces for the Boston 2018 Team Pick’Em Challenge.
— Preliminary stage picks can be made immediately, preliminary stage picks lock at the start of the preliminary stage matches.
— Group stage picks can be made when the preliminary stage has completed, group stage picks lock at the start of the group stage matches.
— Playoff picks can be made when the group stage has completed, playoff picks lock at the start of the first quarterfinal match.
[ HOLIDAYS ]
– Deployed Holiday Cheer for your festive fragging season.
– You can spread the Holiday Cheer! Gifts are now available for a limited time.
[ MISC ]
– Fixed ability to host offline server with friends for War Games when setting party lobby privacy to “Friends Need Invites”.
– Tournament server logs can now have item pickup/drop events enabled using mp_logdetail_items setting.
– Game servers will now sanitize player name string to not contain non-ascii control characters.
– Fixed unlocalized string in disconnect errors for other players.
– Fixed several client-side crashes.
– Added support to demoinfogo parser for decoding fixed user data size string tables which previously caused invalid substring calculation code path to run.
[ GAMEPLAY ]
– Replaced shotgun spread model (off by default). Available for offline and community servers for testing. For more details visit http://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/holiday-spread/
Rumor has it:
- A lot of new stickers and a lot of string updates in this one. Dig in and press View for your favorite stickers!
- Series 3 pins now have images: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/SteamTracking/commit/72c3643e6d6c4d81bac3e9d3d9414f7f749f9c9f
- These pins were previously uncovered in the 11/28/17 (11/29/17 UTC) update. Here they are in their digital form, expect the real-life versions to look more or less the same (obviously):
- Guardian 3 Pin
- Canals Pin
- Welcome to the Clutch Pin
- Death Sentence Pin
- Inferno 2 Pin
- Wildfire Pin
- Easy Peasy Pin
- Aces High Pin
- Hydra Pin
- Howl Pin
- Brigadier General Pin
- Size is ~125 MB
Via [url=http://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2017/12/19793/]the CS:GO blog[/url]:
[quote=Valve][ THE ELEAGUE BOSTON 2018 CS:GO MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIP ]
– Team stickers, team graffiti, and stickers autographed by CS:GO pro players are now available for purchase in-game, from the Steam Community Market, or from the 50 piece Mega Bundle on Steam. 50% of the proceeds go to the players and organizations at Boston 2018. For more details, visit http://www.counter-strike.net/pickem/boston2018
– Team stickers can be used as game pieces for the Boston 2018 Team Pick’Em Challenge.
— Preliminary stage picks can be made immediately, preliminary stage picks lock at the start of the preliminary stage matches.
— Group stage picks can be made when the preliminary stage has completed, group stage picks lock at the start of the group stage matches.
— Playoff picks can be made when the group stage has completed, playoff picks lock at the start of the first quarterfinal match.
[ HOLIDAYS ]
– Deployed Holiday Cheer for your festive fragging season.
– You can spread the Holiday Cheer! Gifts are now available for a limited time.
[ MISC ]
– Fixed ability to host offline server with friends for War Games when setting party lobby privacy to “Friends Need Invites”.
– Tournament server logs can now have item pickup/drop events enabled using mp_logdetail_items setting.
– Game servers will now sanitize player name string to not contain non-ascii control characters.
– Fixed unlocalized string in disconnect errors for other players.
– Fixed several client-side crashes.
– Added support to demoinfogo parser for decoding fixed user data size string tables which previously caused invalid substring calculation code path to run.
[ GAMEPLAY ]
– Replaced shotgun spread model (off by default). Available for offline and community servers for testing. For more details visit http://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/holiday-spread/[/quote]
Rumor has it:
- [url=https://github.com/SteamDatabase/GameTracking-CSGO/commit/79389e1c13c0a81ee1d1820be5b113cf9e246dae]A lot of new stickers[/url] and a lot of string updates in this one. Dig in and press View for your favorite stickers!
- Series 3 pins now have images: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/SteamTracking/commit/72c3643e6d6c4d81bac3e9d3d9414f7f749f9c9f
- These pins were previously uncovered in the [url=https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/7g999h/counterstrike_global_offensive_update_for_112817/]11/28/17 (11/29/17 UTC) update[/url]. Here they are in their digital form, expect the real-life versions to look more or less the same (obviously):
- [url=https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/730/icons/econ/status_icons/collectible_pin_guardian_3_large.d449ae6cc98e0c75f5f95e97b144e7d70111cded.png]Guardian 3 Pin[/url]
- [url=https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/730/icons/econ/status_icons/collectible_pin_canals_large.f9c191c770747c2c435f8526ba7aa5737524bafe.png]Canals Pin[/url]
- [url=https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/730/icons/econ/status_icons/collectible_pin_welcome_to_the_clutch_large.662a5bf5a15d477be33b643b88e0e1254b16101d.png]Welcome to the Clutch Pin[/url]
- [url=https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/730/icons/econ/status_icons/collectible_pin_death_sentence_large.2d37ade206ca6afb2aaaf99ef607816b4a1a8fa2.png]Death Sentence Pin[/url]
- [url=https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/730/icons/econ/status_icons/collectible_pin_inferno_2_large.9d576c8c26538d5d2b10d5cebfeafb89b09f54cb.png]Inferno 2 Pin[/url]
- [url=https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/730/icons/econ/status_icons/collectible_pin_wildfire_large.b461dbbf67ab98a7c6e12f57223edd3c1892cc77.png]Wildfire Pin[/url]
- [url=https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/730/icons/econ/status_icons/collectible_pin_easy_peasy_large.0633a81c60332d4debd5913073d8830e93f07e5f.png]Easy Peasy Pin[/url]
- [url=https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/730/icons/econ/status_icons/collectible_pin_aces_high_large.5787bd8d31493f6d1abbfbf71b0368920261286e.png]Aces High Pin[/url]
- [url=https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/730/icons/econ/status_icons/collectible_pin_hydra_large.3939e69d36c23599f2712e70db5bc0ab68e6c167.png]Hydra Pin[/url]
- [url=https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/730/icons/econ/status_icons/collectible_pin_howl_large.3506b6beea04a5bca3e2d48d3f7091990f2c5240.png]Howl Pin[/url]
- [url=https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/730/icons/econ/status_icons/collectible_pin_brigadier_general_large.ac36f4a0335246e25cbca477bf8e131bb2b6a771.png]Brigadier General Pin[/url]
- Size is ~125 MB