Borders: dog shit at their best, dog shit at their worst. It's essentially one giant standoff where everyone has a gun pointed at everyone else.

Watch as they update mid-tournament.

Via HLDS:

Rumor has it:

- There was an item schema update though that modified Pomson 6000 attributes and adds Bonk! Atomic Punch's description to its Festive variant: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/SteamTracking/commit/1416e1951746bfcbda4d26a0c313ce846f7c3da5

- Size is ~5 MB

Via the Steam store:

Rumor has it:

- vJill states that even despite a fix for OOM on Mac OS X/Linux, the OpenGL renderer used on those platforms still has a rough time with memory pressure. Recommendations include upgrading to Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11), and particularly on Intel HD Graphics, lowering texture resolution; Linux users should use 64-bit distros when possible and also use the newest mesa driver stack
- sigsegv__ revealed in a conversation with Valve that JohnS mentioned that it was discovered in CS:GO's branch of Source as well, and that this same fix should arrive there "shortly"
- vMcJohn clarified that this fix was stealth-shipped around a week or so ago in CS:GO

- Some MvM challenge names are now Properly Capitalized: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/GameTracking/commit/59b15e87aca56a4ac3d2e01efd88b9ae0a18285b

- And it looks like localization files for non-English languages got updated too

- Size is ~5 MB on Windows XP(!)/Vista/7/8/8.1/10, except close to 10 MB on Mac OS X/macOS

Robots aren't capable of possessing crushes on the scale of TobiWan's Drow crush, are they?

Here's a blog post with Valve's images of the new Gamma 2 Case items: http://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2016/08/15510/

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Via the CS:GO blog:

Rumor has it:

- CS:GO Stash is filling in details of the new Gamma 2 Case items here as they start to stream in
- Here's the full item schema update

- Strings for the new Gamma 2 Case items, and script changes for the Glock/P2K/USP-S/Deagle sound changes: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/GameTracking/commit/862c093845438d457438a6a8935ec25721d373bf

- If you're intending on reporting issues (don't be afraid, you never know if you're not the only one!), and you happen to be on Windows 10, please make mention of whether or not you're on Redstone 1/the "Anniversary Update" as not all issues may be caused by this update itself (or the previous one), but by Redstone 1
- Unsure of whether or not you're on Redstone 1? Search for "winver", and if "OS Version" is 1607, you're on Redstone 1. Otherwise, if it says 1511, you're still on Threshold 2
- It's strongly advisable though that due to how bug-riddled Redstone 1 continues to be that you take any and all available steps to hold off on the Threshold 2 to Redstone 1 jump for a week or two while issues are slowly but surely fixed
- I'll leave this notice out by mid-September as most Redstone 1-related issues should have been ironed out by then, either by Microsoft or by you

- Size is close to 70 MB

Sounds a lot like the Steam Datagram system to me, which was ported to CS:GO from Dota 2 during its Winter Update in December 2015.

Via HLDS:

Rumor has it:

- At some point in the future (possibly as soon as today based on this blog post), you may start getting notifications for when players are banned based on your reports as is done with CS:GO (when it works, which is rarely as of late) and Dota 2 (where it works 9 times out of 10), as based on some low-level additions and string additions too
- You might even be notified mid-game when a player you report gets banned per geel9

- A lot of low-level changes, and a couple of string changes: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/GameTracking/commit/94c2ae28ff66219218137c1caf117138fb61625c

- Size is ~65 MB

Via the Steam store:

Rumor has it:

- Strings and HUD file updates: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/GameTracking/commit/15f425bbb7a4d81df5bcf106e9309634ca09c655

- It seems that Valve has already declared Pyro as the winner
- Yes, you're not blind, "Pyro" is apparently called "Pryo" now
- As also hinted by this comment in the warjoinpanel HUD file: "// Sorry Team Heavy. It looks inevitable at this point"

- Size is ~20 MB

Via the CS:GO blog:

Rumor has it:

- Yes, ESEA will be broken - you'll need to wait on them to fix their stuff

- As you might see, there's a lot of low-level and behind the scenes changes, don't expect to be able to make much sense of all of this, if you even can in the first place: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/GameTracking/commit/d907be0b10f26eab6a5a7fd633d994c3a7b33d18

- If you're intending on reporting issues (don't be afraid, you never know if you're not the only one!), and you happen to be on Windows 10, please make mention of whether or not you're on Redstone 1/the "Anniversary Update" as not all issues may be caused by this update itself (or the previous one), but by Redstone 1
- Unsure of whether or not you're on Redstone 1? Search for "winver", and if "OS Version" is 1607, you're on Redstone 1. Otherwise, if it says 1511, you're still on Threshold 2
- It's strongly advisable though that due to how bug-riddled Redstone 1 appears to be that you take any and all available steps to hold off on the Threshold 2 to Redstone 1 jump for a week or two while issues are slowly but surely fixed

- Size is ~15 MB

Via HLDS:

Rumor has it:

- A small string update here, a HUD file rename there, but otherwise a very small set of changes: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/GameTracking/commit/cae8ece93117965f84cbb766a4a53f681fdff75a

- And an item schema update which mirrors that one string change, also combined with an earlier CS:GO item schema update: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/SteamTracking/commit/4418a3fd51256aec144687205ed87c01f7e14f2c

- On the Steam side of things, the "exfgls" attribute, which controls whether or not games are eligible to be used in Steam's Family Sharing service, was added as part of this update. As such, the game can't be used in Family Sharing anymore. If you're dependent on it for whatever reason, be aware. This was also done as part of a Dota 2 main client update last night and The Lab (Valve's VR minigame tech demo), but the exception appears to be CS:GO as though it was updated today, it didn't get excluded from Family Sharing
- One other configuration note: "verifyupdates" was added around 15 minutes after the game itself was updated. Presumably, as the name of the attribute would imply, it verifies updates as they come in for consistency

- Size is ~10 MB

Via the CS:GO blog:

Rumor has it:

- Wondering about SlothSquadron's analysis? It'll be delayed a slight bit as he's currently on a vacation

- You may notice while testing the Dual Berettas that one gun is doing all of the firing, and IluvYOU69 of reddit says that it happens when sv_infinite_ammo is enabled. This bug (if you can call it that) appears to be quite ancient, but it's listed here so you're aware if you're looking to test it with a test/practice configuration that includes the infinite ammo command

- VPK contents diff, and script changes for the new sounds. Scroll down for those things, or click here to skip most of the irrelevant stuff as there's a lot of low level changes as well

- Item schema update which adds a bit of white space, as well as a TF2 item schema update thrown in as well because SteamTracking: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/SteamTracking/commit/4418a3fd51256aec144687205ed87c01f7e14f2c

- If you're intending on reporting issues (don't be afraid, you never know if you're not the only one!), and you happen to be on Windows 10, please make mention of whether or not you're on Redstone 1/the "Anniversary Update" as not all issues may be caused by this update itself but by Redstone 1
- Unsure of whether or not you're on Redstone 1? Search for "winver", and if "OS Version" is 1607, you're on Redstone 1. Otherwise, if it says 1511, you're still on Threshold 2

- Size is ~30 MB

Via HLDS:

Rumor has it:

- Heavy vs. Pyro will end on August 14 at 11:59 PM PDT, or 1:59 AM CDT (on the 15th), as announced in a new news entry

- Florida LAN 2016 medal, as well as a few other changes in the item schema: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/SteamTracking/commit/8a65d3520830c6f20d98c07d064d7e8290ca8908

- HUD updates, GC protobuf updates for developers, and a VPK contents diff oh my! https://github.com/SteamDatabase/GameTracking/commit/e31f32d0e320bb928e00be9183043b72a2bc298a

- Size is ~110 MB

Via the CS:GO blog:

Rumor has it:

- Panorama is a replacement for Autodesk's proprietary Scaleform that originally was introduced within Steam's Big Picture Mode. It's since been included as part of Dota 2's Source 2 hybridization. For info on Dota 2's implementation of Panorama, see the Valve Developer Wiki
- An added bonus of the Panorama UI system, UI changes can also be picked up by services such as SteamDB's GameTracking, making the tracking of stealth UI changes much easier

- In autobuy.txt configurations for new players after today's update, armor with a helmet and armor on its own, in that order, has been bumped to the top, leaving defuse/rescue kits at the bottom
- Existing autobuy.txt configurations should not be changed however, so if you're not a loser and you're prioritizing a defuser, you won't be rudely awakened by an explosion due to a lack of a kit

- The string that explains the premise of Prime matchmaking no longer makes any explicit reference to having enough experience as part of eligibility

- GameTracking is fusing both this CS:GO update and another large Dota 2 update, so you'll be seeing a bit of both worlds, so here's scripts, that one string change, and an overview as to what changed inside of the VPKs: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/GameTracking/commit/1dba1e462676e4b61a817353ddfb554586b36df9

- Size is ~25 MB

The top post on "that other place with those weird aliens" is literally all about the fact that Valve needs to step their stuff up when it comes to actually taking advantage of people with high-performance systems.