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#1 CS:GO PRERELEASE update for 8/15/17 (8/16/17 UTC) in CS2 General Discussion

Via the CS:GO blog:

ValveThe following changes are in the “1.35.9.8-rc1” CS:GO Beta depot.
[GAMEPLAY]
– Shipping more changes to pistols with the goal of emphasizing skillful use of the weapons.
– Five-SeveN: The Five-SeveN has been adjusted to reward tactical positioning and defensive play.
— Slightly improved accuracy when firing several shots rapidly.
— Substantially reduced accuracy while moving.
[PERFECT WORLD]
* Prime status is now immediately granted to Perfect World accounts with identity verification.
* Enabled support for custom avatars in game.
* Enabled access to the developers console.
[MISC]
* Overhauled internal weapon data representation. All weapons are expected to behave identically to 1.35.9.7 aside from the Five-SeveN and bugfixes listed below.
* Fixed an issue that caused players to not drop their 2nd flashbang if they are killed after throwing 1 flashbang during the round.
* Fixed an issue where sniper bots didn’t like the Scar20.
* Fixed an issue where buying non-weapon items would restock ammo for all your weapons.
* Fixed some corner cases where buying items via console could ignore the user’s loadout selection.
* Fixed an issue where attempting to drop undroppable items (like grenades) would count the items value towards the player’s “donations” for the round.
* Fixed a rare issue that could cause players to show incorrect holstered weapons.
* Fixed an issue where decoy grenades could make sounds from the wrong weapon.
* Fixed “buy” console command to list all options instead of being a hardcoded help string.
* Map editing: env_gunfire entities can now fire all weapon types (e.g. weapon_m4a1_silencer or weapon_revolver)
* Fixed a memory leak related to spectating.
* Adding ability to initiate trades from friend’s context menu.
* Improved map load times in some circumstances.

Rumor has it:

- /u/SlothSquadron is working on a breakdown of the Five-SeveN changes

- Wish to opt in? Right-click on CS:GO in your Steam library, go to Properties, go to the Betas tab, then select "1.35.9.8-rc1"
- If you don't see this branch offered, restart Steam
- To opt in for servers: run "app_update 740 -beta 1.35.9.8-rc1" in SteamCMD
- Valve servers will almost definitely be unavailable as has been the case with the last few prerelease tests

- SteamDB GameTracking services will be completely unavailable as it only keeps eyes on the public branch - be aware

- Size is close to 20 MB

posted about 7 years ago
#1 CS:GO update for 8/7/17 (1.35.9.7) in CS2 General Discussion

Via the CS:GO blog:

ValveThe following changes from “1.35.9.7-rc1” are now live.
[ GAMEPLAY ]
– Shipping initial changes to pistols with the goal of emphasizing skillful use of the weapons, beginning with the Tec-9.
— Tec-9: The Tec-9 has been adjusted to emphasize aiming while retaining the weapon’s high mobility. The current changes include:
– – slightly improved accuracy when taking a single shot
– – significantly reduced accuracy when firing rapidly
– – magazine and reserve ammo reduced to 18 and 90, respectively
– Extended the existing camera height restriction system to include cases where a player is in the air, preventing the first-person camera from rising above their third-person head.
– Players will now make a landing sound if they un-crouch while crouch-jumping.
– Fixed several inconsistencies where sounds were not broadcast when a player was occluded by a wall. (Thanks, simpleavaster!)
[ LINUX ]
– Cleaned up the way CS:GO launches so there is one fewer process

Rumor has it:

- If you want proof it's live, here it is

- Size is ~10 MB

posted about 7 years ago
#1 TF2 update for 8/3/17 (8/4/17 UTC) in TF2 General Discussion

Via HLDS:

Valve- Fixed players being unable to shoot or heal during pre-round freeze time
- Updated the localization files

Rumor has it:

- Woo, localization

- Size is ~10 MB

posted about 7 years ago
#12 TF2 update for 8/2/17 in TF2 General Discussion
Cerdur- Don't expect Jungle Update anytime soon due to The International ongoingdont worry i wasnt

Finally, someone listened!

posted about 7 years ago
#1 TF2 update for 8/2/17 in TF2 General Discussion

Via HLDS:

Valve- Added AsiaFortress Cup Season 11 tournament medals
- Added the Chapelaria Ultiduo Season 1 tournament medals
- Added the TFCL 6v6 Alpha and Season 2 tournament medals
- Added the TFCL Ultiduo Alpha, Season 2, and Season 3 tournament medals
- Added the Blapature Co. Contributor 2017 community event medal
- Added the TF2Maps 72hr TF2Jam Summer Participant 2017 community medal
- Fixed a server crash related to vote-kick
- Fixed a client crash related to previewing bundles in the Mann Co. Store
- Fixed being able to accept a duel request during the round-end bonus time
- Fixed rockets fired by Halloween bosses not displaying particle effects if Halloween is not active (community request)
- Strange Soda Poppers can now accept Critical Kills strange parts
- Updated the localization files
- Mannpower update
- All-class
- Players can no longer taunt when grappled to an enemy (you can still taunt if an enemy has grappled to you)
- Players can no longer grapple while frozen before a round starts or while stunned
- Fixed not equipping the grapple when accepting the prompt about equipping it
- Engineer
- Halved the number of wrench hits needed to upgrade buildings
- Pyro
- Reduced grapple movement speed when hooked into another player because of their advantage in close quarters
- Reduced the rate of rage gain when carrying a powerup
- Agility
- Reduced grapple movement speed bonus when carrying the intelligence
- Knockout
- Reduced melee damage bonus
- Updated health bonus per class
- Spy, Sniper, Engineer, Scout, and Heavy increased
- Medic, Soldier, and Demoman unchanged
- Pyro and Demoknight decreased
- Precision
- Removed radius damage falloff on explosive projectiles
- Removed self-blast damage
- Resistance and Vampire
- Added immunity to reflect damage

Rumor has it:

- Don't expect Jungle Update anytime soon due to The International ongoing throughout this week and next

- Curious about the server crash via votekick fix? Look no further than /u/sigsegv__

- Item schema update for the new medals: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/SteamTracking/commit/0423c8cbed23945f7f644671ddc7dd245301bbeb

- A couple of new strings for medals, and the above mentioned localization from Translators Like You - Thank You: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/GameTracking-TF2/commit/4c568805aeacb94c58e33573e13d7b5a3dac094a

- Size is ~20 MB

posted about 7 years ago
#1 CS:GO update for 8/1/17 (8/2/17 UTC, 1.35.9.6) in CS2 General Discussion

Via the CS:GO blog:

Valve[ KRAKOW 2017 ]
– Engraved the Krakow 2017 Champions on the in-game trophies, and adjusted the inspect animation to make engraved champions readable.
– Adjusted the trophy icon silhouette to disambiguate Major Championship in-game trophies from other coins.
– Added commemorative graffiti.
[ MAPS ]
– Fixed some minor graphical bugs on Inferno.
– Added support for Wingman game mode on Overpass.
[ SOUND ]
– Upgraded several surface sounds to 16-bit for HRTF support.
[ MISC ]
– Several performance optimizations in sound playback.

Rumor has it:

- The commemorative graffiti is on Inferno in pit, here's the full resolution version

- This graffiti is dedicated to Dosia's grenade toss which lead to the death of two Immortals players as a result of their bomb going off soon afterwards

- A before-and-after of the trophy icon, and translations from Translators Like You - Thank You: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/GameTracking-CSGO/commit/688c91f5495cce5fd0aab4b31984a3bd3b1ce847

- Size is ~55 MB

posted about 7 years ago
#1 CS:GO update for 7/10/17 (7/11/17 UTC, 1.35.9.4) in CS2 General Discussion

Via the CS:GO blog:

Valve[ KRAKOW ]
– Updated signatures of players where the mistake in content was ours: TACO, kioShiMa, Hobbit, and AdreN.
– Fixed bug that caused sticker edge duplication on the P90 and Nova.

Rumor has it:

- You can check out AdreN, Hobbit, kioShiMa, and TACO's updated stickers at https://github.com/SteamDatabase/GameTracking-CSGO/commit/293888129806cef88ae30bfb15cb23a599ed1ec8

- Other than the above, there's also translations from Translators Like You - Thank You

- Size is ~25 MB

posted about 7 years ago
#1 CS:GO update for 6/27/17 (1.35.9.1) in CS2 General Discussion

Via the CS:GO blog:

Valve[ OPERATION HYDRA ]
– Adjustments to Weapons Expert:
— Best out of 20 rounds.
— Auto-snipers are prohibited.
— Loser cash award has increased.
[ GOTV ]
– Fixed excessive memory usage on dedicated servers that were not running TV1.
– Fixed a bug in recording free camera movements from alternative interactive caster with cameraman override.
– GOTV+ broadcasts can now support Content-Encoding: gzip header, which reduces required bandwidth for viewers by around 50%.

Rumor has it:

- Other than the above as well as a local sync of a recent Steam Datagram system configuration change, this consists of translations from Translators Like You - Thank You: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/GameTracking-CSGO/commit/206e846e1afe2c0eb35699ca0112128ff62591f0

- Size is ~10 MB

posted about 7 years ago
#1 CS:GO update for 6/20/17 (6/21/17 UTC, 1.35.9.0) in CS2 General Discussion

Via the CS:GO blog:

Valve[ MAPS ]
Updated Cache to the latest Steam Workshop version: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/changelog/163589843
[ COMMUNITY SERVERS ]
Added Steam Workshop entries for community servers to run official versions of Canals and Rialto that come included with CS:GO:
– Canals: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=951287718
– Rialto: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=951294508
[ GOTV ]
Promoted 1.35.8.9-beta1 GOTV changes to public release.
[ MISC ]
Updated the following community weapon finishes with normal maps:
– M4A4 | The Battlestar
– SSG 08 | Big Iron
– Glock-18 | Wraiths
– Desert Eagle | Directive
– Thanks to Millenia, Primrose!~ and Gaunt.

Rumor has it:

- A recent sync of a Steam Datagram system configuration change removed the ping-only attribute from the new Oklahoma City routing cluster. It'll now be used as a hop along the way to the data center your match is hosted on, as long as it's a better route than going direct to the data center

- Don't mind GameTracking being weird for the first half of this: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/GameTracking-CSGO/commit/70fc992132adc7be89ad5b909b6f513189fd3d09

- Size is ~40 MB

posted about 7 years ago
#15 TF2 Blog: "Balance Changes" in TF2 General Discussion
EoNPyro?

Outside of Panic Attack, untouched.

posted about 7 years ago
#8 TF2 Blog: "Balance Changes" in TF2 General Discussion

Go figure, Engineer's at the very bottom.

posted about 7 years ago
#2 TF2 Blog: "Balance Changes" in TF2 General Discussion

Part 2:

TF TeamSoldier
B.A.S.E Jumper
- Players often complain that the B.A.S.E. Jumper is frustrating to fight against because the target is simply too hard to hit. This is mostly due to the combination of being able to deploy/retract at will, and the amount of steering control they have - which makes them too unpredictable.
- Changes:
- Reduced amount of air control while deployed by 50%
- Removed the ability to re-deploy the parachute once retracted (until the player lands on the ground again)

Mantreads
- The second least-used item in the game. The aerial stomp mini-game is difficult, and The Gunboats are superior in most scenarios.
- Changes:
- +75% push-force reduction now includes airblast
- Added: +200% air control when blast jumping

Sniper
Darwin’s Danger Shield
- Snipers using this item had an advantage against Snipers who weren't. As a result, players felt like they were required to equip this item in order to be competitive.
- Goal: Remove the increased survivability against enemy Snipers (which invalidates the existing design).
- New design:
- Counter ranged burn attacks (e.g. flares), and strengthen melee fights vs Pyros
- Afterburn immunity
- +50% fire resist

Razorback
- Goal: Reduce the effectiveness of "pocket'd" Snipers in stalemates/standoffs (this primarily happens in organized/competitive play)
- Changes:
- Added: -100% overheal penalty
- Added: Shield regenerates after 30 seconds

Medic
Vita-Saw
- Ubercharge on death is too valuable of an effect to be passive
- Goal: Change the weapon in a way that requires skill and risk in order to gain this effect
- Changes:
- Added "Organs" collecting concept (... you know, hit someone with a saw, and out pops a vital organ which you then take, and hold). Each hit with the Vita-Saw harvests the victim's organs (shown on the HUD).
- Added: On-death, preserve 15% ubercharge per Organ harvested. This effect caps at 60%.

Crusader's Crossbow
- Bolt healing is very high and significantly out-heals the Medigun when the target is in combat. This might be okay given the trade-offs (risk-vs-reward of ranged shots hitting and the opportunity cost, no overheal). However, it's also the fastest way to build Ubercharge - under the right conditions (e.g. corner damage farming with the Medic behind cover).
- Changes:
- Ubercharge gain rate reduced in the same way that the Medigun's healing (and therefore, Ubercharge build rate) is - based on the last time the target was in combat
- Reduced by a third when 1 - 10 seconds outside of combat, and scales up to normal over 10 - 15 seconds

Heavy
All Miniguns
- Changes:
- The 1-second damage and accuracy penalty now applies to the first second of spun-up time, whether or not the Heavy is firing. Previously, the 1-second damage penalty would only be removed after 1 second of firing.
- Accuracy and damage penalties now reset when the Heavy spins down, rather than when the Heavy stops firing. This means if you stay spun-up beyond one second, and fire in bursts, damage and accuracy will remain at 100%.

Gloves of Running Urgently
- Speed (lack-of) is used to balance the Heavy's high health, over-heal and damage output. While we still believe it's OK to have a class of items that increases Heavy's movement speed, players have been able to easily mitigate the existing negatives.
- Changes:
- Added: Max-health is drained while item is active (-10/sec), and regenerated while holstered
- Health will regenerate only the amount drained while active - minus any damage taken during that time
- Each time the gloves are deployed, the drain rate is accelerated for a brief period of time
- Removed: Marked-For-Death effect while active
- Removed: 25% damage penalty

Eviction Notice
- Changes:
- Added: Max-health is drained while item is active (-5/sec), and regenerated while holstered. Health will regenerate only the amount drained while active - minus any damage taken during that time.
- Removed: 20% damage vulnerability

Fist of Steel
- The downside of "increased melee damage" doesn't ever really come into play when it counts (e.g. holding a choke point or objective), and when a Medic is attached, the resulting pool of effective-health is unreasonably large
- Changes:
- Added: 40% overheal reduction while active
- Added: 40% healing rate penalty while active

Engineer
Rescue Ranger
- The ability to repair buildings safely from range without using metal is powerful. Combine this with the ability to instantly teleport buildings from far away - which by itself is interesting and useful enough in many circumstances - and you end up with a package that is very strong.
- Changes:
- Ranged repairs now consume metal (at a 4-to-1 health-to-metal ratio, e.g. repairing 60 damage costs 15 metal)
posted about 7 years ago
#1 TF2 Blog: "Balance Changes" in TF2 General Discussion

http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=30147

ValveIn the past, we've made blog posts about changes we've already shipped or stuff we've tossed onto the smoldering scrap-heap of failed ideas; this time - based on your feedback - we're going talk about changes while we’re still working on them.

Below is a sneak-peak at some of the changes coming in the next major update, along with some commentary. These changes are based on online community discussions, emails, playtime data, conversations with players of all skill ranges, and play testing.

Things to keep in mind:
- This is not the complete list of changes. Some items (and classes) are still being worked on, and are not ready for review.
- We're going a little deeper on some classes this time (e.g. Scout) and not as deep on others (e.g. Demoman)
- This is a work-in-progress; items may change prior to release.

Please continue to send us your feedback through the Contact Form on the right taskbar (under "Contact Us"). Hearing from you helps us prioritize our work and influences the direction the game moves in.

Multi-class
Panic Attack
- This is one of our least-used weapons. The main culprit seems to be the queued/delayed-fire aspect, which fights against the basic concept of the secondary slot on classes that can use this weapon (Soldier, Heavy, Engineer, Pyro); players generally expect a secondary that is immediately ready to fire - for the rare case where their main weapon isn't available (e.g. out of ammo), or isn't the optimal choice (e.g. airborne, too close, etc.). Removing the queued/delayed-fire concept basically invalidates the original design, so we’ve started over.
- Goal: Make the weapon immediately usable, remove the large burst potential (generally hard to balance), and give the weapon a unique design space to occupy
- New design:
- 50% faster switch speed
- 50% more pellets
- 30% less damage
- Fires a wide, fixed shot pattern (regardless of server settings)
- Shot pattern grows with successive shots (e.g. while holding down the attack button), but resets after you stop firing or reload

Spy
Ambassador
- Players that are head-shot from across the map are expecting to see a Sniper in their death-cam, but they sometimes see (more often that we'd like) a Spy with a revolver
- Goal: Reduce the effective combat range to something more reasonable and expected with the Spy
- Changes:
- First-shots are no longer perfectly accurate. Bullet-spread is instead reduced by 50%. This makes head shots less reliable at long range, while still very viable at close and medium-range.

Dead Ringer
- Feign death is an interesting effect, but a good Spy can use it extremely frequently making it frustrating to play against and reducing the risk of using it nearly constantly
- Goal: Rather than make it less interesting, let's make it more predictable to fight against by removing methods by which Spies can reduce its cool-down. This should create more of a rhythm to fighting against a Spy using this and introduce a little more risk to player using it.
- Changes:
- Ammo kits and dispensers no longer refill the Spy's cloak meter

Your Eternal Reward
- This is the least-used Spy knife (technically, the reskin is, but anyway...). While silent-kill and rapid-disguise-on-kill are good, the downside on this knife is extreme.
- Changes:
- Removed: "Cannot disguise" penalty
- Added: Non-kill disguises require (and consume) a full cloak meter
- Backstab-based disguises are still free
- Increased cloak drain rate by 50%

Scout
Sandman
- The feedback on this weapon has been fairly consistent for a while: Players really hate losing the ability to fight back. Compounding this, the ball has to travel really far in order to disarm players. Being hit by a long-range ball (more often than not) ends up feeling random, rather than skilled.
- Changes:
- Long-range ball impacts no longer remove the victim's ability to fire their weapon (but the victim is still slowed)
- We've updated achievements that were looking for disarmed players
- Max range balls now do 50% increased damage (from a base of 15)
- The flight time required to trigger the "max" effect has been reduced by 20%
- Ball regeneration time reduced to 10 seconds (from 15)

Bonk! Atomic Punch
- This weapon was designed to allow Scouts to pierce hotly-contested areas. While it does this quite well, it doesn't require enough skill, or carry much of a down-side.
- Changes:
- Apply a slow effect to the player after phasing wears off, based on the amount of damage they absorbed
- From -25% at low damage, to -65% at 200+ damage
- Lasts 5 seconds

Pretty Boy’s Pocket Pistol
- This weapon is one of the lower owner-equipped items in the game. Looking at the current design, it seems that not taking falling damage ranks pretty low on the value scale for a Scout, and a flat +20% damage taken penalty is basically the kiss-of-death for a low-health class.
- Goal: Make the weapon less of a liability and focus it as a "get health quick" tool with decent burst, at the expense of total damage
- New design:
- +15% firing speed
- Up to +7 hp per hit (from +5)
- -25% clip size (9 shots)

Crit-A-Cola
- The last change to this item added Marked-For-Death when the effect ended. This was okay because it forced Scouts to get out after a little while, but it didn't add any risk in-the-moment.
- Goal: Add more decision/thought on when/where to activate and how to manage the risk/reward of the effect
- Changes:
- Added: Each attack while active adds Marked-For-Death debuff for 5 seconds (does not stack)
- Removed: Marked-For-Death when effect expires
- Removed: +25% move speed bonus
- Removed: +10% damage taken penalty

The Atomizer
- Triple-jump as a passive effect is just too strong. It makes combat against the Scout unpredictable because opponents don't see the bat, and therefore have a hard time anticipating the Scout's capabilities until late in an encounter. It also makes the Scout very strong against explosive classes - due to a combination of extreme mobility and high close-range damage.
- Goal: Require the Scout to deploy the bat to take advantage of the extra jump - which is also is a signal to other players that they can perform an extra jump - and reduce the bat's negatives to compensate
- Changes:
- Triple-jump is now only possible while the bat is deployed
- Removed: Self-inflicted damage when triple-jumping
- Removed: Attack speed penalty
- Added: Melee attacks done while airborne mini-crit
- Added: 50% deploy time penalty (to prevent quick-switch by-pass)
- Reduced damage penalty vs players to -15% (from -20%)

Flying Guillotine
- This weapon is capable of high burst-damage under what sometimes seems like random conditions - such as mini-crits at long-range, and full-crits when the target is slowed or stunned by anything (e.g. Ghost "Boo!" effect, Natascha, etc.)
- Goal: Remove the feeling of randomness, and reward accuracy
- Changes:
- Removed: Crit vs stunned players
- Removed: Mini-crits at long range
- Added: Long range hits reduce recharge (by 1.5 seconds)
- Distance considered "long range" reduced by half of the previous value when determining mini-crits

(continued in another post below)

posted about 7 years ago
#1 TF2 Blog: in The Dumpster

http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=30147

(go here: http://www.teamfortress.tv/41999/tf2-blog-balance-changes, this one can get sent to the dumpster as I fucked up the title)

posted about 7 years ago
#1 CS:GO update for 6/16/17 (6/17/17 UTC, 1.35.8.9) in CS2 General Discussion

Via the CS:GO blog:

Valve[ OPERATION HYDRA ]
– For the upcoming Operation Hydra event, Wingman matchmaking now allows solo queue
– When matchmaking solo in Wingman game mode, matchmaking algorithm will prefer to make a match where both teams have players entering the game via solo matchmaking
– When matchmaking as a party in Wingman game mode, matchmaking algorithm will prefer to make a match where both teams entered the game as a party
– Upcoming Wingman events will feature Inferno and Cobblestone as possible maps
[ MISC ]
– cl_draw_only_deathnotices no longer requires sv_cheats 1.
– Fixed a potential exploit in CS:GO engine reported by One Up Security.

Rumor has it:

- As long as an EF5 tornado doesn't strike it, there's a new Steam Datagram routing cluster in Oklahoma City, currently configured as ping-only. This config was locally synced as part of this update

- GameTracking appears to be having issues at the moment. Expect a fix overnight

- Size is ~60 MB (except ~75 MB on Linux - thanks, /u/roge-!)

posted about 7 years ago
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