New CSGO update brings upgraded chicken models

With an update shipped by Valve earlier today, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has met with several major changes. The size of the update is approximately 1 GB. 

The Operation Broken Fang which began on December 03, 2020, has concluded. Ancient has replaced Train in the Active Duty map pool and the developers have introduced Snakebite Case featuring 17 new skins.

Users who still haven’t finished their missions can do so until May 15 and claim the rewards as well. The view models of chickens have apparently received a “visual upgrade”. With Train moving to the Reserve pool, several new maps have been added for scrimmage, casual, deathmatch and wingman mode.

Valve has also added a premium subscription service called CS:GO 360 Stats for users who wish to continue viewing competitive and wingman statistics like they did during the Operation Broken Fang. The subscription, similar to DotA+, is worth $1 per month.

Several users are outraged over the removal of Train, instead of Mirage, from the Active Duty map pool and the inclusion of CS:GO 360 Stats which, the critics say, should be made accessible for nothing.

The Snakebite Case has the gloves from Broken Fang Case as rare special items. The update also brings in enhanced security and stabilizes the game. Several maps including Nuke, Ancient and Frostbite have received minor tweaks as well.

CSGO Map Pool:

• Dust 2
• Mirage
• Overpass
• Inferno
• Vertigo
• Nuke
• Ancient

New CSGO Update Patch Notes:

OPERATION BROKEN FANG

• Operation Broken Fang has come to an end. Players who have unredeemed operation stars will have until May 15th to claim their operation rewards.
• Introducing CS:GO 360 Stats – A subscription service for players that want to continue collecting official Competitive and Wingman stats.
• Premier Competitive remains available for all players featuring pick/ban process across the entire Active Duty Group map pool.
• Retakes remains available and has been moved into Wargames.

SNAKEBITE CASE

• Introducing the Snakebite Case, featuring 17 community-designed weapon finishes, and the Broken Fang Case set of gloves as rare special items.

MISC

• Chicken models have received a visual upgrade.
• Fixed community maps whose textures would appear black as a result of previous security fixes.
• The \ key can again be bound to commands. If you were using this key before, you will need to bind it again.
• Additional security and stability improvements.
• Added an option for large community maps to fade the Boost Player Contrast feature beyond the far-Z fog plane by setting fadeplayervisibilityfarz to ‘true’ in info_map_parameters.

MAPS

• Ancient has been added into the current competition map pool Active Duty Group and Train has been removed from Active Duty Group.
• Grind and Mocha have been added to official matchmaking in Scrimmage, Casual, and Deathmatch game modes, replacing Apollo, Engage, and Anubis.
• Calavera and Pitstop have been added to official matchmaking in Wingman game mode, replacing Elysion and Guard.

Ancient:

• New route from CT spawn to A site
• Widened T entrance to left side of mid
• Opened up skylight in T tunnel to A site
• Extended plantable bomb zone in B site
• Opened up ledge in A site
• Various minor bugfixes

Nuke:

• Fixed a clipping issue on window in T lobby
• Centered a lamp that was bugging me

Frostbite:

• Overhauled interior lighting
• Fixed delivery drones being stuck in the bottom right corner of the map
• Added drone clips to improve delivery drone navigation
• Fixed rare cases of loot spawning in inaccessible areas/inside terrain
• Made a window frame in Alpha non solid (thanks Musti)
• Clipped wood railings in the frozen lake area
• Improved the look of the ice texture when Shader Detail is set to Medium or lower
• Fixed a missing face on a wooden beam in Town
• Added a sound effect in server room