A new flashbang blinding animation has been added to the game

Oct 24, 2013 07:35 GMT  ·  By

A brand new update for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has just been released by Valve, adding quite a few new things, such as an eye shielding animation for players blinded by flashbang grenades, but also fixing plenty of errors relating to modes like Deathmatch, or weapons like the Fiveseven.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is slowly becoming the most popular game version out there, largely due to Valve's commitment to make the game as entertaining and as balanced as possible.

While through recent patches the studio focused a lot of the CSGOTV and the spectator mechanic, the latest update also brings plenty of other new things, besides traditional tweaks to spectating.

The most important is the addition of a new animation when a player receives a flashbang grenade, as his hands go over his eyes.

What's more, in the Deathmatch mode, respawning and weapon buying should no longer produce errors.

Check out the full changelog below, via Steam.

GAMEPLAY

- Added eye shielding animation to players blinded by flashbangs. - Fixed respawning in Deathmatch sometimes choosing a spawn point visible to players when more ideal positions were available. - Fixed a bug in Deathmatch that could create weapons on the ground if a player spammed his "buy" key immediately upon respawn.

SPECTATING

- Added changeable, preset camera positions for all shipped maps that are activated by selecting a player with SHIFT + 0-9 while spectating. - Target players now glow white when viewing from a spectator camera in ROAMING mode. - When spectating in ROAMING mode, we now draw a subtle Aiming Vector Line that shows each player’s aiming direction. - Dropped C4 now glows for spectators (yellow = dropped, flashing red = planted, green = defused). - Added more UI during freeze time to display player money, spent money that round, and kills/assists/deaths. - Improved armor icons in spectator panels. - Fixed recoil not being applied in GOTV and replays. - Fixed UI weapon image sometimes being blank in GOTV. - StatTrak now displays correct number of kills in GOTV and replays. - Reenabled the spec_goto command and fixed it not working properly if called from a key bind. - Moved the autodirector toggle key from “+speed” to “radio3” (from SHIFT key to the C key by default). - Streams tab now includes 6 live streams.

MISC

- Scope lines now blur out completely to better match the weapon's current inaccuracy. - Improved Fiveseven viewmodel animation - Improved Tec-9 viewmodel animation

The new patch is already live on Steam and should be downloaded automatically.