14 DAY TRIAL // A brand new update for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has just been rolled out by Valve, fixing bugs, tweaking issues, and adding the all-new Arms Deal Contract, which is a mechanic through which players can swap a number of weapons received from the game for a better quality one.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has been around for over a year and, in this time, Valve, together with Hidden Path Entertainment, has introduced a variety of new features. The most recent one was the Arms Deal, which gives players random customized guns as well as weapon cases that can be opened using special keys.
Now, a new element for the Arms Deal has been added, in the form of the Contract, which was included in the latest update for Global Offensive.
Basically, through the contract, players can exchange 10 of their Arms Deal Collection items of identical quality for a single item of a quality one tier higher.
Besides this new feature, plenty of different tweaks have been added to the game via the patch, so check them all out below, via Steam.
CONTRACTS
- Added the Arms Deal Contract, allowing players to exchange items from the Arms Deal case. -- Use the Arms Deal Contract to exchange 10 of your Arms Deal Collection items of identical quality for a single Arms Deal Collection item of a quality one tier higher. Note: Knives are not part of collections.
ARMS DEAL
- It is now possible to use Name Tags on stock/default items.
UI
- Clan tags are now displayed in the lobby.
GAMEPLAY
- Players can now only purchase 1 smoke grenade per round. - Synchronized M4A1 and M4A4 reload completion event with visual magazine insertion and sound effect. - Improved some bad cases of player radar visibility through smoke volumes. - Enemy target IDs now only appear when the crosshair is over a target player's hitboxes instead of their overall bounding box. - Looking at a weapon in-game (default F) no longer interrupts attaching or detaching silencers.
MISC
- The kill panel now correctly displays item rarity and owner. - Kill panel damage given and received stats no longer add damage from before a player took over a bot. - Fixed weapon inventory hud flashing when it didn't find the selected weapon in edge cases where you just threw a grenade. - Fixed hud inventory not refreshing properly in some cases when picking up a flashbang. - Fixed a bug that reported "hltv_changed_target" as an unused event in the console. - Fixed weapon icons appearing dark for some Mac versions. - When watching friends games on official servers, GOTV information is now requested asynchronously from matchmaking servers. - CS:GO inventory items in Steam Community profiles now list most recently acquired items first. - Improved CS:GO matchmaking servers stability. - Fixed context menu popping up over the client info panel in the lobby. - Added a cheat protected convar named "cl_draw_only_deathnotices" that turns off most hud except for death notices (for movie makers).
The new patch is already available for download and will be transferred the next time you start Steam.