14 DAY TRIAL // A brand new patch for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has just been released by Valve via its Steam service, in order to get the game ready for next week's Dreamhack 2013 competition and make spectating matches easier.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is set to be one of the biggest games at this year's Dreamhack 2013 eSports competition and Valve supplemented the prize pool with money obtained via in-game drops and items.
Now, after releasing several updates designed to make spectating the matches at Dreamhack easier and to promote the competition, through new in-game drops, Valve has released a fresh patch for Global Offensive.
The update adds a new Dreamhack 2013 tab in the Watch panel, while improving the spectator user interface, ensuring viewers can examine their inventory while in-game, and other such things.
Check out the changelog below, via Steam.
MISC
- Added DreamHack 2013 tab in watch panel. This is the hud to watch and download all the games. - Added a panel to the spectator UI that shows the event logo, spectator number and viewer item drops during freeze time of an event. - Added a convar sv_matchpause_auto_5v5, when enabled will track if less than 5 human players are connected on either team and will pause match during nearest freezetime, and will automatically unpause when all 5 players are connected on both teams. - Spectators of competitive games can now access their inventory. - Fixed ADR showing the value from the previous half on round 1 of the second half. - Fixed case where a data series could exceed the chart range. - Grenade collision with doors is not affected when the grenade kills a chicken. - Players can no longer throw weapons through displacement surfaces.
The new update, weighing in at 20.5MB, is already available for download via Steam and will be automatically transferred by the program if you have the game installed and are connected to the internet.