14 DAY TRIAL // Valve has just issued a brand new update for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, its very popular online shooter, bringing quite a few improvements to the GOTV system and adding a special Streams tab to the Watch menu, in order to promote being a spectator in different matches.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has received a new lease on life thanks to the Arms Deal update, which added a special economy to the game, and it is now a favorite among professional gaming leagues.
In order to make it easy for owners of the game to watch live matches and streams, a brand new update has just been released that brings quite a few improvements in this area.
Besides these upgrades, the patch also fixes different crashes and decreases the amount of fog on Nuke.
Check out the full changelog below, via Steam.
MAPS
- de_nuke: Decreased fog
UI
- Added Streams tab to Watch menu. - Friends rich presence now also includes the map if they are reviewing a match from their Match History. - Fixed being able to invite and message yourself in the Watch menu scoreboard. - Fixed hitches that would happen when updating match data in Watch menu. - Reduced memory footprint of Inventory menu. - Added warning that will show when you have have a corrupt download from Your Games tab.
GOTV
- Players in a match can now see the number of GOTV spectators in the scoreboard. - Added spectator count display to top live Competitive matches. - Added support for GOTV relays to allow a much large number of spectators for top live Competitive matches. - Added convar tv_maxclients_relayreserved which allows reserving a certain number of slots from tv_maxclients for GOTV relays. - Added convar tv_dispatchweight which allows better control of load balancing in relay chains, defaults to 1.25 which for every 4 local spectators will send 5 spectators to each connected relay. - Fixed empty GOTV spectator chat messages.
MISC
- Fixed a crash on startup - Fixed not being able to equip the default weapon into a loadout slot that previously contained a decorated weapon. - Improved decorated weapon material compositing to prevent dark patches on some weapons with clean exterior.
The new patch is now available for download via Steam for the PC and Mac versions of the game.