Release Notes for 6/29/23

GAMEPLAY

• Added Casual game mode.

SHOOTING

• Fixed rare cases where bullets would not follow spray pattern.

MAPS

• Added Nuke to Deathmatch, Casual, and Competitive game modes.

• Added Office to Deathmatch and Casual game modes.

• Removed Mirage.

AUDIO

• Added distance effects to all positional sound sources.

• Improvements to 3d sound processing.

• General mix tweaks and improvements.

• Fixed bug where sometimes sounds would not respect the occlusion values of surrounding geometry resulting in sources appearing closer than what they were.

• Fixed missing low frequencies at certain distances away from sound sources such as grenades and weapon fire.

• Fixed a bug where some sounds would be slightly louder or quieter depending on the listeners orientation.

• Added music cues to Match Accept and Loading screens.

• Added unique audio occlusion layer to help with vertical sound positioning in Nuke.

ANIMATION

• Grenades can now be inspected.

• Improved healthshot animations

• Improved inspect behavior for various weapons

MOVEMENT

• Fixed cases of unintended slow crouch/uncrouch.

• Bunny hopping feel should now closely match CS:GO running at 128 tick.

• Added convar sv_jump_spam_penalty_time to allow fine tuning of bunny hop feel.

• The readout for cl_showpos has been enhanced to show the maximum speed of the last 3 seconds; this number is in parenthesis on the 'vel' line

• Players can no longer jump at the end of warmup time

NETWORKING

• Sending game delta frames is now asynchronous, reducing dedicated server main thread CPU usage, thus reducing probability of dropped ticks.

MISC

• Fixed a case where a holstered weapon would be rendered on a dead player

• Added a team-agnostic equip icon for inventory/loadout item tiles

• When possible, switching to spectator mode will default to in-eye spectating

• Adjusted the transition between spectator chase cam and roaming cam

• Centered game mode text in the loading screen

• Removed "Best out of X rounds" from the loading screen