Contributed by Simon den Bekker

　　Last night a new update was released for CSGO. The main goal for this update was to improve upon the look with new animations for every action a player can do. There are new animations for planting, defusing, climbing ladders and moving characters.

CSGO has been reanimated with weapon buffs and an improved hit-box as well.

　　With these changes are also some changes to weapons. Most notably the M4A1-S, which is the most used rifle on the Counter-Terrorist side, has been subjected to nerfing; the rate of fire has been reduced, the spray pattern is different and it has less armor penetration. The cost of the Zeus (Taser) has been reset to $100 again (so prepare yourself for some more troll video’s) and it actually makes sense to buy one now because of its 1 hit kill potential.

　　This basically sums up the new update. I suggest that if you have CSGO yourself that you go and check it out, it makes a world of difference from the old animations.

　　The full release notes can be found here if you feel obliged to take a look. The full patch notes are also posted below, for those less willing to checkout the CSGO website.

　　[ ANIMATION / GAMEPLAY ]

　　– Replaced all player body animations (Existing character models retained for demo compatibility)

　　– Replaced all world model weapon animation

　　– Updated shared player skeleton

　　– Re-rigged all player model geometry and player scaffold animation

　　– Updated animation networking to continually synchronize animation state instead of periodically latching

　　– Player animation sequence selection is now server-initiated

　　– Added new player states including bomb defusal and ladder climb poses

　　– Added thirdperson weapon deploy animations to more accurately represent viewmodel deploy state

　　– Extended all vertical aim matrix ranges to encompass the majority of vertical aim pitch so weapons line up precisely to firing angle

　　– Added reverse-bone-merge animation support so weapon models can store and play independent animation on the player holding them

　　– Added support for arbitrary numbers of articulated mechanical parts on world weapon models

　　– Updated weapon world model articulation points, bodygroup presets, holster positions and reverse-bone-merge skeletons

　　– Added physics motion to holstered attachment weapon locations

　　– Added support for non-polygonal capsule-shaped hit volumes, defined by a line segment and radius

　　– Replaced shared hitboxes with new capsule-based set

　　– Rebuilt player ragdoll angular constraints, physics hulls, and interaction pairs

　　– Ragdolls now assume more exact pose of their parent player on physics init

　　– Re-built animation statemachine to support blending locomotion over any weapon aim or action poses

　　– Enabled support for dynamic player animation layer re-ordering

　　– Sequence blendlayers now correctly contribute to computed cyclerate

　　– Added defuser cables and multimeter model

　　– Added hlmv support for capsule rendering, submodel attachment previewing, ragdoll constraint limit and bone name rendering, plus numerous small fixes

　　– Added model format support for named bodygroups, combined physics hulls, activity modifiers and animation system specific metadata

　　[ UI ]

　　– Fixed a bug where the mini-scoreboard armor/helmet information was not displaying for coaches

　　– Added sv_show_voip_indicator_for_enemies server convar. If set, it will make it so the ‘voice chat’ icon shows over enemy players as well as allies when they are using their microphone.

　　– Added sv_showbullethits feature to visualize server-confirmed hits and near-misses on listen servers

　　[ RENDERING ]

　　– Fixed improper stencil state in glow pass rendering

　　[ GAMEPLAY ]

　　– Added dynamic player culling to prevent players and weapons poking through thin walls and revealing their position

　　– M4A1-S:

　　— Reduced price

　　— Reduced armor penetration

　　— Reduced ROF

　　— Increased base spread

　　– Zeus x27

　　— Reduced price to $100

　　– Dual Berettas

　　— Increased armor penetration

　　— Increased range modifier

　　[ GOTV ]

　　– Added viewmodel position lerp to gotv camera transitions

　　[ OVERWATCH ]

　　– Players can now report enemies for anti-competitive griefing (i.e. deliberately losing).