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Gameplay Improvements and Bug Fixes

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The 2018-08-15 update adds the MP5-SD, improves matchmaking lobby handling, fixes networking for DSL connections, enables Panorama UI on Windows XP/Vista, and includes various bug fixes.

  • New: MP5-SD added for testing offline and in Official Casual and Deathmatch servers.
  • Updated: Matchmaking lobbies expire after 5 minutes of inactivity; single-user lobbies can be advertised.
  • Fixed: High packet loss for DSL connections due to out-of-order packets.
  • Updated: Panorama UI enabled on Windows XP and Vista; lobby chat fixes; keyboard responsiveness fix.
  • Fixed: Stability, scoreboard, and mapoverview icon scaling fixes.
  • Updated: Horizon Case normal maps, Perfect World download reliability, and other misc improvements.

GAMEPLAY

– Added the all new MP5-SD, available for testing Offline and in Official Casual and Deathmatch servers. It can be equipped in your MP7 loadout slot.

MATCHMAKING

– Lobbies advertised to nearby players and Steam Groups members will now expire after 5 minutes of the lobby leader’s inactivity.
– Added a way to start advertising single-user lobbies to nearby players and Steam Groups members from the permissions dialog.

NETWORKING

– Fixed a bug causing some players, especially on DSL connections, to experience high packet loss due to packets being delivered out of order.

PANORAMA

– Enabled Panorama UI on Windows XP and Windows Vista game clients.
– Enabled lobby chat when accept match popup is active.
– Fixed various multi-line messages clipping last line of text.
– Fixed unresponsive keyboard after typing and pressing ‘send’ in the chat panel.
– Allow sending a Steam message to recent teammates using new Steam chat.
– Spectator HUD elements now respect the cl_drawhud setting.
– Fixed reconnect button when it appears over lobby chat.
– Fixed MP7 walk up animation.
– Game state integration includes a field “round_totaldmg” to track total damage the player dealt.
– Various scoreboard bug fixes for different game modes.
– Various stability improvements and fixes.
– Fixed mapoverview icon scaling

HORIZON CASE

– Added normal maps to Desert Eagle | Code Red and P90 | Traction

PERFECT WORLD

– Improved reliability of downloading Overwatch evidence in Perfect World CS:GO game client.

MISC

– This update includes a change to “csgo.exe” which, while signed with Valve digital certificate, may still trigger warnings in certain anti-virus packages and require users to manually change their AV software settings to update correctly.

Source: http://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2018/08/20855/

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