Major Update Removes Halloween Masks and Adds Season

OPERATION VANGUARD

• Six community maps added to the Operation Vanguard map group, available for free to ALL CS:GO players.
  • de_marquis, de_facade, de_season, de_bazaar, cs_workout, and cs_backalley
• The Operation Vanguard Pass is now available. With an operation pass, you’ll receive:
  • A personal Operation Vanguard Journal
  • Exclusive access to the new Operation Vanguard weapon case as a separate timed drop.
  • TWO all-new Campaigns: Weapon Specialist and Vanguard. Choose your own path through a series of missions that span the globe, and receive extra weapons or Operation Vanguard weapon cases as a reward.
  • Access to two optional campaigns: Maghreb and Eurasia.
  • An Operation Vanguard Challenge Coin, which can be upgraded by completing branches of a campaign.
  • Active Duty and Vanguard Scorecards, and Friends Leaderboards to track and compare your Competitive Matchmaking performance throughout the Operation.
• Operation runs until February 10th, 2015.

ARMS RACE

• Friendly Fire has been turned off.
• de_stmarc, de_lake and de_safehouse are now available in Arms Race mode.
• Fixed game reporting the wrong name of the player who got to knife level in Arms Race.
• Major update to Arms Race mode:
  • Leaders (players with the highest weapon index) from each team now glow for a short time after attacking.
  • The weapon progression list now picks a weapon randomly from 5 fixed weapon categories.
  • The number of levels to reach Golden Knife have been reduced to 16.
  • Two kills are needed to upgrade with each weapon (unless you get a knife kill or kill the enemy leader).
  • Added some new sounds to AR mode.
  • To see more of the Arms Race rules changes, see this guide: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=336510139[3]

DEMOLITION

• Friendly Fire has been turned off.
• de_shortdust added to Demolition mode

DEATHMATCH

• Changed Deathmatch bonus weapon to support all guns.

GAMEPLAY

• When FF is off, bullets no longer penetrate teammates

UI

• Fixed grenades icons in weapon panel obeying the user’s HUD color setting
• Fixed Mini-Scoreboard panel not properly hiding a few avatars slots on a full server in casual when you had the Mini-Scoreboard Style set to “Just Show Player Count”
• Fixed the freeze panel overlapping with the info panel.

MISC

• Halloween has come to a grisly end. (sv_holiday_mode set back to 0)
• Fixed rebuy not rebuying nades, defuse kit, or taser correctly.
• Volume of ambient and 1st person sounds have been slightly reduced in “headphones” setting.
• Death Camera music no longer plays while spectating.
• Half-time / Game-end music no longer plays in overwatch mode.
• Fixed bug where 10 second countdown music(s) would play after round end when round end music volume was set to 0.
• Addressed hitches that were caused by synchronous file i/o.