GAMEPLAY

• Adjusted the start-of-half economy with the goal of reducing the impact of a pistol round win on subsequent rounds.

• In Competitive Matchmaking, both teams are now considered to start the half with a one-round ‘losing streak’ that is reset following a round win. Instead of $1400, the Round 1 loser receives $1900, then $2400 for a subsequent loss, etc.

• The start-of-half losing streak can be adjusted via “mp_starting_losses”

• CZ75a: Adjusted the CZ75a to encourage semi-automatic fire at medium and long ranges.

  

• increased recoil and fire inaccuracy

• slightly improved accuracy recovery rate

• Tec9: Adjustments to make the weapon more forgiving at medium rates of fire.

• reduced fire inaccuracy

• slightly improved accuracy recovery rate

• SG553 price reduced to $2750

• AUG price reduced to $3150

MAPS

• Austria is now available in Competitive Matchmaking.

• Austria has been moved into Group Delta in official Casual matchmaking.

• New Community maps Biome and Subzero are now available in Casual matchmaking as part of Group Sigma.

• Canals has been removed from Competitive Matchmaking.

• Shipped and Insertion are no longer available in official matchmaking.

AUDIO

• Added a “VOIP Positional” audio setting. When this setting is enabled, in-game voice audio will be played from the position the player is standing at.

MISC

• Enabled mouse bindings for voice chat to work in end of match scoreboard.

• Fixed backlog of async events in scoreboard causing performance problems during gameplay.