Title: Game Update 8th February 2013

Build: 2180

Crashes/Freezes

• Improvements have been made to client and server synchronisation.


• Some stability changes have been made to stop some crashes.

Balancing/Gameplay

• Diamond Mine messaging changed to avoid repeatedly displaying the same message.


• Rocketeer has been given the pickaxe as an option on the Choose Class screen.


• CTF now has a score limit is now 5 rather than 50


• CTF captures are worth 1 point now instead of 10


• The mysterious sound of placing a block no longer happens when you don't have any blocks to place


• The achievement “Dead Drop” now unlocks correctly


• Reticule no longer turns red when hitting a friendly character.


• Reticule no longer turns red when firing at the area of a dead character.


• Rocket Turret now explodes when it has fired 10 rockets rather than when it has run out of time.

Graphical/HUD

• Winter Valley skybox has been better aligned with sea level.


• Class icons added to in game scoreboard.


• Names and icons turn red on the in game scoreboard if the player has been killed.


• Multiple ammo boxes will no longer spawn on the same point at the same time.


• Flare blocks correctly displayed when placed on water.


• Improvements to indicator showing whether a block can be placed or not.


• Tilde key function has been removed


• Lighting is correctly removed when a Flare Block is destroyed

User Interface

• The clickable area to sort by Ping on the Choose Match Menu has been expanded to cover the whole of the word


• All buttons in the menus increase in brightness when the mouse hovers over.

Language Specific

French

• Spelling mistake in French version, “Soyez le dernier joueur à poser une bombe avec succès, puis remportez la manche.” is now fixed

Classic Mode

• Player is now able to sprint at the right speed after capturing the intel - not while you are holding it.


• The CP is now double-sided. If a player camps inside the player will not be able to see out. Sneaky spawn campers!


• ]CTF now has a score limit is now 5 rather than 50


• CTF captures are worth 1 point now instead of 10

- Added Team Matchmaking! Teams have a public rating based on their performance against other Teams.
- Added Language setting for Matchmaking!

GAMEPLAY
- Alchemist: Fixed Unstable Concoction AOE and Self impact behavior when there is a Magic Immune target.
- Batrider: Fixed Sticky Napalm being applied to Magic Immune units.
- Batrider: Fixed Sticky Napalm being removed by Magic Immunity.
- Bloodseeker: Fixed Rupture damage interval.
- Bloodseeker: Fixed being able to use potions during Rupture.
- Dark Seer: Fixed being able to cast Ion Shell on special units like Spirit Bear and Warlock's Golem
- Doom: Fixed Doom's interaction with MKB and Truestrike.
- Dragon Knight: Fixed Dragon Breath sometimes missing at very close range in Elder Dragon Form.
- Dragon Knight: Fixed Dragon Breath travel time being too slow.
- Gyrocopter: Fixed Call Down first and second impact slow values being swapped
- Keeper of the Light: Fixed Recall going off if Keeper died during the delay.
- Lone Druid: Fixed Spirit Bear's Entangle working against Ancients and Creep Heroes like Familiars and Warlock's Golem.
- Medusa: Fixed Split Shot hitting Nightmared units.
- Medusa: Fixed Mana Shield not blocking damage from Death Ward, Plague Wards, Serpent Wards and Wildkin's Tornado.
- Morphling: Fixed Morph transformation stopping if Morphling gets purged or cycloned.
- Shadow Fiend: Fixed Shadow Fiend gaining souls while dead
- Shadow Fiend: Fixed Shadow Fiend gaining souls from killing illusions.
- Spectre: Fixed Spectral Dagger sometimes creating invisible paths of targets it hit.
- Troll Warlord: Added Pseudo Random support for his Bash.
- Troll Warlord: Fixed Whirling Axes interaction with Roshan.
- Visage: Fixed Cleave hitting Familiars.
- Warlock: Fixed Flaming Fists hitting ethereal units.
- Weaver: Fixed various buffs Time Lapse did not remove.
- Witch Doctor: Fixed Paralyzing Casks bouncing off of couriers.
- Courier: Fixed courier not responding to deliver orders after having received a hold or stop order.
- Courier: Reduced stash interaction ranges to fix the courier not filling a bottle when entering and exiting the fountain area in a short time.
- Courier: Fixed the Deliver Items breaking if you used speed burst on the way to the stash.
- Fixed direct unit target spells having 24 less effective range.
- Fixed Dark Pact and and Kraken Shell not removing Sticky Napalm, Shadow Strike, Venomous Gale, Poison Nova and Viper Strike.
- Fixed Day/Night cycle duration as well as initial state being a bit off.
- Fixed some ability Backswing timing issues (Kunkka, Clockwerk, Timbersaw, Meepo, Pudge, Spiritbreaker, Sand King, Riki, Nyx, Lion, Pugna, Shadow Demon, Batrider).
- Orb of Venom now has the same stacking behavior with Lifesteal that Eye of Skadi does.
- Fixed Veil of Discord not getting applied to Magic Immune units.
- Fixed Veil of Discord getting dispelled by Purge/BKB/Cyclone/etc.
- Fixed Bloodstone charges incrementing while you are dead.
- Dropped, non-sharable items can no longer be destroyed by teammates.
- Fixed dominated units continuing their previous channeling spell.
- Enabled Silencer in Captain's Mode for Latest Version (will be enabled in Tournament Version the following week).

UI
- Added Language option for Matchmaking. You will find players when matchmaking that have selected the same language(s).
- Fixed buff refreshes not showing the correct swipe.
- Made Keeper's two Spirit Form abilities always visible but just disabled until he uses Spirit Form.
- The dota:// URL handler now supports lobbyid= and accountid= for creating game spectating links.
- Fixed autocast ability border not hiding when moving from a friendly unit to querying an enemy.
- When using smart tab switching, fixed not being able to cycle to controllable units if your currently selected using is dead.
- Players that play on a league game will now have access to that league pass.
- Fixed being able to pick or random an already repicked hero.
- Added an error message when pressing the courier deliver button and there are no items to be delivered.

WEBAPI:
- Added Team query to WebAPI. Query is GetTeamInfoByTeamID, params are start_at_team_id and teams_requested.

LEAGUES:
- Players that participate in Leagues will now have access to watch all games for said league in the tournament tab.

BOTS
- Made Necrolyte bot more likely to use Death Pulse to heal himself.
- When considering purchasing an item and determining whether there's room in their inventory, bots will now consider whether the item will stack with an existing item.
- Bots will no longer sell a situational item in order to retrieve a situational item from their stash (fixes purchase thrashing).
- Witch Doctor will no longer use Maledict on non-hero units.
- Slightly lowered the maximum desire to attack a non-hero unit.

Release Notes for 2/7/2013

[MISC]

- Added 'workshop_start_map' command line param to specify which map in a workshop collection for the server to start on. Takes the desired map's file id.
- Password-protected community servers are no longer available for community matchmaking.
- Map name is now correctly reported to master server.
- Added spawn points in cs_assault.
- Convars now get reset to defaults before server.cfg is executed.
- Fixed a dedicated server crash after player disconnection.
- Fixed respawn pop-up showing when you could not respawn in some cases.
- Fixed bug in respawning if team spawn point counts were asymmetrical.
- Fixed prop_dynamic_glow's not getting a final network update.
- Fixed webapi authkey behavior on Linux dedicated servers.
- Fixed layout of player details screen.

Release Notes for 2/7/2013

[NOTABLE]

-Added the CS:GO Maps Workshop.
  -Maps Workshop tab now available in client Map Browser
  -Maps Workshop FAQ: http://blog.counter-strike.net/workshop/faq.php
  -Workshop url: http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/browse/?appid=730
  -Server Operators details: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/CSGO_Workshop_For_Server_Operators
  -Upload tool for Map Makers: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/CSGO_Map_Publish_Tool
  -Information about custom game rules: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/CSGO_Custom_Game_Mode

-Added cs_assault to Classic map group.