Operation Bloodhound (NEW) and CS:GO Update Released: 26/05/2015

[KillahInstinct]

More information about the new update and operation.

Changelog

[OPERATION BLOODHOUND]
– Launched Operation Bloodhound, available until September 30th, 2015.
– Six community maps available for free to ALL CS:GO PLAYERS on official servers via the Operation Bloodhound map group: Agency, Resort, Zoo, Log, Rails, and Season
– The Operation Bloodhound Access Pass is now available for purchase. It provides:
— The upgradable Operation Bloodhound Challenge Coin, which can be displayed on your profile and in the scoreboard.
— The Operation Bloodhound Journal, complete with Friends Leaderboards to track your Active Duty and Operation Competitive performance.
— Two all-new campaigns, with 62 missions rewarding additional XP throughout the Operation.
— Earned weapon drops will come from the Operation Bloodhound exclusive weapon collections: Cobblestone, Cache, Overpass, and all-new collections Gods and Monsters, The Rising Sun, and Chop Shop.
— Exclusive access to the Falchion Case, containing 16 community-designed weapon finishes and the all-new Falchion Knife.
— Added two new Mission types, Assassination and Guardian Co-op which are playable via campaign missions in the Operation.

[PROFILE RANKS]
– Introducing Profile Ranks, viewable in-game on your CS:GO profile.
– Play on official servers to earn XP and rank up your CS:GO Profile Rank.
— In Competitive Mode, your earned XP is determined by your rounds won.
— In all other modes, your earned XP is determined by your score.
— You can earn additional XP by completing Operation Bloodhound Missions.
– In addition to increasing your CS:GO Profile Rank, your first Rank earned each week will reward you with an earned weapon drop. If you own an Operation Bloodhound Access Pass, your weapon will come from one of the exclusive Operation Bloodhound weapon collections.

[CASUAL]
– Reduced Round timer from 3:00 to 2:15.
– Increased warmup time from 30 to 90 seconds.
– Disabled vote to restart match.
– Vote to change level is disabled after a team has reached match point.

[UI]
– Fixed sometimes (but rarely) seeing health of players on the other team in the mini scoreboard.
– Fixed the freeze panel sometimes getting stuck on and staying on even after the player is alive.

[MISC]
– Added trace-based visibility checks to prevent networking invisible enemy players.
– Updated CSGO engine to the latest Steam API SDK.
– Improved support for integrated web browser MOTD popups.
– Fixed several server-crashing exploits.
– Fixed voice chat echo in lobby.
– Re-enabled a bunch of player model variants including the much missed Balkan “Ido” model, otherwise known as tm_balkan_variantC.
– Added a convar (sv_disable_immunity_alpha) that when set, allows mods to handle their own alpha on players.
– Limited support for FBX in studiomdl.
– Added sv_vote_to_changelevel_before_match_point (default 0, vote is never disallowed). When set to 1, the vote to change level is disabled after a team has reached match point.

[MAPS]
-Cache
–Fixed multiple bomb-stuck spots
–Fixed an issue where saving CTs could be seen on radar from outside spawn
–Fixed an annoying issue where grenades would collide with ground geometry map-wide
–Deleted a problematic glass pane in mid (thanks RoF Anders)
–Ensured tarps on crates are actually spammable

-Season
–Reduced width of Upper B T-side and long A to their CS:Source dimensions
–Fixed every “white on white” corner to improve visibility (Thanks Shahzam)
–Added a railing on catwalk to ensure that T’s don’t rush A site without potential punishment from pit
–Fixed an angle at B lower to ensure that defensive grenades can be bounced off a wall easily and properly, as was the case in CS:Source
–Made squeeky door louder
–Bug fix: fixed metal sounds being made on all surfaces throughout the map.

-Mirage
–Fixed some spots where C4 could get stuck
–Fixed some spots where players could get stuck on walls

Discuss the various aspects of the new update here.

Size is approximately 492 MB.

[King Roblox]

love the new knife sound

really relaxing :)

[f̶x̶l̶]

how do you try it?

[King Roblox]

lol mb1

[Jella]

Gift Access Pass?

Is it possible to gift someone the operation bloodhound access pass?

[Racuch Zawodowiec]

Probably yes. I did it for my friend in july 2014 in different OP.

[ketchup packet]

Thoughts on the new Operation?

Imo, the skins are PRETTY DAMN WEAK, nowhere NEAR the quality of Chroma 2, but hey, a Restricted Negev and Pink MP7, variety, I guess.
The new knife sucks monkey ♥♥♥♥, and the bad animations don't help it any, I hate the animations on it too, it looks like a fanmade mod, not an official knife that Valve made themselves.

[archy]

I like:
AK, P200, USP, and the Galil.
I agree the Knife does look like ♥♥♥♥

[SuperHans]

Originally posted by Azazel, son of The Dark One:

Imo, the skins are PRETTY DAMN WEAK, nowhere NEAR the quality of Chroma 2, but hey, a Restricted Negev and Pink MP7, variety, I guess.
The new knife sucks monkey ♥♥♥♥, and the bad animations don't help it any, I hate the animations on it too, it looks like a fanmade mod, not an official knife that Valve made themselves.

guess what, everything that goes into cases is communty made

[AI-bino]

How's about we appriciate the work that these people put into making these weapon finishes for once eh?

[ketchup packet]

Originally posted by SuperHans:

Originally posted by Azazel, son of The Dark One:

Imo, the skins are PRETTY DAMN WEAK, nowhere NEAR the quality of Chroma 2, but hey, a Restricted Negev and Pink MP7, variety, I guess.
The new knife sucks monkey ♥♥♥♥, and the bad animations don't help it any, I hate the animations on it too, it looks like a fanmade mod, not an official knife that Valve made themselves.

guess what, everything that goes into cases is communty made

Yeah and?
You know, they could've picked better skins, and made a better knife. :)

[FaustiLo]

bloodhound : buying the new operation

i bought the new operation but nothing new showed up! i just have the rank bar and the new maps to play. no challenge coin and journal to track my progress... can some one help me?

I have evidence that I bought the operation

[Clustered]

the new sound of the knife suck (i got 2 knifes) and i want to valva change it or i sell all my inventory (300$) and never play this game again

[FaustiLo]

pls help me I spend 5,49€ in this!

[AI-bino]

Originally posted by Azazel, son of The Dark One:

Originally posted by SuperHans:

guess what, everything that goes into cases is communty made

Yeah and?
You know, they could've picked better skins, and made a better knife. :)

And you could have been nicer.

But the world ain't perfect. You get what'cha get and ya deal with it.

*Equips shades*

[Kangama]

Why is the operation pass subject to trade limitations?

Is there any logical reason behind subjecting the Operation Bloodhound Access Pass to the trade limitations within the steam market? For over a year, I have been provided with the pass by a generous friend who buys the new missions for me as I don't use PayPal. Now the pass won't be able to be traded to me for over a week. I am sure a lot of people now have a similar problem...

What is the logic behind this decision? Does anyone know?

All the best,
Spock