Valve is making fans of Counter Strike: Global Offensive get all steamed up and excited for the game by bringing an update to the beta. The first thing this update has brought players is the weapons course, where players will no doubt be able to test their weaponry within the restrictions of a certain course.
The update has also added voice notification so that you can see when more players are talking and you can interact with enemies or allies easier. Valve has updated the freeze panel so it no longer shows the health for your opponent in competitive mode which adds an element of mystery to the whole thing. Many other things Valve have added to Counter Strike: Global Offensive’s beta include:
Update to the player info panel to no longer show achievement alerts within Counter Strike.
Update to the leaderboard screen to default to Friends filter.
Added the Total Games Played leaderboard category.
Updated the Play With Friends screen:
Made the chat window bigger so text is no longer cut off.
Adjusted the size of dimming when the focus changes between friends list and lobby list. It used to obscure the friends list and a little of the chat. Now it only obscures the friends list.
Bug Fixes in Counter Strike: Global Offensive:
Updated the radio command panel so that the radio panel doesn’t end up at the top of the screen during a mode that doesn’t have a money panel.
Set Classic Casual deadtalk to 0 to encourage fair play amongst players which is a nice gesture for players to be nice.
Fixed the freeze panel dynamic positioning that would allow it to go too high.
Fixed a missing text string displayed when player is not connected to Steam in leaderboards.
Fixed a bug where the Mag7 could be bought by Ts via console commands.
Fixed a bug where adding favorite server was not functional in the Community Server UI.
Fixed a bug in the Play With Friends lobby where using left and right on keyboard or gamepad made the screen unresponsive.
Fixed a bug in the Play With Friends lobby where typing in the Chat window would cause player names to flicker in the friends list.
Fix for voice/chat/radio messages. Better unified the handling of voice and chat messages.
— Chat messages now correctly use sv_allchat (instead of sv_alltalk), which should be more consistent with other source games.
— Team-only communications now are not affected by sv_allchat/sv_alltalk, which means that private communications to one’s team stay private, regardless of game mode.
— Team-only communication is also not overridden by sv_full_alltalk, which allows teams to privately communicate strategy during warmup time and intermission.
Radio commands are considered team-only, so these should still be usable for tactics during games with sv_alltalk enabled (e.g. casual).
Spectators no longer hear team-only communications, except when sv_spec_hear is mode 2 (hear/see comms of the spectated teams).
Audio updates are as follows:
Increased the audible range of the c4 plant and disarm sounds.
Fixed audio randomly chirping/screeching on certain levels.
Matchmaking updates:
Tuned lobby distance computations when performing matchmaking.
Community updates:
Shipped zombie model to support the Zombie Mod
So here is to hoping these changes make the beta for Counter Strike: Global Offensive an even better experience for players
