CS:GO update adds fade to black

1-6-2016 04:43

A new CS:GO update has shipped, build version 1.35.3.5, and its major bullet point is an introduction of a long requested game mechanic, deathcam blur and fade to black.

A new CS:GO update arrived late in the night and any update can be considered a ground-breaking update as far as CS:GO is concerned when there are noticeable changes in the "Gameplay" section.

Today's change features three very important changes to gameplay: a reduction of Spectator Freeze Time (the amount of time an observer camera is frozen) from five to three seconds, an introduction of a fade and blur to deathcam upon dying, and a more aggressive fade on the deathcam when killed with a headshot.

The request for a fade to black had been a longstanding one from fans of earlier iterations of Counter-Strike and the aggressive fade upon getting headshotted will add an interesting competitive tweak to the mechanic.

In addition, hardcore traders and Series 1 pin fans will be in for a bit of a shock as the Pin Series capsule can now be purchased in game, and a further blog post specified that Series 2 pins will debut at ESL One Cologne 2016.

The full changelog for the update can be found below:

[PINS]

Added the CS:GO Collectible Pins Series 1 capsule offer that can be purchased in-game.
As of June 1st, Series 1 Genuine Collectible Pins will be available at WeLoveFine.com

[GAMEPLAY]

Default spec_freeze_time reduced from 5.0 to 3.0.
Added fade and blur to deathcam (when mp_forcecamera 1).
Fade and blur in deathcam are more aggressive when killed with a headshot (when mp_forcecamera 1).

[SPECTATING]

Improved spectating cameras for de_cache.
Improved spectating cameras for de_nuke.
Added convars cl_spec_use_tournament_content_standards and sv_spec_use_tournament_content_standards that allow the client and/or server to prefer official pro player names when available and omit weapon tags for spectators.

[MISC]

The ‘swap item’ crosshair hint will display the weapon’s original name even if the weapon has been renamed with a name tag.

[WebAPIs]

Introducing Authentication Codes that allow users to grant to third-party websites and applications access to their Pick’Em and Fantasy games during CS:GO Major Championships.
- Documentation for websites and application developers is available: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Counter-Strike:_Global_Offensive_PickEm_Fantasy_Management
- Authentication Codes management for users is available: https://help.steampowered.com/en/wizard/HelpWithGameIssue/?appid=730&issueid=128

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Metallica?

2016-06-01 04:44

25 replies

I was hoping for music kit

2016-06-01 04:49

17 replies

me too, like csgo adds fade to black album lol

2016-06-01 04:50

15 replies

Ride the lightning

14 replies

the best

2016-06-01 04:52

5 replies

st. anger best

2016-06-01 05:18

4 replies

Get the fuck oot m8 :P

2016-06-01 06:29

But that's not And Justice for All.

2016-06-01 13:36

1 reply

Best album ever made by anyone!!

2016-06-04 00:38

That snare ruined the whole album. If Lars wasnt such a good businessman, i think they shouldve gotten a better drummer long time ago

2016-06-01 15:33

Ride the lightning good but not best (MoP best)

2016-06-01 06:57

Master of puppets, kill em all, RTL, justice, black, rest are total shit

2016-06-01 08:28

6 replies

+1 even though black album was pretty weak in general.

2016-06-01 08:44

true, black album was the gateway drug to shit music

2016-06-02 15:10

Death magnetic is pretty good tbh

2016-06-01 11:56

3 replies

that joke went old in 2009 bro

2016-06-02 15:11

2 replies

playing csgo since 2013 but cant get ge xD

2016-06-04 00:40

hltv.org/?pageid=18&threadid=1166439

2016-06-04 14:18

exactly my toughts xD

2016-06-01 16:38

2016-06-01 04:51

other than that,i think nothing else matters xD

2016-06-01 04:53

.-.

2016-06-01 05:46

life it seems will fade away

2016-06-01 06:51

Exactly my thought

2016-06-01 09:14

ridiculous that people can buy pins in game now

2016-06-01 22:20

I was hoping for new music kits

2016-06-01 23:36

nice

Expected

2016-06-01 04:45

LOL good thing I sold my pin codes

Whoa

2016-06-01 04:46

yeeeehhaaaaa

2016-06-01 04:47

Nooice :D

easiest pin code of my life

rip fps

Lol the money people lost on pins :P

Classic Valve. XD

2016-06-01 20:30

wut

Good, good, now improve FPS on Nuke.

2016-06-01 04:54

2016-06-01 05:00

LOL. Nice job Volvo. F2B 3 years later :V

2016-06-01 05:05

rip me i bought 2 pins with irl money not to long ago..

2016-06-01 05:08

Just lost $250 from this update

2016-06-01 05:11

9 replies

LMFAO DESERVED

2016-06-01 05:19

Really? Because I went to the major and stood in line for 4 hours, I deserve to lose the value of my pins, how is it deserved?

2016-06-01 05:21

New pins coming out at the next majors so u can get some money from the new ones ;)

2016-06-02 08:00

this. I have a militia pin worth $46 on the market right now, and I can't even sell it because it's not from the capsule.

2016-06-01 05:41

Maybe they will keep the genuine pins that were from the major and have the ones from the capsule as like knock off pins

2016-06-01 05:44

The ones you get from the major will be titled "Genuine ( insert pin name here)". The ones sold in the capsules have no "Genuine" tag on it. Guess if that makes your pin a little more worth it...

2016-06-01 07:05

Except that only way to watch that is to go into the actual inventory. Also genuine pins aren't tradeable. Valve being greedy developer #1 once again!

2016-06-01 11:08

Yep :( I think nobody would bother checking whether one's pin is genuine or not. I would have thought Valve would have changed the lable to distinguish the genuine ones from the normal ones but Valve being Valve :D

2016-06-01 12:13

hahahah DESERVED

2016-06-01 14:22

rip pin prices at least my complexity and ibuypower stickers are safe

Nope, valve is going to sell the ibuypower stickers in the next update and make the originals industuisable from the newer ones

2016-06-01 05:23

source?

2016-06-01 08:19

not for long.

2016-06-01 06:52

Niceee pinsss :D

2016-06-01 05:12

All i know is i cant join esea servers now after this update, but can play any other server.... gg "Got network config from CDN. Data contains revision 38, not newer than current revision 38; ignoring. Telling Steam it is safe to update the app --- Missing Vgui material vgui/..\vgui\maps\menu_thumb_default --- Missing Vgui material vgui/..\vgui\maps\menu_thumb_default_download Failed to read the default inventory image file (materials/icons/inventory_icon_quest.vtf) Failed to read the default inventory image file (materials/icons/inventory_icon_campaign.vtf) Failed to read the default inventory image file (materials/icons/inventory_icon_campaign.vtf) "

great ffs so the guardian elite pin that i got at the major is gonna be less rare af because everyone is gonna have them and i wont look cool anymore .___.

2016-06-01 05:25

Yep, rest in peace my fallen comrade, at least we can remember the great times before the massive fuck up

2016-06-01 05:33

i think atleast it will still say genuine

2016-06-01 16:28

"The request for a fade to black had been a longstanding one from fans of earlier iterations of Counter-Strike" Nobody fucking wanted that. You have like half a fucking second to wait to bait the killcam. Yet another update to fuck up the skill and timing needed to play the game properly. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - Ages 8 to 80.

2016-06-01 05:34

10 replies

Nice bait

2016-06-01 05:36

Damnit :(

2016-06-01 05:37

AU CS HAHHA

weeb CS HAHHA

2016-06-01 05:47

I don't even know what country you're from, but I bet it must be sad to be irrelevant green japan.

2016-06-01 05:52

I don't even know what country you're from, but I bet it must be sad to be irrelevant white japan.

2016-06-01 07:13

bangladeshi CS HAHHA...?

2016-06-01 07:08

NA CS HAHHA...?

NORWAY CS HAHHA...?

2016-06-01 07:29

Lol silver talking, deathcam is 5 second free wh reward for lows who die all the time

2016-06-01 08:43

wow unexpected...

2016-06-01 05:35

fak spent like 80 keys on pins

2016-06-01 05:38

right, shits bullshit. how is someone Collectible when they sell it in game after time.

2016-06-01 08:31

For users that have pins because they redeemed a code, they should be able to sell it if they want. Pins that are offered in the Capsule but weren't obtained through the capsule still can't be sold on the market. I find this pretty unfair.

2016-06-01 05:39

I redeemed two codes and can't sell any pin

Pretty much the same pin, but they are different. Genuine vs non.

2016-06-01 05:56

I always said that this game need the F2B from CS 1.6.

2016-06-01 05:50

Ground breaking update... thats funny.

2016-06-01 05:48

This is a really cool update. I love it!! Now we need sound improvements. EDIT: Upon reading my own comment, I sound like such a spoiled child. *crawls into hole*

2016-06-01 05:51

I sound like such a spoiled child. Honestly not really. Updates in CS:GO are slow and small. Every time giving a little requested feature while adding yet another revenue stream for Valve. Playing CS:GO and watching the updates is just downright sad when you look at Dota2 and so many other games.

2016-06-01 11:12

True, true. They're money-mongers, that's for sure.

2016-06-01 16:11

Seriously they need to fix sound. Its so horrible you can't trace where someone is half the time. Can't understand how sound in 1.6 was so accurate in pinpointing people and cs:go can't do it.

2016-06-01 14:03

Haven't fixed that plant spot on Nuke???

Death cam affects nothing... You can still see just fine for the same amount of time.

2016-06-01 05:57

4 years late valve..

2016-06-01 06:04

sup with the pins? i dont understand

2016-06-01 06:06

What about prime matchmaking? Q_Q

2016-06-01 06:11

add 2 seconds of black screen xDDDDDD prolly was just faster for these workoholics xDDddd

2016-06-01 06:22

Lolvalve.

2016-06-01 06:36

so where to buy it in game? :/

Is the fade to black ON by default for normal MM session? I'm not sure if I'll like that for the normal MM. Part of the fun in this game is when we're spectating our friends, cheering them on, or laughing together when something dumb happens. We also give constructive criticism and advice on how to play better when we see our friends do something noobish. This way, all of us can improve together at the game. For me, MM is the casual gaming mode where we just go there to have fun without much pressure. When we felt we really wanted to test out our team strats or wanting to play a little bit more serious, then we would get on ESEA (and sometimes Faceit because one of our members didn't renew his ESEA sub). Anyways, perhaps there are good points to the fade to black in MM. Maybe it'll reduce some of the flaming players get when strangers bitch about another player after the other player's plays didn't meet their expectations. I don't know about players (especially new players) spending almost half their time staring at a black screen after they die in-game every round... every game tho... Maybe it'll get a bit boring after a while?

2016-06-01 06:53

Is u retard?

2016-06-01 07:21

no, but hi retard :)

2016-06-01 07:41

Do you even know what a deathcam is lol you are still able to spectate. Deathcam is the Static camera After you die. (Befor you switch to speactate)

2016-06-01 07:40

Sorry I must admit I haven't read through the whole text clearly, just the title. I remember back in 1.6 local LAN tournament, they had fade to black as in there is no spectating cams + disallowing the dead team members to speak after the fade to black occurs.

2016-06-01 07:46

in the old time real f2b was used so you could not use a clipping bug while switching through teammates to gather information.

2016-06-01 13:47

At first i thought it was a new knife finish...Black Fade....hmm so sad :((

-Banned all the cheaters and everything will be fine by now- KAPPA

2016-06-01 06:59

'tallica confirmed

2016-06-01 07:11

VALVE SHOULD WORK ON THEIR ANTI CHEAT NOT PINS AND SKINS.

2016-06-01 07:14

maybe you are new to cs, but valve never gives information about VAC updates.

2016-06-01 10:31

Occasunal vacwaves doesnt do the job. They should keep it weekly or even daily. I played MM after a few months got 5 premade with a spinbot carrying them.

2016-06-01 11:06

they do, but they dont let you know. and i haven seen a spinbot in my games since early 2013, i must be lucky.

2016-06-01 14:07

love it.

2016-06-01 07:15

when you die and you try to throw molotov, smoke , flash , nade ,etc . you throw yours and there is alsaw one more on the floor..fixpls

2016-06-01 07:16

Great update.

2016-06-01 07:28

Slayer>metallica

2016-06-01 08:29

Nicee

2016-06-01 08:47

can somebody post a video from the new Deathcam? what does that mean? (more aggressive when killed with a headsho) ?!

2016-06-01 08:59

fades to black quicker when killed by a headshot normal: giant.gfycat.com/BlondGregariousGermansp.. headshot: gfycat.com/BaggyHarmfulCock

2016-06-01 10:21

More blur and faster fade to black when you get headshoted. So the game actually rewards you for hs now.

2016-06-01 10:25

but awpers get fucked so that's kinda stupid

2016-06-01 13:14

nice title

2016-06-01 09:02

Added the CS:GO Collectible Pins Series 1 capsule offer that can be purchased in-game. SICK

2016-06-01 09:35

hats hats hats . just ignore the bunch of cheaters playing in csgo

2016-06-01 09:56

i always hated f2b back in the days

2016-06-01 09:59

Useless update. Still no movement fix. Still no tec9 nerf. Still no 57 nerf. Still no scout nerf. Gg.

2016-06-01 10:29

Great, here guys take some shiny objects and stfu about the current state of the game being infested with cheaters, I truly believe valve have lost their little phony war against cheaters, it's over. They don't give a fuck any more because they know they can't truly tackle it because they let it get so entrenched in pro and mm that if they were to stop cheating they would probably kill the game dead, gg valve go fuck yourselves.

2016-06-01 10:32

To stop cheating you would need an AC that is very intrusive like ESEAs and even that doesn't catch all the cheaters. I can imagine the shitstorm if valve made VAC more intrusive, that would be some funny shit.

2016-06-01 10:40

11 replies

That's A lie. Keep telling yourself that is the only way.

2016-06-01 10:43

What is a lie? Not even ESEAs super amazing best ever anti cheat can keep cheaters away. And you guys have blown the amount of cheaters way out of proportion. In reality there arent that many cheaters.

2016-06-01 11:37

Another lie, stop replying to me.

2016-06-01 12:10

So you are just a troll then. Got me good :/

2016-06-01 12:34

reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/4l.. I'll just leave this here for your clueless self. You must be low ranked to say there "arent that many cheaters."

2016-06-01 13:33

So 8% of the players he played again in his last 54 games were banned.

2016-06-01 14:00

No. Im just not a sheep who follows every reddiy circlejerk.

2016-06-01 14:05

You clearly aren't a high rank then. Until you rank up and experience the Hell that MM is going through right now, please shut up. I love it when people liek you tell themselves there isn't a viral cheating issue spreading through this game right now.

2016-06-02 12:17

You clearly haven't played this game yourself. Since you are focusing on what the vocal minority experiences. Vocal minority being the players who say there is some huge cheating problem.

2016-06-02 15:58

Seeing that I've been playing this game for two and a half years, who are you to tell me that I haven't played? The 'vocal minority' is a decent thousand amount of people that are higher ranked than you and are facing the worst cheating epidemic that CS:GO has ever faced in the entire span of it's lifetime. Really, I wish people like you would just shut the fuck up if they have no idea what they're talking about. Get fucking ranked higher, then talk like you have any idea about this cheater infestation.

2016-06-03 03:58

Milking CS:GO for as long as they can :)

2016-06-01 11:13