Counter Strike Global Offensive: Map Changes and Deagle Nerfed!

Published 04/17/2020, 5:04 PM EDT

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Counter Strike: Global Offensive has officially unveiled a new game patch, to the fans’ delight. Valve Corporation released the new update, which boasts of several changes to keep players engaged.

Counter Strike: Global Offensive Gameplay

For starters, the shooter video game added one-on-one warmup arenas. However, players can only access these arenas when they play Wingman mode on the Vertigo and Train maps.

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As you may know, the Deagle was buffed just last week, making it just too OP to be realistic. Valve had increased the accuracy of the pistol while jumping; so much so, that players were jumping just to increase their chances of getting headshots with it.

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Subsequently, it has been nerfed down in this patch update by including an “inaccuracy jump index” that lowers the accuracy of the pistol while jumping.

User Interface

Other changes include adding an ability to see the crosshairs of observed players and other players with the help of the scoreboard. Finally, CS: GO players can listen to the music kit MVP anthem when they inspect their music kits.

Music

Moving on to the subject of music, CS: GO introduced the Masterminds Music Kit Box. This is available in regular and StatTrak variants and it features 7 new music kits:

They include Austin Wintory’s Bachram, Daniel Sadowski’s Eye of the Dragon, Dren’s Gunman Taco Truck, Matt Levine’s Drifter, Sam Marshall’s Bodacious, Tim Huling’s Neo-Noir, and Tree Adams and Ben Bromfield’s M.U.D.D. FORCE

What other patches are added to Counter Strike: Global Offensive?

Earlier, there were reports of agents not holding weapons on the end of match screens. Fortunately, the new patch fixes all this, along with glitches like agents in Perfect World version sometimes vocalizing English radio commands. Finally, the Events tab of the Watch menu will also display online competitions

Counter Strike: Global Offensive Maps

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Anubis

CS: GO introduced two new maps, with Anubis being the first one. Here, the game adjusted the prop draw distance at the canal. Additionally, it increased the bomb explosion radius from 400 to 450, Improved readability at A main and middle and other such issues.

Moreover, other minor bug fixes include, clipping fixes, missing prop faces, improved navigation, adjusted spawn icons on the radar to the right coordinates and a nav file issue

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Chlorine

Chlorine is the second of two new maps and CS: GO chose to go for a visual rework of base textures to improve visibility. Other problems include brightening the B bombsite lights and removing floating displacements near the CT spawn. Luckily, the developers have taken care of these issues.

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