[ THE ELEAGUE BOSTON 2018 CS:GO MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIP ]

– Team stickers, team graffiti, and stickers autographed by CS:GO pro players are now available for purchase in-game, from the Steam Community Market, or from the 50 piece Mega Bundle on Steam. 50% of the proceeds go to the players and organizations at Boston 2018. For more details, visit http://www.counter-strike.net/pickem/boston2018

– Team stickers can be used as game pieces for the Boston 2018 Team Pick’Em Challenge.

— Preliminary stage picks can be made immediately, preliminary stage picks lock at the start of the preliminary stage matches.

— Group stage picks can be made when the preliminary stage has completed, group stage picks lock at the start of the group stage matches.

— Playoff picks can be made when the group stage has completed, playoff picks lock at the start of the first quarterfinal match.

[ HOLIDAYS ]

– Deployed Holiday Cheer for your festive fragging season.

– You can spread the Holiday Cheer! Gifts are now available for a limited time.

[ MISC ]

– Fixed ability to host offline server with friends for War Games when setting party lobby privacy to “Friends Need Invites”.

– Tournament server logs can now have item pickup/drop events enabled using mp_logdetail_items setting.

– Game servers will now sanitize player name string to not contain non-ascii control characters.

– Fixed unlocalized string in disconnect errors for other players.

– Fixed several client-side crashes.

– Added support to demoinfogo parser for decoding fixed user data size string tables which previously caused invalid substring calculation code path to run.

[ GAMEPLAY ]

– Replaced shotgun spread model (off by default). Available for offline and community servers for testing. For more details visit https://new.blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/holiday-spread/