[Holidays]

– Deployed Holiday Cheer for your festive fragging season.

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

[Sound]

– Added new audio option that enables Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) processing on in-game sounds. The goal is to vastly improve 360 degree vertical and horizontal sound positioning.

– By default, Speaker Configuration in Audio Settings has been set to “Headphones with HRTF.” Selecting an alternative speaker configuration will disable HRTF.

– NOTE: For an optimal experience with HRTF, we recommend turning off any external 5.1 or 7.1 surround audio driver options.

[Public Lobbies]

– In the friends panel “Steam Groups” have been renamed to “Public Lobbies”.

– The “Public Lobbies” tab now shows nearby public lobbies and suggested steam group lobbies in addition to your steam group lobbies.

– Lobbies now support broadcasting to nearby players. Players can use this setting for friend or steam group lobbies.

– Steam Group lobbies now display the country associated with the majority of lobby members.

[Gameplay]

– Third-person weapon angles now visibly match first-person weapon recoil.

[MISC]

– Fixed 5 Year Veteran Coin to be granted to accounts that cancelled and later reactivated their old Counter-Strike license after they restart their CS:GO client.

– Loading screen tokens can now be localized when loading Overwatch evidence or maps created by community members.

– Bot names can now be localized in game language.

– Added experimental plugin support for managing network channel encryption keys on community servers.

— https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Counter-Strike:_Global_Offensive_Network_Channel_Encryption

[Maps]

Nuke

– Removed railing on crane in A site rafters

– Removed ability to climb up on/plant the bomb on top of silos in both bombsites

– Moved T entrance to squeaky to make movement smoother

– Removed window in Toxic, replaced with double doors

– Removed yellow bollards near Garage and Secret

– Removed cover on top of Mini

– Added some full cover in cubby next to ramp in bombsite B

– Replaced exposed bombsite silo with simple version in bombsite A

– Fixed small collision bump on ramp in ramproom where players could get stuck

– Added white, flat surface on fence at T side of yard

– Fixed various bugs listed on CSGOBugtracker.com (thanks to all contributors!)

– General optimizations