Heute scheint wohl Tag der Patches zu sein. Valve bringt ein weiteres Update raus, diesmal für Counter-Strike Global Offensive. Das Winter Offensive getaufte Update bringt unter anderem die aus den Vorgängern beliebte Map de_cbble, sowie de_overpass in angepassten Versionen. Beide Maps sind im Matchmaking vorerst nur für Besitzer eines Operation Bravo Passes verfügbar. Auf Community Servern und in Offline Matches stehen sie aber bereits jetzt schon jedem zum Spielen bereit.

Zusätzlich wurden Änderungen an den Boxen für Waffenskins eingeführt, sowie Geschenkboxen eingefügt.

The Winter Offensive Update is shipping with three types of gifts for the giving: the Gift Package, which will give a random item to one random player in your match; the Pallet of Presents, which will give random items to up to nine people in your match; and the Audience Participation Parcel, which will give random items to up to 25 viewers watching your match.

Zusätzliche Infos: http://www.counter-strike.net/winteroffensive/

Die weiteren Patchnotes:

[ CSGO ]

• Added three purchasable gift options:
• Gift Package – gives a random item to a random player in your match.
• Pallet of Presents – gives random items to up to nine people in your match.
• Audience Participation Parcel – gives random items to up to 25 viewers watching your match.
• Added the Winter Offensive Case, the first-ever community-made case.
• Replaced the eSports case with the new eSports Winter Case.

[ MAPS ]

• Added Cobblestone and Overpass maps, which are available to community servers and offline play. Official matchmaking is limited to Operation Bravo in order to collect additional map balancing data prior to a wider release.
• Fixed an exploit in Assault
• Minor bugfixes in Bank, St.Marc and Sugarcane

[ GAMEPLAY ]

• Walking into shallow water no longer makes an audible splash.

[ MISC ]

• Added a link to share downloaded matches. To access this link, download one of your recent matches, view the scoreboard from that match, and click on ‘Copy Link.’
• Added say_team support for coaches.
• Added holiday cheer.

[ CS:GO SDK ]

• Fixed a Steam authentication problem when running individual CS:GO SDK tools not from Steam Library, but directly from command line.
• Fixed a bug causing workshop uploader tools to retrieve only the first 50 of a user’s items.

Quelle der Patchnotes: http://steamcommunity.com/games/CSGO/announcements/detail/1859157241371088481