In den Nachstunden spielte VALVe das heiß ersehnte „Holiday Update“ auf die Liveserver. Darin befinden sich die Sticker für das anstehende Major aber auch ein Beta Update für die Shotguns.

Anpassungen

Vorerst sollen die Veränderungen lediglich mit dem Befehl „weapon_accuracy_shotgun_spread_patterns 1“ auf Offline Servern getestet werden können. Damit wird versucht, die Shotguns an die SMGs und Rifles heran zu führen.

Drei Wochen vor dem Qualifier

Zeitgleich wurden auch die 24 Sticker zum ELEAGUE Major veröffentlicht. Knapp 23 Tage vor der neuen Phase „The Challengers Phase“, die vormals als Offline Qualifier bekannt gewesen ist. Damit kommt es auch zu einer Änderung bei der Pick’Em Challenge. Denn ab sofort ist es auch möglich, auf die erste Phase seine Sticker zu setzen.

Release Notes vom 20. Dezember 2017:

[ 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 http://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/holiday-spread/