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Latest CSGO Update – More reliable HE damage

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The lastest CSGO update, released on May 11th, has a few interesting changes addressing problems that have long been a cause of frustration for players.

The first change addresses a problem that could occur when an HE grenade would explode near a player and result in surprisingly little damage. This would often occur near small ledges or stairs, as well as around certain objects where the clipping of these objects would negate almost all of the damage.

It’s also good to see that Valve is still aware that there is a problem when it comes to picking up weapons, specifically when grenades are dropped anywhere near them, a major cause of frustration for players. This update should hopefully be a step towards resolving this problem.

CSGO Update – Full Release Notes

GAMEPLAY
– Improved reliability of picking up weapons with +use when nearby dropped grenades are present. (Thanks birkir!)
– Explosive grenade damage around small obstacles such as stairs will now apply damage to players more reliably.
– Hostages will no longer obscure flashbang traces, allowing players behind them to be blinded.
– Players that start the round with a taser and no pistol no longer have their taser deleted, and rechargeable tasers are now recharged at round start.
– Fixed Danger Zone piloted drone self-destruct timer resetting due to zone damage or repeated player input.

PURE SERVERS
Added a setting sv_pure_allow_loose_file_loads for game servers to control whether third-party files can be loaded by clients. Users are allowed to have third-party files on disk, but the files will be ignored when playing on such pure game servers. If users already loaded third-party files into game memory, then their game client must be restarted in order to connect to such pure game servers.
– Added a setting sv_pure_allow_missing_files for game servers to control what happens to clients that load files missing on the game server. When disabled, if a connected player loaded third-party files into game memory that game server is missing, the player will be kicked.
– Added a message explaining to the client which file mismatched the pure server configuration and caused a user disconnect.

MISC
Improved loadout animations in buy menu for several agents and weapon combinations.
– Fixed certain game instructor hints displaying incorrect key bindings in certain languages (e.g. “sfrutteranno” in Italian).
– Added a setting con_allownotify to allow hiding top-right corner notifications if “Overflowed CClientRenderablesList” notification appears in 21:9 resolutions.

Check out the previous CSGO update – Kill feed icon changes.

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