Valve meddeler, at de har åbnet for forudbestillinger af deres kommende Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Det betyder at Steam-brugere kan købe spillet allerede nu, og det er der god grund til at gøre, hvis man går og glæder sig til spillet.
Forudbestiller man, får man nemlig 10 procents rabat, og får adgang til betaen af spillet fra den 14. august. Den endelige udgave lander den 21. august, så man får altså en uges tyvstart.
Samtidigt har Valve også offentliggjort noterne til den første planlagte patch, der lander på udgivelsesdagen. Den åbner blandt andet for Mac-brugere, så de også kan deltage i løjerne. Den fulde liste over rettelser kan du se nedenfor.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive udkommer på både PC, Mac, PlayStation 3 og Xbox 360 den 21. august.
Weapons:
Increased recoil of the AK-47.
Slightly lowered recoil and increased accuracy of the Famas.
Increased armor penetration and increased damage of the MP7.
Increased damage and increased movement speed of the SSG08.
Decreased accuracy of the Tec-9.
Increased damage of the UMP45.
Fixed the "quick switch exploit" that allowed players to bypass slow weapon cycle times by switching weapons.
Increased the duration of the AWP deploy animation to 1.25 seconds.
Reduced the strength of the flashbang.
Berettas no longer shift horizontally when their accuracy changes.
The SSG08 texture has been updated.
Added rumble effect to knife.
Fixed grenades becoming stuck on players or inside them when thrown from within a player volume.
Changed grenades to bounce more realistically off of players.
Players should no longer be able to boost off of grenades.
Reduced the opacity core radius for player standing inside a smoke grenade.
Gameplay:
Adding Mac support
Update to bot aiming system. Players should see a substantial decrease in the ability of bots to get perfect shots on moving targets, especially at lower difficulty levels. Bots now can react poorly (or well) to enemies that are dodging/strafing, and also must now account for their own movement while shooting.
Moved the setting of maxplayer from maps to modes in gamemodes.txt.
Increased Casual money rewards, per Beta feedback.
The difficulty of the upper tier bots has been increased.
Updating movement values to community vetted numbers.