Counter-Strike: Global Offensive just got some love from Valve with a minor patch yesterday. The update brought several tweaks to three maps, namely, Crete, Iris, and Ember. No other changes were made to the game.
The map, Crete, received the least amount of changes. The planks on the dropdown route have been raised and one of the windows at top of the mid has been blocked. The window through the site has been lowered and a new sun angle is created. Several pixel boosts and bomb stuck spots have been fixed as well.
The Iris map received many changes. It now features new radar images and callout place names. Some of the clutter around the map has been removed and the frame rate has been increased. You can read about what developers changed in Ember below.
- Lowered window through site.
- Blocked one of the windows at top of mid.
- Raised planks on dropdown route.
- Fixed various bomb stuck spots and pixel boosts.
- New sun angle.
- Reduced window height on Heaven B-site.
- The glass window in the office is smaller.
- Moved chairs that obstructed player movement in Ice Cream (Thanks fl0m).
- Removed the Jerry Can on B-site that gave CTs an unfair advantage (Thanks HOFFI).
- Slight FPS increase across the map.
- Removed some clutter around the map.
- Increased readability on various spots around the map.
- Fixed floating props, clipping, and nodraw textures (Thanks Joaokaka1998).
- Visual improvement to CT spawn.
- New radar image.
- Added callout place names.
- Further improvements to optimization.
- Added new geysers at Apartments and Lava Pit.
- Added new entrance to Lighthouse.
- Added ladder at Research.
- Spaced out the Church pews.
- Added ladder to Apartments and altered the surrounding area.
- Allowed access to Apartments balconies.
- Fixed see-through walls on top of Apartments.
- Fixed small section of terrain causing damage at Lava Pit.
- Fixed many stuck spots and minor bugs (thanks chocolates & fearless).
The complete patch notes are mentioned on Steam as well.
So what do you think? Are you interested in any of these changes? Have you been playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive recently? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.
