CS:GO Update: Loss bonus limit
The main news include changes to loss bonus, new things in Danger Zone and some map reworks
Valve listened to the community and limited the loss bonus to 5 rounds. Now the bonus always drops to $ 2,900 when a team with a 5-round loss streak wins a round.
The matchmaking and lobby systems were tweaked; now it also possible to watch LAN events and tournaments in-game. The developers added new things for Danger Zone and changed Ruby and Workout. Below is the detailed change list.
[GAMEPLAY]
— Loss bonus money will now always step down to $2,900 after a team with a $3,400 max loss bonus streak wins a round.
[UI]
— Introducing the “Looking to Play” feature: players can now advertise themselves as available for party invites, can be invited by other parties from the “Looking to Play” tab of their CS:GO friends list, and can accept party invites from the CS:GO main menu.
— Introducing CS:GO Events: players can now see an HLTV-provided schedule of professional LAN events in the Watch tab. Favourite your preferred community tournaments and get notified about professional live matches on the CS:GO main menu.
[MISC]
— Friends and other players can no longer join lobbies that already entered matchmaking queue.
— Fixed exploits related to vote commands.
[DANGER ZONE]
— Unlocked Drone Pilot Tablet, Bonus Wave Money, Bonus Explore Money, and Armor+Helmet as starting item options.
— Drone Pilot upgrade is now available for purchase in the Tablet Buy Menu.
— Tasers will now always open the crate they are fired at; they no longer sometimes do partial crate damage.
— Shields dropped from death have a slight delay before being automatically picked by nearby players.
— Fixed some instances of safe models spawning in midair.
— Fixed item outline colors on dropped grenades.
— Map collision fixes and stuck spot removals, and a few visual bugs squashed too.