[OPERATION BANSHEE]

- Operation Banshee All Access Pass is now available for purchase, features include:

– Exclusive acess to ten new types of missions with potential rewards for 35 new exclusive weapon finishes.
- Exclusive acess to five new community operation maps in competitive and casual modes: Crown, Coldwater, Marquis, Relay, Museum. Available for the duration of the operation.
- Operation Banshee Challenge upgradable coin.
- Operation Banshee Score card for all game types.
- Friends leaderboards now also display detailed data from casual and deathmatch official matches.
- StatTrak™ counters from your weapon finishes are now displayed in friends leaderboards.
- Operation Banshee case drops.


[GAMEPLAY]

- Kevlar vest and helmet are now visible in the player model when equipped.
- Introduced .Tactical 21 Semi-Automatic scoped rifle as a slot alternative to SSG08 sniper rifle.
- CZ75-Auto: Increased fire rate and bullet spread.
- Sawed Off: Increased price to 1500$
- P90: Increased accurate range and penetration power.
- AWP: Decreased rate of fire and increased reload time.
- G3SG1 and SCAR-20: Decreased price to 4800$.
- Zeus x27: Increased effective range, slightly decreased damage.


[MAPS]

- Added de_blackgold and cs_insertion to reserves group in competitive and casual modes.
- Removed de_dust and cs_militia.

- Nuke
- Increased thickness of hut roof.
- Increased number of breakable entities in squeaky door to better reflect damage.
- Added vegetation to the outside and CT/T spawn areas

- Inferno
- Fountain in bombsite B is now taller and can be climbed.
- Reduced visibility in balcony windows slightly.
- Fixed chickens getting stuck in tight corners.

- Overpass
- Narrowed sewer canal entrance slightly.
- Fixed bombplant bug near the hut in A bomsite.

- Mirage
- Changed orientation of crates in A bombsite.
- Narrowed the entrance in B bombsite from middle.

[WINDOWS CLIENT]

- Implemented DirectX 10 support and rendering path by default to improve performance in multithreaded systems and provide more advanced shader effects. (DirectX 9 rendering is still supported with the -dxlevel 95 launch option but having DirectX 10 or better installed is required)
- Discontinued support for Windows XP operating systems.

[LINUX CLIENT]

- Updated graphics engine to better exploit multithreading in more up to date GL libraries.
- Dropped support for graphics card withouth support for OpenGL 3.3 or newer.
- Removed OpenAL support in order to prevent manipulation of static audio buffers, these are now processed by the software application.

[MISC]

- Removed Halloween Holiday content.
- In-game item drop frequency and rarity is now influenced by the weapons used by the community in the Trade Up contract and by the user own purchases in the CSGO store.
- Discontinued Train ,Italy and Lake weapon finishes as in-game drops, these are now replaced by Cache, Cobblestone, Overpass and Baggage collections.
- Fixed foostep sound looping when bots are killed.
- Fixed crash caused by low paged pool memory.
- Fixed steam overlay notifications not correctly displaying when using an ingame resolution different than the desktop.