ATTENTION AMD RADEON USERS: Widespread crashing in much the same style as what happened after Operation Wildfire and Newke is occurring. If you're crashing, please see this /r/AMDHelp thread for instructions on posting your minidumps. Valve has been notified about the issue and provided with a link to the thread.
There are also isolated reports of users with Intel graphics having the game refusing to start up, and minidumps are not being produced in those cases.
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Via the CS:GO blog:
Valve[CSGO – Danger Zone]
– Introducing Danger Zone, a fast-paced battle royale game mode built on CS:GO’s tactical gameplay. For more details, visit: www.counter-strike.net/dangerzone
– Danger Zone can be played solo, or in squads of two or three players.
[FREE TO PLAY]
– CS:GO is now free to play. For more details, visit the F2P FAQ.
– All players who played CS:GO before the Danger Zone update will receive a commemorative Loyalty Badge they can display on their profile.
– All current CS:GO Players have been upgraded to Prime Status
— Prime Status continues to match you with other Prime Status players
— Additionally, your Prime Status will give you access to the new Souvenir MP5-SD | Lab Rats (available by earning XP while playing Danger Zone matches) and the new Danger Zone case.
[Danger Zone Case]
– Introducing the Danger Zone Case, featuring 17 community-designed weapon finishes, and the Horizon Knives as rare special items.
Rumor has it:
- This is the Loyalty Badge, as described above it's been given to everyone that owned the game before this update. Its flavor text: Strength through loyalty.
https://i.imgur.com/oLnplNg.png
- If you see a skin in the Danger Zone Case that you really like and want to buy off of someone, check out CS:GO Stash which has links to Steam Community Market pages for your convenience. It's also got inventory images too
- You can also see the MP5-SD | Lab Rats here
- And /u/ImThour also points out that there's a set of stickers for Blacksite, including a foil version
- Lots, and I really mean lots of script and config additions for Danger Zone, if you want to know what commands control what: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/GameTracking-CSGO/commit/30fa4d57a2c38b9270ac075a137bd4d0449c7f83
- Not necessarily related to this update, but Valve is now using the Google Cloud Platform to host some new Steam Datagram system infrastructure in Sao Paulo and Helsinki, in addition to their own infrastructure (and Perfect World's, inside of China)
- Google Cloud Platform clusters are marked with a g before their city's IATA identifier, such as "ghel" for the Google-hosted infrastructure in Helsinki
- Size is close to 1 GB - data capped users should take action now