Part 2 of Rumor has it, because of the character limit:

- Item descriptions and flavor text for Snakebite Case items are as follows:
- SG 553 Heavy Metal: "Its black base is finished with orange and yellow highlights. Three stars have been painted on the rear of the butt stock. "One of these studs is the Turbo button, I just can't remember which...""
- Glock-18 Clear Polymer: "It has been painted with a tan slide and blue trigger. The frame is made of a clear polymer. What you see is what you get"
- M249 O.S.I.P.R.: "This M249 has been custom painted in gunmetal grey and finished with a Combine logo. Overwatch Standard Issue Pulse Rifle"
- CZ75-Auto Circaetus: "A bird of prey carrying a snake has been custom painted on this CZ75. A snake eater, minus the catchy theme song"
- UMP-45 Oscillator: "A randomized pattern in orange, black, and grey has been applied. Everyone has a breaking point; where's yours?"
- R8 Revolver Junk Yard: "Its blue base has been covered in silver handwriting and drawings. The cylinder and front sight have been painted red. Fit for a king"
- Nova Windblown: "It has been spray painted with a randomized pattern of a dandelion field. Get off my lawn"
- P250 Cyber Shell: "It has been custom painted with a silver slide and hexagon-textured grip. You represent the front line of our cyber security effort"
- Negev dev_texture: "It has been custom painted with an orange base and grey developer textures. hammer.exe time"
- MAC-10 Button Masher: "It has been custom painted to resemble a game pad and various buttons poking through a clear polymer casing. Giving the phrase "console wars" a whole new meaning"
- Desert Eagle Trigger Discipline: "A pink isometric pattern has been custom painted on the barrel. The hammer and front sight have been painted bright blue. Patience is its own reward"
- AK-47 Slate: "A custom paint job has been applied which can only be described as "black on black on slate black". "Call a doctor, they're gonna need one""
- MP9 Food Chain: "This brightly colored MP9 has been custom painted with a monster food chain. Eat or be eaten"
- XM1014 XOXO: "A vividly colored, punk-inspired pattern has been applied. Yeah, right..."
- Galil AR Chromatic Aberration: "The colors in this custom paint job were applied in offset positions, leading to an eye-popping look. (Not so) easy on the eyes..."
- USP-S The Traitor: "It has been custom painted using the Hanged Man tarot card as inspiration. Past failures are the blueprints for future success"
- M4A4 In Living Color: "It has been custom painted using neon colors and covered with hand-drawn designs. Fight for one, fight for all"

- A fair bit of localization file updates have also snuck their way in as part of this update (and you can also view the protobufs that make subscribing to CS:GO 360 Stats possible as well as map-specific logic while you're there too), no doubt helped along with the efforts of Translators Like You - Thank You

Via the CS:GO blog:

Rumor has it:

- RIP Operation Broken Fang - December 3, 2020 - May 3, 2021
- Despite today being May 3rd, the updated description on the pass seems to totally disregard the Valve Time reality having happened and claims that it ran to April 30th as was originally planned

- CS:GO 360 Stats costs US$1/CA$1.25 a month. Even if you choose not to subscribe to it to collect data from your matches going forward, you can still view past data collected during Operation Broken Fang if you were a pass holder
- It also has its own Steam Support article for other questions you might have about it, but also alludes to the possibility of a future price hike

- The shift of Ancient into the Active Duty pool and relegation of Train into the Reserves pool is the first shakeup in over 2 years; 767 days precisely, the last time it was modified was when Vertigo was switched into Active Duty and Cache taken out on 3/28/19
- For those concerned about the Active Duty and Reserves swap today, Valve has said that the RMR series will continue to use the old map pool with Train

- /u/Ch-i-ef from the Frostbite development team encourages people to go directly to its Steam Workshop page if they find an issue with the map or have ideas for how it could improve, now that it's here to stay

- /u/shzkr replied with an image of what one of the new chickens looks like (as has /u/IslaBonita_), and /u/Waveitup also put up a video showing a few chickens in their natural habitat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0Mrs8LBGOI

- A few bonus up-close shots and a couple polycounts too from /u/dooodaaad

- CS:GO Stash has put up the contents of the Snakebite Case as they usually do whenever there's a new crate-shaped virtual object added in the game, in-game inspection links should become available in a short while (and if you need a refresher, the Broken Fang gloves can be viewed here)

- Size is ~1 GB - data capped users should take action now

(There's more! Catch part 2 of RHI at: https://www.teamfortress.tv/post/1034893/major-cs-go-update-for-5-3-21-1-37-8-9)

Via the CS:GO blog:

Rumor has it:

- Size is ~20 MB

Via the CS:GO blog:

This is the correct answer.

>t. chrome pleb

Via the CS:GO blog:

Rumor has it:

- This is what the Zeus X-27's texture used to look like before, and this is what it looks like as of tonight's update
- Very subtle, right? You may spot something even more subtle, in that "ZUESS" has been corrected to read "ZEUS", eliminating a double-typo

- If it looks like a skin, has an item schema entry like a skin, and has a wear rating like a skin, then it probably is a skin. Sadly, a Zeus texture tweak isn't actually a skin. The only item schema change in this one is a coupon prefab tweak for the Poorly Drawn Stickers Capsule
- But with that said, your memes can still be dreams

- To round it off, here's a peek at the networking changes and a helping of translations, the latter of which is made possible in part by contributions from Translators Like You - Thank You: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/GameTracking-CSGO/commit/ce1528dad1ae688f3b4e909364b27609143e301f

- Size is ~10 MB

Via the CS:GO blog:

Rumor has it:

- Descriptions that go along with each of the 3 music kits added today are as follows:
- Darren Korb, Hades Music Kit: "Sure, you might miss a shot from time to time, but what never misses is this blood-pumping Music Kit straight from the Underworld of Hades, Supergiant's rogue-like dungeon crawler."
- Neck Deep, The Lowlife Pack: Prove you are not a normie (and better than everyone else on the map) with Neck Deep's new music kit, which includes songs from the band's album All Distortions Are Intentional.
- Scarlxrd, CHAIN$AW.LXADXUT.: "CHAIN$AW BRINGS SCARLXRD AT HIS UNPRECENDENTED BEST WITH A RAW FLOW AND A HEAVY TRACK TO MATCH."

- Just like the Half-Life: Alyx Music Kit, Hades Music Kit is not available in StatTrak

- Here are each of the Poorly Drawn Stickers by /u/HH110011HH and Hoxton, which is itself in a Poorly Drawn Sticker Capsule:

- Poorly Drawn Ava (& (Holo))
- Poorly Drawn Balkan (& (Holo))
- Poorly Drawn Bloody Darryl (& (Holo))
- Poorly Drawn Chicken (& (Holo))
- Poorly Drawn FBI (& (Holo))
- Poorly Drawn IDF (& (Holo))
- Poorly Drawn Leet Crew (& (Holo))
- Poorly Drawn Number K (& (Holo))
- Poorly Drawn SAS (& (Holo))
- Poorly Drawn Terrorist (& (Holo))

- Dialogue of the final Operation Broken Fang boss mission has been translated into a few additional languages (specifically French, Greek, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and a small bit of Bulgarian) along with some other additional string translations, which as always is made possible in part by contributions from Translators Like You - Thank You

- Size is close to 50 MB

This is exactly why Valve needs to be kicked in the rear-end to actually enforce COPPA or the age-gating provisions of EU GDPR, whichever is greater. It leads to dumb bullshit like this that is just a waste of everyone's time. That's it, that's my two cents on it, any other questions, see:

Via the CS:GO blog:

Rumor has it:

- The final boss map for Operation Broken Fang, "Cultivating Trouble", has been added in in advance of tomorrow's set of final missions, including script changes and logic additions, materials and textures, sounds, as well as strings for dialogue (spoilers within, if it wasn't obvious!)

- Beyond that, there's also a healthy dose of localization in various languages, made possible in part by contributions from Translators Like You - Thank You

- Size is ~110 MB

It's gonna be kind of crazy to think that late this year that I'll have been going at this gig of mine for 10 straight years. Even though the glory days of the at-least-once-weekly updates are long behind us, it's been quite the ride that I've been happy to share. And really, thank you all for your readership, and especially thanks to those of you that do your own digging as well. Without you, getting quality information out to the masses, preferably in a hurry, would be a tough ask. It's a true team effort.

Most of us have moved on to Knockout after Garry decided to be Garry and kill off the old forums. It's a fair bit more relaxed over there, though most of the fracases these days are about whether you can even say this or that word at all. A lot more open than FP ever was even if a bunch of the userbase doesn't like the POV of some of the mods there (most of which are different, I think really the only carryover is OvB). I don't really hold any hard feelings, that post of mine was really a knee-jerk thing that was influenced heavily by a near-B&E experience a long, long time ago when I was much younger. It was actually around one of the nicer areas of Tyndall Park too, closer to King Edward if I'm remembering right, pretty much right across from Stanley Knowles, but even then the cops dragged their ass horribly to even take a statement from what I was told.

Via the CS:GO blog:

Rumor has it:

- To tell you the honest truth, this one is as boring as it looks, just a protobuf addition and a small shot of translations, the latter part of which is made possible in part by contributions from Translators Like You - Thank You

- Size is ~10 MB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qhr58qsu7Q&t=2

Via HLDS:

Rumor has it:

- In case you haven't seen it elsewhere already: the Luxembourg server cluster (also referred to as EU West in Dota 2 and CS:GO) has been decommissioned last week in favor of a new cluster in Frankfurt, Germany
- However, at this time, the new Frankfurt cluster is not currently able to be matched to in TF2, and you will likely notice higher than usual latencies for the time being while the game's matchmaker places you on a nearby cluster like Madrid or Stockholm
- If you're a Dota 2 and/or CS:GO player just passing by, no action is required

- /u/pikatf2 says that some function changes strongly suggest a bug with Strange weapons not counting kills in parts of Halloween maps where you get turned into a ghost after dying (TF_COND_HALLOWEEN_IN_HELL) has been fixed

- Not a lot of tournament medal additions as far as the tournaments that were added, which are as follows:

- NHBL Season 10 (Natascha Heavyweight Champion, Sasha Heavyweight Champion, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, 4th Place, Participant)
- EBL Invite Season 5 (1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- EBL Main Season 5 (1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- EBL Open Season 5 (1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)

- Maintainers of custom HUDs will probably want to check for some funny business in leaderboards

- Several items have had their "Of"s in their names turned lowercase, including the Towering Pillar of Summer Shades, Spirit of Giving, The Full Head of Steam, Pile of Ash, Voodoo-Cursed Bag of Quicklime, Pile of Curses, Get Out of The Locker!, Wall of Pain, Brim-Full of Bullets, Melody of Misery, and Head of Defense
- The "Process of Elimination" achievement also had its "Of" turned lowercase

- The same is also true of The Ivan the Inedible, which had its second "The" turned lowercase, as well as a string for disabling HTML MOTDs that had its "Of The" turned into "of the"

- If you'd like to have a peek at the delicious localization file updates, here they are. As always, these are made possible in part by the efforts of Translators Like You - Thank You

- Size is close to 40 MB

Well at least OP got the date right on this one. Someone did one on /r/GO for last night's tiny update and although they did pretty alright by doing it as a text post, they screwed up the date so that it was actually a day in the future.

Originally I thought I'd just pass on it here but the RHI section is actually looking a little beefier to the point where it's probably worthwhile anyway. I'll put it up when I've got it all done and the only thing left to do is turn Markdown into BBCode. Something I've been giving a little bit of thought into over the last little while is having a CMS of sorts where I can just style things the way I want once, and then have both Markdown and BBCode varieties spit out from it, maybe even automatically, so I can just edit once instead of effectively having to re-do whole RHI bullets. That's something that's a bit of a PITA especially on the CS:GO side with lots of new items.

Speaking of which, VACnet when.

Edit: okay here's your rumors everyone!

Via the CS:GO blog:

Rumor has it:

- Numerous script and string changes for the next few weeks of Operation Broken Fang missions, plus a lot of translations made possible in part by contributions from Translators Like You - Thank You: https://github.com/SteamDatabase/GameTracking-CSGO/commit/547beb31c15342a54f180bed0ccf1c39b6132020

- Size is ~185 MB