https://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2021/07/34777/

Via the CS:GO blog:

Rumor has it:

- With the newly added abilities to save & reload map selections/presets (which TF2 players may find familiar with its Casual mode) and queueing for both Premier mode and standard mode, the Competitive map selection UI has been given a bit of a refresh of sorts:

https://i.imgur.com/RnQA93Z.png

- Available presets aside from Your Favorites include Premier, Active Duty, Hostage, and New

- The link to the Fair Play Guidelines (which you were probably abiding by before it was written down) takes the form of a disclaimer under the match ready popup. Note that clicking on it to view the FPG will open your system default web browser, as opposed to taking you to the Steam Community overlay

- Alongside the gamemodes.txt changes necessary to make queueing for both Premier mode and standard mode possible, you'll also find several new translations which are made possible in part by contributions from Translators Like You - Thank You

- Size is ~20 MB

After today's set of tournament medal additions I fully sympathize with Valve in wanting to recycle models/inventory images from previous years and seasons because this set is ridiculous. Without further ado, the two RHI bullets that would not fit in the OP because of this site's character limit:

- Tournament medal additions include (♻ indicates re-used assets from a previous season/year/league):
- ozfortress Premier Season 30 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- ozfortress Intermediate Season 30 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- ozfortress Main Season 30 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- ozfortress Open Season 30 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- LBTF2 Highlander Elite Season 6 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- LBTF2 Highlander Central Season 6 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- LBTF2 Highlander Access Season 6 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- LBTF2 Open Elite Season 6 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- Respawn League AUS/NZ Quadlander Premier 4v4 2021 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- Starched Silliness 2021 (♻ Potato Lookalike, ♻ Super Spud, Curious Carbon)
- FBTF Cup 6v6 Wastex Miller Season 5 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- FBTF Cup 6v6 Barts Rimet Season 5 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- FBTF Cup 6v6 Vic Basten Season 5 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- FBTF Cup 6v6 Ghosten Tuchel Season 5 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- FBTF Cup 6v6 Joten Klopp Season 5 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- DreamHack Community Clash 2021 (♻ First Place, Second Place, Third Place, Participant, Staff)
- South American Vanilla Fortress 6v6 Invite Season 4 (♻ First Place, Second Place, Third Place, Participant)
- South American Vanilla Fortress 6v6 Intermediate Season 4 (♻ First Place, Second Place, Third Place, Participant)
- South American Vanilla Fortress 6v6 Open Season 4 (♻ First Place, Second Place, Third Place, Participant)
- ♻ South American Vanilla Fortress 6v6 Supporter Season 4
- CappingTV Ultiduo Summer Brawl 2021 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- LAN Downunder 2021 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- RGLgg Highlander Invite Seasons 8 & 9 (♻ Champions, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- RGLgg Highlander Challenger Seasons 8 & 9 (♻ Champions, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- RGLgg Highlander Advanced Seasons 8 & 9 (♻ Champions, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- RGLgg Highlander Main Seasons 8 & 9 (♻ Champions, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- RGLgg Highlander Intermediate Seasons 8 & 9 (♻ Champions, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- ♻ RGLgg Highlander Amateur Participant Seasons 8 & 9
- ♻ RGLgg Highlander Newcomer Participant Seasons 8 & 9
- RGLgg 6v6 Invite Seasons 5 & 6 (♻ Champions, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- RGLgg 6v6 Advanced Seasons 5 & 6 (♻ Champions, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- RGLgg 6v6 Main Seasons 5 & 6 (♻ Champions, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- RGLgg 6v6 Intermediate Seasons 5 & 6 (♻ Champions, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- ♻ RGLgg 6v6 Amateur Participant Seasons 5 & 6
- ♻ RGLgg 6v6 Newcomer Participant Seasons 5 & 6
- RGLgg Invite Season 10 (♻ Champions, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- RGLgg Advanced Season 10 (♻ Champions, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- RGLgg Main Season 10 (♻ Champions, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- RGLgg IM Season 10 (♻ Champions, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- ♻ RGLgg Amateur Participant Season 10
- ♻ RGLgg Newcomer Participant Season 10
- ♻ RGLgg Highlander Experimental Maps Cup Summer 2021
- ♻ RGLgg One Day Prolander Cup North America Autumn 2020
- ♻ RGLgg One Day Prolander Cup North America Winter 2021
- UGC Ultiduo Steel Seasons 1, 2, 3, & 4 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- UGC Ultiduo Platinum Seasons 2, 3, & 4 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- UGC Highlander Platinum Seasons 32 & 33 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- UGC Highlander Silver Seasons 32 & 33 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- UGC Highlander Steel Seasons 32 & 33 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- UGC 6vs6 Platinum Seasons 34 & 35 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- UGC 6vs6 Steel Seasons 34 & 35 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- UGC 4vs4 Gold Seasons 21 & 22 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- UGC 4vs4 Silver Seasons 21 & 22 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)
- UGC 4vs4 Steel Seasons 21 & 22 (♻ 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, Participant)

- Also on the tournament medal front as far as updates to existing medals:

- DreamHack Community Clash Contributor 2020 has been renamed to DreamHack Community Clash Staff 2020 (the same is true of the item's schema name) to maintain consistency with the 2021 medals
- Respawn League AUS/NZ Quadlander 4v4 2021 medals now state they're for its Main division

TF2 update #2 for 6/22/21 (6/23/21 UTC):

Via the Steam store:

Rumor has it:

- This is just the 4th update to occur this year so far

- Size is ~5 MB

Most likely addressing The Secret Club's public disclosures after being stonewalled. Yeah, it's been that long.

Via the Steam store and HLDS:

Rumor has it:

- /u/Serird has put together a listing of the contents of the Summer 2021 Cosmetic Case (and Unusual effects), complete with Steam Workshop links to pass some applause on to item/effect creators that made it in the case

- Community server operators have noticed that a 64 MB cap on custom downloadable content has been implemented, including to maps served through FastDL. While it's possible this may be part of the "numerous security and stability improvements", it appears that it may not be entirely intentional as Eric Smith has sent a follow-up message to the HLDS list stating that Valve is "looking into the reports" of clients being unable to download larger maps
- This has been fixed in update #2

- Because there are now multiple ways you could be prevented from calling a vote to kick, strings will no longer be specific as to the cause (previously, it would've been only for having called another vote recently)

- The new cluster has been up for a couple of months already, but seeing as it only just now got its string it's worth mentioning anyway: the EU West server cluster (as it's known in Dota 2 and CS:GO) has been relocated from Luxembourg to Frankfurt, Germany

- For a complete listing of today's tournament medal additions and updates, please click on https://www.teamfortress.tv/post/1040146/tf2-update-for-6-22-21 due to character limit reasons

- This update's arrival brings an end to another record-shattering drought that lasted just a few days short of 4 months, or more specifically, 112 days without an update, with the last one having occurred on 3/2/21
- This update is just the 3rd to happen so far in 2021, which itself is almost halfway done. By this point of the year last year, the game had 5 updates by the same day of the 2020 calendar year (which became 6 a couple of days later on 6/24/20)
- The previous all-time record drought was a stretch of 80 days in a similar timeframe last year, from 1/18/20 to 4/7/20 (4/8/20 UTC)
- Before that, the now 3rd all-time longest drought was a stretch of 72 days from 5/14/19 to 7/25/19 (7/26/19 UTC)

- Lots of localization file changes, as well as item schema changes can all be viewed here
- And in case you forgot with it having been so long since the last update, translations are made possible in part by the efforts of Translators Like You - Thank You

- Size is ~55 MB

Via the CS:GO blog:

Rumor has it:

- What you see above is *almost* all of what you're getting, with a single exception of new and updated translations for a few more languages, which are made possible in part by contributions from Translators Like You - Thank You

- Size is ~75 MB

Via the CS:GO blog:

Rumor has it:

- For additional answers to questions you might have about today's Prime changes, see this Steam Support article

- Script changes as well as a handful of translations, the latter of which are made possible in part by contributions from Translators Like You - Thank You, are all over here for your viewing pleasure

- Size is ~20 MB

Via the CS:GO blog:

Rumor has it:

- If you're having a hard time wrapping your head around what the bounding box issue is all about, try watching this brief video demonstrating the problem uploaded by /u/OrelStealth and you'll most likely walk away with a much better understanding of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkjoCXk3P-Q

- A description outlining each of the options for sv_damage_print_enable has been attached to that command which will appear when it's entered without a number, now that option 2 has been implemented

- While today's map updates make up a bulk of the size of this update, there is also a slightly smaller than usual set of translations, which are made possible with the efforts and help of Translators Like You - Thank You

- Size is close to 300 MB

Via the CS:GO blog:

Rumor has it:

- As /u/vMcJohn alluded to a couple of weeks ago, a fix for Trusted Mode blindly trusting anything with a digital signature that just so happened to be located in C:\Windows\* (such as a workaround to use OBS' Game Capture layer) has been implemented where if foreign software is detected, the game will operate as if it was running with the -allow_third_party_software launch command (and there's a few GC protobufs to relay that fact when it does happen)

- Yes, 2020 RMR Sticker Capsules are still available to be purchased

- Other than that, a few translations have made their way in that were hammered out as usual with the help of Translators Like You - Thank You

- Size is ~250 MB

Via the CS:GO blog:

Rumor has it:

- What you see is *mostly* what you get, though also stuffed into this one is an assortment of new and updated translations, which as always are made possible in part by the efforts of Translators Like You - Thank You

- Size is ~75 MB

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: