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Visual Adjustments to Sticker Rendering

Official: Release Notes for 3/31/2023

Update March 31, 2023 View original on Steam
Visual Adjustments to Sticker Rendering
Market impact analysis

The update focuses on PBR rendering adjustments for stickers to improve visual contrast. These changes are cosmetic and do not impact the market value or supply of items.

[NETWORKING]
- Multiple network optimizations.
- The player lister in private matchmaking should no longer mix CS:GO and CS2 players together if they use the same private matchmaking pool code.

[UI]
- Added Defuse Kit to team equipment display.
- Scoreboard - Various font and style changes
- Adjusted voting panel to more closely match other UI

[VISUALS]
- Continued physically based rendering (PBR) compatibility adjustments to stickers:
-- Brightened some sticker styles for better contrast
-- Added some functionality to support fine-tuning individual items in future content adjustments.
- Adjusted some main menu and end of round animations to reduce interpenetration of weapons and character models.
- Various improvements to character models.
- Continued improvements to inspect/reload behavior.

[DUST II]
- Various adjustments to clipping and materials.
- Sealed rooftops to prevent grenades/molotovs from landing in places they shouldn't.

[MISC]
- Restored functionality for adding/removing bots while playing offline.
- Restored spray menu functionality.
- Restored radio command functionality.
- Fixes for various crashes.