Vertigo receives massive rework

In the second big update after the Major, Vertigo undergoes significant rework, opening up a passage from A-site that goes straight to mid through elevators. Boost on A-site now gets a catwalk which connects A-heaven and the route from CT-backdoor to elevators has been closed off. Baggage, Office and Mirage have also received minor bug fixes.

In a shocking move, Valve have added a rental mechanism to the kilowatt case where a player can choose to play with the entire collection for a week or roll the case to land on one permanent skin. Rented skins cannot be modified by applying nametags or stickers.

The CT-economy receives an uplift with the incendiary grenade now costing $500 instead of $600 and the M4A4's price has been reduced from $3100 to $3000. When the C4 gets planted and defused, the Ts now receive $600 instead of $800 to reduce the impact of pistol round plants.

The demo viewer receives a few quality of life improvements with the timeline now showing indicators for kills and deaths. Highlight mode has been reintroduced where the demo only shows the player's kills and deaths. Here's Valve's release notes for the update:

GAMEPLAY

• Height of the 'pillar' of flame for both Molotov and Incendiary grenade now decreases over time

• Reduced the terrorist team award when bomb was planted but defused from $800 to $600, to decrease the impact of the first-round on subsequent rounds

• Reduced the price of the M4A4 from $3100 to $3000

• Minor adjustments to first-person camera movement

• Added explicit "switchhandsleft" and "switchhandsright" console commands

• Deathmatch bonus weapons are now the same for all players regardless of loadout

• Incendiary Grenade

• • Adjusted the explosion and flame visual treatment

• • Reduced duration

• • Reduced area covered by spreading flames

• • Reduced price from $600 to $500

RENTALS

• When players open a Kilowatt case with a key, they will have the option to rent the entire Kilowatt collection (i.e., every weapon in the case, excluding the rare special item) for a week instead of receiving an item from the collection

• Equipped rented weapons will be replaced with the stock version of the weapon when the rental period expires

• Rented weapons cannot be modified (e.g., via stickers or name tags), traded, or sold on the Steam Community Market

HUD

• Fixed a bug where the MVP player name displayed incorrectly during bot takeover

• Fixed a bug where the Refund All button in the Buy Menu would only refund a single flashbang grenade

• Fixed a bug where the ESC menu scoreboard during end-of-match didn't match the TAB scoreboard

• Fixed a bug where the Loss Bonus scoreboard tooltip would get stuck on-screen after closing the scoreboard

• Blocking stranger Steam avatars will now block other user-generated content such name tags and sticker placements

CHICKENS

• Chickens have a few new animations

• Chickens can now walk up hills

• Chickens can now turn right while walking

UI

• Various performance improvements to the Warehouse main menu and item inspect background scenery

DEMOS

• The demo playback timeline now show indicators for kill and death events

• Demo playback can be toggled into "highlight mode" which will show only kills and deaths for the active player

• Various minor demo playback UI changes

• Fixed a demo playback crash

MAPS

• Vertigo:

• • Added catwalk by bombsite A, connecting to back of A

• • Removed connector between back of A and elevators

• • Opened up passage between elevators and scaffolding

• • Slightly tweaked size of bombsite A

• • Tweaked spawn timings slightly

• • Changed Wingman layout to feature bombsite A changes

• Baggage:

• • Fixed movement hitch on lower conveyor

• • Lowered height of central conveyor tray to help open sniper view

• Office:

• • Fixed a case where a player could shoot through multiple walls

• Mirage:

• • Fixed bad collision on certain props

• • Fixed some sticky collision around windows in palace