Understanding the big changes in CS:GO's latest patch

Beneath Counter-Strike’s skin is a skeleton of interconnected systems: movement, location-specific damage modeling, and weapon behavior, to name a few. In last week’s major patch release Valve swapped out some significant bones in that skeleton. With a foundation built on a decades-old legacy favoringtradition over radical change, CS:GO’s community has appraised this update as nothing short of historic. Beyond bug fixes, the meat of the patch delivers significant adjustments to CS:GO’s steadfast core: hitboxes, animations, and weapon behavior. Here’s how these changes affect the game—for casuals, pros, and skin-conomists alike—and why they’re important milestones in one of PC gaming’s most storied shooters.

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