Counter-Strike: Global Offensive opens up premier matchmaking for all
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive opens up premier matchmaking for all
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has opened up Broken Fang Premierāthe competitive matchmaking mode previously available only to those whoād bought the Broken Fang passāto all players. The Premier modeās big addition is the introduction of a pick/ban phase at the start of every match, where your teammates shout things like ānot Dust pleaseā and āI quit if ve choose Overpassā over alternate voting rounds.
One caveat is that non-Prime players will not be matched into the Premier mode. When CS: GO went free-to-play, all players who had paid for the game automatically gained āPrimeā accounts, while those who begin in the F2P version can either pay for a Prime upgrade or wait until they hit level 21 to gain the status (the idea being to put a paywall/timewall in front of throwaways and smurfs). So almost everyone can play Premier mode, unless youāve just started.
Operation Broken Fang is due to run until April 30th, so thereās around a month left to complete its various missions and rack up the rewards. Iāve been having a tremendous time with it, and Premier mode is the icing on the cake when youāve got a team together, so fill your boots.
The full release notes for the patch are here, continuing the regular pace of updates throughout Broken Fang, which to my mind is the best pass CS: GO has had yet. As well as serious quality-of-life improvements, this season has also seen the developers leaning into some community silliness, such as the badly-drawn sticker capsule.
Weāre also shipping a Poorly Drawn Sticker Capsule from @HH110011HH and Hoxton for those who like that kind of thing: pic.twitter.com/0IarTUCFhYMarch 18, 2021
This latest release also comes with a small community nod: āAdjusted Zeus texture to read Zeus X-27. For the record, this counts as a Zeus skin.ā The Zeus is a handheld taser and one of the few elements of the game that doesnāt have skins: therefore, fans constantly ask for Zeus skins, and thereās even a twitter account dedicated to calling for them. It just goes to show: Valve is listening, even if its responses come with a helping of humour.