• 144 achievements added
• New lifetime player stats and summary screens
• New match player stats and summary screens
• New end of round display with MVP and interesting fact about a player
• Updated scoreboard with new icons, visual style, MVP stars, and avatar pictures
• New cinematic death camera
• New domination and revenge system
• Added avatar icons to voice chat, scoreboard, and end of round display
• Incorporated many source engine updates
• Disallowed the use of arbitrary command strings for the message of the day screen. Now only a specific list of commands is allowed.
• Addressed issue in which AWPs and Scouts sometimes did not make the zooming sound.
• cvar mat_showlowresimage is now a cheat command.
• Many development console commands which would crash the server removed.
• Updated source engine addresses many issues:
  - Better flashlight effect
  - Better HDR behavior
  - Multicore rendering support
  - Added sv_disablefreezecam cvar to turn off the freezecam on a server.
  - Added sv_nonemesis cvar to turn off domination/revenge on a server.
  - Added sv_nomvp cvar to turn off MVP stars on a server.
  - Added sv_nostats cvar to turn off stats on a server.
• Removed -tickrate command line option and defaulted tick rate to 66 rather
  than 33. This addressed a number of issues, including:
  - Tick rate affecting how fast doors open / close
  - Tick rate causing players hitting the ground to stutter
  - Tick rate affecting the firing mechanisms of certain guns

Daneben kann das neu implementierte Scoreboard mit folgenden Befehlen an die eigenen Vorlieben angepasst werden.

• Added the following cvars to allow players to customize their scoreboards.
• cl_scoreboard_ct_color_red
• cl_scoreboard_ct_color_green
• cl_scoreboard_ct_color_blue
• cl_scoreboard_t_color_red
• cl_scoreboard_t_color_green
• cl_scoreboard_t_color_blue
• cl_scoreboard_dead_color_red
• cl_scoreboard_dead_color_green
• cl_scoreboard_dead_color_blue
• Changed the screen that appears when the message of the day fails to load to display proper error text.
• Made the CT silhouette for the auto-select option in the Choose a Class screen smaller and corrected its aspect ratio.
• Addressed a problem that occasionally caused characters to be colored incorrectly on the Change a Class screen.

• Made ladders easier to climb. Added cvars sv_ladder_dampen and sv_ladder_angle.
• Fixed issue that awarded three points when the bomb explodes after the round ends by elimination criteria instead.
• Fixed issue in which you werent given credit for grenade damage if you fired a weapon at someone then hit them with a grenade (in that order). Also fixed problem in which grenading a player and then killing them with another weapon showed as *** in 1 on console.
• Theres now a priority order for displaying win conditions when multiple win conditions are set.
• If timelimit exists and is not 0, then show timelimit.
• If timelimit does not exist, show maxrounds if not 0.
• If both timelimit and maxrounds are 0, show winlimit.
• If timelimit, maxrounds, and winlimit are all 0, show nothing.
• Added a cvar to ignore win conditions: mp_ignore_round_win_conditions.