Slut med gratis Prime

I en opdatering til CS:GO, der landede i nat, slår Valve ned på den gratis vej til Prime status, som nu er helt fjernet.

Det har ellers tidligere været sådan, at spillere, der ikke har købt Prime, kunne opnå Prime ved at spille nok kampe, men efter nattens opdatering kan en account kun opnå status af Prime, hvis man betaler for det.

Valve skriver selv, at den gratis vej til Prime desværre har medført, at nogle spillere bevidst forsøger at ødelægge kampene for andre, og derfor kommer denne ændring.

Brugere, som ikke er Prime, kan stadig spille alle game modes, men de kan ikke opnå en rank. Hvis man som Prime-bruger skal spille med en, der ikke er Prime, skal man spille 'Unranked', der blev introduceret i nattens opdatering som en erstatning for 'Scrimmage'.

Vil man undgå spillere, som ikke har Prime status, skal man altid sørge for at ens lobby er angivet som 'Prime only'.

Hele opdateringen kan ses her:

[NON-PRIME]
– Non-Prime status accounts will no longer earn XP, Ranks, Skill Groups, item drops, or Prime status through play time.
– Non-Prime accounts will not be able to participate in Ranked matches.
– Non-Prime accounts will not be able to activate Bonus Rank XP items and can no longer claim Service Medals.

[UNRANKED MATCHES]
– Introducing Unranked matches for Competitive, Wingman, and Danger Zone game modes.
— While still using skill-based matchmaking, Unranked matches do not affect Skill Group and have no Skill Group party restrictions.
— Non-Prime accounts are restricted to Unranked, whereas Prime accounts may choose between Ranked and Unranked.
— Ranked matches will always be with other Prime players, exclusively, whereas Unranked matches will be created from the mixed pool of Non-Prime players — and Prime players that have chosen to play Unranked.

[VSCRIPT]
– Added “DebugDrawBoxAngles” to draw oriented bounding boxes. Usage: DebugDrawBoxAngles( ent.GetOrigin(), ent.GetBoundingMins(), ent.GetBoundingMaxs(), ent.GetAngles(), r, g, b, a, time);
– Added “GetBoundingMinsOriented” and “GetBoundingMaxsOriented” functions that return the axis-aligned bounding box of an entity taking its current orientation into account.

[MISC]
– Scrimmage has been removed from Competitive matchmaking, and has been replaced by Unranked matchmaking.
– Added Import button to Workshop Workbench that takes a .tga file and generates a .vtf file. If the .tga file name contains “_normal” the generated .vtf file will be compiled with the ‘normal’ flag.