The MP5 Returns to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

If you’ve played the Counter Strike series than chances are you are very familiar with the MP5 weapon, which had been a mainstay within the franchise for years. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive didn’t launch with the MP5 and was instead replaced by the MP7, but now the gun is making a comeback.

Available now in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, thanks to a recent update, is the SD variant, which comes with a silencer and allows for a high movement speed in-game. But, the gun has some drawbacks as it has lackluster damage and accuracy.

You can see the full patch notes below regarding the update that also enabled the Panorama UI for Windows XP, and Vista players.

Gameplay

• Added the all new MP5-SD, available for testing Offline and in Official Casual and Deathmatch servers. It can be equipped in your MP7 loadout slot.

Matchmaking

• Lobbies advertised to nearby players and Steam Groups members will now expire after 5 minutes of the lobby leader’s inactivity.
• Added a way to start advertising single-user lobbies to nearby players and Steam Groups members from the permissions dialog.

Networking

• Fixed a bug causing some players, especially on DSL connections, to experience high packet loss due to packets being delivered out of order.

Panorama

• Enabled Panorama UI on Windows XP and Windows Vista game clients.
• Enabled lobby chat when accept match popup is active.
• Fixed various multi-line messages clipping last line of text.
• Fixed unresponsive keyboard after typing and pressing ‘send’ in the chat panel.
• Allow sending a Steam message to recent teammates using new Steam chat.
• Spectator HUD elements now respect the cl_drawhud setting.
• Fixed reconnect button when it appears over lobby chat.
• Fixed MP7 walk up animation.
• Game state integration includes a field “round_totaldmg” to track total damage the player dealt.
• Various scoreboard bug fixes for different game modes.
• Various stability improvements and fixes.
• Fixed mapoverview icon scaling

Horizon Case

• Added normal maps to Desert Eagle | Code Red and P90 | Traction

Perfect World

• Improved reliability of downloading Overwatch evidence in Perfect World CS:GO game client.

Misc

• This update includes a change to “csgo.exe” which, while signed with Valve digital certificate, may still trigger warnings in certain anti-virus packages and require users to manually change their AV software settings to update correctly.