It’s time to buy Shanghai Major stickers and do the Pick’Em Challenge.
The Perfect World Shanghai Major stickers and Pick'Em Challenge are now in CS2 after Valve dropped a patch on Nov. 27.
This means that the community can start opening capsules to celebrate the Major and pick up the stickers of their favorite team or players attending the Shanghai Major. As usual, the capsules are distributed across Legends, Challengers, and Contenders.
Fans might notice that the player autographs are less creative than the recent Majors. Valve forced every player to hand-draw their signatures during the RMRs to avoid any last-minute denials of player submissions.
Also, players can assemble their Shanghai Major Pick'Em Challenge right away. This is the mini-game in which fans can predict the teams who advance to the Elimination Stage, Playoff Stage, and pick up the winner.
Although it is free to play, those who want to upgrade their Major Coin and earn Souvenir Packages must buy the Viewer Pass. There's an option to buy just the Viewer Pass and another with the Viewer Pass plus three Souvenir Tokens.
And, on top of these additions, players can also rent weapons from all previous CS:GO weapon cases. Valve didn't make any significant adjustment to the game before the tournament.
Here's everything included in the patch notes for the Shanghai Major.
CS2 patch notes before Perfect World Shanghai Major
Shanghai 2024 Major
- The Shanghai Major Hub is now available. Visit the hub to purchase tournament items, play the Pick'Em Challenge and more.
- Purchase a Shanghai 2024 Viewer Pass to receive an upgradable Shanghai 2024 Coin. With an active pass, you can upgrade your coin and earn extra souvenir packages by playing the Pick'Em Challenge. Additionally, you will show up on the Active Pass Leaderboard where you can compare your Pick'Em Challenge performance to your friends.
- All players with Prime status can place Pick'Em picks for free! However, to complete challenges and earn rewards from an event stage, you will have to activate a Viewer Pass before that stage begins.
Music Kits
- A new music kit “Ay Hey” by Perfect World is now available for purchase in-game in standard and StatTrak versions.
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Gameplay
- Added "sv_quantize_movement_input" setting, enabled by default, to keep players from using analog binds to move at fractional speeds that the game is not designed to handle.
- In cases when servers toggle some game rules from competitive to deathmatch and back to competitive mid-match, the weapons will no longer disappear when dropped on the ground, but toggling game rules settings without reloading the map is not a generally supported workflow for community servers.
Annotations
- Added support for turning off text background.
- Added support for grenade types other than Smoke.
- Increased node limit from 100 to 300.
- Fixed annotation_delete_previous_node not cleaning up particle effects.
Miscellaneous
- Added ability to rent weapons from all previous CS:GO weapon cases.
- Added policy settings to enforce client delta ticks order, namely sv_deltaticks_enforce and sv_deltaticks_log, which should help diagnosing configurations causing delta ticks out of order disconnects.
- Fixed a case where an unlocalized #SLOT prefix could appear in chat.
- Added a reference Counter-Strike Broadcast Playcast Webserver implementation.
Maps
Basalt
- Updated to latest version from Community Workshop (Update Notes)
Train
- Fixed various gaps in map.
- Collision fidelity upgrades.
- Blockers added for train in B to avoid unfair angles.
- Various visual fixes.
That's all for now. However, stay tuned to esports.gg as we're prepping more content for the Shanghai Major including the best stickers and a complete Pick'Em Challenge guide.
