Valve tweaks demo quality and movement in November 4th update

Valve released a CS2 update last night, with fixes for demo playback and surfing.

The developer has introduced a new feature for demos called TrueView, which aims to produce a more accurate rendering of what happened in the server to what is displayed in the demo.

Valve did note that there will still be some differences between the footage in the demo and what actually happened in the game, especially if the viewer is watching in slow-motion.

Valve also shipped movement changes, which were recently in the beta version of CS2. Surfing should now function more as intended, with air acceleration now adjusted while performing the movement.

Here are the most notable changes from the November 4th update:

GAMEPLAY

• Fixed a case where air acceleration was clamped incorrectly while surfing.

• Fixed a case where slowly surfing up a ramp was handled incorrectly due to misidentification as a jump apex.

• Fix a bug causing "Delay Sniper Rifle Un-Scope after Shot" to be inconsistent.

DEMO

• Added TrueView demo playback, which reconstructs the observed player's original experience more accurately by re-running client-side prediction.

• TrueView playback will show the effects of Damage Prediction, if it was enabled by the observed player at the time.

• TrueView does not reconstruct the precise timings of rendered frames, so some differences between the original player's experience and TrueView playback will remain, especially in very slow motion playback. The player's frame at the time when the mouse was clicked, which is used for hit registration, is shown accurately to the nearest demo playback frame. However, reaction effects such as recoil, muzzle flash, blood splatter, and ragdoll are delayed while playing the game by one or two frames due to the way CPU and GPU work is pipelined, and will not appear at the same time during demo playback.

• TrueView demo playback might not work properly on old demos and is disabled by default if the playback client version does not match the client version when the demo was recorded. You can set cl_demo_predict 2 to override this.