Hot on the heels of Natus Vincere's victory at this year's PGL Stockholm Major, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has got a fresh new update bringing themed autograph capsules, a new music kit, and a batch of changes to two of the FPS game's maps.

The two maps in for a round of adjustments with CS:GO's November 9 patch are Insertion II and Extraction - bomb defusal maps added with the ongoing Operation Riptide. The latter gets the biggest batch of updates, kicking off with various upgrades to its middle zone, both "visually and to gameplay". There's no detail beyond this, but it sounds like it'll look and play better overall. Elsewhere, Valve's added a "powerful self-boost" to mid's T-side, and its cubby is now deeper.

The windows found at the site are now broken into pieces "due to a classic smoke grenade issue" - before the change, players were visible inside smoke when standing near the breakable windows, so that's been addressed. On a similar note, you'll now find more glass is breakable across Extraction.

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