Counter-Strike: Global Offensive knows how to keep its users interested and active with the title. While the basic game is a rendition of a classic online shooter since it’s release it has been updated from time to time with massive seasonal events called operations. At first, they were of a limited range and mostly provided some challenges or a single-player campaign. Now they seem to pivot more on introducing new content. For the apt players of CSGO new operation should always be a focus, as it provides unique rewards for fulfilling operation missions.
CSGO Operation Shattered Web went live on November 18 this year. Besides posing a fun, new challenge with weekly missions, it offers a wide range of exclusive content to grasp at.
Brand new maps
There are three maps that came into the game with Operation Shattered Web update. Each of the maps is designed with another game mode in mind, so we've got new Flying Scoutsman, Danger Zone and classic Detonation maps in the roster.
Lunacy
Dedicated to the Flying Scoutsman game mode, this map is located in a hemispheral hangar on a moon, paying homage to the mode’s lowered gravity.
Jungle
A welcome addition to a sparse Danger Zone map roster. A diverse, tropical area developed meticulously by the community members.
Studio
Ever thought how a detonation match would look like in a film studio? Have a go at this yet another community-created map with interesting new pathways to be planned.
Obtaining and leveling Operation Shattered Web coin
This season has a very specific coin, more like a triangular emblem with a spider figurine. You get it when you buy the season pass, which basically costs $16, but you can find some dumped offers on Steam Market already. It comes in the rank of Bronze, but by completing operation missions, you can upgrade it up to Platinum. Its main function is to show your progress with the operation.
Interesting new collections
Those who think the weapon palette of CSGO needed a refresh should be satisfied now - here go four new sets of skins.
AK 47 | Rat Rod might not look like much at first glance, but its sort-of-Borderland design quickly finds more and more admirers, especially that the roughed-up, Battle-Scarred version doesn’t look much worse than the low-float one. If you happen to drop more than one (cause you’ll probably want to keep one), by the time of writing these words you can sell it for anything between $4 and $34.
As the Shattered Web CSGO operation collection is still quite fresh, the market is still undecided about the prices. It might take a while to see where they land, which skins become the community’s favorites and how the current mode of operation rewards will influence the market’s volume.
Final verdict
So much to look at, so much to say. Operation Shattered Web is still fresh in, and its skins, maps, and agents need to be, no pun intended, field-tested. You will surely hear from us more about those new skins, which only wait to be hustled around the matches.