🎮 CS 1.6 — The Big Update is live: everything that changed

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🎮 CS 1.6 Changelogs — October 19th, 2026
Everything below is already live. No download, no restart on your side.

We have rebuilt a large part of how the server feels and how it rewards you. Fights register better, VIP no longer buys progress, every perma skill is free, the BattlePass gives cosmetics and coins only, and every session is recorded automatically.

In one minute

• Better hit registration — no more "I hit him and nothing happened".
  
• VIP pays more coins, not more XP — +10%, +15% or +20% on every coin you earn.
  
• Every perma skill is free — for everyone, from the first spawn.
  
• BattlePass is cosmetics and coins only — level 52 is not stronger than level 1.
  
• 51 missions — 19 daily, 18 weekly and 14 monthly.
  
• 89 weapon skins and 8 parachute skins — most of them buyable with coins.
  
• Your session is recorded automatically — the proof already exists.
  
• /linkweb links your in-game name to the website in 30 seconds.
  
• New /panel, /help and /commands — everything is one menu away.
  

1 · Smoother gameplay
The server now runs at a much higher tick rate, and your connection settings are applied for you the moment you join — no config editing and no FPS tweaking on your side.

What you will actually feel:

• Shots that look like hits actually register.
  
• Less delay on moving targets, so peeking feels sharper.
  
• Fewer "I was behind the wall" deaths.
  

It is applied on every connect and changes nothing else in your game.

2 · Scan checks
If staff ask you to scan, here is exactly what happens:

1. Staff freezes you in place and sends the request.
   
2. You run the ECD / Fungun scanner as usual.
   
3. You paste the report link with /ecd <link>.
   
4. You are released instantly when the link arrives — a scan is not a punishment.
   

Leaving the server, refusing or stalling while frozen counts as evasion and is banned automatically. A clean scan takes two minutes and you go straight back to playing. Clean results are stored, so the same player is not asked again and again for no reason.

3 · VIP now pays coins, not XP
VIP is an economy perk, not a head start. Every coin you earn is boosted:

• VIP — +10% coins
  
• VIP GOLD — +15% coins
  
• VIP DIAMOND — +20% coins
  

It applies to missions, playtime payouts, the daily bonus, kill and streak coins, milestones, weekly and monthly completions and every BattlePass level reward. Buying, refunding and admin adjustments are never boosted.

No XP bonus any more. VIP does not level faster than anyone else: purchased XP boosts and Double XP events are the same for every player.

(The coin side is live now. The old XP bonus is removed at the next server restart.)

4 · Every perma skill is free
No coins, no levels, no unlocks — these are yours from your first spawn:

• Weapon menu, including AWP
  
• Double jump — 1 jump, 270 power
  
• Parachute — slower free fall
  
• Health grenade — +20 thrown, +35 drunk
  
• Fast sniper — 0.75s between shots
  
• Revive — 1 revive, 1 respawn, 3 second window
  
• Knife footspeed — a small speed edge with the knife out
  

Nothing is level-locked and nothing is for sale. If you bought one of these before, your purchase is untouched — it simply is not needed any more.

5 · 89 weapon skins
Ten groups: AK, M4, Deagle, AWP, Scout, Knife, grenades and C4.

• 26 free — available from your first round
  
• 10 BattlePass — levels 10 to 35
  
• 12 rank — from 750 to 8 000 rank XP
  
• 37 VIP — VIP, Gold and Diamond sets
  
• 4 Legend — BattlePass level 52 only
  

How to use them:

• /skins → pick a weapon → pick a skin → wear it.
  
• 62 of the 89 can be bought with coins (2 000 to 15 000) if you do not want to wait for the level, the rank or the VIP tier.
  
• A bought skin works from the next round — no reconnect needed.
  
• Skins are per weapon, not per team.
  

Free skins stay free and included skins stay included — coins are only the shortcut.

6 · 8 parachute skins
/para → Chute Skin, or /chute to jump straight in.

• Classic — free
  
• Militar — 400
  
• Militar Blue — 600
  
• Deportive — 800
  
• Fenix — 1 000
  
• Dragon — 1 500
  
• Fairy — 2 000
  
• Divine — 2 500
  

Your choice is saved to your account, so it follows you across maps and reconnects. All models are on FastDL, so there is no download stall on your first jump.

7 · BattlePass: cosmetics and coins only
The BattlePass is a reward track, not a power track — no unfair advantages.

• You get coins on every level plus skins at the gated levels: 27 300 coins across the full season, the Luna Knife at level 20 and the Legend set at level 52.
  
• You do not get extra health, armour, damage, speed, reload, plant or defuse speed, or fall damage. Level 1 and level 52 play exactly the same.
  
• 52 levels, 90 000 XP at cap — levels 40 to 52 are the real grind.
  
• One track for everyone. VIP does not skip levels and does not earn XP faster; it only pays more coins.
  

8 · 51 missions
19 daily, 18 weekly and 14 monthly, in four difficulties: EASY, MEDIUM, HARD and ELITE. Objectives cover kills, headshots, round wins, plants, defuses, knife kills, damage, weapon-specific kills, HE kills, headshot streaks and more.

Rewards per mission, before your VIP coin bonus:

• Daily — 10 to 150 XP and 10 to 100 coins
  
• Weekly — 30 to 450 XP and 40 to 500 coins
  
• Monthly — 80 to 900 XP and 100 to 1 500 coins
  

/missions shows each cycle, your progress and the exact time until reset. Progress is saved per account, survives reconnects and restarts, and resets itself the moment the day, week or month turns. Missions pay coins, not rank.

9 · Every session is recorded automatically
You no longer need to "record a demo" when something happens — it is already running.

• Every player records their own view of their session.
  
• Saved in your CS folder as uncap-<yourname>.dem — cstrike_downloads on most non-Steam installs, cstrike on Steam.
  
• Recording starts about 15 seconds after you finish connecting, and the console tells you the exact file name.
  
• Only your latest session is kept, so it never fills your disk.
  
• Staff can check a ban appeal against the actual session, and every ban is logged next to the demo.
  

This protects you as much as it protects the server: if you are wrongly banned, the evidence already exists.

10 · Your own account and /linkweb
One account per player name, tied to nothing but your name and a password.

• /register — unlocked after 5 minutes of playtime. Your password is at least 4 characters, typed twice, and stored encrypted — never as plain text.
  
• /login — one password prompt.
  
• /autologin — remembers you, so next sessions log in by themselves.
  
• /playtime — your total time and how much is left before you can register.
  
• If your name is used without logging in, the player simply gets an [Unverified] tag — nobody is frozen or kicked over it.
  
• Your name is protected: nobody else can claim it.
  

/linkweb connects your in-game name to the website:

1. /login in game, or /register first.
   
2. Type /linkweb — a private 6-digit code appears in chat.
   
3. Enter it at uncap-gaming.com/link.php while logged into the forum.
   
4. Done — coins, level, missions, skins, VIP and staff access now match on both sides.
   

The code is valid for 5 minutes, can only be used once, and you can request a new one every 30 seconds. You can unlink at any time from the Player Hub or User CP → Linked Accounts.

11 · Chat rules

• Warnings are tied to you, not your slot — they stay even if you change your name.
  
• Any IP address or website link in chat or in a nickname is blocked. Our own Discord and server IP are always allowed.
  
• Bad words are matched as whole words, so normal names like Mr.Smith or 3.5 are never flagged.
  
• A rule-breaking nickname warns you, then renames or kicks.
  

The ladder is automatic:

• 1st — warning, and the message is removed
  
• 2nd — 5 minute mute
  
• 3rd — 15 minute mute
  
• 4th — 24 hour ban
  

Stay clean for a week and you are back to zero. Staff are held to the same rules.

12 · Menus, shortcuts and stats

• /panel — the full admin panel for staff: players, kick, ban, slap, slay, gag, freeze, grab and events.
  
• /help and /commands — every command, what it does and who can use it.
  

Player shortcuts: /bp, /coins, /shop, /missions, /skins, /para, /chute, /cam, /hud, /hudstyle, /settings, /top15, /rank, /xp, /playtime, /register, /login, /linkweb, /gagmenu, /ecd.

/top15 opens a clean in-game board with rank, XP, name, kills, deaths, headshot %, skill rating and level. /top10, /top20 and /top50 show more, /bot15 shows the other end, and the board refreshes every 20 seconds — it even works while the website is down. /rank shows your own card: rank, level, XP, progress to the next rank, kills, deaths, headshots, accuracy and playtime. The HUD can be toggled with /hud.

13 · Inspect your weapon
Type inspect while holding a gun, or bind it with bind f inspect. Your weapon plays a CS:GO-style inspect animation with a voice line. It is purely visual: no change to damage, accuracy or fire rate.

14 · Bans that actually stick
One ban now covers everything at once: SteamID, IP address, player name and a persistent client cookie. If a new SteamID appears on the same machine while the previous one is banned, it is caught and banned for evasion automatically.

That last part is the closest CS 1.6 allows to a hardware ban — the game itself has no hardware ID, so the cookie plus the IP act as your machine fingerprint. Bans also capture a screenshot, and your session demo is on file. Unban requests from the website are applied by the server within about 20 seconds, and admin, menu and offline bans all write the same list.

15 · New admin tools

• Grab — pick up, carry and throw players or props.
  
• Hook — grapple onto geometry to reach spots during checks.
  
• Freeze — holds a player in place until released.
  

All of it is permission-checked and listed in /commands.

16 · Faster, cleaner downloads

• Downloads now run over trusted HTTPS, so Chrome and Edge stop blocking them.
  
• Your game client keeps using the normal download link — nothing to change on your side.
  
• Every custom model and sound is on the mirror: weapon skins, player skins, parachutes and hats.
  
• Files are only ever added or updated, so a download cannot break mid-session.
  

Questions?
Reply in this thread, open a ticket in our Discord, or read link.php if your name will not link.

See you on the server.
— UNCAP