•23 February

• Tweaked phrasing of Round Stats Menu items and values.
• Tweaked Round Stats Menu to toggle options when selected regardless of default settings.

•21 February

• Added additional game modes support to server tips plugin.

•20 February

• Added 3 new classic maps cs_thunder, de_rotterdam, and de_dust2_cz.
• Set the default warmup time to 60 seconds.
• Increased warmup time for non cs_ and de_ maps to 40 seconds.
• Fixed incorrect round durations for defuse and hostage maps.
• Removed application of custom light levels across all maps.
• Lowered map duration to 16 minutes.
• Lowered map duration extension step to 8 minutes.
• Lowered time remaining threshold before Votemap is triggered to 60 seconds.
• Lowered Rock the vote initial delay and interval to 8 minutes.

•19 February

• Revised to use workshop collections for production environments.

•18 February

• Removed de_vegas_csgo_v7 workshop map due to overly modern visuals.

•17 February

• Tweaked colors of Votemap Started chat message for improved visibility for when the event occurs.
• Removed de_mill_promod in favor of recently added classic map de_tuscan.
• Removed de_mirage_ce in favor of recently added classic map de_cpl_strike.

•16 February

• Resolved issues with plugin command_buffer due to recent csgo update(s).
• Removed printing of the revote chat message on the start of the Votemap event.

•15 February

• Added 14 new workshop maps.
• Replaced the previous custom awp_map with a workshop map closer to the classic version.
• Replaced the previous cs_militia map with a more classic version.
• Replaced the previous de_tuscan map with a more classic version.
• Removed de_dust2_source for hosting more classic maps.
• Increased Votemap map count to 5.

•13 February

• Tweaked server tips.
• Updated gamedata.

•11 February

• Updated gamedata.

•8 February

• Fixed console errors on map loads for convar sm_gamevoting_version.

•3 February

• Fixed gamedata to resolve server crashes from 2023-02-02 update.

•18 January

• Added stats frontend map thumbnails.
• Fixed stats frontend map thumbnails of certain maps.
• Fixed stats frontend map thumbnails to be in correct size and dimensions.

•16 January

• Added de_survivor workshop map.
• Revised to use workshop maps if available on Steam Workshop.
• Replaced the previous awp_india map with a more classic version.

•15 January

• Fixed sporadic disk I/O errors which might have caused gameservers to hang or crash.

•2022

•21 December

• Changed stats frontend site URL to https://hlstats.startersclan.com.

•18 November

• Fixed stats frontend map thumbnails to be in 16:9 ratio.

•1 November

• Fixed infrastructural CPU performance issue affecting the stats database and some gameservers.

•23 September

• Restored supposed disk I/O rates with the completion of migration to new infrastructure which should restore general durations for game server update deployments and map loads.

•22 August

• Enhanced in-game stats frontend to use its own CSS stylesheet. This makes it load much quicker on the first time.
• Enhanced stats frontend dropdown elements appearance.
• Enhanced stats frontend paginator to be in greyscale theme.
• Fixed in-game stats frontend Help page statsme command to link to statsme page.
• Fixed stats frontend player name and country flag to be one entire clickable entity.

•21 August

• Enhanced in-game stats frontend pages to match startersclan theme.
• Enhanced stats frontend pages to match startersclan theme.

•20 August

• Changed stats frontend Discord widget and Discord invite URL.
• Changed stats frontend footer logo to link to our main site startersclan.com.
• Enhanced in-game stats frontend Help page chat commands to match startersclan site theme.

•18 August

• Launched startersclan.com as our main site. startersclan.com/stats will be our stats frontend site.
• Enhanced stats frontend Server page Past Matches table to be like Game page's Past Matches table.

•17 August

• Optimized queries for stats frontend Role page to be about 2 times faster.
• Standardized stats frontend table title style.
• Added stats frontend Player Day Sessions page table title.

•16 August

• Reenabled global awards, which had been stopped for some time. Players may see new global awards on their Player profile.
• Amended over-attribution of daily awards for some games. Players may see their corrected daily awards on their Player profile.
• Optimized queries for stats frontend bot Player page to be much faster: Profile, Killstats, Maps
• Enhanced stats frontend Awards Ranks page to count only human players.
• Enhanced stats frontend Awards, Clan, and Player page to use AJAX when sorting tables.
• Enhanced stats frontend general appearance.

•15 August

• There was a maintenance window between 2022-08-15 11:34:21 UTC and 2022-08-15 13:43:18 UTC which took longer than expected, during which player stats might have not been processed. We are committed to keeping our servers up with minimal downtime.
• Enhanced stats frontend general appearance.
• Enhanced stats frontend table sort arrow icon appearance.
• Enhanced stats frontend Overview page to show countries and clans with 3 or more members by default.
• Enhanced stats frontend Server Session page to show four more columns: Shots, Hits, TK, Kill Streak and Death Streak.
• Fixed in-game stats frontend MOTD pages' table sort arrow icon to have correct color theme.
• Fixed minor stats frontend bugs.

•14 August

• Amended all miscalculated kill streak and death streak values across all player stats.

•12 August

• Added to stats frontend main page's Games table, a badge showing the number of online servers for each game.
• Optimized in-game stats frontend MOTD Clans page queries to be about 2 times faster.
• Optimized in-game stats frontend MOTD Clans page to show clans with 3 or more members by default.
• Enhanced stats frontend Clans page to show countries with 3 or more members by default.
• Enhanced stats frontend Clan Maps page to link to Maps page.
• Enhanced stats frontend Countries page to show countries with 3 or more members by default.
• Enhanced in-game stats frontend MOTD Help page chat commands appearance.
• Enhanced in-game stats frontend MOTD Help page chat commands to link to other MOTD pages (where applicable). This enables navigation to other MOTD pages from the Help page.
• Enhanced in-game stats frontend MOTD Statsme page to show certain values in 2 decimal places.
• Enhanced in-game stats frontend MOTD Weapons page to show Kills %, HS:K, and HS % columns in 2 decimal places.
• Fixed in-game stats frontend paginator to have correct color theme.
• Fixed in-game stats frontend paginator text to be properly vertically middle-aligned.
• Fixed stats frontend Countries menu item to not sort table by member count.
• Fixed stats frontend not loading Awards, Player, or Clan page tabs correctly when using the browser back button.

•11 August

• Optimized backend query performance. In-game stats frontend commands that open in an MOTD window now load much faster, especially: accuracy, actions, kills, maps, statsme, targets, weapons. In addition, Player Killstats page is noticeably faster.
• Added to stats frontend Player Actions page, the ability to view in-depth stats for Player-Player Actions.
• Added to stats frontend Player Actions page, a .vs Others column that links to the Actions page. This helps players compare Action stats with others.
• Added to stats frontend Player Maps page, a .vs Others column that links to the Maps page. This helps players compare Map stats with others.
• Added to stats frontend Player Teams page Role table, a .vs Others column that links to the Roles page. This helps players compare Role stats with others.
• Added to stats frontend Player Weapons page, a .vs Others column that links to the Weapons page. This helps players compare Weapon stats with others.
• Enhanced in-game stats frontend MOTD Maps page to show K:D and HS:K in 2 decimal places.
• Enhanced in-game stats frontend MOTD Weapons page to use actual weapon names.
• Enhanced in-game stats frontend MOTD Weapon page to support pagination.
• Changed in-game stats frontend MOTD Map page column titles and column order for better readability.
• Changed in-game stats frontend MOTD Kills page column titles and column order for better readability.
• Fixed in-game stats frontend MOTD pages to apply word-break on player names. This prevents tables from being mangled by long player names.
• Fixed in-game stats frontend MOTD Map missing images.

•10 August

• Optimized backend query performance. Stats frontend pages are now much faster: Role, Map. Player Profile Sessions page loads 2 to 3 times faster.
• Enhanced stats frontend Action page appearance.
• Enhanced stats frontend Actions page appearance.
• Enhanced stats frontend Map page to link to player Profile Maps page. This helps players compare Map stats with others.
• Enhanced stats frontend Player Teams page Roles table to link to Roles page. This helps players compare their Role stats with others.
• Enhanced stats frontend Role page appearance.
• Enhanced stats frontend Roles page appearance.
• Enhanced stats frontend Roles page to show two more columns: Headshots and HPK.
• Enhanced stats frontend Weapon page appearance.
• Enhanced stats frontend Weapon page to link to Player Weapons page. This helps players compare their Weapon stats with others.
• Enhanced stats frontend Weapon page to show two more columns: Headshots and HPK.
• Split stats frontend Clan Actions page into Actions and Teams pages.
• Split stats frontend Player Actions page into Actions and Teams pages.
• Fixed stats frontend Map page to correctly load, when linked from Maps page.
• Fixed stats frontend Player Sessions page occasionally not being able to filter by Map Session.
• Fixed stats frontend Player Teams page to correctly show Role avatars.

•9 August

• Added to stats frontend Player page Awards tab, 4 new subtabs: Daily, Daily (History), Ribbons, and Ranks. This will help players view achievements in the context of their game stats. We hope you like it.
• Added to stats frontend Player page, instructions on to how to view filtered session stats when filtering by a Day Session.
• Enhanced stats frontend Player and Awards pages' menu appearance to be more proportional.
• Fixed kill streak determination. We are gradually rolling out the correct kill streak for all players.
• Fixed stats frontend Player Day Session page broken pagination.
• Fixed stats frontend Player page's session filter removal button to correctly return to Day Sessions page from a filtered Day Session page.
• Fixed stats frontend Awards menu item to be highlighted when viewing Daily Award Rank, or Ribbon pages.

•8 August

• Optimized backend query performance. Stats frontend pages now load much faster: Awards, Weapons, and Player profile.
• Added a new Awards count under Statistics Summary table of Player profile.

•7 August

• Optimized backend query performance. Stats frontend pages such as Actions are now much faster. The Overview and Countries pages are also about 2 times faster.
• Fixed Player profile Map Performance page to be sorted by Kills instead of K:D for better relevance.

•6 August

• Added missing Map Session stats between 2020-07-15 07:13:36 UTC and 2020-07-17 02:44:56 UTC caused by a bug, which caused multiple Map Sessions stats to be aggregated under a single Map Session (Specifically, the one occuring right before 2020-07-15 07:13:36 UTC). Unfortunately, session points could not be restored because of that aggregation. Absolute player points were not affected by the bug.

•4 August

• Fixed kill streak miscalculation, and death streak miscalculation in rare cases. Player stats that have been affected by the bug will be gradually amended.

•16 July

• Updated metamod version to 1.11.0-git1148.
• Updated sourcemod version to 1.11.0-git6906.

•25 June

• Updated metamod version to 1.11.0-git1147 to resolve server crashes from 2022-06-24 update.
• Updated sourcemod version to 1.10.0-git6544 to resolve server crashes from 2022-06-24 update.

•1 April

• Revised standing of a player with prior bans to be restored back to Good once the player has no bans within the past month. This is no April Fools :P We believe this would encourage players to play clean.

•31 March

• Unhid profiles of players who have been inactive for at least 2 years. This restores less active players back to player rankings.

•5 March

• Server instances now run in a new environment with slightly reduced performance.

•2021

•21 November

• Lowered maximum map extensions limit to 4.

•24 September

• Fixed server crashes from Operation Riptide update.

•24 July

• Fixed formatting issues with older MOTD posts.

•18 July

• Added new skyboxes.
• Fixed missing skyboxes that should have been applied to maps.
• Implemented automatic choosing of the next map at random when players are in-game, no map votes were received, and the extend map limit has been satisfied.

•5 May

• Removed missing workshop maps from server maplists.

•2020

•5 October

• Raised memory limits of game server instances to prevent out-of-memory crashes.

•2 September

• Readded restored workshop maps to server maplists.
• Tweaked performance for checks related to teamkills by headshot.

•10 August

• Fixed glitch that awarded players with stats points for teamkills by headshot.

•31 July

• Standardized stats events chat phrases' color and phrasing.

•15 July

• Improved initial map loading times on server starts.

•25 June

• Removed missing workshop map from server maplists.
• Fixed Round Stats damage taken death chat string to correctly display the opponent's weapon name.
• Increased Spectator maximum count to 8.
• Standardized Player Menu item names.
• Standardized Stats Menu items and their names.
• Improved the behavior and response time of various chat commands andPlayer Menu items.
• Reduced Votemap vote duration from 20 to 15 seconds.
• Reduced Voteban vote duration to 15 seconds.
• Removed Exit button from Voteban voting options.
• Added chat command steamgroup for opening up our Steam Group page.
• Improved behavior of chat command motd.
• Improved behavior of chat command rtv.
• Improved behavior of chat command voteban.
• Standardized Ban and Voteban reasons.
• Added dynamic team colors support for player names in Voteban phrases.
• Tweaked various Rock the vote chat phrases.
• Standardized casing of the term Voteban.
• Fixed chat phrase response for when Votemap or Rock the vote is attempted to be started while another vote is in progress.
• Added logging of client connection time and latency stats.
• Improved the robustness in behavior of various inter-dependent plugins.
• Enhanced ingame stats pages: Added table title(s); Added player-scoped stats for some pages; Changed some pages to link to other stats pages; Fixed tables to show 'No results' for empty tables.
• Enhanced ingame chat commands help page: Added items; Standardized their casing and phrasing.
• Fixed excessive caching of ingame stats pages.

•1 June

• Raised AFK move duration to 45 seconds.
• Added dynamic team colors support for player names in AFK phrases.
• Tweaked colors of AFK phrases to follow the general color theme for chat phrases.

•28 May

• Added dynamic team colors of player names in Round Stats chat phrases.
• Tweaked welcome message colors.
• Standardized the casing of the Rock the vote in-game to be consistent with usage on startersclan.com.

•26 May

• Revised server hostname for Classic.
• Reduced server capacity for Classic to 16 for a cozier size.
• Revised Round Stats to display through chat instead of the menu by default.
• Added Round Stats Menu for customizing Round Stats settings.
• Added chat commands r, roundstats, and roundstatsmenu for viewing the Round Stats Menu.
• Improved the behavior of various chat commands.

•22 May

• Updated sourcemod native plugins to v1.10.0-git6455.
• Increased the number of maps included in Votemap to 3.
• Standardized all ban reasons for use by admins and clients.
• Improved the reliability of Voteban.
• Revised Voteban menu to display indefinitely.
• Revised AFK specific chat phrases to use [AFK] tag.
• Revised map specific chat phrases to use [Map] tag.
• Tweaked various Rock The Vote chat phrases.
• Tweaked various Voteban chat phrases.
• Added chat command command for listing all available chat commands via the MOTD panel.
• Added appending of Votecaller to non-admin ban reasons.
• Improved logging of Voteban events for parsing and displaying on startersclan.com.
• Standardized the casing of the human readable term Voteban in-game to be consistent with usage on startersclan.com.

•14 May

• Removed missing workshop from server maplist.
• Enhanced stats frontend appearance and speed. The general user experience is much better, especially the player profile page. We hope you like it.

•2 May

• Improved the robustness of the application of a custom light level for certain maps.
• Fixed voice chat settings to follow casual game mode settings.

•16 April

• Enhanced infrastructure for steadier fps and lower latency.

•26 March

• An unexpected infrastructural update caused downtime that lasted between 25 March 2020 11:40 UTC to 26 March 2020 01:25 UTC. Servers were visible on the Steam Server Browser but players could not join them. We sincerely apologize for the disruption. We are dedicated to keeping our servers running with as little downtime as possible.

•23 March

• Enhance web frontend experience on in-game and out-of-game browsers.
• Fix a bug that caused gameservers to not be updated when Steam releases an update.

•17 February

• Fix bugs in ingame stats GUI for better viewing experience.

•2019

•20 November

• Fixed end of map duration.
• Stability improvements.

•2018

•22 November

• New maps.
• Minor backend enhancements.