A State of Trance 2025
A STATE OF TRANCE 2025
Operation TRANSFORMATION, New skins, Arms Race v2.
It's time for TRANSFORMATION

This update introduces a brand new mini-operation, themed around the A State of Trance 2025 event.

With 20 missions to complete, Operation TRANSFORMATION features missions styles around Rotterdam and EDM music.

From Skill Surfing, to bunny hopping and even Arms Race, there's something for everyone to enjoy.

The operation is available to play now and lasts up until 10th March, 2025.

Earn Notes, Get Rewards

The currency for this operation is Notes (As in, Music Notes)

Notes are earned by completing missions, and can be spent in the store for exclusive rewards.

The previous collection for ASOT 2024 is available to purchase, along with the brand new A State of Trance 2025 collection.

In addition you can get a random skin from the new 2021 Train Collection and access to the exclusive TRANSFORMATION Music Kit (Only available during the operation).

Level up your pin

As with previous operations, you can level-up your pin to three unique levels.

Bronze (Purchasing the pass), Silver (5 Completed Missions), Gold (10 Completed Missions) and Diamond (20 Completed Missions)

Brand new look

Arms Race is now based upon our brand new base gamemode, which attempts to replicate Counter-Strike in Garry's Mod

It powers Guardian, Snowball Fight and Deathmatch, and now Arms Race.

Arms Race becomes explosive!

Introducing a brand new level; The Nade Level - After the Taser and before the knife, the nade is a instant kill.

How good are you at throwing?

Now supporting GAMETYPES

Arms Race now supports having different gametypes.

In addition to Team Deathmatch Arms Race, this update also introduces for the first time, Free-For-All Arms Race.

Building upon our random spawn generation system used in Deathmatch, Arms Race matches now feel more intense on the already small maps.

As with Deathmatch, you can now vote for the next gametype during the end match phase.

The Fantasy & Philosophy Case

The Fantasy & Philosphy case contains 17 high quality weapon paints created by both the Lambda and CS2 community, with all weapon paints featuring a shared common theme around Fantasy and Philosophy.

A State of Trance 2025 Collection

21 weapon finishes based upon the ASOT 2025 theme of "TRANSFORMATION", containing pink, purple and cyan contrasts to create a collection of stunning rave inspired finishes.

A Train 2021 Collection

The 2021 Train collection is here, based on the Counter-Strike map: de_train. Now available in the Operation TRANSFORMATION Store or via the Lambda Store

Seasons for Timer Engine are here!

Usually, to keep things fresh in Surf and Bunny Hop, we'd just reset the times. They would be lost forever.

With Seasons, your previous records and completions are kept, now you can view previous season information directly from in-game.

Season Two starts today, with the previous season (Started in August 2024) coming to an end.

Refined, Redesign, Beautiful.

This update introduces our brand new documentation platform. Easier to read and crafted to perfection. Now with both Dark and Light themes.

The existing Garry's Mod documentation and content creation documentation have been moved across.

Garry's Mod
Added
Operation TRANSFORMATION

Operation TRANSFORMATION is now available!

Purchase the pass for 250 LC.

The operation is available from today up until 10th March, 2025.

Added
New Case: Fantasy & Philosophy
Added
New Collection: A State of Trance 2025 Collection

Containing 21 high quality skins themed around the colours of this years's ASOT theme; TRANSFORMATION

Added
New Collection: The 2021 Train Collection
Fixed
Updated various buttons to point to the correct links on the new documentation system.
Improvement
Operations can now specify the reward currency

This was previously hard-coded as "Stars" but now the Operation API supports adding different type of reward currencies, as used with Operation TRANSFORMATION.

Improvement
Added the ability to add an FAQ page to Operations
Improvement
Added the ability to add custom buttons to Operations
Removed
Recoil case from after-match drops
Improvement
Updated the pattern template calculation to match that of CS:GO

Although this is not 100% accurate as we don't have custom shaders, the same calculation logic is now used.

Improvement
Added a hook to allow gamemodes to re-position the Weapon Switcher
Improvement
Added the ability for gamemodes to specify whether the weapon switcher should auto-hide

This is used in the new version of Arms Race.

Improvement
Updated various Operation UI panels to support different reward currencies
Added
ASOT Logo to the Glyphicons font
Added
Netherlands country shape icon to the Glyphicons font
Added
Added the ability to disable the radar.

Currently enabled on Arms Race - Radar images are coming but this will take some time.

Timer Engine
Added
Seasons System

Instead of us removing times every time we want a clean start, Timer Engine now has seasons where you can view times from previous seasons while keeping things clean.

Season One ran from 15th August 2024 up until 10th of Feburary 2025.

Season Two will run from 10th Feburary 2025 up until 10th August 2025.

Added
Data Context System

This is to allow the zoning server to be able to change zones without having an impact on the live server.

Arms Race
Added
Arms Race v2

Arms Race v2 is now here!

Built upon the new Counter-Strike gamemode, Arms Race v2 has a brand new HUD, UI and even a new level.

This update introduces the brand new "Grenade Level".

lambda.tf website
Added
New Docs System

A brand new documentation system that's easy to read, supports both dark and light mode.

Improvement
Release notes can now be linked to major update pages

Head over to the ASOT 2025 update page to see it in action!

Removed
Old documentation sysstem
Improvement
Updated the Timer Engine API

Updated to be compatible with both data context and the new seasons system

Improvement
Updated user time engine stats to show information for the latest season
Improvement
When viewing map information, the timer engine times shown are now for the current and active season
Added
Souvenir Event for ASOT 2025

Dropping standard and knife souvenir packages from 19th Feb - 25th Feb, 2025.

Added
Content for new economy items
LambdaNet
Added
Snowball Fight!

Whether your playing on your own or with up to 4 other friends, Snowball Fight is now available on LambdaNet during the non-winter months.

Counter-Strike Gamemode
Added
Added a hook for when a player throws a grenade
Added
Added a hook for when the taser is fired
Added
Added hooks so that the default walk and run speeds can be fetched in case the speeds need restoring
Added
Added another informational parameter on the CSPlayerKilled data structure; IsKnifeKill to quickly determine if the kill was from a knife.
Guardian
Removed
Disabled the commander voice lines

The voicelines are in the context of Operation Arctic Siege, which is no longer active.

Fixed
Fixed Weapon-based global challenges not counting.
Lambda Identity
Improvement
A brand new user interface

LambdaID has now had a face lift with a brand new dashboard, account management and notifications.

Deathmatch
Added
New Map: Rotterdam
Added
New Map: sh_lockdown
Bunny Hop (Timer Engine)
Added
New Map: bhop_air (Tier 2 / Staged)
Added
New Map: bhop_ankha (Tier 2 / Linear)
Added
New Map: kz_bhop_koryouz (Tier 6 / Staged)
Added
New Map: bhop_sqee_legit (Tier 5 / Staged)
Improvement
bhop_aztec: Added back the secret path
Improvement
bhop_woodspace: Extended course and removed bonus
Improvement
bhop_monster_jam: Extended course and removed bonus