A brand new knife, the Kukri makes its first appearance in Lambda. Available in the Kilowatt & Gallery cases, along with the Operation Equinox Store.
We have ported, and re-rigged all of CS2's new weapon models and back-porting them to Source 1. As of this update, all stock weapons will use the new models. Don't worry, all your existing skins will use the existing models, with the exception of pattern based skins which have been migrated automatically.
In addition to gun models, the grenades have been ported as well, now featuring brand new inspect animations!
The first major operation for 2025 introduces the aptly named, Operation Equinox.
The operation will run from today, all the way up until the start of Summer on 21st June, 2025.
14 Missions will be dropped every 2 weeks introducing along side it, new content for the Shop, re-imagined older gamemodes using our new base gamemode and much more.
The currency for this operation is Eggs (As in, Easter Eggs)
Eggs are earned by completing missions, and can be spent in the store for exclusive rewards.
Two brand new collections are available to pick from, using the new High-Definition weapon models; The Train 2025 Collection and the Overpass 2024 Collection.
You can also use your rewards to get a random Kukri knife, Equinox Music kit, Kilowatt Case, Gallery Case and random collection items.
For a first time ever, you can also collect Operation currency in the 3D game world. See below for more details.
As with previous operations, you can level-up your pin to three unique levels.
Bronze (Purchasing the pass), Silver (20 Completed Missions), Gold (50 Completed Missions) and Diamond (80 Completed Missions)
Get the rewards you want quicker! You can now collect eggs in Skill Surf, Bunny Hop, Deathmatch, Arms Race and Guardian.
There are different tiers of egg that spawn:
All players can only claim two eggs per day.
CS2's first case using the new weapon models, is also the first case in Lambda to utilise the new models. Containing 17 high quality skins created by the Counter-Strike community and featuring the Kukri knife as a rare item.
The Kilowatt case is now dropping via the drop system or can be purchased from the Operation Equinox Store and Lambda Store.
The second case for CS2 using the new weapon models. Containing 17 high quality skins created by the Counter-Strike community and featuring the Kukri knife as a rare item.
The Gallery case is now dropping via the drop system or can be purchased from the Operation Equinox Store and Lambda Store.
Inspired by its iconic graffiti, the Overpass Collection includes 16 weapon finishes from the Monster to the Biergarten.
The Overpass 2024 Collection is now dropping in the drop system or can be purchased from the Operation Equinox Store and Lambda Store.
The 2025 Train collection is here, based on the Counter-Strike 2 map: de_train. Now available in the Operation Equinox Store or via the Lambda Store
With spring now here and lighter evenings in the Northern Hemisphere, the Equinox Music Kit Box brings 12 Lambda Community-created music kits ranging from EDM to Rock.
A recent Garry's Mod update introduced partial shader support.
While we can't really use these in a meaningful way in 3D space, as it's a 2D shader, we have started to implement it for user interface elements.
Drawing perfect circles, which was impossible previously without various hacks is now possible thanks to Pixel Shaders
In addition, we've replaced the UI elements that used the unoptimised Source Engine blur with a brand new optimised version that has been built in a pixel shader.
With this in mind, we've give the case unboxing UI a little bit of a facelift which you can see in the image above.
Your inventory will switch between the old model and new one depending on which skin is equipped.
Pattern based skins have been moved over to the new models automatically.
Introducing the Kukri Knife
Now available in the base patterns such as:
And many more.
The first case to feature the brand new models with the container featuring 17 high quality skins for the brand new models created by the CS2 community.
The second case to feature the brand new models with the container featuring 17 high quality skins for the brand new models created by the CS2 community.
Now available to purchase as a collection package from the Lambda Store or via the Operation Shop for Operation Equinox
Now available to purchase as a collection package from the Lambda Store or via the Operation Shop for Operation Equinox
Featuring 12 high quality music kits created by the Lambda community.
Our first full operation for 2025. Operation Equinox will run up until 21st June 2025 and will feature brand new mission and content drops every 2 weeks.
For the first time ever, you can also claim reward points to spend in the Operation Shop in the game world, by finding and collecting festive eggs (Only during April)
To find out more about Operation Equinox, read the FAQ here: https://lambda.tf/docs/lambda/operations/operation-equinox-faq
Since the very limited introduction of pixel shaders using the screenspace_general shader, we've started to take advantage and have moved some of the more complicated UI over to pixel shaders.
Circles are no longer jagged and are smooth, there's now a more optimised gaussian blur which doesn't impact frame rate as much as the in-built Garry's Mod one.
The centre of the screen is now a circle to focus on the case spinning, in addition, the rest of the UI blurred.
This can be turned off with the following ConVar: lambda_store_enable_case_blur 0
Now when you press ESCAPE the HUD elements are no longer shown.
Unfortunately due to the major changes with the new weapon model switching system, The Skin Testing environment needs a re-write to work with this, so for the time being we are discotinuing the Skin Testing Environment while we re-write it using our brand new base gamemode.
Now when you press ESCAPE the HUD elements are no longer shown.
Now when you press ESCAPE the HUD elements are no longer shown.
Surf Deathmatch now uses our new "Counter-Strike" base gamemode.
We're slowly moving over our existing gamemodes to this new base gamemode as it provides a better experience.
Now when you press ESCAPE the HUD elements are no longer shown.
The circle is now drawn using the new pixel shader and is blurred (As found in CS2)
The icon of the team is now the team colour rather than the HUD colour.
Now when you press ESCAPE the HUD elements are no longer shown.
Starting with the new weapons, when viewing an item on the Wiki, you can click on the picture of the skin to view a large 1920x1080 render of the skin.
Training will be re-written using the new base gamemode in the future.
