Introducing TrueView
Valve published "Introducing TrueView" on 5 November 2025 in Community Announcements. The PatinaAI market index's median read 30.20 points in the seven days after against 31.43 before, −3.9 %. A typical week moves under 0.1 % either way on the same measure. A read is a comparison with a date, not a cause.
Today we're adding a new feature to demo playback called TrueView . With TrueView, demo playback will match the player's original experience much more closely.
Previously, demo playback showed the server's view of the world, without accounting for network latency. This could be confusing because shots would hit that didn't look like they should have, and vice versa.
TrueView provides a more accurate representation of the observed player's experience by re-running their client-side prediction .
The video below shows the difference between the old demo playback and the same playback with TrueView.
A few caveats:
By default, TrueView is deactivated when the version of the game you are using to view the demo does not match the version of the game used to record the demo.
Even with TrueView active, there may still be some differences between what you see in the demo and what the player originally saw (especially with slow-motion playback). For example, damage effects will have different timing during demo playback due to the way CPU and GPU work are pipelined.
In addition to performing clientside prediction of the observed player, TrueView will also perform Damage Prediction on enemies, if Damage Prediction was used by the observed player at the time.
Additionally, we're shipping movement changes that we made available last week in a beta branch. All that and more and today's update!
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The PatinaAI market index's median over the seven days after the post was 30.20 points against 31.43 over the seven days before: −3.9 %. A typical week moves under 0.1 % either way on the same measure, the drift this read has to beat. The post's own day is left out. A comparison with a date, not causation.
The item types and weapons the post names, in the order it names them. A word match, not a reading of the post.
How to read the number
The read compares the market index's median over the seven UTC days after the post with the seven days before it, the post's own day left out, and needs at least three published days on each side. The same measure taken on every day of the series is the drift a typical week shows; a read inside that drift is the market doing what it was doing. Neither is proof the post moved anything. The composite is on the market report, every basket under the indexes, and every update is on one list.