Some unmentioned update content—specifically regarding chickens. The only chicken-related item mentioned in the notes is that they can now be attacked by the stun gun, with altered hit feedback. Now, when a chicken is killed by the stun gun, it turns into a roasted chicken model. However, most chicken-related updates were not mentioned. Is the pet system about to launch? In response, players hoping for a major action have this to say:
Since the update, Valve has been giving special attention to the chickens, leading players to speculate that Valve might introduce pets. After about two and a half years, Valve has finally delivered on this. Let's take a look at the hidden updates regarding chickens in the game—shortly after editing the update log, a friend shared his discovery about the eggs, and surprisingly, these details weren't mentioned in the log. Notably, the eggs occupy two slots in the weekly rewards, meaning if you claim the eggs, you can't receive other rewards.
Eggs: Not tradable, yet there are many types of eggs in the observable universe. So, what is this egg for?
Serious unpacking. No content related to poached eggs, tea eggs, or steamed eggs was found. This egg isn't for eating. Meanwhile, some new content was discovered—
Egg Model:
Egg models include freckled egg and original-skin egg designs.
At the same time, the egg model was found. The egg model is movable and is likely the part in the video related to the click feedback for claiming eggs.
At the same time, another egg model features a cracking animation:
Hatching animation 1:
Hatching Animation 2:
In the animation, only the eggshell part is shown, but the chick's collision feedback with the eggshell can be seen, including the part where the chick crushes the eggshell.
Along with a chick model — cute fluffy little yellow chicks.
Jailer Close-up:
This chick has inspection animations, as well as various chick animations, including the hatching part. We'll leave the hatching animation for players to experience in the game! Here are some other animations on display:
Inspect the chicks:
This action is visibly done by cupping with hands.
Cute chick idle animation:
Various other animations:
Besides the chicken coop and eggs for collecting eggs shown in the video above, there are also chick feeders and feed bucket designs for chickens:
This feeder has full-food and no-food states, along with a shaking animation, possibly simulating the feedback of a chick pecking at food. Chicks are usually fed grain when being raised, so if we can name this chick, let's call it Grainpeck.
The game also added sound effects that sound like "unboxing" evolution, and it seems CS is about to become a raising simulation game... including sound effects for small chickens, medium chickens, and large chickens.
There are also various chicken feed models and textures:
Including feed for chicks and adult chickens. SUNNYSIDE.
This feed bag comes with a model! However, it does not come with matching animation.
These feeds might have other means of acquisition, or be added to weekly drops, with one bag occupying one slot? They could also potentially be available for sale.
Additionally, regarding the big chickens, there are more textures available—two new models have been added, along with multiple textures for the original small chickens. In total, the textures for the three models account for over 30 different chicken designs.
Original Model New Textures (Showing Part)
Can we get Valve to add this skin?
Why don't you.... come try out for that youth academy?
The second chick model (demonstration part):
Oh my, this is truly beautiful—get too close and you might melt! This breed should be Polish Bantam chickens.
The third type of chick model (display part):
It seems Valve is the biggest iKun, but since it wasn't mentioned in the update log, the part about the chicks probably hasn't been fully rolled out yet. It might go live completely after a few optimizations.
The styling of where dreams begin:
In the most classic 1.6 map Italy, there are two of these chicken models. It might have started from that time that Valve has increasingly leaned toward chicken elements for its chicken mascot.