This week saw Valve announce the latest advancement of their community content focus in the shape of 7 player-made maps being hosted on official dedicated servers. These maps were selected from some of the highest rated user created maps currently being hosted on the Steam Workshop and in an attempt to promote these maps and reward their creators Valve have released them all to the public for a very affordable $2.99 – with the authors receiving a share of the income for their work.

Those who buy the Season pass to the community maps will be able to take players into the new maps even if the other players have not purchased the pass, which means you won’t have to argue over map packs. Participants of Operation Payback will also be given a ‘one-of-a-kind’ challenge coin, upgradable by playing and viewable wherever their avatars are shown.

For more on which maps made the cut, follow the link here.