Counter-Strike 2 News

Last year we announced the broad strokes of new rules for professional Counter-Strike events, to take effect in 2025. Today, we're filling in the details--click here to see the terms that will be added to Tournament Organizers' license agreements moving forward.

Counter-Strike is at its best when teams compete on a level playing field, and these new rules are part of our commitment to the long-term health of Counter-Strike as a sport. Our goal is to ensure that professional Counter-Strike remains an open sport, where teams are only limited by their ability.

Although we expect that there will be some rough edges as we transition to the new requirements, we're excited to see what the future will bring.

[ MAPS ]

Ancient

• Fixed clipping on crates at bombsite A to allow players to jump on top again.
  

Vertigo

• Fixed clipping on ends of bombsite A catwalk to prevent players from walking off.
  

[ MISC ]

• Fixed occasional first-person camera jolt when throwing grenades.
  

[ MAPS ]

Pool Day

• Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop found here

Dust 2

• Fixed hole in brick stack on bombsite B
  
• Fixed bug preventing custom sounds from being played in community maps
  

[ NETWORK ]

• Fixed a bug leading to excessive stuttering for some players
  

[ HUD ]

• Fixed case of radar background being incorrectly colored.
  

[ MAPS ]

Pool Day

• Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop (Update Notes)

[ MISC ]

• Added support to load the latest version of community maps from the Workshop when playing on community servers, even if different versions of the same maps are also available as part of official map groups
  
• Fixed G-Sync detection to also work in non-windowed fullscreen mode
  
• Fixed a case where US English keyboard layout could remain loaded for users with non-English keyboards
  
• Fixed an empty radio-command string which plays when planted C4 is within several seconds from detonation