Counter-Strike 2 News

• Enabled uploading CS2 maps to the workshop
  
• Community Servers can host workshop maps
  
• Added paint metalness and roughness by color features to Solid Color, Hydrographic, and Spray-Paint finishes in the Item Editor
  
• Added option to toggle "Automatic PBR Color Correction" to all sticker types in Item Editor
  
• Various Item Editor help system updates including "mat_fullbright 10" to test PBR
  
• Various updates to workshop tools

• Fixed a case where user commands would be ignored in poor network conditions
  
• Fixed a case where weapons would fire faster than intended
  
• Fixed a case where clients would show multiple gunshots for one actual shot
  
• Fixed a case where players would fail to keep their weapons between rounds of overtime
  
• Fixed some instances of dropped weapons falling out of the gameplay space
  
• In firstperson, dead players will now see their own ragdoll at the server-authoritative lag-compensated position of their demise
  
• Decoy grenades interact aesthetically with smoke clouds
  
• Smoke grenades now have a minimum fuse duration to prevent smokes from prematurely detonating if stuck in crevices
  
• Players now ignore individual damage events dealing less than one point of damage
  
• Knife attacks will now prioritize enemies and will only hit teammates if there are no enemies in range
  
• Knife attacks no longer predict damage effects or sounds on the client
  
• Knife attack immediately after switching to a knife will always deal full damage amount
  
• For a given map location, eye height is now consistent regardless of how the player arrived
  

• INFERNO
  
  • Fixed clipping in various areas
    
  • Fixed various microgaps
    
  • Fixed disappearing meshes in skybox
    
  • Removed birds that got mistaken for grenades
    

• Added sv_maxuptimelimit setting to request server shutdown after certain number of uptime hours.
  
• Support -sv_maxuptimelimit command line parameter to randomly select uptime limit per instance within a range, e.g. "-sv_maxuptimelimit 48-72" command line parameter will request game server instance to self-shutdown somewhere between 48 and 72 hours by issuing "sv_shutdown" command on the game server.
  
• Added game server startup timing log records.
  
• Game servers will now print global chat messages when players acknowledge newly acquired items while connected to the game server.
  
• Fixed a bug showing 100% packet loss immediately after connection
  
• Fixed a bug where scoreboard ping could get stuck at a value lower than the real ping
  

• Improved rendering of stickers
  
• Added wins and wins-needed to Competitive Play Menu map tiles
  
• Fixed various minor HUD bugs
  
• Fixed various skins and sticker bugs
  
• Fixed various bugs with item inspection UI
  
• Fixed a skinning issue with Trapper Aggressor agent's legs
  
• Improved performance of player animations on client and server
  
• Smoke grenade canister changed to chrome material
  
• "Boost Player Contrast" no longer applies to dead players
  
• Adjusted microphone voice threshold value

Fans of Counter-Strike: GO’s Gun Game successor Arms Race rejoice: you will be able to play the popular mode in Counter-Strike 2. Eventually, that is. Valve have promised that more modes, weapons and features are headed to Global Offensive’s full-bore sequel, but they might take a little while to arrive as they respond to what players are asking for.

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• Inferno
  
  • Improved bomb visibility when planted in fountain on bombsite B
    
  • Improved grenade bounce behavior on roof and stone models to make it more predictable
    
  • Removed part of railing on balcony
    
  • Adjusted garage door on bombsite A to improve player readability and clipping
    
  • Fixed lighting bug on Inferno workshop map
    
  • Fixed various micro-gaps
    
  • Overall clipping / movement polish
    
• Overpass
  
  • Removed or tweaked models and textures to improve player readability
    
  • Adjusted lighting in certain areas to improve player readability
    
  • Adjusted grenade clipping in various areas
    
• Nuke
  
  • Fixed clipping on ramp room doorway tread plates to prevent erroneous grenade bounces
    
  • Fixed collision on doorways from ramp to bombsite B to be more accurate
    
  • Improved player readability against container on bombsite B
    
  • Fixed some cases where players clipped through garage door at lobby
    
  • Removed dynamic light at squeaky to prevent shadows giving away player position through doorway
    
  • Fixed various holes in world
    
  • Overall clipping / movement polish
    
• Dust2
  
  • Fixed micro-cracks in crate models
    
• Anubis
  
  • Adjusted grenade clipping in and around bombsite B to prevent grenades getting stuck in tight spots
    
  • Fixed multiple cases where dropped weapons clipped through world geometry
    
  • Fixed multiple holes and cracks in world.
    
  • Fixed missing collision on geometry where c4 could be thrown out of the map
    
  • Clipped multiple areas where players could stack, providing an unfair vantage point
    
  • Fixed lightmap issues around CT spawn water
    
  • Improved player readability in mid
    
  • Improved CT team intro position
    
  • Overall clipping / movement polish
    
• Office
  
  • Improved player readability at CT spawn around swat van
    
  • Fixed gaps in some cubemaps which were causing lighting issues
    
  • Fixed some lighting artifacts on crates at low settings
    
  • Disabled motion on vending machine
    
  • Overall clipping / movement polish
    
• Vertigo
  
  • Fixed ladder collision blocking bullets and grenades
    
  • Fixed steel beams having incorrect surface property
    
  • Overall clipping / movement polish
    
• Mirage
  
  • Fixed various bullet penetration issues
    
  • Overall clipping / movement polish
    
• Ancient
  
  • Made fog adjustments to improve player readability
    
  • Fixed micro-cracks in crate models
    
  • Fixed multiple holes and cracks in the world
    
  • Made visibility adjustments to donut area
    
  • Fixed bullet penetration issues through wood panels near bombsite B
    
  • Fixed material properties on some tarp models
    
  • Overall clipping / movement polish
    

• Fixed some cases where weapons could fall out of the world
  
• Fixed a bug where Molotov self damage could be incorrectly penalized as team damage
  
• Improved performance for muzzle flashes and HE grenade effects
  
• Various bug fixes and tweaks to weapon finishes and stickers
  
• Added code to correct packets that arrive out of order in quick succession. These packets were showing up as loss in the net graph.
  
• Fixed a bug where SDR routing could sometimes choose the second-best route when immediately connecting, and then stick to that route for too long.
  

• Added more client information to the screen timestamp label to help investigate reported issues.
  
• Fixed rendering issue related to GPU UltraWide+ feature.
  
• Stability improvements.