Counter-Strike 2 News

[ SOUND ]

• Fixed a case where grenade sounds were missing when exploding in-air
  
• Added separate sounds for grenades landing in vs out of the playable area
  

[ GAMEPLAY ]

• Fixed a case where both terrorists in a Wingman match would appear to have the bomb
  

[ MISC ]

• Various bug fixes for the Vulkan renderer
  
• Updated Phoenix Soldier icon to reflect recent balaclava color change
  
• Fixed a rendering issue in the nametag inspect panel
  
• Disallowed binding toggleconsole to mouse1 since it was preventing normal menu interactions
  
• Various bug fixes and tweaks to weapon finishes and stickers
  
• Fixed a case where surrender votes would incorrectly fail
  

[ ANIMATION ]

• Fixed a case where foot pinning wasn't active
  

[ MAPS ]

• Various bug fixes and tweaks to Ancient
  

[ PERFECT WORLD ]

• Players who launch the game in China and have previously accepted the Steam China Subscriber Agreement will now get a prompt at launch which allows selecting "-perfectworld" or "-worldwide" mode
  
• Launch prompt can be activated with "-promptperfectworld" command line flag or completely bypassed if "-perfectworld" or "-worldwide" command line flag is used
  

[ COMMUNITY DEDICATED SERVERS ]

• To launch a community dedicated server, you can use this reference command line:
  
  • cs2 -dedicated +map de_dust2
    
• To enable logging, add to your server commandline:
  
  • +sv_logfile 1 -serverlogging
    
• Or add to a config file:
  
  • sv_logfile 1
    
  • log on
    
• To enable HTTP logaddress forwarding, ensure logging is enabled as above and use:
  
  • logaddress_add_http ":"
    
• Dispatched logs can be handled the same way as CS:GO
  

Counter Strike 2 has launched and proven tremendously popular, hitting almost 1.2 million concurrent players following the much-teased release. However, while a staggering number of people are jumping in and trying it out, a portion are mourning the loss of various features, maps, and game modes.

"Now I’ve thought about it and this CS2 release was pretty bad," writes popular Counter Strike influencer and content creator Anomaly, before listing out a variety of missing features from the game including War Games, various maps, brand new content and more. The game itself looks gorgeous, and is packed with several quality of life changes, but this has seemingly failed to fill the space absent content has left behind.

A similar sentiment can be found on Reddit, where users including Cosmictrigger01, have shared a parallel list of missing features. Comments are chock full of a back-and-forth between those unhappy with the launch and others who don't see it in such disasterous terms.

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[ SOUND ]

• Fixed missing win/loss/MVP music in Casual
  

[ GRAPHICS ]

• Put range clamps on r_fullscreen_gamma, r_texture_stream_max_resolution, and r_character_decal_resolution
  
• Fixed smokes not rendering correctly on AMD GPUs on Linux
  

[ ANIMATION ]

• Adjusted grenade throw animations to reduce view obstruction
  
• Fixed a case where players would float a few inches off the ground after spawning
  

[ MAPS ]

• Various bug fixes and tweaks to Mirage and Overpass
  

[ COSMETICS ]

• Various bug fixes and tweaks to weapon finishes and stickers
  
• Updated Phoenix Soldier balaclava from green to original red color
  
• Fixed missing pouches on certain SWAT agents
  

[ MISC ]

• Fixed a bug where loadout shuffle would never happen
  
• Increased clickable area of sellback buttons in buy menu
  
• Fixed a case where the death panel would stay on-screen after respawning quickly
  
• Disabled CSTV and demo recording temporarily to increase server availability so more people can play
  

At the time of writing, Counter-Strike 2 has 7.5 million reviews on Steam, 88% of which are positive. That's pretty good going for a game that released less than 24 hours ago.

Except, of course, that the vast majority of those reviews are for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, a game that is no longer playable. If you filter the reviews to just yesterday and today, you'll find that there have been 3450 of them, just 59% of which are positive, which would give Counter-Strike 2 a rating of "Mixed".

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Valve has launched Counter-Strike 2 as part of which it has mothballed Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, the latter being arguably the most popular competitive game in the world and definitely the most popular on Steam. From CS2's first announcement Valve has been clear that this was the next step for the series, going so far as to name CS2 "the CS:GO killer" in its Twitter bio, though that playful phrase has since been replaced...
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