Counter-Strike 2 News

Valve looks to be teasing the imminent release of Counter-Strike 2, if we're reading this cheeky Tweet correctly. The game has been in limited, closed beta testing since March, when it was initially announced.

Valve always said that Counter-Strike 2 would be available for everyone sometime in the summer, so there's only really one way to interpret this Tweet from the official Counter-Strike account.

"What are you doing next Wednesday?" it asks, referring to September 27. That would technically put it outside of the summer season, since that ends September 23. But we don't need to be literal here.

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[ MAPS ]
Office

• Adjusted the weight of the vending machine
  
• Various fixes
  

Ancient

• Various clipping adjustments
  

[ SOUND ]

• Tuned the vertical audio occlusion of grenade sounds in Nuke and Vertigo
  
• Adjusted ambient sounds in Office
  
• Adjusted silenced weapon falloff
  

[MISC]

• Fixed a case where an AK47 headshot would not deal lethal damage
  
• Adjusted nametag location for Shadow Daggers
  

[ MAPS ]

• Anubis
  
  • Various clipping adjustments
    

[ GAMEPLAY ]

• Rebalanced lag compensation to favor lower-latency players
  
• Fixed a bug where dropped grenades were invisible
  
• Fixed a bug where dropped bombs and weapons would appear in the wrong location
  

[ MISC ]

• Various bug fixes and tweaks to weapon finishes
  

[ MAPS ]

• Various bug fixes and tweaks for all shipped maps
  

[ GAMEPLAY ]

• Various fixes for molotov/incendiary grenades
  
• Various fixes for smoke grenades
  
• Fixed damage indicators for fire damage
  
• Adjusted first-person sniper contrails to reflect shot accuracy
  
• Various adjustments to lag compensation
  
• Replaced player elevation indicators on the radar with look directions
  

[ PREMIER MATCHMAKING ]

• Various bug fixes and tweaks to UI elements
  

[ SOUND ]

• Audio mix changes and tweaks
  
• Lowered occlusion and distance effects for gunfire, footsteps and reloads
  
• Slight increase to stereo spread
  
• Fixed a bug where incorrect footstep and jump land sounds would play on elevated edges
  
• Fixed a bug where music would stop playing at the end of deathmatch
  

[ MISC ]

• Changed armor number in buy menu from amount you currently have to amount you can buy
  
• Various fixes for weapon finishes, gloves, and stickers
  
• Water rendering performance improvements
  
• Added nametag positions for all knife models
  
• Allow adjusting individual player voice volumes
  
• Various HUD bug fixes and tweaks
  
• Added option to disallow animated avatars
  
• Removed several legacy networking convars that existed in CS:GO but never had an effect in CS2
  

[ MAPS ]
Mirage

• Fixed a pixel boost on pillars in B bomb site
  

Nuke

• Fixed C4 falling out of the world in B bomb site
  
• Updated props

Italy

• Fixes to prevent players boosting out of playable space
  

[ MISC ]

• Added a C4 loadout slot for users who have C4 items with a name tag applied
  
• Audio mix tweaks and adjustments
  
• Fixed a case where roasted chickens fell through the floor
  
• hud_scaling is no longer imported from CS:GO. Note that players' hud_scaling will be reset to the default (1.0)