Counter-Strike 2 News

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.
  

• Added a startup check for incompatible AMD graphics drivers. We will now begin reversing VAC bans for affected players
  
• Fixed a bug in Windows 11 Auto HDR that led to smokes intermittently disappearing
  
• Miscellaneous bug fixes
  

• Command aliases now leverage subtick accuracy
  

• New sound for final 10 seconds of bomb beeping
  
• Added missing KSK agent voice
  
• Reduced falloff distance of knife impact and swish sounds
  
• Various tweaks and bug fixes around occlusion filters and footstep clarity
  

• Fixed missing gamestate integration data regarding flashbangs and damage stats
  
• Fixed a bug where a defused bomb would block the player from swapping to a gun dropped close by
  
• Fixed some cases where players could peek through ceilings
  
• Convar cl_draw_only_deathnotices now blocks match status alerts such as LAST ROUND OF FIRST HALF.
  
• Added a game server command sv_load_forced_client_names_file. Running tournament servers with +sv_load_forced_client_names_file namesfile.txt allows loading a key-values file where client names are enforced to be the tournament registered player names.
  
• Added an additional fallback path for game clients to download network configuration.
  
• Added a game setting cq_netgraph_problem_show_auto that allows players to enable automatic display of network connection issues in top right corner of game HUD.