Counter-Strike 2 News

[ 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)
  

[ MAPS ]

• Ancient
  
  • Various bug fixes and tweaks
    

[ GAMEPLAY ]

• Various bug fixes to molotov/incendiary explosions
  
• Fixed ladders blocking bullet penetration
  

[ MISC ]

• Fixed missing USP-S description in the buy menu
  
• Adjusted low health indication
  
• Various animation bug fixes and tweaks
  
• Various performance improvements
  

[ MAPS ]

• Overpass
  
  • Various bug fixes and tweaks
    

[ GAMEPLAY ]

• Added current armor value to the buy menu
  
• Fixed issues with ducking across round transitions
  
• Fixed a case where smoke grenades wouldn't pop
  
• Fixed a case where molotov/incendiary fire area was small in corners
  
• Fixed a case where molotov/incendiary grenades would explode at the throwers feet
  
• Fixed a case where the dropped bomb icon would appear on the radar incorrectly
  
• Continued iterating on dropped weapon pickup
  

[ PREMIER MATCHMAKING ]

• Shortened "Waiting For Players" from 5 minutes to 2 minutes
  
• Fixed voting to surrender and voting for tactical timeouts
  
• Teams can use 3 tactical timeouts during regulation time and 1 during overtime
  
• Various bug fixes and tweaks to UI elements
  

[ SOUND ]

• Fixed a case where hit feedback sounds wouldn't play for spectators
  

[ MISC ]

• Allow changing equipped graffiti mid-match
  
• Improved free roaming and chase camera behavior in CSTV
  
• Fixed a case where the money display was cropped in certain languages
  
• Fixed a case where "Block names and avatars of strangers" would replace names with the wrong color words
  
• Fixed a case where the award message for planting the bomb wouldn't show
  
• Fixed issues with alt-tab window switching in fullscreen mode
  
• Added cvars mp_team_timeout_ot_add_once, mp_team_timeout_ot_add_each, mp_team_timeout_ot_max to control timeouts in overtime
  

[ MAPS ]

• Ancient
  
  • Fixed CT spawn area shape in minimap
    
• Overpass
  
  • Adjusted spawn locations to reduce the likelihood of players spawning stuck together
    
• Inferno
  
  • Various bug fixes and tweaks
    

[ GAMEPLAY ]

• Re-enabled Casual matchmaking
  
• Fixed a bug where dropped weapons were behaving like held weapons
  
• Adjusted interpolation parameters
  
• Fixed missing bullet tracers on hits
  
• Made it easier to pick up dropped weapons
  

[ SOUND ]

• Fixed a case where music wouldn't play at the end of deathmatch
  

[ MISC ]

• Various bug fixes and tweaks to Premier UI elements
  
• Adjusted freeze time post-processing effects
  
• Fixed missing player models for the first few seconds after team introductions
  
• Windows community servers can now appear in Steam Server Browser