Counter-Strike 2 News

[ Premier Season Three ]

• Premier Season Three is now open for business
  
• Added Overpass to the Active Duty Map Pool
  
• Removed Anubis from the Active Duty Map Pool
  

[ GAMEPLAY ]

• Incendiary Grenade - incendiary grenade fire spreads more rapidly
  
• MP9 - increased recoil magnitude and substantially reduced jumping accuracy
  
• In Competitive modes, Counter-Terrorists now receive a $50 team award for each Terrorist eliminated in a round
  

Premier Season Three begins today!

It's time to start working toward your Season Three Medal. As before, the color of your medal will correspond to the highest CS Rating achieved during the season, and the bars will reflect your total wins, with one bar for every 25 (up to five bars). To be eligible for a medal, you'll need an account in good standing, 25 Premier match wins, and an active CSR at the end of the season.

[h3]New for Season 3 [/h3]
With the new season comes an update to the Active Duty Map Pool: Overpass is back in, and Anubis is out.

There are a few gameplay changes with Season Three. Fire from the incendiary grenade now spreads faster, occupying space rapidly to counter rushing Ts. The MP9 has gotten a bit of a nerf, with a harder to control spray and substantially less jumping accuracy. There's also a change to the CT economy: win or lose, CTs now receive a shared team award for each T eliminated in the round, so the more you win and the closer you keep your losses, the more you'll have to spend.

[h3]Trade Protected Items[/h3]
Today we are introducing a new feature to help keep your Counter-Strike items secure. In the unlikely event that you lose control of your account or were the target of a scam by a bad actor, you may reverse all Counter-Strike item trades from the last 7 days. 

Obviously we hope you'll never need it, but you can review your recent trades and find the trade reversal feature on the Trade History page on your Steam Account. For more information about what happens when trades are reversed, visit the FAQ

[ MISC ]

• Added a description note to Souvenir Highlight Packages explaining that they will become tradable and marketable after 7 days.
  
• Various stability improvements.
  

[ AUSTIN 2025 MAJOR ]

• Champions Autographs Capsule is now available for purchase, congratulations to Team Vitality!
  
• Highlight Souvenir Packages can now be acquired for the Playoff matches.
  

[ MISC ]

• Added in-game lobby voice chat and voice chat during Premier Pick/Ban phase.
  
• Fixed bad command flows in point_servercommand entities.
  
• Fixed community maps not reloading correctly with "restart" command.
  
• Buy binds are now disabled during halftime freeze phase.
  
• Fixed scoreboard column text formatting in Japanese.
  

Over four days, the Moody Center in Austin, Texas hosted Team Vitality's coronation as the best Counter-Strike team on the planet.

Facing The MongolZ in the Grand Finals, Team Vitality lost the opening map 13:5, then stormed back on the next two, winning 13:4 on Dust II and 13:6 on Inferno to win the BLAST.tv Austin Major and the organization's second Major Championship.


To celebrate, today we are releasing the Major Champions Capsule, featuring Paper, Foil, Holo, and Gold stickers autographed by one of the Champions from Team Vitality.

And for the first time, we are introducing Souvenir Charms. Each Playoff Stage Souvenir comes with a Souvenir Charm that contains a highlight from the match.

Finally, Season Two of Premier ends on July 14th. To receive your Premier Season Two Medal, you must have 25 Season Two Premier wins and a visible CSR when the Season concludes.

See you soon for Premier Season Three!