Counter-Strike 2 News

Release Notes for 10/15/2024

[ GRAPHICS ]

Fixed mixed resolution rendering from erroneously resetting during map changes.
Fixed a known crash when compiling lighting in Counter-Strike 2 Workshop Tools.
Fixed detail normal UV scaling.
Fixed several biplanar mapping bugs, added support for nonuniform scale in biplanar mapping mode.
Added an option to apply albedo color correction to transmissive foliage textures, and adjusted the foliage shader for more accurate color correction.
Added a startup warning when the game is launched under low available system memory conditions or with a limited pagefile size. These conditions may cause the game to be unstable or crash.
Various stability improvements.

[ UI ]

Fixed UI checkboxes behaving inconsistently when depositing or extracting a large number of items into and from Storage Units.
Fixed a regression with loading animated Steam avatars, the cows are mooooving again.

[ MISC ]

[ MAPS ]

[ GRAPHICS ]

Fixed certain particle effects, like tracers, to fall back to mixed resolution for better performance when using low graphics settings with MSAA disabled.
Improved lighting artifacts in various interior places when compiling maps.

[ MISC ]

Teammate colors will now be assigned on official servers as soon as all players press ACCEPT. This will ensure that colors are correct during Pick/Ban phase, and during Warmup.
Improvements in Charms reactivity physics system to better align with weapon animations.

[ MISC ]

Adjusted the score calculation in Casual, Competitive, and Wingman to exclude knife and utility damage
Fixed 3rd person weapon angles to fully incorporate recoil
Fixed missing cascade shadows on some community maps
Fixed the Armory weapon preview having extra models
Network jitter graphs now have a number in the upper right hand corner that gives the scale of the graph
Fixed some cases where shell casings could render as an error model
Various stability fixes

[ MISC ]