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Release Notes for 6/11/2024

[ ANIMATION ]
  • Fixed a case where weapon animations would play incorrectly when inspecting while reloading.


[ AUDIO ]
  • In game voice chat - Eliminated most hitching caused by in-game voice chat. Some users may still experience a hitch the first time they push-to-talk.
  • Streamlined Push to Talk - When enabled, this setting will avoid the hitch incurred the first time a player uses push to talk.


[ NETWORK ]
  • Improve connection quality in the presence of jitter or loss, by automatically adjusting user command pacing so that commands arrive at the server earlier.


[ HUD ]
  • Improved legibility of teammate health at lower resolutions

Release Notes for 6/10/2024

[ GAMEPLAY ]

  • Fixed one-way visibility for players inside HE grenade explosions


[ HUD ]

  • When equipment info is shown for players at the top of the HUD (e.g. when spectating), their health bars expand to show numeric health values
  • Reduced some hitches caused by HUD elements appearing


[ GRAPHICS ]

  • Added a separate "Dynamic Shadows" Advanced Video setting with the options: "Sun Only" or "All"


[ ANIMATION ]

  • Added left hand to Bowie Knife view model

Release Notes for 6/4/2024

[ MISC ]
  • Fixed a case where scores weren't incrementing correctly in Deathmatch and Arms Race
  • Fixed a case where players were able to clip their first-person camera through ceilings
  • Fixed a case where the C4 could get stuck outside the playable area
  • Various stability improvements

Release Notes for 5/29/2024

[ INPUT ]
  • Fixed a bug where the console toggle key would stop working after a Premier pick/ban phase
  • The game now continues accepting keyboard input while a scoreboard player card is open
  • Joystick input is now ignored by default. Joystick input is not an officially supported feature of CS2, but you can restore the old behavior with the -joy launch option


[ UI ]
  • Fixed player and bot names on the Team Select screen during bot takeover


[ WEAPON FINISHES ]
  • Fixed a bug where certain graphics configurations resulted in black weapon finishes


[ MISC ]
  • Fixed an issue where the game client would never reconnect to Counter-Strike Network if launched while there was no connection to Steam Network
  • Steam accounts that have an active account lock are no longer allowed to play on secure Counter-Strike game servers
  • Fixed a bug where viewmodels would bob excessively on Linux

Release Notes for 5/24/2024

[ WEAPON FINISHES ]
  • Fixed the appearance of Doppler, Gamma Doppler, and Marble Fade finishes


[ DEMOS ]
  • Minor UI changes


[ MAPS ]

Vertigo:
  • Clipped the wings of runboosters to B site in Wingman
  • Blocked grenades through crane base at A site