Counter-Strike 2 News

[ GAMEPLAY ]

• Sub-tick timing improvements to various systems including grenade throw animations and revolver firing
  
• Added a missing fire effect to molotovs that are held by players
  

[ ANIMATION ]

• Reduced the amount that player characters will rotate their torso away from leg orientation
  
• Improved hit reactions
  
• Made jump animations directional
  
• Improved character posing when aiming up and down
  
• Improved foot placement and posing when running
  
• Reduced animation posing when deploying
  
• The timing of a players flashbanged posing now more accurately represents the player's ability to see
  

[ SOUND ]

• Fixed issue with Shadow Daggers playing catch sound during looping inspect animation
  
• Further refined falloff distance curves and volume of grenade bounces
  
• Lowered volume of deathmatch bonus period ending
  
• Lowered volume of lobby chat notification sound
  
• Fixed missing water drip console errors in Office
  
• Increased audible distance of breaking glass window sounds
  
• Fixed an issue where sometimes a Sabre agent would say hostage related lines when cheering
  

[ MISC ]

• Adjusted wear values of most tournament stickers and many other stickers to better match CS:GO
  
• Changed handling of non-default console key bindings to match CS:GO behavior
  

[ MAPS ]

Nuke:

• Fixed cubemap issue at Lobby
  
• Fixed hole at B-site
  
• Fixed some holes at Ramp Room
  
• Fixed glass floor material at B-Site not having impact effects
  
• Fixed up footstep sounds on hazard stripes
  
• Attempt to fix light leaking through base of doors at B-site
  
• Brightened red interior walls to help with agent vis
  
• Fixed pixel boost on chainlink fence outside
  
• Fix shadows leaking through double doors at B-site
  
• Made cubemap transitions smoother in some places at b-site
  

Mirage:

• Fixed clipping on van at Truck
  
• Clipped fridge in Apartments to prevent player becoming stuck
  
• Adjusted bombsite A size and added visual boundaries
  
• Fixed collision on Scaffolding to provide smooth movement
  
• Fixed geometry and clipping outside Sniper's Nest to prevent pixel walking
  

Office:

• Improved clipping around desks at t-spawn
  
• Improved clipping on crates at Back Courtyard
  
• Re-added collision to handrails
  

Vertigo:

• Extended staircase and added grenade clip to stairs at near t-spawn to prevent grenades becoming wedged in gap
  
• Fixed clipping on crate at mid
  
• Fixed clipping on scaffold at back of A
  
• Fixed clipping on scaffold at T-start
  
• Fixed vis bug at A-ramp looking toward Bridge
  
• Fixed grenade clip on support beam at A-ramp
  
• Plugged Holes in insulation foam roll model
  

Anubis:

• Fixed hole under pillar at A-site
  
• Fixed clipping above walkway stairs in Palace
  
• Closed up multiple microgaps throughout the map
  
• Fixed some clipping on pillar at A-site
  
• Fixed clipping on doorway at b-site
  
• Plugged some micro holes
  
• Fixed gap between two clip brushes that allowed bomb to be thrown on top of building
  
• Fixed slight wall gap that allowed sniping into bombsite A
  
• Fixed clipping on doorway at b-site
  

Ancient:

• Fixed various gaps in the world
  
• Fixed various texture seams
  
• Closed gap that looks into Jaguar area
  
• Adjusted clipping along fence near A-site
  
• Adjusted clipping around tree base on A-site boost
  
• Adjusted position of stone near B-site that player could crouch in
  
• Added clipping to the top of the map to help minimize player exploits
  

[ MISC ]

• Fixed silencer attach and detach animations
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented refunding the Bizon
  
• Fixed a bug where players could respawn into a bad state during reconnect
  
• Fixed a bug where ramps were not correctly reducing fall damage
  
• Fixed a case where sub-tick movement timestamps were temporarily incorrect after changing host_timescale
  
• Various fixes and improvements to de_ancient
  

[ GAMEPLAY ]

• More sub-tick visual and audio feedback improvements
  
• Reduced sniper scope bob animation magnitude and frequency
  
• Fixed a bug causing duck to be slower when the Duck Mode was set to Toggle
  
• Fixed a case where grenade throws weren't registering on the server
  
• Thrown grenades no longer prematurely detonate if thrown while intersecting a teammate
  
• Players can no longer mitigate fall damage by defusing the bomb
  
• Adjusted weapon drop trajectories to make throwing weapons more consistent, especially when throwing weapons downward
  
• When a network interruption is detected by official game servers, the affected match will be cancelled
  
• Added unique sounds for running and jumping on metal railings and poles
  

[ ANIMATION ]

• Fixed a bug that occurred when interrupting the CZ75a deploy with inspect
  
• Fixed the inspect and other animations for the Shadow Daggers
  
• Fixed a 'broken wrist' animation with the Survival Knife
  
• Adjusted the Mac10 first person animation to include strap and bolt movement
  
• Fixed AWP and SSG firing animation/inspect behavior while zoomed in
  
• Fixed a case where the Deagle slide would fail to reset on round restart
  
• The Revolver barrel now incrementally rotates for each shot
  
• Fixed some animation issues with weapons placed in community maps
  
• Fixed cases where the C4 light would not blink when held or holstered by players
  
• Fixed some cases where the player's shadow would show an incorrect pose
  

[ MISC ]

• Fixed a bug where bot_knives_only didn't work for T's
  
• Fixed some visual issues with demo playback
  
• Improved performance of screen particle effects
  
• Fixed the Mute Enemy Team and Mute All But Friends settings failing to mute voice
  
• Text from blocked players will no longer be visible in the premier pregame chat
  
• Players frozen by half-time gamerules are now immune to certain damage types
  
• Decals now evict the lowermost decal if enough decals overlap in a single location
  
• Player visibility fog adjustment no longer applies to dead ragdolls
  
• Smoke particles no longer stick to dead ragdolls
  
• Fixed self/team burn damage getting recorded as enemy damage
  

[ UI ]

• Revised some common chat strings
  
• Added convar cl_deathnotices_show_numbers for observers to have quick access to player's spectate index
  
• Added a warning message for AMD and Nvidia graphics users with out-of-date drivers
  
• "Kevlar & Helmet" entry in the Buy Menu will now present itself as simply "Helmet" when contextually correct
  
• Added time to weekly rollover to the reduced XP message in the player profile tooltip
  
• Fixed kill feed and death panel not displaying correct information if the killer died earlier or disconnected
  
• Fixed round-delayed stats not updating at match end
  
• Changed deathmatch scoreboard stats from K/D/A/Score to K/HS%/DMG/Score
  
• Fixed case where text during defuse would get cut off
  
• Added direction indicators to players in the square radar
  
• Fixed case where kill icon would not display in the post-round damage info panel
  
• Fixed bad string in the commend dialog panel
  
• Fixed case where round stats in the Watch Menu would be assigned to the wrong side
  

[ WORKSHOP ]

• Fixed custom sound events files in workshop maps
  
• Added some material settings for water refraction/caustics
  
• Workshop maps can now be tagged as supporting Wingman mode
  
• Linux clients can now run workshop maps without requiring -insecure
  
• Added trigger_hostage_reset trigger and logic_eventlistener entities
  
• Added convars sv_walkable_normal and sv_standable_normal to allow community servers to tweak player movement on angled surfaces
  
• Fixed health getting clipped when it exceeds 3 digits
  

[ MAPS ]

Overpass:

• Fixed various cases where level mesh was disappearing occasionally
  
• Various visual updates and fixes to models and materials
  
• Straightened out some collision that was pushing players off of walls or corners
  
• Turned off the collision of some light fixtures that were pushing players off of walls
  
• Added a metal plate to swat van to hide player feet, adjusted clipping around van
  
• Fixed some small holes in the world
  
• Fixed some texture mapping seams
  
• Added player clipping on some floor grates to smooth player movement
  
• Fixed some issues with the collision and surface property of fire extinguishers
  
• Added and adjusted some grenade clipping
  
• Adjusted some clipping on boxes and cable stacks in connector
  

Ancient:

• More player and grenade clips adjustments
  
• Closed various holes and cracks in the world
  

Mirage:

• Fixed clipping around scaffolding at bombsite b to prevent one-way peeking through geo
  

Office:

• Fixed player getting stuck on large crate in garage
  
• General grenade clip polish
  
• Vending machine break sequence now only happens once to avoid strobing lights
  
• Removed collision from pipes and cctv cameras at ct spawn garage
  
• Added grenade clips to doors at stairwell
  
• Fixed hole in door frame at t-spawn
  
• Fixed texture errors on ceiling at conference room
  
• Fixed some lighting errors on low settings
  
• Fixed weapons getting stuck behind crates at back way
  
• Fixed lighting artifacts in front courtyard
  
• Fixed bad boost onto electrical boxes in garage
  

Anubis:

• Fixed z-fighting on stairs in connector
  
• Improved ground at bombsite A so that it has more accurate footstep sounds
  
• Fixed gap in world around b-site planting area
  
• Fixed z-fighting a backdrop temple near t-spawn
  
• Fixed missing collision at connector that would allow grenades to fall through world
  
• Fixed hole in world at street that allowed players to see through to canal
  
• Fixed vis issue on street looking back to t-spawn
  
• Fixed UV stretching in connector
  
• Sealed up holes in building rooftops for entire level to prevent grenades getting stuck in void
  
• Fixed holes in lower tunnel
  
• Fixed hole in canal
  

Inferno:

• Moved bucket on scaffolding on bombsite B that could be mistaken for player during combat
  
• Closed hole to prevent grenades from falling through the map on bombsite A
  
• More player clip adjustments
  
• Fixed various micro gaps
  

Nuke:

• Minor clipping fixes on rooftops and hut
  
• Better caustics in pool at B site
  
• Fixed vis issue in garage looking towards hell
  

Vertigo:

• Fixed some light fixtures showing backfaces
  
• Fixed some light fixtures being misaligned
  
• Fixed missing vent pieces in Tunnels
  
• Attempt to fix players clipping through wood boards by stairwell at bombsite b
  
• Fixed bad clip above door at elevator
  
• Fixed flashbang inconsistency with metal gratings at scaffolding
  
• Fixed missing collision on horizontal tower beams at b-site
  
• Added grenade clips around bombsite b to prevent smokes getting caught in bad spaces
  
• Cleaned up geo and did a grenade clip pass around scaffold to make grenades work better
  
• Added grenade clip to b platform
  
• Fixed disconnected girders at mid
  
• Moved stack of drywall at back door>b for better movement/cover
  
• Improved clipping at side
  
• Jobsite injury signs are more responsive
  

[ GAMEPLAY ]

• Fixed a bug where collision between players was sometimes causing players to step up
  
• Fixed a bug where players could slide up walls in Mirage mid
  
• Fixed a movement systems bug where players could get stuck on geometry
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented "Zoom Button Hold: Repeat Disabled" from working correctly
  
• Fixed a case where switching weapons immediately after shooting would result in the shot not registering on the server
  
• Fixed a case where players could shoot during freeze time at the ends of warmup, halves, and matches