Counter-Strike 2 News

[ PREMIER ]

• Premier Season One is now over, and Premier matchmaking has been temporarily disabled.

Next week we will say "goodbye" to Premier Season One, and "hello" to Season Two. To celebrate, every player who earned a CS Rating during Season One will receive a commemorative Premier Season One Medal. Your medal includes detailed Season Statistics that you can view by clicking on the medal in your inventory. Review your Season One highs and lows with graphs of your CSR and playtime, or view your map-specific stats to find areas of improvement for Season Two.

As we transition to Season Two, there'll be one day of Premier downtime during which your CS Rating will be recalibrated for the new season based on your Season One performance. At the start of the new Season you will need to re-establish your CS Rating by winning 10 matches.

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Season Two comes with some changes. Train is in and Vertigo is out, the M4A4 is a bit less expensive, and the FAMAS has some improvements to its standing and crouching accuracy (along with a price cut).

And when Season Two comes to a close after the Austin Major, players who meet the requirements will be awarded a Premier Season Two Medal. The color will correspond to your 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 earn your Premier Season Two Medal, you'll need an account in good standing, 25 Premier match wins, and an active CSR at the end of the season.

So clear out your calendar, because Season Two is about to begin!

[ MISC ]

• Minor performance optimization for some CPU-bound cases.
  
• Follow recoil setting during spectating will now obey spectator target's crosshair setting if target's crosshair is shown.
  
• Added support for updating existing map annotations on Steam Workshop. For example use "workshop_annotation_submit 123456" to update your submission ID=123456 found in the workshop URL. Passing an ID that does not belong to you will create a brand new submission. After the first update the ID will get embedded in the annotation file and you can submit more changes without having to provide the ID again.

[ MISC ]

• Updating Steam libraries for Linux game servers to the latest version of Steam Client Beta
  
• Improved Linux game servers ability to reconnect to Steam after a disconnection
  
• Stability improvements

[ SHANGHAI MAJOR ]

• Shanghai 2024 Major sticker capsules are now on sale for 75% off

[ ARMORY ]

• Desert Eagle | Heat Treated is no longer available to claim from The Armory

[ MISC ]

• Fixed finger placement during Huntsman knife in-game inspect animation
  
• Fixed a bug where grenade icons weren't disappearing on the spectator map
  
• Fixed a case when spectator icon could show up at the wrong time on the radar
  
• Fixed a bug related to changing inspect scenery while inspecting knives