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Counter-Strike 2 Update

Announced

Developer-announced information. It may change before release.

[ PREMIER ]

  • Premier Season Five has begun
  • Added Cache to the Active Duty Map Pool
  • Removed Overpass from the Active Duty Map Pool

[ GAMEPLAY ]

  • Re-designed effective range and extent of C4 explosion damage on all official defusal-mode maps.
  • Fixed case where picking up dropped weapons through the Buy Menu would fail to complete.

[ ARMORY ]

  • Added two new weapon collections based on the recent Call to Arms community announcement: Spy Tech + Arabesque
  • Added two new sticker collections based on the recent Call to Arms community announcement: Fruits & Vegetables + Auto Racing
  • Train 2025 and Sport & Field weapon collections are no longer available in the Armory
  • Sugarface 2 and Elemental Craft sticker collections are no longer available in the Armory

[ WORKSHOP ]

  • Updated "Custom Paint Job Extended"

[ MISC ]

  • Reduced the performance cost of showing the scoreboard.
  • Fixed a case where material blending effects would disappear when you got too close (e.g. the dirt on the barrels in Inferno Banana).
  • Increased sticker rotation precision to allow half-degree increments on application screen.

[ MAP SCRIPTING ]

  • Added Instance.QueueAfterThinks
  • Added Instance.OnWeaponDrop
  • Added CSWeaponBase.GetOriginalOwner
  • Fixed a crash when the name passed to Instance.RegisterCheatCommand collided with an existing command.
  • Added file name and line number to errors caught during the CompileModule step of script loading.
  • Removed support for deprecated vts assets.

[ ENGINE ]

  • Updated engine code to the latest version of Source 2

[ MAPS ]

  • Removed community maps: Warden, Stronghold, Alpine, and Sanctum from all game modes
  • Added community maps Boulder, Fachwerk, and Shelter to Competitive, Casual, and Deathmatch modes
  • Added community maps Debris and El Dorado to Wingman mode

Cache

  • Various clipping adjustments

Dust II

  • Fixed pixel gap Outside Tunnel
  • Clipping adjustment Outside Tunnel

Inferno

  • Clipping fix to prevent pixel boost at Top of Mid
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