Release Notes for 9/27/2023

COUNTER-STRIKE 2

• Counter-Strike 2 is now available and free to play

• Season One of Premier has begun

GAMEPLAY

• Enabled Competitive matchmaking

• Enabled Wingman matchmaking

• Enabled Private Matchmaking

• Added Training Day, a brief introductory experience for brand new players

• Improved player-against-player movement collision

• Improved consistency of bullet penetration

• Player reflections in water are now occluded by smoke

• Molotov fire now floats above the water

• Fixed character ambient occlusion being visible through walls

• C4 bomb lights don't reflect through walls

• Fixed some rare cases of viewmodel lighting corruption

• Adjusted smoke behavior to cover cases where smoke would stop less than a player's height above the ground

• Fix various bugs with switching teams in the middle of offline Deathmatch

• Fixed Famas reloading too early

• Chickens can finally fall off Vertigo

SOUND

• Added the new CS2 default music kit

• Added new audio customization settings

• Various mix tweaks and adjustments

• Various bug fixes related to music kits

• Updated the game startup sound

• Added background ambience to main menu scenes

• Restored the clutch_mode_toggle function

• Fixed a bug where sometimes c4 defuse and planting sounds could not be heard in certain locations

• Fixed some surfaces being incorrectly tagged causing incorrect footstep sounds in certain locations

• Fixed a bug where attackers could not hear headshot feedback through wallbangs or smokes

• Body damage feedback for attackers will now play within the same distance as it does for onlookers through smokes and wallbangs

• Fixed a bug where scoping in affected directional sound

• First person damage sounds are now more impactful

• Removed several legacy audio convars that existed in CS:GO but never had an effect in CS2

ANIMATION

• Adjusted character additive lean animation

• Adjusted jump animation, particularly when repeatedly jumping

• Adjusted jiggle-peeking animation

• Adjusted animated character head position relative to camera position

• Added bullet belt to negev

• Reduced foot sliding when carrying slower weapons

• Fixed character momentarily standing during crouch-planting animation

• Fixed incorrect viewmodel deploy speeds

• Fixed pops in some weapon inspect animations

• Inspecting weapons may now interrupt deploy animation

MATCHMAKING

• When one or more party members get convicted of cheating and permanently banned, all their associates will be penalized with loss of Profile Rank and CS Rating

• In Premier, players with a very high established CS Rating are not allowed to party with accounts that do not have an established CS Rating

MAPS

• Various bug fixes and tweaks for all shipped maps

• Adjusted vertical audio occlusion boundaries in Nuke and Vertigo

• Added an extra bell in Inferno

• Casual and Deathmatch maps are now separated into multiple map groups

MISC

• CS:GO Players who started playing more than a week ago will receive a commemorative CS:GO coin and CS:GO Music Kit

• Added Store tab to main menu

• Enabled all interactions with inventory items

• Replaced weekly drops with a weekly Care Package. Choose from weapon cases, weapon finishes, and graffiti

• Added demo playback support

• Added the ability to favorite and shuffle loadout items

• Added new item icons

• Office and Vertigo are available as main menu scenery

• Various updates for weapon finishes, including fixing overly strong wear on several Custom Paint Job finishes

• Reworked Phoenix Street Soldier balaclava texture to resolve visibility issues

• Enabled animated eyes on agent character models

WORKSHOP TOOLS

• Game clients running in workshop tools mode are not allowed to connect to VAC secure