Counter-Strike 2 Update

SHANGHAI MAJOR

• Shanghai 2024 Major Champions Capsule is now available for purchase. The capsule features autographs for each member of the winning team in paper, glitter, holo, and gold. 50% of the proceeds go to the players and organizations.

GAMEPLAY

• Adjusted the threshold at which death notice displays attacker as "flashed".

• Explosions will now more reliably throw weapons around even if multiple weapons are dropped on top of each other.

• During warmup, weapons will no longer drop on the ground when changing teams.

• During warmup, changing teams now has a two second cooldown.

• Added server settings controlling which items drop on the ground during warmup period: mp_warmup_items_drop_policy, mp_warmup_items_nocost, mp_warmup_items_nocount_policy. Community servers that run with free non-droppable weapons during warmup can set these settings as follows: mp_warmup_items_drop_policy 0, mp_warmup_items_nocost 1, mp_warmup_items_nocount_policy 251.

• Give command will now always drop the held weapon if the given weapon needs an empty primary/secondary weapon slot to be used. For legacy behaviour, which would drop the new weapon on the ground, developers can use "-keep_gear" flag, e.g. give weapon_awp -keep_gear

MAPS

• Train

  • Improved collision fidelity on various props

  • Updated and fixed surface types on several props

  • Adjusted wetness levels on some surfaces

  • Fixed various gaps in map

MAP GUIDES

• Map Guides are now supported in the Steam Workshop for submission and subscription.

• Added a selector to pick which map guide gets loaded in practice mode.

• Annotations nodes are now visible in the radar.

• Added a tool (via console command "workshop_annotation_submit") to submit a map guide to the Steam Workshop.

MISC

• Added a setting for CPU Cores Usage Preference to control how high performance and power efficiency cores are used by the game on CPUs with variable cores.

• Fixed a case where graphics driver could render a corrupt graphics image for weapons in inventory item tiles.

• Improvements to weapon inspect animations.

• Improvements to display of extra-long custom weapon names in UI.

• Stability improvements.

• Added all-new 2025 Service Medal which will be available starting January 1st GMT

• Workshop Tools - Fixed bug on shadows for low sunlight angles