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Steam News14 August 202511mo ago

Counter-Strike 2 Update

[ MAPS ] Ancient and Shoots Added nighttime versions. Refreshed all ancient materials to use latest CS2 shaders. Added new blending options for ancient materials including wetness and moss. Added "ancient_zoo.

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MAPS

Ancient and Shoots

  • Added nighttime versions.

  • Refreshed all ancient materials to use latest CS2 shaders.

  • Added new blending options for ancient materials including wetness and moss.

  • Added "ancient_zoo.vmap" with all assets and blending examples for mapmakers.

ITEMS

  • Deluge Music Kit Box is now available for purchase in standard and StatTrak versions.

  • New Limited Time Item, the M4A1-S | Solitude, is now available in The Armory.

ANIMATION

  • Sawed-off shotgun deploy modified and fixed shell penetration on reload.

  • Improved deploy +quick inspect animations for all knives.

  • Improved deploy +quick inspect animations for the AK, Galil, AUG, PP-Bizon.

  • Improved deploy animations for the AWP, M4A4, M4A1-S.

  • Improved animations for legacy SSG08 models.

  • Removed the deploy inspect delay for most weapons.

  • Fixed XM1014 blocking crosshair during reload.

MISC

  • Rendering performance improvements across most maps.

  • Rendering resolution and aspect ratio can now be changed in fullscreen windowed mode.

  • fps_max can no longer be changed while connected to a server.

  • Fixed a case where certain weapons could be fired sooner after a re-deploy.

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Steam News / 14 August 2025

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