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Steam News23 October 20259mo ago

Counter-Strike 2 Update

GAMEPLAY Increased matchmaking party size for Retakes to allow 4 players in a party. Fixed a case where players joining Retakes round during freeze time could spawn at a wrong spawn point.

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Gameplay systems

Increased matchmaking party size for Retakes to allow 4 players in a party.
Fixed a case where players joining Retakes round during freeze time could spawn at a wrong spawn point.
Fixed bot manager logic to make room for players by first kicking dead bots and bots who are not controlled by a human.

Server and performance

Stability improvements.

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GAMEPLAY

  • Increased matchmaking party size for Retakes to allow 4 players in a party.

  • Fixed a case where players joining Retakes round during freeze time could spawn at a wrong spawn point.

  • Fixed bot manager logic to make room for players by first kicking dead bots and bots who are not controlled by a human.

MISC

  • Stability improvements.

Source

Steam News / 23 October 2025

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