Steam News27 January 20266mo ago

Counter-Strike 2 Update

GAMEPLAY Molotov/incendiary grenades that bounce off an enemy player have a one-time fuse extension added to prevent them from air-bursting when their has-never-hit-the-world timer elapses.

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Counter-Strike 2 at a glance

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Affected maps

Nuke

Map changes

NukeAdjusted hanging hard hat model render bounds to prevent shadow popping when model exited the view frustum.

Gameplay systems

Molotov/incendiary grenades that bounce off an enemy player have a one-time fuse extension added to prevent them from air-bursting when their has-never-hit-the-world timer elapses.

Fixed a performance issue when running CS2 without a sound device.

Various knife sound adjustments.

Workshop and tools

Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop ( Update Notes )

Server and performance

Various stability improvements.

Source notes

GAMEPLAY

Molotov/incendiary grenades that bounce off an enemy player have a one-time fuse extension added to prevent them from air-bursting when their has-never-hit-the-world timer elapses.

SOUND

Fixed a performance issue when running CS2 without a sound device.
Various knife sound adjustments.

MISC

Fixed broken cl_ent_bbox visualization for some classes of rigid dynamic entities.
Various stability improvements.

MAPS

Nuke

Adjusted hanging hard hat model render bounds to prevent shadow popping when model exited the view frustum.

Warden

Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop (Update Notes)

Sanctum

Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop (Update Notes)

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