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Steam News30 January 20266mo ago

Counter-Strike 2 Update

GAMEPLAY Damage from HE grenades that explode mid-air near the ground will no longer be calculated as if they exploded on the ground. SOUND Various knife sound adjustments.

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Counter-Strike 2 at a glance

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Gameplay systems

Damage from HE grenades that explode mid-air near the ground will no longer be calculated as if they exploded on the ground.
Various knife sound adjustments.

Workshop and tools

Fixed a map scripting bug where Entity.SetOwner wasn't accepting undefined.
Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop ( Update Notes )

Server and performance

Performance optimizations for exploding chickens.

Source notes

GAMEPLAY

  • Damage from HE grenades that explode mid-air near the ground will no longer be calculated as if they exploded on the ground.

SOUND

  • Various knife sound adjustments.

MISC

  • Performance optimizations for exploding chickens.

  • Fixed a map scripting bug where Entity.SetOwner wasn't accepting undefined.

  • Added a method for community maps to save modified user settings. Running 'host_writeconfig_with_prompt' will prompt the user for permission to save. If accepted, some of the modified settings (radar, viewmodel, safezones, etc) will be kept after the map exits.

  • Community maps are now restricted to a smaller list of allowed console commands. Use -disable_workshop_command_filtering to disable this filtering.

MAPS

Stronghold

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

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Steam News / 30 January 2026

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