Counter-Strike 2 implements changes regularly—most especially to add the latest updates and fixes to certain errors. That said, here are the CS2 patch notes you need to know.
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Latest Counter-Strike 2 Release Notes - 11/30
CS2 Patch Notes - Update November 30, 2023
Gameplay
- Sub-tick timing improvements to various systems including grenade throw animations and revolver firing
- Added a missing fire effect to molotovs that are held by players
Animation
- Reduced the amount that player characters will rotate their torso away from leg orientation
- Improved hit reactions
- Made jump animations directional
- Improved character posing when aiming up and down
- Improved foot placement and posing when running
- Reduced animation posing when deploying
- The timing of a players flashbanged posing now more accurately represents the player's ability to see
Sound
- Fixed issue with Shadow Daggers playing catch sound during looping inspect animation
- Further refined falloff distance curves and volume of grenade bounces
- Lowered volume of deathmatch bonus period ending
- Lowered volume of lobby chat notification sound
- Fixed missing water drip console errors in Office
- Increased audible distance of breaking glass window sounds
- Fixed an issue where sometimes a Sabre agent would say hostage related lines when cheering
Miscellaneous
- Adjusted wear values of most tournament stickers and many other stickers to better match CS:GO
- Changed handling of non-default console key bindings to match CS:GO behavior
Maps
Nuke
- Fixed cubemap issue at Lobby
- Fixed hole at B-site
- Fixed some holes at Ramp Room
- Fixed glass floor material at B-Site not having impact effects
- Fixed up footstep sounds on hazard stripes
- Attempt to fix light leaking through base of doors at B-site
- Brightened red interior walls to help with agent vis
- Fixed pixel boost on chainlink fence outside
- Fix shadows leaking through double doors at B-site
- Made cubemap transitions smoother in some places at b-site
Mirage
- Fixed clipping on van at Truck
- Clipped fridge in Apartments to prevent player becoming stuck
- Adjusted bombsite A size and added visual boundaries
- Fixed collision on Scaffolding to provide smooth movement
- Fixed geometry and clipping outside Sniper's Nest to prevent pixel walking
Office
- Improved clipping around desks at t-spawn
- Improved clipping on crates at Back Courtyard
- Re-added collision to handrails
Vertigo
- Extended staircase and added grenade clip to stairs at near t-spawn to prevent grenades becoming wedged in gap
- Fixed clipping on crate at mid
- Fixed clipping on scaffold at back of A
- Fixed clipping on scaffold at T-start
- Fixed vis bug at A-ramp looking toward Bridge
- Fixed grenade clip on support beam at A-ramp
- Plugged Holes in insulation foam roll model
Anubis
- Fixed hole under pillar at A-site
- Fixed clipping above walkway stairs in Palace
- Closed up multiple microgaps throughout the map
- Fixed some clipping on pillar at A-site
- Fixed clipping on doorway at b-site
- Plugged some micro holes
- Fixed gap between two clip brushes that allowed bomb to be thrown on top of building
- Fixed slight wall gap that allowed sniping into bombsite A
- Fixed clipping on doorway at b-site
Ancient
- Fixed various gaps in the world
- Fixed various texture seams
- Closed gap that looks into Jaguar area
- Adjusted clipping along fence near A-site
- Adjusted clipping around tree base on A-site boost
- Adjusted position of stone near B-site that player could crouch in
- Added clipping to the top of the map to help minimize player exploits
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CS2 Patch Notes - Update October 2, 2023
Gameplay
- Removed movement penalty on mud surfaces
Graphics
- Fixed a bug with shader compilation when connecting to a server that was causing hitches after connecting. Note that these hitches may still exist on AMD GPUs; we are working with AMD to address this
Animation
- Fixed a bug where knife slashing couldn't be interrupted with an inspect
Miscellaneous
- Various bug fixes and tweaks to weapon finishes and gloves
- Fixed a case where molotov/incendiary grenades would create a fire ring in the air
- Improved performance of molotov/incendiary fire extinguishing
- Various improvements to weapon dropping and throwing
- Various crash fixes
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CS2 Patch Notes - Update September 27, 2023
Sound
- Weapon sounds will no longer sound like they come from the spot you are zoomed into
Water
- Updated water in Nuke to fix an issue with smoke
- Reduced maximum amount of water refraction since it was looking too noisy/distracting
Misc
- Fixed a case where the death panel wouldn't show
- Fixed a case where the preview crosshair wouldn't show in game settings
- Fixed a case where debug text would appear on the crosshair
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Counter-Strike 2 Release Notes - Update September 27, 2023
Counter-Strike 2 is out
- Counter-Strike 2 is now available and free to play
- Season One of Premier has begun
Gameplay
- Enabled Competitive matchmaking
- Enabled Wingman matchmaking
- Enabled Private Matchmaking
- Added Training Day, a brief introductory experience for brand new players
- Improved player-against-player movement collision
- Improved consistency of bullet penetration
- Player reflections in water are now occluded by smoke
- Molotov fire now floats above the water
- Fixed character ambient occlusion being visible through walls
- C4 bomb lights don't reflect through walls
- Fixed some rare cases of viewmodel lighting corruption
- Adjusted smoke behavior to cover cases where smoke would stop less than a player's height above the ground
- Fix various bugs with switching teams in the middle of offline Deathmatch
- Fixed Famas reloading too early
- Chickens can finally fall off Vertigo
Sound
- Added the new CS2 default music kit
- Added new audio customization settings
- Various mix tweaks and adjustments
- Various bug fixes related to music kits
- Updated the game startup sound
- Added background ambience to main menu scenes
- Restored the clutch_mode_toggle function
- Fixed a bug where sometimes c4 defuse and planting sounds could not be heard in certain locations
- Fixed some surfaces being incorrectly tagged causing incorrect footstep sounds in certain locations
- Fixed a bug where attackers could not hear headshot feedback through wallbangs or smokes
- Body damage feedback for attackers will now play within the same distance as it does for onlookers through smokes and wallbangs
- Fixed a bug where scoping in affected directional sound
- First person damage sounds are now more impactful
- Removed several legacy audio convars that existed in CS:GO but never had an effect in CS2
Animation
- Adjusted character additive lean animation
- Adjusted jump animation, particularly when repeatedly jumping
- Adjusted jiggle-peeking animation
- Adjusted animated character head position relative to camera position
- Added bullet belt to negev
- Reduced foot sliding when carrying slower weapons
- Fixed character momentarily standing during crouch-planting animation
- Fixed incorrect viewmodel deploy speeds
- Fixed pops in some weapon inspect animations
- Inspecting weapons may now interrupt deploy animation
Matchmaking
- When one or more party members get convicted of cheating and permanently banned, all their associates will be penalized with loss of Profile Rank and CS Rating
- In Premier, players with a very high established CS Rating are not allowed to party with accounts that do not have an established CS Rating
Maps
- Various bug fixes and tweaks for all shipped maps
- Adjusted vertical audio occlusion boundaries in Nuke and Vertigo
- Added an extra bell in Inferno
- Casual and Deathmatch maps are now separated into multiple map groups
Misc
- CS:GO Players who started playing more than a week ago will receive a commemorative CS:GO coin and CS:GO Music Kit
- Added Store tab to main menu
- Enabled all interactions with inventory items
- Replaced weekly drops with a weekly Care Package. Choose from weapon cases, weapon finishes, and graffiti
- Added demo playback support
- Added the ability to favorite and shuffle loadout items
- Added new item icons
- Office and Vertigo are available as main menu scenery
- Various updates for weapon finishes, including fixing overly strong wear on several Custom Paint Job finishes
- Reworked Phoenix Street Soldier balaclava texture to resolve visibility issues
- Enabled animated eyes on agent character models
Workshop tools
- Game clients running in workshop tools mode are not allowed to connect to VAC secure game servers
- Added an all-new help system featuring contextually relevant guides and information. Guides include gray scale value ranges for alpha channel masking, paint-by-number mask color assignments based on current finish type, and much more!
- Removed dynamic props from solid color inspect backgrounds
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