[ MAPS ]

• All maps previously shipped in the Limited Test are available in casual and deathmatch matchmaking
• All maps and game modes previously shipped in the Limited Test are available for offline play

[ GAMEPLAY ]

• Dropped bombs no longer sink in water
• Reworked the bullet penetration system
• Enabled bot takeover where applicable

[ MAPS ]

Italy

• Various bug fixes and tweaks

[ MISC ]

• Added more hostage variants

[ GAMEPLAY ]

• Competitive and Private Matchmaking are currently disabled in the Limited Test
• Minor adjustments to smoke cloud shape

[ MAPS ]

• Added Italy to Deathmatch and Casual game modes
• Removed Anubis and Ancient

[ ECONOMY ]

• Unified StatTrak position on both CS2 M4 models to not occlude stickers
• Adjusted sticker sizes on CS2 M4A4 so they no longer overlap

[ MISC ]

• Updated hostage models

[ SOUND ]

• Audio mix tweaks and adjustments

[ WORKSHOP TOOLS ]

• Added support for multiple team introduction variants

[ MAPS ]

• Anubis

  • Removed from Competitive mode
  • Various bug fixes and tweaks

• Ancient

  • Added to Competitive mode
  • Various adjustments to lighting
  • Added missing collision detection to some debris

[ MISC ]

• Various adjustments to C4 animation
• Water rendering performance improvements

[ MAPS ]

• Anubis

  • Improved movement clipping map-wide
  • Adjustments to collision around pillars
  • Plugged holes in world geometry
  • Fixed issues with weapon and bomb clipping through world geometry

• Ancient

  • Improved water clarity at T spawn
  • Adjustments to jumpable locations
  • Adjustments to collision around corners
  • Various adjustments to lighting

[ MISC ]

• Fixed an issue with round restart in the middle of weapon reloading
• Fixed a case where incendiary grenades fail to detonate in water
• Ragdoll limbs splash when they hit water

A Level Playing Field

Counter-Strike is at its best when teams compete on a level playing field and when ability is the only limit to their success.

Over the past few years, we’ve seen professional Counter-Strike drift away from that ideal. The ecosystem has become gradually less open, with access to the highest levels of competition increasingly gated by business relationships.

We think that Counter-Strike should be an open sport. So we’re going to add new requirements to running large-scale competitive events. The finer details are still in progress, but here are the broad strokes:

• Tournament organizers will no longer have unique business relationships or other conflicts of interest with teams that participate in their events.
• Invitations to all tournaments will use our ranking system (detailed here), or otherwise be determined by open qualifiers.
• Any compensation for participating teams—prize pool or otherwise—will be made public and will be driven by objective criteria that can be inspected by the community.

Since tournament organizers have existing long term commitments, these requirements will take effect as of 2025. There will be some rough edges to the transition, but we’re committed to the long-term health of Counter-Strike as a sport and are looking forward to its bright and open future.

[ GAMEPLAY ]

• Disabled Wingman

[ MAPS ]

• Added Anubis to Deathmatch, Casual, and Competitive game modes
• Added Ancient to Deathmatch and Casual game modes
• Removed Overpass and Vertigo

[ MISC ]

• Taught chickens how to swim
• Weapons splash when dropped in water
• Adjusted grenade/water interaction sounds

[ ANIMATION ]

• Improved head animation when crouching while running
• Improved foot animation when quickly alternating between standing still and moving

[ MAPS ]

• Overpass
  • Adjustments to jumpable locations
  • Collision adjustments
  • Various bug fixes and tweaks

Quick link to check who of your friend list has access to the beta. With the last wave of invites I now have one friend on my friend list with beta access…

So it’s 1/66 or 1,5%.

Hopefully more invites are coming soon 😅

[ MOVEMENT ]

• Fixed some instances of pixelwalks across all maps

[ MISC ]

• Slight adjustments to some Holo stickers
• Fixed a case where some match stats would be reported incorrectly at the end of the game

[ MAPS ]

• Overpass
  • Updated some signage
  • Adjustments to jumpable locations
  • Adjustments for improved player movement
  • Adjustments to wall-bangable locations
  • Various bug fixes

HLTV reports that Valve approached tournament organizers for CS2 Major bids in 2025 and 2026. The dates are now shifted to right before the summer and the winter break, so the Majors will finally be the culmination of each season.

[ MISC ]

• Fixed a case where parties of two or more were unable to enter matchmaking
• Adjusted door interactions with dropped weapons and ragdolls
• Fixed a case where door interactions with players affected hit registration
• Fixed a case where four grenade icons would scale incorrectly in the team hud

[ ANIMATION ]

• M249 now has bullet belt animation

[ MAPS ]

• Vertigo
  • Various adjustments to lighting
  • Added sounds to potty doors
  • Fixed vacancy signs on potties
• Overpass
  • Various fixes

[ GAMEPLAY ]

• Added Wingman game mode

[ MAPS ]

• Added Overpass to Deathmatch, Casual, Wingman, and Competitive game modes
• Added Vertigo to Deathmatch and Casual game modes
• Removed Nuke and Office

[ WORKSHOP TOOLS ]

• Enabled undo/redo buttons
• Various bug fixes

[ MISC ]

• Added the "Secondary Fire Hold" option to the input settings menu
• The halftime countdown timer is now visible
• Fixed a case where the camera would not interpolate correctly when switching between chase and roaming spectator modes.
• Fixed a case where the viewmodel weapon would disappear for one frame when switching in-eye spectator targets.
• Added leading zeroes on StatTrak module
• Glove patterns and wear now more closely align with CS:GO versions
• Various improvements to foil stickers
• Various adjustments to the size of stickers applied to weapons--

[ MISC ]

• Fixed a bug with the sell-back feature
• Fixed a few financial fun facts
• Adjusted the main menu position of CTs holding the Dual Elites
• Fixed tooltips sometimes staying up when you exit the loadout screen
• Fixed some texture streaming issues
• Various improvements to stickers
• Improved sound synchronization for the first bullets during automatic fire
• Fixed a case where the death panel would appear if killed during the end of match screen

[ MAPS ]

Mirage

• Various lightmap fixes
• Smoke clouds now pass through the metal rollup grating in underpass

[ MOVEMENT ]

• Fixed a bug that would cause the player to sometimes move too far forward
• Various bug fixes

Release Notes for 6/15/23

[ MISC ]

• Fixed auto rebuy not working if you survived through the Deathmatch warmup
• Pressing the jump key to respawn in Deathmatch no longer results in an actual jump
• The buy menu now closes on right mouse button DOWN instead of UP
• Refunds are now correctly accounted for when tracking total money spent by user
• Fixed bad kerning in accolade descriptions
• Fixed a freeze/hang in Hammer
• The CS2 Workshop Tools convar helper page now has better descriptions
• Fixed aspect ratio for workshop submission screenshot
• Various improvements to the look of the M249, MP5-SD, Desert Eagle, Dual Elites, and Taser
• Added Zeus x27 to workshop submission weapon list

[ MAPS ]

Mirage

• Various map fixes

Release Notes for 6/14/23

[ MAPS ] Mirage

• Fixed a spot near bench that caused the server to lag
• Fixed various strange wallbangs
• Adjusted end of match screen

[ BUY MENU ]

• Fixed some edge case issues with sell back
• Buy menu color now matches cl_hud_color

[ LOADOUT ]

• Fixed edge cases with inspecting items
• Fixed a bad interaction between the acknowledge panel and inventory
• Fixed a glitch while refreshing the loadout tab
• Fixed some localization bugs
• Fixed various crash

[ MISC ]

• Fixed movement bug that would cause a slide along curbs in Dust II
• Flashbangs can be redeployed after thrown so that players can quickly throw multiple in sequence
• Reduced the single-frame flash effect when zooming out with sniper rifles