r/cs2 • • 24d ago

CS2 Patch Notes MAJOR Counter-Strike 2 update for 9/22/26 (9/23/26 UTC, Rush Hour, 1.41.8.2)

843 Upvotes

Via the Steam Community:

PREMIER

  • Updated the map selection process to give players more opportunities to play maps they've been learning.
  • Map selection process:
    • Team 1 picks one map
    • Team 2 picks two maps
    • Team 1 picks a final map.
    • One of the four maps will be randomly selected and the match will begin.

RUSH

  • Rush is a fast-paced queued 3v3 game mode.
  • Players battle through a series of battle arenas to reach the opponent's castle and win the match.
  • Battle arenas are randomly selected for each match, so no two matches are the same.
  • Control the tower when you eliminate the enemy team (or time expires) to win the round.

GAMEPLAY

  • Players can now reload silently (but slowly) by pressing and holding the reload key.
  • Un-scoping a sniper weapon no longer produces a sound.
  • Globally increased visual clarity and improved fidelity of bullet impact decals.
  • ammo_grenade_limit_total setting now also enforces the total number of grenades a player is allowed to purchase in a round.
  • Chickens now take damage from the Zeus x27.

SETTINGS

  • Crosshairs have been updated to be resolution independent.
    • A new "Crosshair/Scopes" tab is available in the Settings menu, and includes updated crosshair settings.
    • Added new crosshair styles
    • Updated the default crosshair to "Dynamic Quad," which better represents weapon accuracy.

ENGINE

  • Updated engine code to the latest version of Source 2.

MAPS

Ancient

  • Fixed holes in world in Long A Main Hall.
  • Adjusted door geometry and grenade clipping inside Jaguar.

Cache

  • Some gap fixes and clipping adjustments around the blue doors in Mid.

Mirage

  • Reinforced scaffolding by balcony in A site.

Train

  • Blocked pixel gap in crates on bombsite A.

MISC

  • Added ability to set a "Clan Tag" for players who are members of Steam Community Groups. You can adjust your Clan Tag from your Player Profile.
  • Added support for applying stickers to C4.
  • The Starjunk 95, Industrial Sunset Memories Music Kit is now available for purchase in standard and StatTrak versions through the STORE tab.
  • Halftime scoreboard stats should now fully reflect the results of the previous round.
  • Fixed a case where players could avoid a kick ban.

WORKSHOP

  • Added "minimap_volume" entity which enables a custom minimap image when a player is within the volume.
  • Added "sky_camera_volume" and "sky_camera_volume_target", which enable custom location-specific skybox rendering.
  • Added "point_deathcam_bounds" entity that constrains the player death camera.
  • Added "env_shake_volume" entity that allows camera shake only within a specified volume.

SCRIPTING

  • Added CSRadarPoint entity.
  • Added CSObservablePoint entity.
  • Added AddTeamMoney API method.
  • Added OnPlayerTeamChanged callback.
  • SetDialogVariableString now accepts a localization string.

Rumor has it:

  • Size is close to 5 GB (with Workshop Tools installed) - data capped users should take action now

r/cs2 • • 24d ago

CS2 Patch Notes Rush Hour

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42 Upvotes

r/cs2 • • 2h ago

Skins & Items M4A4 | Apex Hare

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117 Upvotes

Apex Hare is a fictional 1970s endurance racing team. The hare is the mascot, number 76 is the car, and the sponsor stack is the season. Cream body, aubergine lower, orange and teal stripes. The kind of decal set that peeled off a Le Mans prototype, now wrapped around an M4A4.


r/cs2 • • 6h ago

Humour When you get a good drop in the weekly care package

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149 Upvotes

I'm so sorry cluck norris...


r/cs2 • • 6h ago

Esports NiKo tried to block a smoke and forgot he had 1 HP 😳

113 Upvotes

r/cs2 • • 3h ago

Discussion This monitor can give you an unfair advantage in low light sitations

52 Upvotes

/s


r/cs2 • • 20h ago

News Cheaters apparently avoiding vac by looking above enemies to avoid preaim

1.2k Upvotes

(repost, edited something that made the post have to get mod approval)
This is the clip circulating on twitter, the person who's clip it is has been sending around demos of it. Apparently they're calling it "Star gazing"

who is 639?


r/cs2 • • 15h ago

Humour How do you even end up in a lobby like this?

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387 Upvotes

r/cs2 • • 1d ago

Skins & Items THIS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL ON A VIDEO GAME

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2.6k Upvotes

Am I the only one who thinks this feature should be illegal?
The chick is literally having convulsions until it dies, this is totally inhuman.
How can we let them nerf our weekly drops for this?


r/cs2 • • 3h ago

Skins & Items AK-47 | Lure

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37 Upvotes

A deep-sea anglerfish wraps the receiver and swims toward the muzzle. Its jaw opens over the magazine well, the teeth and single eye glow in cold cyan, and the lure arcs forward along the gas tube to a small bait fish on the handguard. The tail fins spread across the stock.


r/cs2 • • 20h ago

Humour Volvo, please don't fix this.

582 Upvotes

r/cs2 • • 23h ago

Humour And they die instantly

780 Upvotes

r/cs2 • • 48m ago

Humour The best thing about CS2

• Upvotes

The free hard drive space you get back after uninstalling.


r/cs2 • • 6h ago

Humour A busy day at Valve's anti-cheat department 💀

33 Upvotes

r/cs2 • • 17h ago

Skins & Items What's the name of your chicken?

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175 Upvotes

it was funnier in my head


r/cs2 • • 14h ago

Discussion PSA: Cheaters are dumping their skins on their alts

110 Upvotes

Check out the CS2 steam discussions, many sus accounts are selling their entire inventories because they found out that they have a unique trade ban causing them to be unable to trade to their main accounts or on any skin market site. I have never seen this mass volume of trading especially when its a steam trade, not a skin selling website trade.

VAC is working!


r/cs2 • • 13h ago

Workshop I Made a Bunch of Skins for CS2’s Upcoming Fairy Tales Collection – Hope You Like Them! 🔥

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72 Upvotes

r/cs2 • • 19h ago

Skins & Items RIP OSAMA

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158 Upvotes

MY GREED IS ABOUT TO KILL HIM. RIP.


r/cs2 • • 11h ago

Discussion MODs should stop new users, low karma from posting or commenting.

34 Upvotes

This has become a bot playground to push the "false positives agenda". Almos every 10 mins a new post from 1 karma and new account.

Stop this.


r/cs2 • • 1h ago

Discussion Anyone else using this this type of crosshair?

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• Upvotes

r/cs2 • • 1h ago

Discussion 10 min+ premiere Q?

• Upvotes

Why are my Q times hitting 10 min? It’s saying “only x amount of players are searching on one server”


r/cs2 • • 2h ago

Gameplay Clean Pistol Ace on Cache, luck or skill?

3 Upvotes

r/cs2 • • 1h ago

Help My CS2 crahes

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• Upvotes

Current situation: CS2 launches and then crashes/boots up and crashes right when i get in a map/boots up and chrashes mid game; Steam's automatic file verification gets stuck at 0% and it works after a long time waiting; but it's no use because the same thing happens over and over again. Apparentely I have a corrupt counterstike copy, because the errors always say that I have a random corrupted file, not just the map file, so i uninstalled it completely and removed all the files by goin to:
c:\program files (x86)\steam\steamapps\common
and deleting the counterstrike folder. I tried reinstalling it but somehow that doesn't work either. I haven't identified the root cause yet.

PLEASE, help me: I'm getting temporarely banned all the time when I play competitive...


r/cs2 • • 1d ago

Gameplay Yea everyone work like this

118 Upvotes

r/cs2 • • 10h ago

Humour just came across this dude looking for hvh in NA servers.

6 Upvotes