Counter-Strike 2 - Release Notes for 5/23/2024

GAMEPLAY 

• Height of the 'pillar' of flame for both Molotov and Incendiary grenade now decreases over time

• Reduced the terrorist team award when bomb was planted but defused from $800 to $600, to decrease the impact of the first-round on subsequent rounds

• Reduced the price of the M4A4 from $3100 to $3000

• Minor adjustments to first-person camera movement

• Added explicit "switchhandsleft" and "switchhandsright" console commands

• Deathmatch bonus weapons are now the same for all players regardless of loadout

Incendiary Grenade:

• Adjusted the explosion and flame visual treatment

• Reduced duration

• Reduced area covered by spreading flames

• Reduced price from $600 to $500

RENTALS 

• When players open a Kilowatt case with a key, they will have the option to rent the entire Kilowatt collection (i.e., every weapon in the case, excluding the rare special item) for a week instead of receiving an item from the collection

• Equipped rented weapons will be replaced with the stock version of the weapon when the rental period expires

• Rented weapons cannot be modified (e.g., via stickers or name tags), traded, or sold on the Steam Community Market

HUD 

• Fixed a bug where the MVP player name displayed incorrectly during bot takeover

• Fixed a bug where the Refund All button in the Buy Menu would only refund a single flashbang grenade

• Fixed a bug where the ESC menu scoreboard during end-of-match didn't match the TAB scoreboard

• Fixed a bug where the Loss Bonus scoreboard tooltip would get stuck on-screen after closing the scoreboard

• Blocking stranger Steam avatars will now block other user-generated content such name tags and sticker placements

CHICKENS 

• Chickens have a few new animations

• Chickens can now walk up hills

• Chickens can now turn right while walking

UI 

• Various performance improvements to the Warehouse main menu and item inspect background scenery

DEMOS

• The demo playback timeline now show indicators for kill and death events

• Demo playback can be toggled into "highlight mode" which will show only kills and deaths for the active player

• Various minor demo playback UI changes

• Fixed a demo playback crash

MAPS

Vertigo:

• Added catwalk by bombsite A, connecting to back of A

• Removed connector between back of A and elevators

• Opened up passage between elevators and scaffolding

• Slightly tweaked size of bombsite A

• Tweaked spawn timings slightly

• Changed Wingman layout to feature bombsite A changes

Baggage:

• Fixed movement hitch on lower conveyor

• Lowered height of central conveyor tray to help open sniper view

Office:

• Fixed a case where a player could shoot through multiple walls

Mirage:

• Fixed bad collision on certain props

• Fixed some sticky collision around windows in palace