Valve has shipped a fresh update for Counter-Strike 2, adding new content, visual upgrades, and a range of animation and performance improvements.
Maps
- Added nighttime versions of Ancient and Shoots
- Refreshed all Ancient materials to use the latest CS2 shaders
- Introduced new blending options for Ancient materials, including wetness and moss
- Added “ancient_zoo.vmap” with all assets and blending examples for mapmakers
Items
- Deluge Music Kit Box now available in standard and StatTrak versions
- New limited-time M4A1-S | Solitude available in The Armory
Animation
- Modified sawed-off shotgun deploy and fixed shell penetration during reload
- Improved deploy + quick inspect animations for all knives
- Improved deploy + quick inspect animations for AK, Galil, AUG, PP-Bizon
- Improved deploy animations for AWP, M4A4, M4A1-S
- Improved animations for legacy SSG08 models
- Removed deploy inspect delay for most weapons
- Fixed XM1014 blocking crosshair during reload
Miscellaneous
- Rendering performance improvements across most maps
- Resolution and aspect ratio can now be changed in fullscreen windowed mode
fps_maxcan no longer be changed while connected to a server- Fixed cases where certain weapons could be fired sooner after redeploy
The update is now live on Steam and should download automatically for all players. Counter Strike also posted about the update on X, you can see the post below.
