Matches begin Wednesday, December 11th at 22:00 PST

The Counter-Strike Major has come to Shanghai. Over the past month, teams from around the world challenged the best in their region for their spot in the Major. Now the dust has settled and 24 teams r...

[ GAMEPLAY ] Fixed a case where a disconnected player could cause a poltergeist CT model to appear in the middle of the map Player model of a disconnecting player should now immediately suicide when d...

[ MAPS ] Train Removed unintended boost in B halls Added grenade collision to out of bounds areas Fixed gap in world by longdog exit Added collision to B site broken ceiling Fixed collision type on oi...

[ MAP GUIDES ] Fixed a bug where missing text for a user's language wouldn't fall back to English [ MAPS ] Train Fixed various collision issues including a higher fidelity for the orange train on B si...

[ NETWORK ] Fixed a case mid-spray where lag compensation wasn't aware of the user's "Buffering to smooth over packet loss / jitter" setting. Improved clock synchronization to better handle ...

[ GAMEPLAY ] Various adjustments to bullet hit feedback. Fixed a case mid-spray where lag compensation would rewind target hitboxes further into the past than what was on screen. Jumping in place on a...

[ MISC ] Fixed a bug where grenades were generating headshot sounds. Fixed a bug where grenades were not bouncing off certain dynamic props. Fixed a bug where Copenhagen 2024 winners were not showing ...

[ MAPS ] Vertigo Fixed a bad collision interaction between grenades and a prop. Fixed a wall bang exploit. Mills Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop (Update Notes). Added localiz...

[ GRAPHICS ] Fixed mixed resolution rendering from erroneously resetting during map changes. Fixed a known crash when compiling lighting in Counter-Strike 2 Workshop Tools. Fixed detail normal UV scal...

[ MISC ] Adjusted the score calculation in Casual, Competitive, and Wingman to exclude knife and utility damage Fixed 3rd person weapon angles to fully incorporate recoil Fixed missing cascade shadows...

[ MISC ] Adjusted first-person sniper scope effect Fixed some dark spots in Inferno Fixed a bug where breakable objects weren't behaving as expected

Access to over a 100 new items including the all-new Weapon Charms.

[ MISC ] Practice matches and matches started with the "map" command will now run in engine loopback mode to match the CS:GO offline default. Engine loopback bypasses most networking code fo...

[ MAPS ] Vertigo: Fixed a gap in geometry

[ UI ] Fixed cases where there was a visible delay loading map images in the Play menu Fixed a bug where items that can't be equipped were visible in the Loadout menu Fixed a bug where loadout items c...

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Added more client information to the screen timestamp label to help investigate reported issues. Fixed rendering issue related to GPU UltraWide+ feature. Stability improvements.

Added a startup check for incompatible AMD graphics drivers. We will now begin reversing VAC bans for affected players Fixed a bug in Windows 11 Auto HDR that led to smokes intermittently disappearing...

[ GAMEPLAY ] Command aliases now leverage subtick accuracy [ SOUND ] New sound for final 10 seconds of bomb beeping Added missing KSK agent voice Reduced falloff distance of knife impact and swish sou...

[ MATCHMAKING ] Matches will now be made with smaller rating differences between the teams at the expense of longer queue times. [ Premier ] Relegation and Promotion matches will only occur at color b...

[ GRAPHICS ] Fixed a case where feet would appear black when looking down at them through a scope Fixed a memory leak due to particles [ ANIMATION ] Fixed several hitbox alignment bugs Fixed knife spi...

[ GRAPHICS ] Fixed a case where water would appear black in screenshots and video capture For AMD GPU users, shader compilation hitches can now be fixed with a driver update: [ ANIMATION ] Fixed a cas...

[ GRAPHICS ] Removed Model / Texture Detail: Very High setting since it was identical to High. They used to differ by Texture Filtering Mode, but that's a separate setting now [ ANIMATION ] Reposition...

[ 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 ma...

[ MAPS ] Office Adjusted the weight of the vending machine Various fixes Ancient Various clipping adjustments [ SOUND ] Tuned the vertical audio occlusion of grenade sounds in Nuke and Vertigo Adjuste...

[ MAPS ] Anubis Various clipping adjustments [ GAMEPLAY ] Rebalanced lag compensation to favor lower-latency players Fixed a bug where dropped grenades were invisible Fixed a bug where dropped bombs a...

[ MAPS ] Various bug fixes and tweaks for all shipped maps [ GAMEPLAY ] Various fixes for molotov/incendiary grenades Various fixes for smoke grenades Fixed damage indicators for fire damage Adjusted ...

[ MAPS ] Ancient Fixed CT spawn area shape in minimap Overpass Adjusted spawn locations to reduce the likelihood of players spawning stuck together Inferno Various bug fixes and tweaks [ GAMEPLAY ] Re...

[ MAPS ] Inferno Various bug fixes and tweaks [ GAMEPLAY ] Players who survive the last round before overtime no longer carry their items into overtime Disabled Casual matchmaking temporarily to avoid...

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