December 19, 2024

Last CS2 update this year?

Counter Strike 2 doesn't give its players much for Christmas - and players have gotten used to it. There is no Christmas content like in EAFC25. This is the tactic chosen by Valve. Yesterday, however, we received a fresh update, thanks to which users can feel the aura of Christmas changes.

Among other things, we obtained a new animation for weapons and capsules with autographs of players from Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024. Is this the last update this year? Probably yes, because we are not counting on any miracle - but the changes below look solid.

[Major Capsules]

- Shanghai 2024 Major Winners Capsules are now available for purchase. The capsule contains autographs of every member of the winning team (Spirit) in all versions. 50% of capsule income goes to players and organizations.

[Game]

- Adjusted death info after flash.

- Explosions will now scatter weapons more effectively, even if multiple weapons are dropped on top of each other.

- During warm-up, weapons will no longer fall to the ground when switching teams.

- During the warm-up, it will only be possible to change teams after two seconds.

- Added server settings to control which items are dropped on the ground during warm-up:

- (mp_warmup_items_drop_policy, mp_warmup_items_nocost, mp_warmup_items_nocount_policy)

- Community servers that run free weapons that cannot be dropped during warm-up can set these settings as follows:

- (mp_warmup_items_drop_policy 0, mp_warmup_items_nocost 1, mp_warmup_items_nocount_policy 251)

- The Give command will now always drop a held weapon if that weapon needs an empty primary or secondary rifle slot. For a legacy action that would drop new weapons on the ground, developers can use the "-keep_gear" flag, e.g. give weapon_awp -keep_gea

[Map - Train]

- Corrected collision of various elements

- Updated and fixed surface types on several elements

- Adjusted the humidity level on some surfaces

- Fixed various map gaps

[CS2 Map Guide]

- Map guides can now be uploaded and subscribed to on the Steam Workshop.

- Added an option to select the map guide that will be loaded in practice mode.

- Annotation nodes are now visible on the radar.

- Added a tool (via the "workshop_annotation_submit" console command) to submit a map guide to the Steam Workshop.

[Other]

- Added a CPU Core Usage setting that will allow you to control the use of high performance and energy efficient cores when playing on CPUs with a variable number of cores.

- Fixed an issue where the graphics driver could render a corrupted weapon graphic image in the inventory.

- Improved animations when viewing weapons on the map.