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Gameplay and Performance Fixes Update

Official: Counter-Strike 2 Update

Update January 30, 2026 View original on Steam
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This update focuses exclusively on gameplay, sound, and performance optimizations. No changes to item supply, demand, or market mechanics were introduced.

GAMEPLAY

  • Damage from HE grenades that explode mid-air near the ground will no longer be calculated as if they exploded on the ground.

SOUND

  • Various knife sound adjustments.

MISC

  • Performance optimizations for exploding chickens.
  • Fixed a map scripting bug where Entity.SetOwner wasn't accepting undefined.
  • Added a method for community maps to save modified user settings. Running 'host_writeconfig_with_prompt' will prompt the user for permission to save. If accepted, some of the modified settings (radar, viewmodel, safezones, etc) will be kept after the map exits.
  • Community maps are now restricted to a smaller list of allowed console commands. Use -disable_workshop_command_filtering to disable this filtering.

MAPS

Stronghold

  • Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop (Update Notes)