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Gameplay and Map Stability Update

Official: Counter-Strike 2 Update

Update January 27, 2026 View original on Steam
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This update focuses exclusively on gameplay mechanics, sound performance, and map adjustments. No changes to item economy, marketability, or trade-up mechanics were introduced.

GAMEPLAY

  • Molotov/incendiary grenades that bounce off an enemy player have a one-time fuse extension added to prevent them from air-bursting when their has-never-hit-the-world timer elapses.

SOUND

  • Fixed a performance issue when running CS2 without a sound device.
  • Various knife sound adjustments.

MISC

  • Fixed broken cl_ent_bbox visualization for some classes of rigid dynamic entities.
  • Various stability improvements.

MAPS

Nuke

  • Adjusted hanging hard hat model render bounds to prevent shadow popping when model exited the view frustum.

Warden

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

Sanctum

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