Covert Skins Now Trade Up Into Knives and Gloves
Official: Counter-Strike 2 Update
Major impactUpward
Trade-up inputs, Trade-up outputs
The introduction of Covert trade-ups into knives and gloves creates a massive new utility for high-tier skins. This change significantly increases demand for Covert items while altering the supply dynamics of rare knife and glove finishes.
GAMEPLAY
- Adding Retakes as official game mode supporting Defusal Group Alpha and Defusal Group Delta maps on official matchmaking servers.
- Fixed Molotov and Smoke interaction logic in cases when multiple smokes are active in the map.
MAPS
- Updated Golden to the latest version from Steam Community Workshop (Update Notes)
- Updated Palacio to the latest version from Steam Community Workshop (Update Notes)
- Updated Rooftop to the latest version from Steam Community Workshop (Update Notes)
Inferno
- Adjustments to top of Quad and under Balcony to improve visibility.
- Various optimizations.
CONTRACTS
- Extended functionality of the "Trade Up Contract" to allow exchanging 5 items of Covert quality as follows:
5 StatTrak™ Covert items can be exchanged for one StatTrak™ Knife from a collection of one of the items provided
- 5 regular Covert items can be exchanged for one regular Knife item or one regular Gloves item from a collection of one of the items provided
MISC
- Performance optimizations when the game is in the main menu and item inspect UI
- Fixed inventory item icons sometimes rendering in blurry state or not rendering
- Fixed several server-only sound events to not start multiple times
- Stability improvements
