[ GAMEPLAY ]

• When a server disagrees about a player's loadout, such as when a match starts during a patch, the buy menu will now reflect the server-authoritative loadout
  
• Fixed a case where players could clip through ceilings
  
• Made adjustments to character shaders to improve player visibility

[ ANIMATION ]

• Fixed the "Smooth Criminal" foot pinning bug
  
• Adjusted team select and team intro knife animations to work with Shadow Daggers

[ MAPS ]

• Various bug fixes and tweaks to Inferno, Mirage, Nuke, Overpass, and Vertigo

[ MISC ]

• Added "Player Color" option to "HUD Color" setting that will make the HUD match your or your spectator target's player color in competitive modes
  
• Changed "Use Player Colors on Team ID" default to "Yes"
  
• Added "Large Player Count" setting to replace player avatars with team player count in the mini-scoreboard during the active portion of rounds
  
• Fixed a bug where graffiti changes mid-match were delayed
  
• Various bug fixes and tweaks to weapon finishes and stickers

[ WORKSHOP TOOLS ]

• New Screenshot button - captures a screenshot of the game window and saves a .png file to disk. Using "Inspect" with the gray or green backgrounds saves the .png with the UI elements hidden and a transparent background
  
• Added Inferno and Ancient preview maps (workshop_preview_inferno and workshop_preview_ancient)
  
• Workshop Item Editor - Integrated help system contains detailed guides when you see (More Help: Shift+F1) in the tool tip. These detailed guides contain important information about PBR color ranges, wear/durability masking alpha values, and much more

[ 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 boundaries, i.e. every 5000 CS Rating points.
  
• Increased possible CS Rating win/loss amounts to move players faster after calibration.

[ 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 spinning not feeling as fast as in CS:GO
  
• Fixed the bolt not moving during the M4A4 and M4A1-S deployment animations
  
• Fixed a bug where weapon inspect could interrupt the silencer toggle animation

[ MAPS ]

• Various bug fixes and tweaks to Mirage, Vertigo, and Nuke

[ MISC ]

• Fixed several bugs with "Looking to Play"
  
• Various bug fixes and tweaks to weapon finishes and stickers
  
• Fixed a bug where loadout changes weren't saved if the game was closed shortly after making changes
  
• Fixed a bug where Steam Friends' match status was delayed or missing
  
• CPU performance improvements for weapon tracers
  
• Added an official matchmaking datacenter in Chengdu, China

[ 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: https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-23-20-11-7

[ ANIMATION ]

• Fixed a case where the grenade throw animation would be canceled by holding the inspect key
  
• Adjusted M4A4 and M4A1-S draw animation to start from out-of-frame
  
• Minor animation system performance optimizations

[ MAPS ]

• Various bug fixes and tweaks to Nuke, Vertigo, Anubis, and Overpass

[ MISC ]

• All surrender votes now require a majority to pass
  
• Fixed an exploit where players could spam chat during the Premier draft phase
  
• Fixed a bug where kicked players were receiving the maximum CS Rating penalty. Kicked players will now receive CS Rating based on the final outcome of the match instead
  
• Fixed a bug where the first character at the beginning of the terrorist team intro wouldn't render
  
• Configured SDL to prefer X11 over Wayland on Linux
  
• Paris 2023 items are no longer for sale

[ 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 ]

• Repositioned finger on AWP so it doesn't look as long

[ MAPS ]

• Various bug fixes and tweaks to Inferno, Anubis, Vertigo, Ancient, and Mirage

[ MISC ]

• Various bug fixes and tweaks to stickers
  
• Adjusted crosshair outline rendering for fractional values
  
• Fixed a bug where disconnecting from and reconnecting to a match would result in less XP
  
• Fixed the "buy <item>" command to work with the new flexible loadout system. The command will now find the named item in your loadout instead of assuming a default slot. If the named item isn't in your loadout, the command will fail. To buy by slot, use "buy secondary0", "buy midtier1", "buy rifle2", etc. instead
  
• Various tweaks to automatic sniper rifle muzzle flashes
  
• Various tweaks to glass impact effects
  
• Added sort options to secondary inventory select panel for actions like applying stickers
  
• Fixed a bug where users in Germany were incorrectly identified as users in China

[ 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 may still exist on AMD GPUs; we are working with AMD to address this

[ ANIMATION ]

• Fixed a bug where knife slashing couldn't be interrupted with an inspect

[ MISC ]

• Various bug fixes and tweaks to weapon finishes and gloves
  
• Fixed a case where molotov/incendiary grenades would create a fire ring in the air
  
• Improved performance of molotov/incendiary fire extinguishing
  
• Various improvements to weapon dropping and throwing
  
• Various crash fixes

[ SOUND ]

• Fixed a case where grenade sounds were missing when exploding in-air
  
• Added separate sounds for grenades landing in vs out of the playable area

[ GAMEPLAY ]

• Fixed a case where both terrorists in a Wingman match would appear to have the bomb

[ MISC ]

• Various bug fixes for the Vulkan renderer
  
• Updated Phoenix Soldier icon to reflect recent balaclava color change
  
• Fixed a rendering issue in the nametag inspect panel
  
• Disallowed binding toggleconsole to mouse1 since it was preventing normal menu interactions
  
• Various bug fixes and tweaks to weapon finishes and stickers
  
• Fixed a case where surrender votes would incorrectly fail

[ ANIMATION ]

• Fixed a case where foot pinning wasn't active

[ MAPS ]

• Various bug fixes and tweaks to Ancient

[ PERFECT WORLD ]

• Players who launch the game in China and have previously accepted the Steam China Subscriber Agreement will now get a prompt at launch which allows selecting "-perfectworld" or "-worldwide" mode
  
• Launch prompt can be activated with "-promptperfectworld" command line flag or completely bypassed if "-perfectworld" or "-worldwide" command line flag is used

[ COMMUNITY DEDICATED SERVERS ]

• To launch a community dedicated server, you can use this reference command line:
  
  • cs2 -dedicated +map de_dust2
• To enable logging, add to your server commandline:
  
  • +sv_logfile 1 -serverlogging
• Or add to a config file:
  
  • sv_logfile 1
    
  • log on
• To enable HTTP logaddress forwarding, ensure logging is enabled as above and use:
  
  • logaddress_add_http "<server address>:<port>"
• Dispatched logs can be handled the same way as CS:GO

[ SOUND ]

• Fixed missing win/loss/MVP music in Casual

[ GRAPHICS ]

• Put range clamps on r_fullscreen_gamma, r_texture_stream_max_resolution, and r_character_decal_resolution
  
• Fixed smokes not rendering correctly on AMD GPUs on Linux

[ ANIMATION ]

• Adjusted grenade throw animations to reduce view obstruction
  
• Fixed a case where players would float a few inches off the ground after spawning

[ MAPS ]

• Various bug fixes and tweaks to Mirage and Overpass

[ COSMETICS ]

• Various bug fixes and tweaks to weapon finishes and stickers
  
• Updated Phoenix Soldier balaclava from green to original red color
  
• Fixed missing pouches on certain SWAT agents

[ MISC ]

• Fixed a bug where loadout shuffle would never happen
  
• Increased clickable area of sellback buttons in buy menu
  
• Fixed a case where the death panel would stay on-screen after respawning quickly
  
• Disabled CSTV and demo recording temporarily to increase server availability so more people can play

[ SOUND ]

• Weapon sounds will no longer sound like they come from the spot you are zoomed into

[ WATER ]

• Updated water in Nuke to fix an issue with smoke
  
• Reduced maximum amount of water refraction since it was looking too noisy/distracting

[ MISC ]

• Fixed a case where the death panel wouldn't show
  
• Fixed a case where the preview crosshair wouldn't show in game settings
  
• Fixed a case where debug text would appear on the crosshair

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