Celebrate your time in CS2 with the all-new 2024 Service Medal, available starting January 1st!

To get your service medal, earn XP by playing in official game modes and rank up your CS2 Profile. When you reach Global General (Rank 40), you'll have the option to reset your Profile Rank and earn (or upgrade) a 2024 Service Medal. The medal is an inspectable display item you can show off wherever your avatar is shown.

[ GAMEPLAY ]

• Added shell eject effects for shotguns
  
• Dropped weapons caused by buy menu purchasing are now dropped below the buyer

[ MISC ]

• Added all-new 2024 Service Medal which will be available starting January 1st
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented some older demos from playing back
  
• Fixed multiple exploits that allowed adding non-text data into UI labels
  
• Added the ability to add a Friend by using their friend code
  
• Added a lister for multiple lobby invites
  
• Adjusted wear values of some community stickers to better match CS:GO

[ MAPS ]

Overpass

• Adjusted clipping to remove exploitable ledges and improve player movement
  
• Fixed metal railing props that were generating incorrect footstep sounds
  
• Adjusted positions of props and ledges to more accurately match falling damage from CS:GO
  
• Fixed some places where players could get stuck
  
• Adjusted some props and materials to improve character readability
  
• Fixed some cases where weapons could be accidently dropped out of reach
  
• Made some adjustments to props that were creating exploitable lines of sight
  
• Various lighting and material adjustments

Ancient

• Adjusted grenade clipping volume at cave entrance

[ GAMEPLAY ]

• Fixed a bug where explicit weapon switches right after grenade throws were delayed slightly

[ MAPS ]

Inferno:

• Fixed a bug where you could plant C4 in planter

[ GAMEPLAY ]

• Fixed an issue where the player's shadow would sometimes show the incorrect animation state
  
• Weapon switching after releasing the fire button(s) will no longer cancel grenade throws (but round restart will)
  
• Various animation system optimizations
  
• Various minor bug fixes to demo playback

[ UI ]

• Fixed a bug where starting pistols weren't showing in the Pistols tab of the Equipment view
  
• Fixed an issue where silencers would not be shown on weapons when held by characters in the UI

[ MAPS ]
Mirage:

• Fixed a gap under the door at Middle

Anubis:

• Added a grenade clip to the wall at Bridge

Vertigo:

• Changed the collision properties on railings to emit the correct footstep sounds

Nuke:

• Fix for the sun material not blooming and adjusted the size of the material
  
• Cleaned up redundant skins on metal_door models to prevent workshop mappers hitting fatal errors for missing assets
  
• Fixed a visibility bug at Garage when looking towards Hell
  
• Changed the collision properties on railings to emit the correct footstep sounds

Inferno:

• Changed the collision properties on railings to emit the correct footstep sounds
  
• Fixed an issue where some chimney models would disappear in the skybox

Dust2:

• Changed the collision properties on railings to emit the correct footstep sounds

[ GAMEPLAY ]

• Fixed a bug where grenade throw strength adjustments were sometimes delayed
  
• Fixed a bug where attempting to switch to a grenade immediately after throwing it would cancel the throw
  
• You can now get an intermediate strength grenade throw without a delay by pressing primary and secondary attack simultaneously
  
• Fixed several cases of players sticking while sliding against geometry
  
• Player pings will now be displayed in the player's color

[ MISC ]

• Fixed "Ace Round MVP" calculation bug when teams had a different number of players
  
• Fixed shorthanded bonus logic sometimes incorrectly accounting for kicked players

[ GAMEPLAY ]

• Sub-tick timing improvements to various systems including grenade throw animations and revolver firing
  
• Added a missing fire effect to molotovs that are held by players

[ ANIMATION ]

• Reduced the amount that player characters will rotate their torso away from leg orientation
  
• Improved hit reactions
  
• Made jump animations directional
  
• Improved character posing when aiming up and down
  
• Improved foot placement and posing when running
  
• Reduced animation posing when deploying
  
• The timing of a players flashbanged posing now more accurately represents the player's ability to see

[ SOUND ]

• Fixed issue with Shadow Daggers playing catch sound during looping inspect animation
  
• Further refined falloff distance curves and volume of grenade bounces
  
• Lowered volume of deathmatch bonus period ending
  
• Lowered volume of lobby chat notification sound
  
• Fixed missing water drip console errors in Office
  
• Increased audible distance of breaking glass window sounds
  
• Fixed an issue where sometimes a Sabre agent would say hostage related lines when cheering

[ MISC ]

• Adjusted wear values of most tournament stickers and many other stickers to better match CS:GO
  
• Changed handling of non-default console key bindings to match CS:GO behavior

[ MAPS ]

Nuke:

• Fixed cubemap issue at Lobby
  
• Fixed hole at B-site
  
• Fixed some holes at Ramp Room
  
• Fixed glass floor material at B-Site not having impact effects
  
• Fixed up footstep sounds on hazard stripes
  
• Attempt to fix light leaking through base of doors at B-site
  
• Brightened red interior walls to help with agent vis
  
• Fixed pixel boost on chainlink fence outside
  
• Fix shadows leaking through double doors at B-site
  
• Made cubemap transitions smoother in some places at b-site

Mirage:

• Fixed clipping on van at Truck
  
• Clipped fridge in Apartments to prevent player becoming stuck
  
• Adjusted bombsite A size and added visual boundaries
  
• Fixed collision on Scaffolding to provide smooth movement
  
• Fixed geometry and clipping outside Sniper's Nest to prevent pixel walking

Office:

• Improved clipping around desks at t-spawn
  
• Improved clipping on crates at Back Courtyard
  
• Re-added collision to handrails

Vertigo:

• Extended staircase and added grenade clip to stairs at near t-spawn to prevent grenades becoming wedged in gap
  
• Fixed clipping on crate at mid
  
• Fixed clipping on scaffold at back of A
  
• Fixed clipping on scaffold at T-start
  
• Fixed vis bug at A-ramp looking toward Bridge
  
• Fixed grenade clip on support beam at A-ramp
  
• Plugged Holes in insulation foam roll model

Anubis:

• Fixed hole under pillar at A-site
  
• Fixed clipping above walkway stairs in Palace
  
• Closed up multiple microgaps throughout the map
  
• Fixed some clipping on pillar at A-site
  
• Fixed clipping on doorway at b-site
  
• Plugged some micro holes
  
• Fixed gap between two clip brushes that allowed bomb to be thrown on top of building
  
• Fixed slight wall gap that allowed sniping into bombsite A
  
• Fixed clipping on doorway at b-site

Ancient:

• Fixed various gaps in the world
  
• Fixed various texture seams
  
• Closed gap that looks into Jaguar area
  
• Adjusted clipping along fence near A-site
  
• Adjusted clipping around tree base on A-site boost
  
• Adjusted position of stone near B-site that player could crouch in
  
• Added clipping to the top of the map to help minimize player exploits

[ MISC ]

• Fixed silencer attach and detach animations
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented refunding the Bizon
  
• Fixed a bug where players could respawn into a bad state during reconnect
  
• Fixed a bug where ramps were not correctly reducing fall damage
  
• Fixed a case where sub-tick movement timestamps were temporarily incorrect after changing host_timescale
  
• Various fixes and improvements to de_ancient

• Fixed a few minor sub-tick input bugs
  
• Fixed a bug with first person animation in bot takeover
  
• Fixed a bug where dropped/thrown weapons had too much velocity
  
• Fixed a case where players could push their view through low ceilings
  
• Fixed an exploit that would allow players to teleport
  
• de_overpass: Various tweaks and bug fixes
  
• de_anubis: Fixed potential pixel gap exploit at A-site and plugged hole near t-spawn where bomb could be thrown out of world

[ GAMEPLAY ]

• More sub-tick visual and audio feedback improvements
  
• Reduced sniper scope bob animation magnitude and frequency
  
• Fixed a bug causing duck to be slower when the Duck Mode was set to Toggle
  
• Fixed a case where grenade throws weren't registering on the server
  
• Thrown grenades no longer prematurely detonate if thrown while intersecting a teammate
  
• Players can no longer mitigate fall damage by defusing the bomb
  
• Adjusted weapon drop trajectories to make throwing weapons more consistent, especially when throwing weapons downward
  
• When a network interruption is detected by official game servers, the affected match will be cancelled
  
• Added unique sounds for running and jumping on metal railings and poles

[ ANIMATION ]

• Fixed a bug that occurred when interrupting the CZ75a deploy with inspect
  
• Fixed the inspect and other animations for the Shadow Daggers
  
• Fixed a 'broken wrist' animation with the Survival Knife
  
• Adjusted the Mac10 first person animation to include strap and bolt movement
  
• Fixed AWP and SSG firing animation/inspect behavior while zoomed in
  
• Fixed a case where the Deagle slide would fail to reset on round restart
  
• The Revolver barrel now incrementally rotates for each shot
  
• Fixed some animation issues with weapons placed in community maps
  
• Fixed cases where the C4 light would not blink when held or holstered by players
  
• Fixed some cases where the player's shadow would show an incorrect pose

[ MISC ]

• Fixed a bug where bot_knives_only didn't work for T's
  
• Fixed some visual issues with demo playback
  
• Improved performance of screen particle effects
  
• Fixed the Mute Enemy Team and Mute All But Friends settings failing to mute voice
  
• Text from blocked players will no longer be visible in the premier pregame chat
  
• Players frozen by half-time gamerules are now immune to certain damage types
  
• Decals now evict the lowermost decal if enough decals overlap in a single location
  
• Player visibility fog adjustment no longer applies to dead ragdolls
  
• Smoke particles no longer stick to dead ragdolls
  
• Fixed self/team burn damage getting recorded as enemy damage

[ UI ]

• Revised some common chat strings
  
• Added convar cl_deathnotices_show_numbers for observers to have quick access to player's spectate index
  
• Added a warning message for AMD and Nvidia graphics users with out-of-date drivers
  
• "Kevlar & Helmet" entry in the Buy Menu will now present itself as simply "Helmet" when contextually correct
  
• Added time to weekly rollover to the reduced XP message in the player profile tooltip
  
• Fixed kill feed and death panel not displaying correct information if the killer died earlier or disconnected
  
• Fixed round-delayed stats not updating at match end
  
• Changed deathmatch scoreboard stats from K/D/A/Score to K/HS%/DMG/Score
  
• Fixed case where text during defuse would get cut off
  
• Added direction indicators to players in the square radar
  
• Fixed case where kill icon would not display in the post-round damage info panel
  
• Fixed bad string in the commend dialog panel
  
• Fixed case where round stats in the Watch Menu would be assigned to the wrong side

[ WORKSHOP ]

• Fixed custom sound events files in workshop maps
  
• Added some material settings for water refraction/caustics
  
• Workshop maps can now be tagged as supporting Wingman mode
  
• Linux clients can now run workshop maps without requiring -insecure
  
• Added trigger_hostage_reset trigger and logic_eventlistener entities
  
• Added convars sv_walkable_normal and sv_standable_normal to allow community servers to tweak player movement on angled surfaces
  
• Fixed health getting clipped when it exceeds 3 digits

[ MAPS ]

Overpass:

• Fixed various cases where level mesh was disappearing occasionally
  
• Various visual updates and fixes to models and materials
  
• Straightened out some collision that was pushing players off of walls or corners
  
• Turned off the collision of some light fixtures that were pushing players off of walls
  
• Added a metal plate to swat van to hide player feet, adjusted clipping around van
  
• Fixed some small holes in the world
  
• Fixed some texture mapping seams
  
• Added player clipping on some floor grates to smooth player movement
  
• Fixed some issues with the collision and surface property of fire extinguishers
  
• Added and adjusted some grenade clipping
  
• Adjusted some clipping on boxes and cable stacks in connector

Ancient:

• More player and grenade clips adjustments
  
• Closed various holes and cracks in the world

Mirage:

• Fixed clipping around scaffolding at bombsite b to prevent one-way peeking through geo

Office:

• Fixed player getting stuck on large crate in garage
  
• General grenade clip polish
  
• Vending machine break sequence now only happens once to avoid strobing lights
  
• Removed collision from pipes and cctv cameras at ct spawn garage
  
• Added grenade clips to doors at stairwell
  
• Fixed hole in door frame at t-spawn
  
• Fixed texture errors on ceiling at conference room
  
• Fixed some lighting errors on low settings
  
• Fixed weapons getting stuck behind crates at back way
  
• Fixed lighting artifacts in front courtyard
  
• Fixed bad boost onto electrical boxes in garage

Anubis:

• Fixed z-fighting on stairs in connector
  
• Improved ground at bombsite A so that it has more accurate footstep sounds
  
• Fixed gap in world around b-site planting area
  
• Fixed z-fighting a backdrop temple near t-spawn
  
• Fixed missing collision at connector that would allow grenades to fall through world
  
• Fixed hole in world at street that allowed players to see through to canal
  
• Fixed vis issue on street looking back to t-spawn
  
• Fixed UV stretching in connector
  
• Sealed up holes in building rooftops for entire level to prevent grenades getting stuck in void
  
• Fixed holes in lower tunnel
  
• Fixed hole in canal

Inferno:

• Moved bucket on scaffolding on bombsite B that could be mistaken for player during combat
  
• Closed hole to prevent grenades from falling through the map on bombsite A
  
• More player clip adjustments
  
• Fixed various micro gaps

Nuke:

• Minor clipping fixes on rooftops and hut
  
• Better caustics in pool at B site
  
• Fixed vis issue in garage looking towards hell

Vertigo:

• Fixed some light fixtures showing backfaces
  
• Fixed some light fixtures being misaligned
  
• Fixed missing vent pieces in Tunnels
  
• Attempt to fix players clipping through wood boards by stairwell at bombsite b
  
• Fixed bad clip above door at elevator
  
• Fixed flashbang inconsistency with metal gratings at scaffolding
  
• Fixed missing collision on horizontal tower beams at b-site
  
• Added grenade clips around bombsite b to prevent smokes getting caught in bad spaces
  
• Cleaned up geo and did a grenade clip pass around scaffold to make grenades work better
  
• Added grenade clip to b platform
  
• Fixed disconnected girders at mid
  
• Moved stack of drywall at back door>b for better movement/cover
  
• Improved clipping at side
  
• Jobsite injury signs are more responsive

[ GAMEPLAY ]

• Fixed a bug where collision between players was sometimes causing players to step up
  
• Fixed a bug where players could slide up walls in Mirage mid
  
• Fixed a movement systems bug where players could get stuck on geometry
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented "Zoom Button Hold: Repeat Disabled" from working correctly
  
• Fixed a case where switching weapons immediately after shooting would result in the shot not registering on the server
  
• Fixed a case where players could shoot during freeze time at the ends of warmup, halves, and matches