January 2025 Counter-Strike 2 Updates
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Welcome to the January 2025 CS2 Updates post! As the new year kicks off, Counter-Strike 2 brings fresh changes, including map adjustments, gameplay fixes, and important balance tweaks. Whether you’re here for patch notes, bug fixes, or competitive improvements, I’ve got you covered.
January 7 - Counter-Strike 2 Small Update
Maps
Inferno
- Adjusted clipping on stairs under balcony.
Miscellaneous
- Fixed offset discrepancy in legacy SSG08 model.
- Fixed stickers mask on legacy Dual Elites magazine model.
- Fixed Dual Elite pistol holster floating off the local firstperson leg model.
- Fixed a regression in grenade interactions with ragdolls.
- Fixed a bug where +attack2 and +lookatweapon composite binding could get silenced weapon into an inconsistent silencer state.
January 9 - Counter-Strike 2 Small Update
Maps
Train
- Fixed various minor visual bugs and gaps in world.
- Added dirt and wetness onto crates and tarps where appropriate.
- Widened opening on A site between Hell and Tunnels.
- Opened container door on back of the train near Ivy/Tunnels.
- Added dumpster by Ivy.
- Added barrels in A site cubby.
- Pushed back T spawns a little.
Miscellaneous
- Fixed a case where ragdolls could get created with extreme initial velocities.
- Added markup for individual matches in Steam Game Recording timeline.
- Fixed a regression where deploying weapons weren’t allowing immediate inspecting.
- Fixed fingers crossing into butterfly knife geometry during inspect animation.
- Fixed weekly care package preview of weapon cases not having a close button.
- When moving away from annotation nodes, required grenade is no longer removed.
January 14 - Counter-Strike 2 Small Update
Shanghai Major
- Shanghai 2024 Major sticker capsules are now on sale for 75% off.
Armory
Desert Eagle
- Heat Treated is no longer available to claim from The Armory.
Miscellaneous
- Fixed finger placement during Huntsman knife in-game inspect animation.
- Fixed a bug where grenade icons weren’t disappearing on the spectator map.
- Fixed a case when spectator icon could show up at the wrong time on the radar.
- Fixed a bug related to changing inspect scenery while inspecting knive.
January 16 - Counter-Strike 2 Small Update
Miscellaneous
- Updating Steam libraries for Linux game servers to the latest version of Steam Client Beta.
- Improved Linux game servers ability to reconnect to Steam after a disconnection.
- Stability improvements.
January 21 - Counter-Strike 2 Small Update
Miscellaneous
- Minor performance optimization for some CPU-bound cases.
- Follow recoil setting during spectating will now obey spectator target’s crosshair setting if target’s crosshair is shown.
- Added support for updating existing map annotations on Steam Workshop. For example use “workshop_annotation_submit 123456” to update your submission ID=123456 found in the workshop URL. Passing an ID that does not belong to you will create a brand new submission. After the first update the ID will get embedded in the annotation file and you can submit more changes without having to provide the ID again.
January 27 - Counter-Strike 2 Small Update
Premier
- Premier Season One is now over, and Premier matchmaking has been temporarily disabled.
January 28 - Counter-Strike 2 Small Update
Premier
- Premier Season Two is here, and Premier matchmaking has resumed.
- Every player who earned a CS Rating during Season One will receive a commemorative Premier Season One Medal which includes detailed Season Statistics.
- Every player will have their CS Rating recalibrated based on their Season One performance, and will need to re-establish their CS Rating by winning 10 matches
- Train has been added to the Active Duty map pool
- Vertigo has been removed from the Active Duty map pool
Gameplay
- M4A4 price reduced to $2,900
- FAMAS accuracy improved and price reduced to $1,950
- Reduced crouching accuracy for the MP9, MP5-SD, and MP7
- Adjusted scope dot on AUG/SG to be more useable at range
User Interface
- Added a new radar dynamic zoom option that will grow or shrink the radar to include your team mates, bomb and other detected elements
- Adjusted grenade order in spectator UI to match weapon selection order
- Increased brightness of carried C4 in UI
Maps
Train
- Removed a boost angle from Long Dog to Bombsite A.
- Fixed lighting artifacts on double-sided materials.
Miscellaneous
- Added fallback logic to allow playing incomplete demo files, either copied from an ongoing live match or recovered after a game server crash.
- Fixed an exploit where users could use secondary fire on R8 Revolver and then sell it back.
- Counter-strafe summaries are now available in game server log data distributed via log address in addition to console logs.
January 29 - Counter-Strike 2 Small Update
Maps
Basalt – Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop
- Improved clipping.
- Added place names.
- Various gameplay and visual fixes (thanks Joaokaka1998!).
- Updated guestbook.
Miscellaneous
