2026-10-18

ARMORY: Counter-Strike 2 Update

PREMIER - Premier Season Five has begun

Counter-Strike 2 Update

PREMIER - Premier Season Five has begun

- Added Cache to the Active Duty Map Pool

- Removed Overpass from the Active Duty Map Pool

GAMEPLAY - Re-designed effective range and extent of C4 explosion damage on all official defusal-mode maps.

- Damage is now applied according to precomputed simulation values, baked into the compiled map.

- Explosion shockwave damage now rapidly expands from the center of the explosion instead of being applied instantly.

- Fixed case where picking up dropped weapons through the Buy Menu would fail to complete.

ARMORY - Added two new weapon collections based on the recent Call to Arms community announcement: Spy Tech + Arabesque

- Added two new sticker collections based on the recent Call to Arms community announcement: Fruits & Vegetables + Auto Racing

- Train 2025 and Sport & Field weapon collections are no longer available in the Armory

- Sugarface 2 and Elemental Craft sticker collections are no longer available in the Armory

WORKSHOP - Updated "Custom Paint Job Extended"

- Added option to include a dedicated overlay mask texture

- Added option to set unique overlay UV randomization separate from albedo UV randomization

MISC - Reduced the performance cost of showing the scoreboard.

- Fixed a case where material blending effects would disappear when you got too close (e.g. the dirt on the barrels in Inferno Banana).