Counter-Strike 2 Release Notes: Reworked Agent Skin, Jump Animation Adjustments, and more

After an extended Limited Test, Valve has deemed Counter-Strike 2 ready for the masses. Released today in the same Steam branch as CS: GO, fans of Valve's early entry have no way of playing the old game anymore. In its stead is the brand new Source 2 rendition of the two-decade-long franchise. The official patch notes now highlight the exact differences between the last version of the beta and the launch version.

Also read: Counter-Strike 2 Officially Replaces CS: GO: New Audio Settings, Private Matchmaking, And Updated System Requirements
 

Complete Counter-Strike 2 Patch Notes for Version 1.0

General

• Counter-Strike 2 is now available and free to play
• Season One of Premier has begun

Gameplay

• Enabled Competitive matchmaking
• Enabled Wingman matchmaking
• Enabled Private Matchmaking
• Added Training Day, a brief introductory experience for brand-new players
• Improved player-against-player movement collision
• Improved consistency of bullet penetration
• Player reflections in water are now occluded by smoke
• Molotov fire now floats above the water
• Fixed character ambient occlusion being visible through walls
• C4 bomb lights don't reflect through walls
• Fixed some rare cases of viewmodel lighting corruption
• Adjusted smoke behavior to cover cases where smoke would stop less than a player's height above the ground
• Fix various bugs with switching teams in the middle of offline Deathmatch
• Fixed Famas reloading too early
• Chickens can finally fall off Vertigo

Sound

• Added the new CS2 default music kit
• Added new audio customization settings
• Various mix tweaks and adjustments
• Various bug fixes related to music kits
• Updated the game startup sound
• Added background ambience to main menu scenes
• Restored the clutch_mode_toggle function
• Fixed a bug where sometimes c4 defuse and planting sounds could not be heard in certain locations
• Fixed some surfaces being incorrectly tagged causing incorrect footstep sounds in certain locations
• Fixed a bug where attackers could not hear headshot feedback through wallbangs or smokes
• Body damage feedback for attackers will now play within the same distance as it does for onlookers through smokes and wallbangs
• Fixed a bug where scoping in affected directional sound
• First person damage sounds are now more impactful
• Removed several legacy audio convars that existed in CS:GO but never had an effect in CS2

Animation

• Adjusted character additive lean animation
• Adjusted jump animation, particularly when repeatedly jumping
• Adjusted jiggle-peeking animation
• Adjusted animated character head position relative to camera position
• Added bullet belt to negev
• Reduced foot sliding when carrying slower weapons
• Fixed character momentarily standing during crouch-planting animation
• Fixed incorrect viewmodel deploy speeds
• Fixed pops in some weapon inspect animations
• Inspecting weapons may now interrupt deploy animation

Matchmaking

• When one or more party members get convicted of cheating and permanently banned, all their associates will be penalized with loss of Profile Rank and CS Rating
• In Premier, players with a very high established CS Rating are not allowed to party with accounts that do not have an established CS Rating

Maps

• Various bug fixes and tweaks for all shipped maps
• Adjusted vertical audio occlusion boundaries in Nuke and Vertigo
• Added an extra bell in Inferno
• Casual and Deathmatch maps are now separated into multiple map groups

Misc
 

• CS: GO Players who started playing more than a week ago will receive a commemorative CS: GO coin and CS: GO Music Kit
• Added Store tab to the main menu
• Enabled all interactions with inventory items
• Replaced weekly drops with a weekly Care Package. Choose from weapon cases, weapon finishes, and graffiti
• Added demo playback support
• Added the ability to favorite and shuffle loadout items
• Added new item icons
• Office and Vertigo are available as the main menu scenery
• Various updates for weapon finishes, including fixing overly strong wear on several Custom Paint Job finishes
• Reworked Phoenix Street Soldier balaclava texture to resolve visibility issues
• Enabled animated eyes on agent character models

Workshop Tools

• Game clients running in workshop tools mode are not allowed to connect to VAC secure game servers
• Added an all-new help system featuring contextually relevant guides and information. Guides include gray scale value ranges for alpha channel masking, paint-by-number mask color assignments based on current finish type, and much more!
• Removed dynamic props from solid color inspect backgrounds