To report bugs or provide feedback about the beta build, please email csgoteamfeedback@valvesoftware.com with the subject "AG2 Beta".

[ ANIMGRAPH 2 ]

• Fixed viewmodel and worldmodel HE grenade throw
  

• Adjusted foot IK when idle
  

• Minor polish for turn animations when planting
  

• Fixed fast-weapon switching when holding inspect
  

• Minor adjustments to viewmodel animations
  

• Adjusted counter-strafe animation head dip amount
  

Please note that the client may produce a fatal error message when attempting to connect to a server running a different build.

To report bugs or provide feedback about the beta build, please email csgoteamfeedback@valvesoftware.com with the subject "AG2 Beta".

[ ANIMGRAPH 2 ]

• Fixed wrong pose when backing into corners
  

• Improved stuttering of 3rd person aim
  

• Fixed main menu pistol poses
  

• Added missing knife draw animations
  

• Fix pop when running and switching weapons
  

• Fix pop when switching weapons after throwing a grenade
  

• Fixed head wobbling when planting C4
  

• Fixed issue when holding inspect and changing weapons
  

[ OTHER ]

• Fixed a case where it was possible to climb down ladders faster than before.
  

Please note that the client may produce a fatal error message when attempting to connect to a server running a different build.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/5A86-0DF4-C59E-8C4A

To report bugs or provide feedback about the beta build, please email csgoteamfeedback@valvesoftware.com with the subject "AG2 Beta".

[ NETWORK]

• Reduced network bandwidth utilization
  

Please note that the client may produce a fatal error message when attempting to connect to a server running a different build.

To report bugs or provide feedback about the beta build, please email csgoteamfeedback@valvesoftware.com with the subject "AG2 Beta".

[ ANIMGRAPH 2 ]

The CS2 animation system has been updated to Animgraph 2, which reduces CPU and networking costs associated with animation.

• All third-person animations have been re-authored, and in several cases adjusted in response to player feedback.
  

• Smoothed in-air crouching transitions in first and third-person.
  

• In support of Animgraph 2, the logic adjusting player height on sloped surfaces has been refactored.
  

  • Player height on ramps is now consistent and no longer depends on approach direction.
    

  • As a result of this change, grenade lineups on sloped surfaces may have changed.
    

[ ENGINE ]

• Updated engine code to the latest version of Source 2.
  

[ CS SCRIPT ]

• Added function GetRoundRemainingTime.
  

[ GAMEPLAY ]

• Player occlusion now uses a GPU query to prevent players clipping through thin walls when none of their bounding volume is visible.
  

[ SOUND ]

• Mix adjustments to help accentuate jump landing sounds during combat.
  

• New c4 equip sound.
  

• Minor adjustments to ambient sound levels.
  

• Fixed missing ambient sounds on team selection and end of match screens.
  

• Fixed missing sounds in the main menu UI
  

• Mix tweaks while taking damage
  

• Fixed bug where DeathCam music cue was causing volume ducking for too long.
  

• Vertical occlusion is now more gradual at the edges of transition points in Nuke and Vertigo.
  

• Various map audio adjustments in Baggage, Shoots, Ancient, Nuke, and Vertigo.
  

[ KNOWN ISSUES ]

• In some rare cases, when you turn your head there will be a slight unintended camera shift.
  

• The Karambit crouch animation has a strange wrist rotation.
  

• Certain combinations of graphics settings result in many things rendering as solid black.
  

• Some materials are missing their normal tint.
  

• The Default T shirt is missing its pattern.
  

• Overpass has broken shadows at Fountain, Playground and Long.
  

• Rapid hand switching just shows up as a blinking weapon.
  

• The third-person Shadow Daggers deploy animation is misbehaving.
  

• Third-person idle animations stop during first-person weapon inspects.
  

• The Paracord Knife is missing a deploy animation.
  

• Limited map guides are now available in Competitive and Retakes (first 5 rounds of the half, 30 node max).
  
• sv_allow_annotations_access_level supports 3 values: 0 – disabled. 1 – limited view. 2 – full and editable.
  
• sv_annotation_limits_max_rounds_per_half (default 5) determines how many rounds into the half guides are allowed. -1 for unlimited.
  
• Minimal starter map guides have been added for all Active Duty maps.

• Friends playing a Practice or Workshop map can be joined through the friends menu if they have Open Party set.

• Players in Germany and Netherlands will have an X-Ray Scanner tab in their Inventory. For those players, containers can only be opened via X-ray Scanner. The X-Ray Scanner will come preloaded with a one-time exclusive non-tradable "Genuine P250 | X-ray", which must be claimed before using the X-Ray Scanner to reveal items in other containers.
  

• Keyless Containers, like Souvenir Packages, can be opened without the X-Ray Scanner.
  

• The Dead Hand Collection is now available, featuring 17 finishes from community contributors, and including 22 all-new gloves as rare special items.
  

• Access items in the Dead Hand Collection via the Dead Hand Terminal, available as a weekly drop.
  

[ MAPS ]

Dust II

• Fixed a pixel gap in a door Outside Long.
  

Alpine

• Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop (Update Notes)
  

• Starting today, items listed for sale on Steam Community Market will remain in your inventory for use while they are listed (e.g., your weapon can be equipped in your loadout while it is listed). While listed, items cannot be consumed or modified. You can cancel your listings at any time.
  

• Added ability to set your max offer limit for items in the Terminal, and the Arms Dealer will only show offers up to that limit.
  

• Fixed a slight tilt in the chicken running animation.
  

[ MAPS ]

Inferno

• Balcony at Bombsite A has been extended.
  

• Graveyard at Bombsite A has been closed to the public.
  

• Clipping adjusted at small window next to Second Mid Balcony.
  

Warden

• Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop (Update Notes)
  

Sanctum

• Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop (Update Notes)
  

[ MAP SCRIPTING ]

• Added hitEntity to OnBulletImpact event data
  

• Added Entity.GetAbsAngularVelocity()
  

• Added Entity.GetLocalAngularVelocity()
  

• Added angularVelocity to Entity.Teleport()
  

• Added CSWeaponBase.GetClipAmmo()
  

• Added CSWeaponBase.SetClipAmmo()
  

• Added CSWeaponBase.GetReserveAmmo()
  

• Added CSWeaponBase.SetReserveAmmo()
  

• Added CSWeaponData.GetMaxClipAmmo()
  

• Added CSWeaponData.GetMaxReserveAmmo()
  

• Fixed missing CSPlayerPawn.IsDucking()
  

• Fixed missing CSPlayerPawn.IsDucked()
  

• Fixed a bug where JUMP wouldn't trigger for WasInputJustPressed() and WasInputJustReleased() if the press didn't cross a tick boundary.
  

• Fixed a bug where Entity methods GetEyePosition(), GetEyeAngles(), GetHealth(), GetMaxHealth(), and SetMaxHealth() would only work on CSPlayerPawns.
  

• Added Instance.SetSaveData
  

• Added Instance.GetSaveData
  

  • Workshop maps can write up to 1MB of save data.
    

  • Workshop saves leverage Steam Cloud and persist across installs.
    

  • Save data size limit can be configured with sv_workshop_map_save_data_max_filesize_mb.
    

• Added Instance.OnModifyPlayerDamage
  

  • Called after all damage properties have been calculated, just before armor and health are modified
    

  • Replaces Instance.OnBeforePlayerDamage
    

  • Includes hitgroup in event data
    

• Added hitgroup to OnPlayerDamage event data
  

• Added CSDamageFlags.IGNORE_ARMOR
  

• Added CSPlayerPawn.IsInputPressed
  

• Added CSPlayerPawn.WasInputJustPressed
  

• Added CSPlayerPawn.WasInputJustReleased
  

• Added enum CSInputs
  

• Fixed bug where CSDamageTypes was exported under the name CSDamageType
  

[ MISC ]

• Map guides for de_ancient can now be used on de_ancient_night and vice versa.
  

• Mitigated a performance issue that primarily affected Windows 10 users with recent Intel CPUs.
  

• Fixed a case where the Delete Item inventory option wasn't working.
  

• Fixed a case of visual corruption using iron sights on AMD GPUs.
  

• Expanding list of console variables addons are allowed to change.
  

[ MAPS ]

Overpass

• Fixed the Party balloons.
  

• Localization code and text changes.
  

• Fixed a case where switching firstperson spectator targets would cause viewmodel animations to reset.
  

• Fixed a case where physics calculations far from the origin were causing performance issues.
  

[ MAPS ]

Anubis

• Adjusted player clipping around new drop.
  

• Adjusted grenade clipping around connector (e-box :P) hole and old drop.
  

Poseidon

• Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop (Update Notes)
  

• Damage from HE grenades that explode mid-air near the ground will no longer be calculated as if they exploded on the ground.
  

[ SOUND ]

• Various knife sound adjustments.
  

[ MISC ]

• Performance optimizations for exploding chickens.
  

• Fixed a map scripting bug where Entity.SetOwner wasn't accepting undefined.
  

• Added a method for community maps to save modified user settings. Running 'host_writeconfig_with_prompt' will prompt the user for permission to save. If accepted, some of the modified settings (radar, viewmodel, safezones, etc) will be kept after the map exits.
  

• Community maps are now restricted to a smaller list of allowed console commands. Use -disable_workshop_command_filtering to disable this filtering.
  

[ MAPS ]

Stronghold

• Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop (Update Notes)
  

• Molotov/incendiary grenades that bounce off an enemy player have a one-time fuse extension added to prevent them from air-bursting when their has-never-hit-the-world timer elapses.
  

[ SOUND ]

• Fixed a performance issue when running CS2 without a sound device.
  

• Various knife sound adjustments.
  

[ MISC ]

• Fixed broken cl_ent_bbox visualization for some classes of rigid dynamic entities.
  

• Various stability improvements.
  

[ MAPS ]

Nuke

• Adjusted hanging hard hat model render bounds to prevent shadow popping when model exited the view frustum.
  

Warden

• Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop (Update Notes)
  

Sanctum

• Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop (Update Notes)
  

• Landing vertical velocity now affects landing speed penalties similar to sv_legacy_jump stamina.
  

[ MISC ]

• Fixed an issue that led to a small number of users to erroneously receive a VAC ban. Those bans have been reversed.
  

• Fixed a case where HUD safezone settings were not being applied.
  

• Various server stability improvements.
  

[ MAPS ]

Anubis

• Fixed a case where physics objects would interact with multiple overlapping convex water volumes.
  

• Various player clipping adjustments.
  

• Radar minimap updated to match recent changes.