update · December 19, 2024
Counter-Strike 2 Update Adds Shanghai 2024 Champions Capsule and Warmup Controls
Counter-Strike 2 receives an update featuring the Shanghai 2024 Major Champions Capsule and support for Steam Workshop Map Guides. The patch also introduces warmup server settings, CPU core preference controls, and weapon drop adjustments.
Valve released an update for Counter-Strike 2, introducing esports items, workshop map guide support, and quality-of-life adjustments for servers and gameplay.
Shanghai 2024 Major Champions Capsule
The Shanghai 2024 Major Champions Capsule is available for purchase, containing autographs for each member of the winning team in paper, glitter, holo, and gold formats. Half of all proceeds go to participating players and organizations.
Warmup and Server Settings
Warmup behavior prevents weapons from dropping when changing teams, accompanied by a two-second cooldown on team changes during warmup. New server console variables control item drops during warmup: mp_warmup_items_drop_policy, mp_warmup_items_nocost, and mp_warmup_items_nocount_policy.
Workshop Map Guides and Tools
Map Guides support Steam Workshop submission and subscription. Players can select map guides to load directly in practice mode using a selector, view annotation nodes on the radar, and use the workshop_annotation_submit console command.
Performance and Visual Fixes
A CPU Cores Usage Preference setting lets players control how high-performance and power-efficiency cores are managed on variable-core CPUs. The update improves collision fidelity and fixes surface types on props, adjusts wetness levels on certain surfaces, improves weapon inspect animations, and fixes inventory item tile rendering corruption.
Why this patch matters
This update delivers administrative tools for community server operators and workshop integration for practice map runners, alongside cosmetic additions.