update · April 30, 2024

Counter-Strike 2 Update April 30, 2024 Improves Demo Skipping and UI Fixes

An update for Counter-Strike 2 addresses keyboard input bugs, demo skip times, and killfeed icons.

The April 30, 2024 update for Counter-Strike 2 introduces quality-of-life adjustments, performance diagnostics, and bug fixes for menus and the killfeed.

UI and Gameplay Fixes

Grenade kills no longer display the in-air icon in the killfeed. The update also resolves a bug where clicking the buy menu or scoreboard caused the game to stop registering keyboard input.

Demo and Performance Tools

Skipping forward in demos processes fewer usercommands, reducing skip times by up to 80 percent. Advanced users can also utilize new console output that prints frame profiles for long frames and match summaries.

Why this patch matters

This update eliminates input lock bugs during matches while giving advanced users better tools to diagnose performance hiccups.