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CS2 player aced his Master's thesis by building a biometric cheat-detection system
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CS2 player aced his Master's thesis by building a biometric cheat-detection system

Christopher B. Didriksen, a student at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, just finished a Master's thesis built entirely around one of Counter-Strike 2's most persistent problems: ban...
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CS2 update speeds up AUG reload and fixes Rush map geometry

Valve dropped a Counter-Strike 2 update on October 9 — roughly 539 MB — covering weapon balance, audio fixes, map geometry, and general stability. The headline change is a 0.5-second reduction to the...
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Counter-Strike 2 update posted, patch notes unavailable

Valve pushed a Counter-Strike 2 update, but the patch notes failed to load from the official Steam announcement pages — both sources returned only Steam navigation boilerplate with no readable content...
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CS2 adds Rush mode, map pick voting, and a wave of quality-of-life changes

Valve has dropped a sizeable CS2 update that introduces Rush — a new fast-paced 3v3 queued mode — alongside a revamped Premier map selection system and a stack of visual and gameplay tweaks. Rush is...
CS2 Tracker's slur leaderboard is now a competition, and Valve isn't doing anything about it
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CS2 Tracker's slur leaderboard is now a competition, and Valve isn't doing anything about it

A new Slurs Tracking feature on CS2 Tracker has backfired badly — players are now deliberately flooding in-game chat with racist and homophobic slurs just to rank on the leaderboard. In just two days,...
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Counter-Strike 2 update fixes grenade exploit and expands map scripting API

Valve pushed a small but focused Counter-Strike 2 update that patches a grenade-through-geometry exploit and tidies up two maps — Cache and Shelter. On Cache, several geometry gaps and collision issu...
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CS2 Cologne 2026 Ranked Series stickers are now live in the shop

Valve has added the Ranked Series to the Cologne 2026 Major shop in CS2 — a new set of stickers that show each team's final placement at the event. Like everything else in the shop, 50% of royalties g...
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Counter-Strike 2 update tweaks bomb mechanics and refreshes three community maps

Valve pushed a small but notable Counter-Strike 2 update that changes how the bomb behaves in the final seconds of a round. Two gameplay tweaks and a handful of map updates make up the bulk of the pat...
Counter-Strike 2 Fan Map Swaps Hostages for Dogs in Animal Shelter Rescue
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Counter-Strike 2 Fan Map Swaps Hostages for Dogs in Animal Shelter Rescue

A fan-made Counter-Strike 2 map called Shelter flips the classic Hostage Rescue mode on its head — instead of saving human hostages, players are rescuing dogs from a fictional animal testing facility....