CS2 patch adds nighttime Ancient and improves animation

Counter-Strike 2 Release Notes for 8/14/2025

[MAPS]

– Ancient and Shoots
– Added nighttime versions.
– Refreshed all ancient materials to use latest CS2 shaders.
– Added new blending options for ancient materials including wetness and moss.
– Added "ancient_zoo.vmap" with all assets and blending examples for mapmakers.

[ITEMS]

– Deluge Music Kit Box is now available for purchase in standard and StatTrak versions.
– New Limited Time Item, the M4A1-S | Solitude, is now available in The Armory.

[ANIMATION]

– Sawed-off shotgun deploy modified and fixed shell penetration on reload.
– Improved deploy +quick inspect animations for all knives.
– Improved deploy +quick inspect animations for the AK, Galil, AUG, PP-Bizon.
– Improved deploy animations for the AWP, M4A4, M4A1-S.
– Improved animations for legacy SSG08 models.
– Removed the deploy inspect delay for most weapons.
– Fixed XM1014 blocking crosshair during reload.

[MISC]

– Rendering performance improvements across most maps.
– Rendering resolution and aspect ratio can now be changed in fullscreen windowed mode.
– fps_max can no longer be changed while connected to a server.
– Fixed a case where certain weapons could be fired sooner after a re-deploy.

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