2023-09-27 — present
Counter-Strike 2 has fielded 6 Active Duty pools since it launched on 2023-09-27 — each one a season with its own rotation, its own Tier 1 events and its own measured meta. This archive writes down every one of them, alongside the 194 updates Valve shipped across them — one every 5.4 days, 76% of them Tuesday through Thursday, and not once on a weekend.
Each tile shows that map's CT share across this season alone.
2 Tier 1 events played on this pool so far, and 6 updates shipped while it has held. Read this season in full, or every season before it.
Across every Active Duty map, between those two months, measured over Tier 1 events — HLTV Majors and international LAN events with a prize pool between $600,000 and $2,000,000. Follow it month by month, or read it one Active Duty rotation at a time.
The Ranked Series stickers went on sale, with half of the royalties shared with players, teams and the tournament organizer. Valve also closed a hole that let malicious players avoid being processed by VACnet, and fixed Collection Catalog XP failing to claim for The Dead Hand Collection. Boulder, Fachwerk and Shelter picked up their latest Workshop revisions.
The C4 explosion now interacts with smoke grenade clouds and molotov fire, and the bomb's damage health preview appears once the bomb becomes audible rather than earlier. Fachwerk, Boulder and Debris took their latest Workshop revisions. Steam China builds gained a Workshop maps section and a Community Servers shortcut in the Play menu.
Valve opened submissions for one new weapon collection, Fairy Tales, and two new sticker collections, Cryptids and Pop Art. Items are submitted through the Counter-Strike 2 Workshop Tool, and creators must agree to the game's Supplemental Terms to be included. The previous Call to Arms-ory collections shipped the week before.
Fachwerk, Boulder, Shelter, and El Dorado each received an update to their latest Community Workshop version. The patch also includes various stability and security fixes.
The new C4 explosion model no longer guarantees a minimum of one point of damage across the whole map, and a bug that miscalculated that damage near boundaries between map areas is fixed. New C4 explosions also apply more force to dropped weapons. The patch fixes season medals missing their gold tint and the scoreboard failing to update while it is open.
