CS2 Update January 27, 2026

GAMEPLAY

• Molotov/incendiary grenades that bounce off an enemy player have a one-time fuse extension added to prevent them from air-bursting when their has-never-hit-the-world timer elapses.

SOUND

• Fixed a performance issue when running CS2 without a sound device.

• Various knife sound adjustments.

MISC

• Fixed broken cl_ent_bbox visualization for some classes of rigid dynamic entities.

• Various stability improvements.

MAPS

Nuke

• Adjusted hanging hard hat model render bounds to prevent shadow popping when model exited the view frustum.

Warden

• Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop (Update Notes)

Sanctum

• Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop (Update Notes)