CS2 Update January 30, 2026

GAMEPLAY

• Damage from HE grenades that explode mid-air near the ground will no longer be calculated as if they exploded on the ground.

SOUND

• Various knife sound adjustments.

MISC

• Performance optimizations for exploding chickens.

• Fixed a map scripting bug where Entity.SetOwner wasn't accepting undefined.

• Added a method for community maps to save modified user settings. Running 'host_writeconfig_with_prompt' will prompt the user for permission to save. If accepted, some of the modified settings (radar, viewmodel, safezones, etc) will be kept after the map exits. 

• Community maps are now restricted to a smaller list of allowed console commands. Use -disable_workshop_command_filtering to disable this filtering.

MAPS

Stronghold

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