Counter-Strike 2 Premier Season 5 Update Patch Notes

The new Premier Season is officially here, with the last update as Cache is now officially part of the map pool, leading to the exit of the highly popular Overpass. Along with the changes in the Active Duty Map Pool, the update brings a plethora of changes, including C4 explosion mechanics with map-specific damage calculations, making it more consistent across maps. The update further addresses known bugs such as the one that has been preventing players from picking up dropped weapons from the Buy Menu. The highly successful CS2 Armory also gets two new weapons and two new sticker collections that fans would definitely want a piece of. CS2 July 9 Update Patch Notes Find the official patch notes below: [ PREMIER ] Premier Season Five has begun Added Cache to the Active Duty Map Pool Removed Overpass from the Active Duty Map Pool [ GAMEPLAY ] Re-designed effective range and extent of C4 explosion damage on all official defusal-mode maps. Damage is now applied according to precomputed simulation values, baked into the compiled map. Explosion shockwave damage now rapidly expands from the center of the explosion instead of being applied instantly. Fixed case where picking up dropped weapons through the Buy Menu would fail to complete. [ ARMORY ] Added two new weapon collections based on the recent Call to Arms community announcement: Spy Tech + Arabesque Added two new sticker collections based on the recent Call to Arms community announcement: Fruits & Vegetables + Auto Racing Train 2025 and Sport & Field weapon collections are no longer available in the Armory Sugarface 2 and Elemental Craft sticker collections are no longer available in the Armory [ WORKSHOP ] Updated "Custom Paint Job Extended" Added option to include a dedicated overlay mask texture Added option to set unique overlay UV randomization separate from albedo UV randomization [ MISC ] Reduced the performance cost of showing the scoreboard. Fixed a case where material blending effects would disappear when you got too close (e.g. the dirt on the barrels in Inferno Banana). Increased sticker rotation precision to allow half-degree increments on application screen. [ MAP SCRIPTING ] Added Instance.QueueAfterThinks Added Instance.OnWeaponDrop Added CSWeaponBase.GetOriginalOwner Fixed a crash when the name passed to Instance.RegisterCheatCommand collided with an existing command. Added file name and line number to errors caught during the CompileModule step of script loading. Removed support for deprecated vts assets. [ ENGINE ] Updated engine code to the latest version of Source 2 [ MAPS ] Removed community maps: Warden, Stronghold, Alpine, and Sanctum from all game modes Added community maps Boulder, Fachwerk, and Shelter to Competitive, Casual, and Deathmatch modes Added community maps Debris and El Dorado to Wingman mode Cache Various clipping adjustments Dust II Fixed pixel gap Outside Tunnel Clipping adjustment Outside Tunnel Inferno Clipping fix to prevent pixel boost at Top of Mid https://twitter.com/CounterStrike/status/2074996469418041719