Counter-Strike 2 has released “Rain-cient” Update with Ancient’s night version, Deluge Music Kit Box, M4A1-S | Solitude, Austin Major 2025 Sticker Sale, and more.
Previously, several data miners revealed that Valve is working on a night version of the Ancient map. Today, it became official. The new update brings a new and immersive rainy weather to its legendary Ancient map, alongside sweeping visual, gameplay, and performance improvements throughout the game.
Apart from that, the new Deluge Music Kit Box is currently available in the in-game store. You can purchase both the standard and StatTrak versions. The box contains the following music kits:
- Adam Beyer
- Ghost
- HEALTH
- James and the Cold Gun
- Jonathan Young
- Juelz
- Killer Mike
- PVRIS
- Selective Response
- Tigercub
Along with it, a new M4A1-S skin has been introduced, named Solitude. It is added in the Limited Time item inside the Armory Pass. There are multiple versions of the skin available.
The Austin Major 2025 sticker capsules are also available at a 75% discount within the store. Apart from that, there are some other changes within the game. Without wasting time, let’s check out the official patch notes:
[ 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.