The latest update for CS2 brings “Retakes”, one of the most popular game modes within Counter-Strike, to the official Valve servers.
For the longest time, Retake mode was limited to community servers, forcing players to opt for third-party-hosted matches to enjoy this game mode, but that is no longer true. Many players prefer retakes over DMs or Aimbots when warming up, given that they offer realistic scenarios to practice, but the lack of availability poses a challenge. Now that it has been officially introduced in the game, it goes without saying that it will attract tons of players.
In addition to this, the latest update will also allow you to trade up knives and gloves, but hardly anyone is looking at it next to other major changes. Valve has also introduced new interaction logic for when multiple smokes are laid out in the map at a time, making the game more consistent than before.
Read the official Patch Notes here.
CS2 October 23rd Update Patch Notes
[ GAMEPLAY ]
- Adding Retakes as official game mode supporting Defusal Group Alpha and Defusal Group Delta maps on official matchmaking servers.
- Fixed Molotov and Smoke interaction logic in cases when multiple smokes are active in the map.
[ MAPS ]
- Updated Golden to the latest version from Steam Community Workshop (Update Notes)
- Updated Palacio to the latest version from Steam Community Workshop (Update Notes)
- Updated Rooftop to the latest version from Steam Community Workshop (Update Notes)
- Inferno
- Adjustments to top of Quad and under Balcony to improve visibility.
- Various optimizations.
[ CONTRACTS ]
- Extended functionality of the “Trade Up Contract” to allow exchanging 5 items of Covert quality as follows:
- 5 StatTrak™ Covert items can be exchanged for one StatTrak™ Knife from a collection of one of the items provided
- 5 regular Covert items can be exchanged for one regular Knife item or one regular Gloves item from a collection of one of the items provided
[ MISC ]
- Performance optimizations when the game is in the main menu and item inspect UI
- Fixed inventory item icons sometimes rendering in blurry state or not rendering
- Fixed several server-only sound events to not start multiple times
- Stability improvements