New CS2 Update Brings Weekly Missions and New Maps

After quite a while, Valve has released a CS2 update that significantly changes the game. The latest update will see a couple of new maps get added to the game, along with weekly missions that players can complete to farm XP.

Daily missions used to come as a part of Operations, but it seems Valve has made them independent. As players now have the chance to get additional XP every week without an Operation, this will likely see a massive rise in daily active users who will be lured to the game, quite a strategic update nonetheless.

The new maps, namely, Agency, Grail, Jura, Dogtown, and Brewery, will replace Basalt, Edin, Palais, and Whistle across different game modes, and it goes without saying that this will not affect the Active Duty map pool.

Here are the patch notes:

MISSIONS

• Added Weekly Missions, which can be entered through the main menu or play menu.
• Players receive one mission each week.
• The weekly mission expires after 7 days and rewards XP for completion.

MAPS

• Removed community maps Basalt, Edin, Palais, and Whistle from all game modes.
• Added community maps Jura, Grail, and Agency to Competitive, Casual, and Deathmatch modes.
• Added community maps Dogtown and Brewery to Wingman mode.
• Re-organized Casual and Deathmatch map groups.
  • Defusal Group Alpha: Dust 2, Mirage, Inferno, Vertigo.
  • Defusal Group Delta: Train, Anubis, Ancient, Overpass, Nuke.
  • Community Map Group: Jura, Grail, Agency.
  • Hostage Group: Office, Italy.

AUDIO

• Added “Main Menu Ambience Volume” setting.
• Fixed some cases where shooting visible enemies over the top of smoke would not play an attacker feedback sound.
• Fixed some cases where gameplay sounds were inaudible or would skip.
• Removed snd_setmixer, snd_setmixlayer, snd_soundmixer_setmixlayer_amount, and snd_soundmixer_set_trigger_factor console commands.

MISC

• Fixed a bug where input bindings to scancode56 (US English key “/”) wouldn’t persist across app launches.
• Lobby invites from players marked with “Block All Communication” in Steam will now be ignored in-game.