Ranked Series stickers, Cologne 2026 Shop availability, Community Workshop map updates, and several bug fixes.
Ranked Series stickers are available for purchase, with 50% of royalties shared with players, teams, and the tournament organizer.
Items in the Cologne 2026 Shop will be available for purchase until September 29th.
Community Workshop updates for Boulder, Fachwerk, and Shelter, plus several bug fixes including issues with `tools mode`, `Collection Catalog XP` for `The Dead Hand Collection`, and `VACnet` processing.
Bomb damage HUD visuals, smokes, flashbangs, and bomb-blast effects get shader updates, while Workshop integration and community addon maps receive small quality-of-life tweaks.
Bomb damage HUD bar is now animated and clearer when showing expected bomb survival.
Smoke, flashbang, and bomb-blast shaders have been reworked for more consistent visual effects.
Workshop Play menu button behavior and error messaging have been improved, with cleaner UI strings.
Community addon maps de_fachwerk, de_debris, and de_boulder had their asset manifests refreshed.
Localization resources and internal schemas were rebundled and updated, without changing core gameplay.
CS2 quietly refreshes its Workshop event lineup with new cryptids, pop art, and fairy tales themes, while rotating out several older categories and updating localization and tools to match.
Three new CS2 Workshop event themes—Cryptids, Pop art, and Fairy Tales—have been added to the client and tooling, replacing several older event categories.
Localization packages were refreshed so the new Workshop themes are available across all supported languages.
Low-level tooling and audio schema updates accompany a small version bump, with no clear gameplay or balance changes indicated.
Today we're updating our Workshop Tools to support our second Call to Arms-ory. We're looking for new items for one new weapon collection:
- Fairy Tales
And two new sticker collections:
- Cryptids
- Pop Art
More information here:
