Counter-Strike 2 produces a pretty significant update on the 8th of August.

VALVE update page linked here.

Here is a list of the major updates they changed in todays release.

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.

VALVE also released Ancient at night! pic.twitter.com/wULLteTFK3

— CS2 Grove – Counter Strike News (@CS2Grove) August 14, 2025

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.

VALVE release CS2 update with new M4A1-S skin in Armory pic.twitter.com/qAMSkcAO3U

— CS2 Grove – Counter Strike News (@CS2Grove) August 14, 2025

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.

Overall, this seems like a good update and is better than the one line updates we have been getting of late. There has however, been leaks of an Arms Dealer coming to CS2. This could indicate that there could be an operation in the works. Keep your eyes peeled.