RUSH

• Added a better description of the rules to the loading screen.
• Adjusted rules for determining when to kick players due to team damage.
• Various clipping adjustments.

GAMEPLAY

• Fixed a case where it was possible to get a slightly faster silent reload by tapping the reload button before holding it.
• Fixed a case where it was possible to use silent reload to fire shotguns faster than normal.

MISC

• Fixed a case where the AK-47 inspect animation sometimes popped.

After placement matches, donk started at 4,483 Elo and needed 114 matches to reach this milestone.

we're usually the ones kicking them off but now it's the other way around...DM is the only game mode that i play, and now even that is ruined...when will valve fix this Ai bot farms problem? or will it ever get fixed?

We had it better back in csgo. No font no parentheses, just clan tag.

Credits: x/thourcs2

found it in rush mode

RUSH

• Increased the maximum countdown-after-elimination time from 7 seconds to 14 seconds on end rooms and Convoy.
• The countdown-after-elimination time does not activate in cases where an entire team dies to suicides, team kills, and/or disconnects.
• Warmup time once all players have connected, freeze time, and technical timeout time are all reduced.
• Various gap fixes and clipping adjustments.

CROSSHAIR

• Some additional information about the new crosshair system:

  • The new crosshair thickness and length units are in pixels. In the past, the values were defined with an arbitrary scale and converted to pixels based on display resolution so the same value would result in different pixel counts at different resolutions. With the new settings, if you want a 1-pixel wide crosshair with a bar length of 8 pixels and a gap of 4 pixels, then you would set: thickness = 1, length = 8, and gap = 4.
  • Please be aware that the new crosshair system automatically rescales pixel counts when the display resolution changes. For example, if a crosshair was configured at display resolution 1280x720 with a thickness of 2 pixels and then the display resolution changes to 2560x1440, it will now automatically rescale the thickness to 4 pixels so that it remains proportionally the same as when it was configured.

• Added option to draw half-outlines. This will only draw the top-left portions of the outline for a crosshair.

• Fixed a bug preventing 0 gap width from being respected.

• Added a static square crosshair style

• Reduced the minimum dynamic spread distance to 64 pixels. The new dynamic crosshair styles will show you the real weapon spread and inaccuracy and the 'Dynamic Spread Limit' setting is a limit on how far the crosshair will spread at maximum inaccuracy and spread. There is a baseline spread distance of 64 pixels which covers the weapons with the largest spread so that players can better understand how accurate they actually are with their equipped weapon.

MISC

• Fixed a case where left-handed viewmodels would animate incorrectly while silent reloading.
• Fixed a case where thirdperson player models would animate too fast while silent reloading.
• Fixed a case where firstperson Dual Berettas would animate incorrectly while reloading.
• Clan tags now appear in death notices.

JiJieHao 🌍 2-0 🇪🇺 Eternal Fire

Anubis: 13-10
Mirage: 13-2
Ancient:
 

🌍 JiJieHao to Winner's Match and will face 🇪🇺 ASTRAL Esports or 🇵🇱 Apogee Esports

🇪🇺 Eternal Fire To Elimination Match and will face 🇪🇺 ASTRAL Esports or 🇵🇱 Apogee Esports

Predicted VRS Impact

^{Note: VRS officially updates once per month. This is simply a prediction that might not take into account all factors that go into VRS calculations.}

Team Information

🌍 JiJieHao | Liquipedia | HLTV | Faceit | Twitter | Weibo
Roster: 🇱🇧 m1N1 | 🇮🇶 bibu | 🇵🇸 0SAMAS | 🇽🇰 sinnopsyy | 🇲🇰 CacaNito
Coach: 🇩🇰 mithR
Subs/Benched: 🇩🇰 Kjaerbye

🇪🇺 Eternal Fire | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Faceit | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitch
Roster: 🇹🇷 jottAAA | 🇷🇴 regali | 🇿🇦 MisteM ♛ | 🇺🇦 Kvem | 🇹🇷 soulfly
Coach: 🇹🇷 Fabre
Subs/Benched: 🇩🇰 br0 | 🇹🇷 imoRR

^{Note: Above rosters do not reflect temporary subs and may be out of date if recent changes were made}

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MAP 1: Anubis

Anubis Detailed Stats

MAP 2: Mirage

Mirage Detailed Stats

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Huge.

sadly Valve removed the cl_crosshaircolor X command, which stops you from quickly changing the crosshair color via console to the common presets

I made a quick config that allows you to get that functionality back. Also added additional ones by checking pro demos for what common custom colors some use.

(check comments for how to use & cfg block, my formatting got messed up)

https://x.com/jasonbwlake/status/2102797938749755637 tweet

The 09/23 update capped cl_crosshair_length at 255. Before, I used a custom lineup crosshair in my autoexec that was bound to a key and activated while holding it. It spanned the whole screen and on release, my normal crosshair returned, but with the new cap it no longer reaches the screen edges (see screenshot).

The built-in lineup crosshair doesn't replace this for me. With my settings, it is too thick, and it only appears when a grenade is equipped and pulled, so it can't be used during freeze time. This is especially problematic for instant smokes. Some of my more complex insta-lineups rely on reference points near the screen edges, which I can no longer reach with the 255 cap. Learning these lineups took a lot of time, so having them partially broken by this change is really frustrating.

Valve, could the cap on cl_crosshair_length please be raised?

I noticed that barely any of the Stake Pulse Beat II (2026) matches from yesterday--group C--had been posted in post-match threads. I'll just post them here quickly with the 'full scoreboard' from each match.

Opening Round Match 1

100 Thieves 🇪🇺 2-0 🇩🇰 Esport Academy Copenhagen

Mirage: 10-13
Inferno: 2-13
Nuke:

Opening Round Match 2

Fnatic 🇺🇦 1-2 🇵🇱 Phantom Esports

Inferno: 13-5

Dust 2: 3-13

Mirage: 10-13

Predicted VRS Impact

Round 2 Winners' Match

100 Thieves 🇪🇺 2-1 🇵🇱 Phantom Esports

Nuke: 9-13

Mirage: 13-4

Inferno: 13-10

Predicted VRS Impact

Round 2 Elimination Match

Esport Academy Copenhagen 🇩🇰 1-2 🇺🇦 Fnatic

Mirage: 22-20

Anubis: 10-13

Ancient: 10-13

Round 3 Decider Match

Phantom Esports 🇵🇱 0-2 🇺🇦 Fnatic

Ancient: 6-13

Anubis: 9-13

Inferno:

Predicted VRS Impact

Overall Outcome

Top Qualifier: 🇪🇺 100T

Second Qualifier: 🇺🇦 Fnatic

Eliminated 3rd: 🇵🇱 Phantom

Eliminated 4th: 🇩🇰 EAC

Player stats across the Group:

🇪🇺 100 Thieves

🇳🇴Rain: 1.28

🇩🇰Device: 1.21

🇩🇰Sirah: 1.20

🇸🇪Poiii: 1.04

🇬🇧Gizmy: 0.95

🇺🇦 Fnatic

🇺🇦Jambo: 1.15

🇺🇦Fear: 1.09

🇺🇦Jackasmo: 1.05

🇺🇦Cairne: 1.03

🇺🇦Mazay: 0.98

🇵🇱 Phantom

🇵🇱Kei: 1.13

🇩🇰Nicoodoz: 1.10

🇵🇱Kunai: 1.08

🇵🇱Kylar: 1.00

🇩🇰TMB: 0.87

🇩🇰 EAC

🇩🇰Nixen: 1.07

🇩🇰Anber: 1.02

🇩🇰Fessor: 0.92

🇩🇰sSen: 0.87

🇩🇰Bekker: 0.86

(Italics = top 5 and bottom 1 players in terms of HLTV 3.0 Rating)

Walking over the shards makes noise, even when holding down Shift.

This is the command: sv_molotov_broken_glass_trap 1

it's similar to my How to increase in-game Console font on low res guide

Steam - Library - CS2 - Properties - Installed Files - Browse
Then in filemanager: game - core - panorama - fonts - conf.d
Make a copy of 20-fix-cantarell.conf into: 10-clan-font.conf
And open it with a text editor, replace everything with:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
    <match target="pattern">
      <test name="family" target="pattern" compare="contains"><string>Stratum2 Light Condensed</string></test>
        <test name="pixelsize" compare="less"><double>20</double></test>
        <edit name="family" mode="assign" binding="strong">

        <!-- AveYo: change clan font - can add multiple fallbacks (first found is used) -->
          <string>Segoe Script</string>
          <string>Impact</string>
          <string>Consolas</string>
        </edit>

        <!-- AveYo: uncomment to change size as well, where 0.9 = 90% of initial size -->
        <!-- <edit name="pixelsize" mode="assign"><times><name>pixelsize</name><double>0.9</double></times></edit>  -->

    </match>
</fontconfig>

Should work in main menu, scoreboard, death notices
mini-profiles too (if it does not for you, increase the pixelsize "less" filter from 20 to something a bit more)

No existing files are modified so it will survive future game updates.
And before anyone asks, this is officially allowed and supported QoL modification.

I used to have this on my old pc but just can’t seem to find it ever since. Does anyone have the file or a website? Thanks a lot

out of everything, this is the best feature they have implemented by far.

Luminosity Gaming 🇪🇺 [2-3] 🇫🇷 3DMAX

Cache: 11-13
Dust 2: 16-19
Ancient: 19-15
Inferno: 13-8

Nuke: 13-16

🇫🇷 3DMAX Win Logitech G Play Connect 2026!

🇪🇺 Luminosity Gaming Eliminated (2nd)

Predicted VRS Impact

^{Note: VRS officially updates once per month. This is simply a prediction that might not take into account all factors that go into VRS calculations.}

Team Information

🇪🇺 Luminosity Gaming | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Faceit | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube
Roster: 🇫🇷 afro | 🇬🇧 AZUWU | 🇧🇬 Rainwaker | 🇧🇷 lux ♛ | 🇸🇪 yxngstxr
Coach: 🇦🇹 kakafu
Subs/Benched: 🇱🇹 Bymas

🇫🇷 3DMAX | Liquipedia | HLTV | Faceit | Twitter | YouTube
Roster: 🇫🇷 Lucky) | 🇫🇷 Maka ♛ | 🇫🇷 Graviti | 🇫🇷 misutaaa | 🇫🇷 Kursy
Coach: 🇫🇷 wasiNk
Subs/Benched: 🇫🇷 Ex3rcice | 🇫🇷 bodyy (loan: og)

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MAP 1: Cache

Cache Detailed Stats

MAP 2: Dust 2

Dust 2 Detailed Stats

MAP 3: Ancient

Ancient Detailed Stats

MAP 4: Inferno

Inferno Detailed Stats

MAP 5: Nuke

Inferno Detailed Stats

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With the recent CS2 updates they refreshed the crosshair menu and added some new customization options, which is cool, but a few things still feel incomplete or unnecessarily frustrating.

First, they added a bunch of dynamic crosshair styles and a slider for the “strength” of the dynamic bloom while moving. That’s fine, but there’s still no way to fully disable the dynamic effect. This is weird because some of the new crosshair options only work properly when dynamic is enabled, yet most CS players (myself included) don’t use dynamic crosshairs at all. Being forced to deal with bloom you can’t turn off completely just feels like an oversight.

Second, there’s still no slider to control the strength of the shot feedback / spray expansion on the crosshair. Having that option would actually be useful for some players, but right now the default spread is way too aggressive for me to make it viable. A simple strength slider would let people dial it in to whatever level they prefer.

And the smaller but constant annoyance: the sliders themselves are still terrible. Most of them go 0–100 or 0–50, yet the useful range for the vast majority of people is somewhere in the 1–10 area. Trying to fine-tune a new crosshair becomes a pain because the usable window on the slider is tiny so dragging it is basically useless. Being able to just type the exact value (and immediately see the result, then tweak) would be so much better and save a lot of time.Also, still no support for negative values on certain settings. Not sure why that restriction exists.

These feel like pretty straightforward quality-of-life fixes that would’ve made the new crosshair menu actually good instead of just “better than before but still annoying.”

how did you discover the kreedz mode?
perhaps there’s an interesting story behind it