CS2 patch fixes points for AMD customers, provides essential fixes to matchmaking

CS2‘s matchmaking has seen a ton of issues since launch. At the moment’s patch seeks to deal with a lot of these issues.

Gamers have been reporting that they take max penalty for being kicked from a match, deliberately or in any other case. As an alternative of receiving the max penalty, they now obtain the ranking penalty for a loss in that match.

All give up votes now require a majority of gamers to vote for them to go, a welcome change from the earlier system. Now you possibly can’t be held hostage by individuals actively making an attempt to throw your matches.

Additionally, fortunately, the AMD shader compiling points have been utterly mounted. No extra stuttering whenever you first throw a grenade, after you replace your drivers. Additionally, there are a number of efficiency updates, which hopefully are fixing these frankly ridiculous lag spikes and microstutters.

Screenshot taken of a Terrorist model and the Ancient background in CS2.
Begone, microstutters. Screenshot by Dot Esports

The complete checklist of patch notes is beneath:

Graphics

  • Mounted a case the place water would seem black in screenshots and video seize
  • For AMD GPU customers, shader compilation hitches can now be mounted with a driver replace at the attached link.

Animation

  • Mounted a case the place the grenade throw animation can be canceled by holding the examine key
  • Adjusted M4A4 and M4A1-S draw animation to begin from out-of-frame
    Minor animation system efficiency optimizations

Maps

  • Varied bug fixes and tweaks to Nuke, Vertigo, Anubis, and Overpass

Miscellaneous

  • All give up votes now require a majority to go
  • Mounted an exploit the place gamers may spam chat through the Premier draft section
  • Mounted a bug the place kicked gamers had been receiving the utmost CS Score penalty. Kicked gamers will now obtain CS Score based mostly on the ultimate final result of the match as a substitute
  • Mounted a bug the place the primary character at first of the terrorist staff intro wouldn’t render
  • Configured SDL to favor X11 over Wayland on Linux
  • Paris 2023 objects are not on the market

In regards to the writer

Hunter Cooke

Investigative Unit. Rainbow Six Siege, VALORANT.

Author: Ronnie Neal