Arms Race returns in massive CS2 update

Valve finally have released a Counter-Strike 2 update and it is a massive one. The update is named 'A Call to Arms' and most prominently it sees the Arms Race return. Valve has also added the first-ever Zeus skin along with networking fixes and various major gameplay updates. Most of maps in the current competitive pool have also see various adjustments or fixes.

Here are some of the major updates from the 'A Call to Arms' update:

Gameplay:

• A new 'Refund All' button has been added to the buy menu

• Players can now disable first person bullet tracers through settings

• Silencers can be always reattached irrespective of whether detachment is enabled or not

• Player pings aren't blocked by invisible geometry

• Sub-tick shooting adjustments

• Smoothness of sliding along surfaces improved

• Collisions between players fixed, which was earlier jittery

• Various instances of players dropping down silently on vertical surfaces fixed

• Loadouts are not fixed at the start of the matches and loadout changes aren't allowed whilst searching for Premier, Wingman or Competitive

Networking:

• Peeker's advantage reduced in various cases

• Peeker's advantage amount in steady state reduced by 16ms

• Situations leading to large peeker's advantage because of excessive command queue depth reduced

• An option has been added to buffer server updates and user commands by one or more packets

UI:

• Baggage and Warehouse now are background options for main menu and item inspect

• Support for separate main menu and item inspect background map setting has been added

• All agents with unique 'end-of-match- cheer animations will have unique defeat animations as well now. The option for defeat animations can be disabled as well

• More accolades added to end-of-match

• XP Overload has been added, which is awarded to the players who earned all of their normal XP during a week and reached reduced XP gain. The XP Overload status will be attached to the names of the scoreboard, death notices and main menu etc.

Arms Race:

• Arms Race added to available game modes

• Baggage and Shoots maps added

Stickers:

• Ambush Sticker Capsule available for purchase

• All weapons to support up to five stickers

• Zoom feature during sticker placement added for 'higher precision during sticker application'

• Stickers can be custom placed by players

Full details of the entire release can be found here.