New CS2 update bring back community-made custom maps

Valve brought the community workshop back to life with the most recent Counter-Strike 2 update, allowing players to continue making custom maps.

Custom community-made maps, one of the most beloved elements of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, are back thanks to a recent update from Valve that revamps the community workshop. Several players noted that this was one of the most “desperately needed” upgrades, and its absence at the CS2 launch in September drew the most criticism against Valve. Aside from the custom maps, the new CS2 update includes numerous gameplay fixes designed to make the game more seamless.

Counter-Strike 2 gets custom maps with a new workshop update

The 11-year-old Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was superseded by Counter-Strike 2 when it was released in September. While CS:GO included some helpful maps for aim training and learning how to pre-fire, as well as smokes and areas to peek on certain maps, those maps were no longer available when CS2 took over from CS: GO. Now that Valve and the development team have been subjected to several complaints, the CS2 fans can finally rejoice. Valve has reintroduced the Community Workshop to CS2 maps with the most recent update.

Community map makers can start uploading their maps to the workshop, and community servers can now host those maps.

If you’d like to try some workshop maps offline, subscribe to them on the workshop and head to the Play menu.

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Community servers will be able to host workshop maps moving forward, and players will be able to upload custom CS2 maps. Players can once more enjoy the well-known custom maps, such as Poolparty, Iceworld, Rats, and many others, that have contributed countless entertaining moments to the Counter-Strike series. If players subscribe to the community maps in the workshop, they may also test them out offline.

On the other hand, a significant number of 1v1 custom maps and several training maps, such as Aim and Recoil maps, are anticipated to be added as a result of this upgrade. Less than 24 hours after the update’s release, the “aim training” custom map has already gone live, demonstrating the prowess of community map creators.

Though the community is thrilled to see Workshop maps back in action, they are still hoping that Valve would fix a lot of the game’s bugs and introduce additional features like game types and classic maps like Train, Cobblestone, Cache, and many more.

The CS2 development team has also released patches that address the finer points of gaming mechanics. The aforementioned modifications aim to address the troublesome problems encountered by players, including the infamous “dying behind walls” bug and inconsistencies between weapon firing on the client and server registration.

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