Valve has launched its newest Counter-Strike 2 replace, which reintroduces the official Retakes recreation mode and permits gamers to commerce up for knives and gloves.
The replace to the first-person shooter title additionally options different adjustments, together with changes to the Inferno map.
Revealed on October twenty second, 2025, the Retakes mode includes gamers dropping right into a 4v3 post-plant situation utilizing restricted sources and weaponry to both defuse or defend the target.
Along with the mode, the replace additionally options adjustments to Inferno, aiming to enhance visibility on the prime of Quad and beneath the Balcony.
One other change from the replace is the prolonged performance of the title’s Commerce Up Contract. Gamers can alternate 5 Covert gadgets to earn a assured knife or a pair of gloves.
Elsewhere, additional optimisation enhancements have adjusted “Molotov and Smoke interplay logic when a number of smokes are lively on the map.”
The return of official Retakes servers has been overshadowed by the numerous change to the Commerce Up Contract, which has impacted the worth of a number of high-tier cosmetics.
“Counter-Strike rugged its complete neighborhood,” stated former Head of YouTube Gaming, Ryan ‘Fwiz’ Wyatt. “They simply rinsed everybody available in the market who had something of any worth.”
Whereas many members of the neighborhood have criticised Valve’s choice, others say that the change is far wanted.
“The market manipulation that was occurring and driving costs to the purpose the place folks couldn’t purchase them with out investing an insane sum of money to get a pleasant pores and skin is out of hand,” commented American CS2 participant and streamer Erik ‘fl0m’ Flom.
With CS2’s pores and skin market persevering with to fluctuate, it’s unclear if it stabilises or falls additional as gamers take advantage of a brand new technique to acquire knives and gloves.
