Counter-Strike 2 hotfix fixes C4 planting issue and replay visual bug

Angel Kicevski November 14, 2025

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A small Counter-Strike 2 update on Steam landed, fixing a handful of annoying edge-case bugs. The patch removes the ability to plant the C4 while standing on a teammate, repairs rendering problems with transparent charms on planted C4 and dropped weapons, restores the Budapest 2025 coin display in the scoreboard, fixes a replay bug that could cause infinite shell casing effects, and updates the Budapest 2025 Imperial Esports sticker artwork.

This is a tidy follow-up to recent work on demo playback and replay fixes. See the note about TrueView demo playback and demo bug fixes for additional context on replay improvements.

Patch Notes – Counter-Strike 2

[ MISC ]

Fixed ability to plant C4 while standing on top of a teammate.
Fixed a rendering bug on transparent charms attached to planted C4 or dropped weapons.
Fixed a bug where Budapest 2025 Coin sometimes wasn’t showing up in the scoreboard.
Fixed a replay bug causing infinite shell casing effects.
Updated the Budapest 2025 Imperial Esports sticker artwork.

Most of these fixes address rare but disruptive cases that could affect demos and match clarity. The C4 planting fix closes a mechanical oddity that could cause confusion in clutch situations. The replay casing fix should make demos cleaner for review and content creation.

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Counter-Strike 2 is a free-to-play multiplayer tactical first-person shooter developed and published by Valve. Released in September 2023, it is the fifth main entry in the Counter-Strike series and serves as a direct replacement for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Steam. Two teams, Terrorists and Counter-Terrorists, compete in objective-based rounds across modes such as bomb defusal and hostage rescue. Built on the Source 2 engine, the game introduced volumetric smoke physics, revised weapon handling, and a new sub-tick server architecture. It inherited all cosmetic items from its predecessor and features both a map-specific Competitive mode and a numerically ranked Premier mode.