Counter-Strike 2 Update Shows Equipped Gloves in Buy Menus

The patch also fixes grenade-crosshair rendering at 3-pixel thickness and improves Warehouse lighting.

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A masked tactical agent holds up a gloved hand beside a display of grenades and a warehouse interior.

Valve’s latest Counter-Strike 2 update gives agents a more consistent look across menus and photobooth sessions: they now wear their equipped gloves in both places. The notes also cover a grenade-crosshair fix for players using 3-pixel thickness.

That correction follows a recent run of crosshair customization changes. A September 30 update added Static Quadrant and revised share codes, among other options, and the new notes also update the workshop convars whitelist for the recent crosshair settings.

The remaining changes touch several corners of the game. Lighting in Warehouse was improved, titles in commend and report dialogs had their formatting fixed, and Valve listed general stability improvements. The Counter-Strike 2 Steam update notes include the full list.

Counter-Strike 2 Update Patch Notes

[ MISC ]

Agents now wear their equipped gloves during the photobooth photography sessions and in buy menu
Fixed grenade crosshair rendering when crosshair thickness is set to 3 pixels
Fixed formatting of titles in commend and report dialogs
Improved lighting in the Warehouse map
Updated workshop convars whitelist with the new crosshair settings
Stability improvements

Which of these changes do you think you’ll notice first in your usual Counter-Strike 2 setup? Follow along for more on its ongoing crosshair and interface updates on X, Bluesky, YouTube, Instagram, Steam, and Telegram.

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.