Counter-Strike 2 Update
Valve published "Counter-Strike 2 Update" on 30 January 2026 in Community Announcements. The PatinaAI market index's median read 31.13 points in the seven days after against 32.26 before, −3.5 %. A typical week moves under 0.1 % either way on the same measure. A read is a comparison with a date, not a cause.
[ GAMEPLAY ]
Damage from HE grenades that explode mid-air near the ground will no longer be calculated as if they exploded on the ground.
[ SOUND ]
Various knife sound adjustments.
[ MISC ]
Performance optimizations for exploding chickens.
Fixed a map scripting bug where Entity. SetOwner wasn't accepting undefined.
Added a method for community maps to save modified user settings. Running 'host_writeconfig_with_prompt' will prompt the user for permission to save. If accepted, some of the modified settings (radar, viewmodel, safezones, etc) will be kept after the map exits.
Community maps are now restricted to a smaller list of allowed console commands. Use -disable_workshop_command_filtering to disable this filtering.
[ MAPS ]
Stronghold
Updated to the latest version from the Community Workshop ( Update Notes )
Read the post on Steam. Text as Steam's news feed serves it.
No read: the venues' daily prices do not cover the days around this post.
The PatinaAI market index's median over the seven days after the post was 31.13 points against 32.26 over the seven days before: −3.5 %. A typical week moves under 0.1 % either way on the same measure, the drift this read has to beat. The post's own day is left out. A comparison with a date, not causation.
The item types and weapons the post names, in the order it names them. A word match, not a reading of the post.
How to read the number
The read compares the market index's median over the seven UTC days after the post with the seven days before it, the post's own day left out, and needs at least three published days on each side. The same measure taken on every day of the series is the drift a typical week shows; a read inside that drift is the market doing what it was doing. Neither is proof the post moved anything. The composite is on the market report, every basket under the indexes, and every update is on one list.