India, July 29 -- Valve improves hit registration and maps as gameplay becomes consistent for CS2.

On July 29, 2025, Valve introduced an update for Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) with some quality-of-life changes for usability in reality and visuals. Changes include moving player hitbox prediction, animation digestion, smoothing animation, and the change of maps for Mirage and Office.

All these changes speak to the longstanding problem of bullet registration and the long time for the change of a design for a map.

One of the changes in this patch was how CS2 predicts damage and registers damage. Valve moved the hitbox interpolation and movement prediction a lot closer to what the player sees on their client and what the server registers.

These...