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Late at night on 28 February, just two days before the Americas RMR for the PGL Copenhagen Major, Valve made massive changes to Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) spawn locations on the competitive maps.
Previously, some spawn locations on certain maps, such as Mirage, provided opportunities for some aggressive tactics, which could greatly impact the meta now that they are removed.
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CS2 Spawn Location Changes Are Massive
To put it mildly, such big changes just days ahead of the Americas RMR for the Copenhagen Major can send shockwaves through the pro community. Teams will have to adapt and possibly change their tactics quickly, moving into the all-important event.
First of all, spawn position is no longer randomly determined when a player reconnects to a server during freeze time. The spawn point sequence is now configured at the beginning of the map and is saved/restored from round backup files. Valve also explained the following points:
- In official matchmaking servers, players who disconnect and reconnect during freeze time will respawn in the spawn point they were assigned at the beginning of the round
- On community servers, players who disconnect and reconnect during freeze time will be assigned one of the five spawn positions assigned to the team that round
- When restoring from round backup files (which is recommended in tournament settings after disconnects/reconnects), players will spawn in the positions they were originally assigned at the beginning of that round
What was found, however, was that several spawn locations were removed on many competitive, including those in the Active Duty pool.
They have removed at least seven spawns on Mirage, for example, and most maps now only have five possible spawn points.
The official patch notes simply reads:
Adjusted spawn location priorities for Premier and Competitive game modes in Anubis, Inferno, Mirage, Nuke, Overpass, and Vertigo.
CS2 Inferno Map Changes
- Fixed community reported gaps in map and Trike model
- Raised plywood at top of Banana to cover head visibility
- Smoothed ground movement in Banana and Bombsite A
- Raised Arch exit towards Mid (or "Raised arch in Arch")
- Removed bench at Arch near Library
- Removed construction cone at Underpass
Other CS2 Changes & Bug Fixes in the 29 Feb Update
Below, you can find the additional fixes and changes in the CS2 update released late on 28 February or early on 29 February depending where you live in the world.
- Fixed a bug where players would see a black screen after disconnecting and reconnecting multiple times during a technical timeout
- Fixed a bug where players disconnecting and reconnecting to a competitive match would incorrectly interact with bot spawning algorithm
- Fixed some cases where MVP music would not play or would play over round end music
- Fixed a bug in Deathmatch where kills during warmup would count towards healthshot reward and Zeus score bonus
- Fixed players jumping higher than normal when toggling low framerate
- Fixed an instance of weapon switches sometimes being ignored by the server
- Fixed smoke shadow rendering issues and improvements to perf
- Fixed a bug where the game would crash on Linux while alt-tabbing
- Fixed some cases where a frame rate hitch would occur due to compiling shaders
- Improved behavior when user input does not arrive on the server in time due to packet loss or client frame rate issues
- Adjusted various music kit cues in NIGHTMODE Music Kit box (ISOxo, Knock2, and TWERL and Ekko & Sidetrack)
- Fixed a case where some players in North America would always fail to accept a match on a server in Europe due to SDR choosing an invalid route
- Players who get kicked from official competitive servers for too many suicides will now be issued a competitive cooldown
- Adjusted the logic tracking player idle state to exclude round freezetime and timeout periods
- Chickens no longer interact with dropped weapons
- Sniper scope overlay no longer appears in tool viewports (such as Hammer)
[ WORKSHOP ]
- Fix lightmaps being capped at 4k resolution in CS2 Workshop Tools
- Updated sticker inspect to support wear in 0.1 increments to match sticker scraping
- Added roughness texture to foil stickers in the Item Editor
- Updated help system for new sticker features
It remains to be seen how the pro players will handle these CS2 spawn changes as the Copenhagen Major Americas RMR and BLAST Premier Spring Showdown looms. Yes, these spawn changes do have the community divided!
