CS2 "The Armory" Update: Most Important Changes

Today Valve have released a massive update that has introduced a ton of additions to the plethora of cosmetic options already offered in game, adding "The Armory", gun charms, and tons of new skins. Additionally, while a bit of a side note, Valve have also added some animation and networking changes that should help improve the playing experience.

With the update being fairly massive in scope, Dust2.us has compiled a list of some of the more significant changes that this update brings.

The Armory

• The Armory is now available in the store

• Features 3 new weapon collections, 2 charm collections, 2 sticker collections, the Gallery Case, and the Heat Treated Desert Eagle

• Purchase and activate an Armory Pass to start earning Armory Credits

• Make progress toward credits whenever you earn XP with an active Armory Pass

• Redeem credits for items in the Armory

Charms

• Introducing Charms: dynamic items you can apply to your favorite weapons. Currently available exclusively in the Armory

• Drag and drop Charms to precisely place them on the weapon of your choice. A weapon can have one charm attached at a time

• Use a Charm Detachment to detach the Charm from a weapon. The Charm will return to your inventory and can be reused

• Redeeming a Charm from the Armory grants three complimentary Charm Detachments. Additional Charm Detachments are available for purchase

Inventory & Items

• All items acquired from the in-game store (including the Armory), Trade Offers, and Steam Community Market are now subject to a 7 day re-trade and re-market restriction

• Added sticker scrape level selector when applying new stickers to weapons

Animation

• Improved character posing when on large slopes

• Made feet pin and unpin differently for all use cases to help remove aggressively leaned characters (AKA the MJ lean)

• Re-authored run, walk, and crouch content to fix wide/scissor leg posing when traversing

• Removed popping when crouching or uncrouching while jumped and reduced leaning on jump animations

• Fix for many cases where character's posing would subtly pop when traversing with slow moving weapon

Audio

• Fixed a bug where UI sounds wouldn't position correctly when in-game

• Fixed an issue where step sounds would play for the local player but fail to broadcast to other players and vice-versa

• Fixed an issue where ragdoll water splash sounds would erroneously play on alive players

Maps

• Added Italy to competitive matchmaking

The full patch notes can be found Here.