Valve add Champion Stickers, new AK animation in latest update

Last night Valve released a new update to Counter-Strike 2 adding among other things, the Perfect World Shanghai Major Champion Stickers, a new inspect animation for the AK-47, and the 2025 Service Medal. Overall this latest update, and potentially the final one of 2024, focused on cosmetic changes as opposed to map pool changes many are hoping for ahead of the start of the 2025 VRS circuit.

You can see the most notable changes curated by Dust2.us below:

SHANGHAI MAJOR

• Shanghai 2024 Major Champions Capsule is now available for purchase. The capsule features autographs for each member of the winning team in paper, glitter, holo, and gold. 50% of the proceeds go to the players and organizations.

GAMEPLAY

• Adjusted the threshold at which death notice displays attacker as "flashed".

• Explosions will now more reliably throw weapons around even if multiple weapons are dropped on top of each other.

MAP GUIDES

• Map Guides are now supported in the Steam Workshop for submission and subscription.

MISC

• Improvements to weapon inspect animations. (Primarily AK-47)

• Added all-new 2025 Service Medal which will be available starting January 1st GMT