CS2 Update May 2025: The Mission We Thought Impossible?

Missions return? 🤯 The community asked, waited, and begged for missions or additional game modes. That day has finally arrived, albeit rather late. After the slightly massive hint from @Gabefollower 2 days before, we got the 4.8gb drop early hours on 8 May 2025.

Even after the April Armoury update, CS2 was starting to feel stale.

So What Did We Get For Our Patience?

[ MISSIONS ]

• Added Weekly Missions, which can be entered through the main menu or play menu.

• Players receive one mission each week.

• The weekly mission expires after 7 days and rewards XP for completion.

  
  

  [ MAPS ]

  
  

• Removed community maps Basalt, Edin, Palais, and Whistle from all game modes.

• Added community maps Jura, Grail, and Agency to Competitive, Casual, and Deathmatch modes.

• Added community maps Dogtown and Brewery to Wingman mode.

• Reorganised Casual and Deathmatch map groups.

  
  

• Defusal Group Alpha: Dust 2, Mirage, Inferno, Vertigo.

• Defusal Group Delta: Train, Anubis, Ancient, Overpass, Nuke.

• Community Map Group: Jura, Grail, Agency.

• Hostage Group: Office, Italy.

  
  

  [ AUDIO ]

  
  

• Added "Main Menu Ambience Volume" setting.

• Fixed some cases where shooting visible enemies over the top of smoke would not play an attacker feedback sound.

• Fixed some cases where gameplay sounds were inaudible or would skip.

• Removed snd_setmixer, snd_setmixlayer, snd_soundmixer_setmixlayer_amount, and snd_soundmixer_set_trigger_factor console commands.

  
  

  [ MISC ]

  
  

• Fixed a bug where input bindings to scancode56 (US English key "/") wouldn't persist across app launches.

• Lobby invites from players marked with "Block All Communication" in Steam will now be ignored in-game.

Mission Possible

Today's update includes several community maps, a rearranging of casual and deathmatch map groups, and the introduction of weekly missions!

Missions renew each week

This week's mission is:

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COMPETITIVE ON GRAIL

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7 ROUND WINS

Your mission, should you choose to accept it,

can be completed for bonus XP. Each week

you'll get a new mission, and you can access

your mission in the Main Menu and in the Play

Menu.

Community Maps

Today we welcome a host of new community

maps: Jura, Grail and Agency have been

added to Competitive, Casual, and

Deathmatch modes, and Dogtown and

Brewery have been added to Wingman. And

it's easier than ever to play community maps

-Jura, Grail, and Agency can be found

new Community Map Group.