On 2 October 2026 Valve shipped a short miscellaneous CS2 patch. Agents wear their equipped gloves in the photobooth and the buy menu. Grenade crosshairs render when thickness is set to 3 pixels. Title text in the commend and report dialogs is formatted correctly. Lighting on Warehouse is improved. The workshop convar whitelist now includes the new crosshair settings. The note also lists stability improvements, and it does not name a crash.
A retake round does not change. Spawns, guns, and the bomb are not in the note. The line you can actually check in a round is the grenade crosshair, and only if thickness is 3.
The 2 October list
What each line changes
01
Gloves in the photobooth and buy menu
Agents wear the gloves you already equipped while the photobooth takes the photo, and those same gloves show in the buy menu. The note does not add a new glove, and it does not say first-person hands changed.
02
Grenade crosshair at thickness 3
The grenade crosshair failed to render when crosshair thickness was 3 pixels. That case is fixed. The note does not say other thicknesses were broken.
03
Commend and report dialog titles
Title formatting in the commend dialog and the report dialog is fixed. The note does not describe what the titles looked like before.
04
Warehouse lighting
Lighting on the Warehouse map is improved. The note does not name a room, a corner, or a time of day.
05
Workshop convar whitelist
The workshop convar whitelist now includes the new crosshair settings, so those settings are available to workshop tools. This is a workshop change, not a match setting.
06
Stability
The last line is only “Stability improvements.” No map, mode, or crash is named, so there is nothing specific to verify.
| Change | Where | What the note says |
|---|---|---|
| Equipped gloves show | Photobooth, buy menu | Agents wear them in both |
| Grenade crosshair | Thickness set to 3 | Rendering is fixed |
| Dialog titles | Commend and report | Title formatting is fixed |
| Warehouse lighting | Warehouse | Lighting is improved |
| Crosshair convars | Workshop whitelist | New settings are included |
| Stability | Not named | No crash is listed |
Six lines from the 2 October 2026 Steam community announcement. Nothing else was in the note.
Do I need a new setting for this patch?+
No new command is in the note. The grenade-crosshair fix applies when thickness is already set to 3 pixels.
Where do the gloves show up?+
In photobooth photography sessions and in the buy menu. The note does not mention first person or the scoreboard.
Did lighting change on every map?+
Only Warehouse is named. Other maps are not in this note.
What changed in the commend dialog?+
Title formatting in the commend dialog and the report dialog. The note does not list new report reasons.
Sources
- Community Announcements · 2026-10-04