Valve adjusted knife sounds in Counter-Strike 2 and improved the "performance of chicken explosions"

The developers fixed crashes, grenades, and more.

At the end of January, Valve released several updates for Counter-Strike 2. The developers fixed a number of bugs, refined grenade mechanics, and more.

Some changes and improvements:

• Molotov cocktails and incendiary grenades that bounce off enemy players now receive a one-time extension to detonation time to prevent mid-air explosions that occurred when the interaction timer with the game world expired.
• A performance issue that occurred when launching CS2 without an audio device has been resolved.
• Knife sounds have been adjusted.
• Map Nuke: The rendering bounds of the hanging helmet model have been adjusted to prevent shadows from appearing when the model goes beyond the visible space.

• Damage from HE grenades exploding in the air near the ground is now calculated differently than for explosions on the ground.
• The performance of chicken explosions has been improved.
• The Stronghold map has been updated to the latest version from the Workshop (exploits fixed)