Counter-Strike 2 October Update — Gloves In The Buy Menu, A Grenade Crosshair Fix & Warehouse Lighting

A small Counter-Strike 2 update landed with a handful of quality-of-life fixes, a lighting pass on the Warehouse map, and one item that matters to anyone running custom maps or servers: the workshop convars whitelist was updated with the new crosshair settings.

These notes contain no engine or protocol changes — nothing server owners have to action beyond the usual update.

The official notes come from Valve — check out the Counter-Strike 2 update notes from the developers.

🧤 Agents, Gloves & Photobooth

• Agents now wear their equipped gloves during photobooth photography sessions and in the buy menu. A cosmetic consistency fix — your equipped gloves now show up where you'd expect to see your full loadout, rather than only in-game.

🎯 Crosshair Fixes

• Fixed grenade crosshair rendering when crosshair thickness is set to 3 pixels. A specific edge case in the new pixel-based crosshair system — and a good reminder that the September rework moved crosshairs to real pixel values, where odd numbers now mean exactly what they say.
• Updated the workshop convars whitelist with the new crosshair settings. This is the one with practical implications: the whitelist governs which convars workshop maps are permitted to set, so the new crosshair settings from September's overhaul are now available to map authors.

🖥️ UI Fixes

• Fixed the formatting of titles in commend and report dialogs. Small, but those dialogs are used constantly on community servers and clean text matters.

🗺️ Map & Stability

• Improved lighting in the Warehouse map.
• Stability improvements.

🖥️ What This Means For Your Server

• The workshop convars whitelist update is the item worth knowing about. If you or your mappers wanted to expose the new crosshair settings through workshop content, the whitelist now covers them. It's the follow-through on September's crosshair overhaul reaching the workshop toolset.
• Nothing to action. No engine bump, no protocol change, no convar behaviour changes in these notes — so this is a routine update rather than a patch-day scramble.
• Warehouse lighting improved. If your rotation includes the Warehouse map, visibility there is better after updating; worth a look if your community has ever complained about it.
• Stability improvements are always welcome on a busy server. Even unnamed fixes matter when you're fielding support requests from a full server.
• The grenade crosshair fix removes a small inconsistency for players using 3-pixel crosshairs — which, given crosshair thickness is now measured in real pixels, is a more commonly chosen value than it used to be.

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Conclusion

This update is a tidy-up rather than a feature drop: agents now wear equipped gloves in photobooth sessions and the buy menu, grenade crosshair rendering is fixed at 3-pixel thickness, commend and report dialog titles are formatted correctly, Warehouse lighting is improved, the workshop convars whitelist now includes the new crosshair settings, and stability improvements landed alongside.

Read the complete notes on Valve's side: Counter-Strike 2 update notes. For context on the crosshair system this touches, see our September 2026 CS2 roundup.