Changelog

Halloween is over

• The Halloween event has ended and the pumpkins are gone from the maps.
• You'll find more ammo boxes and a bit more cash on the maps.

New content

• NEWAdded:
  Paid loot cages: locked cages now appear on every map. Pay to open one and get better loot. They can survive explosions.
• NEWAdded:
  Sentry turrets: automated turrets now guard parts of the map, and some can also turn up as loot.
• NEWAdded:
  Tablet upgrades as loot: Drone Intel, Drone Pilot and the high-resolution map upgrade can now be found on the ground and inside cages.
• NEWAdded:
  C4 in crates: C4 can now drop from loot crates.

Tablet

• Upgrades now have their own lights and animations, in your hands and on other players.
• Taking out the tablet and switching between upgrades is smoother.

Gameplay

• Bump mine landings: after landing from a bump mine your screen shakes slightly and your aim is shaky for about a second.
• Repulsor: a repulsor bought in mid-air is now delivered once you land.
• Picking up weapons: you now automatically drop your current weapon when picking up another one for the same slot.
• Spawns: players start further apart, and spawning right next to another squad is no longer possible.
• Redeploy: respawn timing is more consistent.

Zone and match pacing

• The danger zone now closes in bursts of missile strikes instead of spreading steadily.
• Late-game pacing has been rebalanced, so matches no longer drag on at the end.
• The last safe area is now closed off by gas from the areas around it.

Economy

• CHGChanged:
  Bump mines now cost $900 (was $700).

Website

• NEWAdded:
  The FAQ and patch notes show a table of tablet buy binds.
• CHGChanged:
  The server list shows mode tags, such as Open.

Breach charge

• The breach charge now flies exactly like in CS:GO.
• It sticks on its first contact with a surface.
• If the surface under a stuck charge disappears, the charge falls off and drops like in CS:GO.

Parachutes on maps

• The parachutes from CS:GO are back in their places on Blacksite and Ember every match.

Safes

• New: the safes from CS:GO with a green glow.
• Hold E for 6 s at a safe to plant a charge. You can't move while planting.
• Once planted, the safe glows red, charges and lights appear on it, and the tablet shows a "$" and an alert.
• After 25 s the safe blows up and damages everyone nearby. The door flies off and $500 drops out, for whoever gets to it first.
• C4 exploding next to a safe opens it too.

C4

• Real C4 works: plant it anywhere.
• New sounds: the bomb beeping and the shockwave of the explosion, which nearby players hear as it reaches them.
• The bomb disappears after it explodes or is defused.
• C4 can now drop from explosive crates.

Fixes

• FIXFixed:
  Crates no longer float down in slow motion after an explosion.

Gameplay

• New fixed spawn points on every map. Pick one like in CS:GO, by hovering over it.
• Spawning mid-match picks a random free spot, keeping your distance from other players.
• If you leave a match and reconnect, you can no longer rejoin it.
• The healthshot gives a short speed boost, like in CS:GO.
• Under water you have a limited air supply and start drowning after 3 s.
• The number of missiles in the zone depends on how many players are alive.
• Extra loot appears near the end of the match.
• The repulsor gives brief protection after you spawn.
• Warmup fixes.
• New map: Arctic (dz_arctic).

HUD

• New spectator HUD: its own map, a card for the watched player, a respawn countdown and info on your squad mates' redeploys.
• New message bands (cutoff, redeploy, "still in").
• On the tablet, a dead squad mate keeps a skull until they redeploy.
• Players out of a match, and servers with fewer than 4 players, see match messages.

Voice & chat

• New rules for who you can hear during spawn selection and in game.
• Team chat reaches only your squad.

Ranking

• Calibration takes 5 matches instead of 15.
• Solo and duo players earn rank under new rules.
• Warmup kills no longer count toward stats.

New binds

• NEWAdded:
  tabletbuy_openopens the shop on the tablet (you must be alive).
• NEWAdded:
  tabletbuy_buy_<id>buys an item without opening the tablet (you must be alive, not on !spectate, with the tablet in your inventory – it doesn't have to be in your hand; max 1 purchase per 0.3 s).
• NEWAdded:
  dz_use tablettakes out / puts away the tablet (you must be alive).
• NEWAdded:
  dz_use bumpminetakes the bump mine into your hand (if it's in your inventory).
• NEWAdded:
  dz_use fiststakes your fists into your hand (same as above).
• NEWAdded:
  dz_use shieldtakes the shield into your hand (same as above).
• NEWAdded:
  dz_use breachchargetakes the breach charge into your hand (same as above).
• NEWAdded:
  dz_use repulsortakes the repulsor into your hand (same as above).

Tablet buy binds

Every shop item has its own bind; the CS:GO form works the same. Example: bind F1 tabletbuy_buy_armor

Health & healing

• Spawn health: solo 130, duo 110, squad of 3+ 120 (before: every squad 120).
• Medi-Shot works like in CS:GO: +50 HP over time, then a 6.5 s boost: you take 10% less damage and run up to 20% faster (the speed fades in the last second).
• You drown after 3 s under water (was 12 s).
• Spawn protection: 5 s after the heli drop (was 3 s), 3 s after a repulsor respawn (was 2 s).

Squad & voice

• say_team reaches only your squad.
• Dead players hear each other only when neither of them has a living squad mate – no more passing on what ghosts see.
• Late join is no longer offered to someone who already played this match (reconnecting no longer resets redeploys or gets you past a squad wipe).
• Players are solid again – no walking through anyone, squad mates included. A repulsor respawn never puts you inside another player.

HUD

• New compass. During warmup you can choose on the tablet how it is displayed.
• New bands: "<mate> redeployed", "N mates alive" and the timers of up to 2 squad mates on their way back.
• The redeploy countdown shows as "Redeploy in 00:45".
• Tablet map: a skull marks where a squad mate died, until they redeploy.
• Picking up a bump mine: hold E with a progress bar (instead of the text in the middle of the screen).
• New toast icons (pumpkin loot, broken shield).

Spectator HUD – rework

• Top bar: missile timer, current zone, players alive.
• Watched player card: HP, armor/helmet, ammo, money, kills, redeploys, damage.
• Squad list with redeploy timers. The map is a separate panel.

Zone & loot

• The zone speeds up when few players are left (about 2 free hexes per player at the start, 0.5 at the end). It never slows down.
• Supply drops on zones 3, 5, 7 … 23 (were 1, 3, 5).
• Fists vs heavy crate: 8 heavy punches (were 20).
• Repulsor in the gas: 50 dmg every 8 s, so it breaks after 2 hits (before: damage grew the deeper it was in the gas).

Servers

• When a new match starts on another server, players out of their match – or everyone, if the server has fewer than 4 players – see "New match starting on X with N players. Type !connect X".

Zone Supervisor

• The zone now adapts to how many players are left. When the lobby thins out (deaths, squads wiped, people leaving – even in wave 1), waves send more missiles so the safe area stays sized to the players still in the match.
• The later in the match, the less room per player.
• It only ever speeds the zone up – a full lobby keeps the normal pace.
• Match length now reaches its full duration at 16 players (was 24), so a full server gets the full-length match.

Collisions & repulsor

• Players collide with each other again (no walking through people).
• Repulsor respawn picks a free spot next to the beacon, so you never spawn inside another player or through a wall.

Supply drops

• Supply drops no longer land in the water on hexes that are mostly sea.

Maps

• The "Land" map versions now ship with their configs: Blacksite Land, County Land, Ember Land, Junglety Land, Sirocco Land.

Bug fixes

• FIXFixed:
  Fixed HUD text sometimes staying hidden after reconnecting or taking over a player slot.

Danger Zone

• Redeploy is now available during the first 3 zones (was 2). Players who join late can also deploy during the first 3 zones.
• Squad eliminated: once your whole squad is down with nobody left to come back, the squad is out and there are no more redeploys. Everyone sees a "Squad eliminated" message with the players' names.
• Fixed spectator effects carrying over to players after they respawn.

Joining the server

• Players without a CSRep.gg trust score, with or without Prime, can now join with at least 750 hours in CS2. Your Steam game details must be public.
• If CSRep.gg has no score for you yet, you can try again after about 10 minutes instead of waiting days.

🎃 Halloween Update – Pumpkins

Pumpkins now appear on every map. They sit on spots where no loot spawned and are spread evenly across the map.

Touch a pumpkin

• It laughs, bursts and launches you harder than a bump mine.
• Everyone it launches takes a bit of damage. Players standing nearby get launched too.
• You always get a random item: a pistol, a grenade, a healthshot, kevlar with a helmet, an exojump, a parachute, a bump mine or a breach charge.
• If you have no room for it, the item drops on the ground.

Shoot a pumpkin

• It explodes like a TF2 pumpkin bomb.
• The blast hurts everyone nearby, including you and your squad. Nearby pumpkins can go off too.
• It drops some cash.

Zone

• Updated the look of the zone.

Drones

• Drones can now carry pumpkins.

Server access

• All players now need a CSRep.gg trust score of at least 50 to join, with or without Prime.
• Accounts without a trust score can no longer join.
• Accounts that were never checked will be checked automatically on their next join.

Leaderboard

• The leaderboard now only shows players with a trust score.
• Banned players are removed from the leaderboard.
• Ranks are recalculated without the removed players.

Spectating

• You can now see a teammate's tablet while spectating them.

Performance

• Optimized particles.
• Optimized pumpkins.

Bug fixes

• FIXFixed:
  Fixed the view when spectating a teammate who is flying a drone: the camera no longer drops to the pilot's body height and the area around the drone is shown correctly.

Credits

• Pumpkin model: "Halloween Pumpkin - low poly" by KarolinaRenkiewicz, licensed under CC BY 4.0. The model was rescaled and adapted for CS2.
• Sounds: "Witch Laugh" (DRAGON-STUDIO) and "Wet Squelch Impact" (Universfield) from Pixabay.

New features

• NEWAdded:
  Drone Intel – new store perk ($1000).
• NEWAdded:
  Rappel – new helicopter rope mechanic with a rope that is visible in first and third person.
• NEWAdded:
  Report menu – type !report to open a simple step-by-step menu: pick a player, pick a reason, done.
• NEWAdded:
  New map: Ember
• NEWAdded:
  Redeploy warning – a countdown warns you before redeploys close for the rest of the match.

Gameplay changes

• Riot Shield – now in the store ($1000) and can be found on the map (up to 2 per match). Its health shows on your HUD. Hits on the shield shake the screen and play impact sounds.
• Underwater shooting – weapons are much less accurate while you're underwater.
• Breach Charge – sticks to surfaces more reliably.
• Fists – smoother draw, heavy punch and inspect animations.
• Spawns – fixed players sometimes spawning twice.

Economy & store

• Starting money increased.
• Every zone wave now pays a flat $750 (it used to grow from $50 to $600).
• The exploration bonus is doubled ($50 → $100).
• Drone Pilot price reduced from $2000 to $1000.
• Bump Mines moved to the Supplies tab.
• New store icons for High-Res Map, Drone Pilot and Drone Intel.

Loot

• SMGs are now twice as common as shotguns.
• More ammo boxes and knives on the map. Riot shields now spawn in the world.
• Fewer ExoJumps and Medi-Shots.
• Light cases no longer contain ExoJumps.

Ranked

• Climbing above your target rank is gradually slower.
• Smaller guaranteed rewards for top-3 finishes, especially above your target rank.

Visuals & audio

• New look for the gas zone edge, with a ring on the border of the safe area.
• The supply drone now carries crates on 4 visible cables.
• ExoJump sound now ramps up while you hold jump, like in CS:GO.
• Weapon glow on dropped items fixed.
• Radar, spawn select, spectator HUD, lobby and buy menu layout fixes.
• The end screen supports the new map.

Perks

• Added the Drones upgrade. It is now the starting perk.
• Added the Exploration bonus perk.

Drone Pilot

• Drone Pilot is now in the shop, and the shop is the only place to buy it.
• Drone explosions from the Drone Pilot upgrade no longer deal damage. After 3 seconds, the drone bursts into fire, like a molotov.

Spectating

• Spectators now get their own HUD showing the player they're watching and a kill feed.
• You can only spectate your own squad after you die.
• The spectator map can be zoomed in and out, and each spectator's zoom is kept separately.

Crate outlines

• Every crate on the map now has a coloured outline, so you can spot it and tell its type from a distance:

  • Red – weapon crates
  • Light blue – tool crates
  • Yellow – explosive crates
  • Orange – supply drops

Drone Pilot

• Take control of a drone from your tablet and fly it yourself. The drone you're about to take over is highlighted in purple on the tablet map.
• Grab things with the claw. Markers show nearby crates and items. The closest one gets a claw icon when it's in reach, and a click picks it up.
• Carry more than crates. Drones can now pick up loose weapons, armor, money and other items, not just crates.
• Steadier flying. Up/down controls react instantly, and carried crates swing much less.
• Drone orders work like CS:GO. Single weapons arrive on their own, while knives, armor, ammo, healthshots and bundles arrive in a crate.
• Self-destruct. A self-destructing drone now explodes and leaves a patch of fire when it hits the ground.
• See your squad. While piloting, you can see outlines around yourself and your teammates.
• Tablet stays out. Releasing TAB no longer puts the tablet away while you're flying a drone.
• Up to 5 drones per player. The scout drone cooldown is gone. The tablet map always shows all your drones, plus a separate marker for the nearest drone you can pilot.
• Tablet notifications. The top-left corner of the tablet now shows purchases, delivery times, drone status, paradrops and gas warnings.

Cash is now on the ground

• Small $50 cash stacks now spawn around the map, up to 6 in one area.
• All money amounts are now rounded to $50, so there are no more odd values like $12.

Money bags

• Shooting or hitting a money bag now knocks cash out of it.

Other

• The red "next zone" prediction on the tablet map now stays visible until that area is completely covered by gas.
• Tablet swapping now uses old animation from CS:GO.

HUD & screens

• New end-of-match screen.
• New kill feed, which also shows when a whole squad is wiped out.
• Spectator HUD for dead players and spectators.

Ranking

• New rating system: your rank now reflects how you performed against the other players in the match, not just fixed points.
• Ranked matches need at least 6 players at the start.

Gameplay

• Squads unlock at 5 players.
• Match start: the countdown begins with 2 players. The match starts after 2 minutes, or right away once 8 players are on the server.
• Map change after a match is 5 seconds shorter.
• More pistols on the map: up to 5 per area.
• Gas approach sound can be heard from twice as far away.
• Player models: three agent variants in the jumpsuit, each with a different face and skin tone.

Fixes

• FIXFixed:
  Redeploy map shows a skull on the exact spot where you died.
• FIXFixed:
  Gloves come back properly after respawning.
• FIXFixed:
  Muted players stay muted in voice chat.

New gameplay

• NEWAdded:
  Missile strikes: launch, visible flight path and impact effects, tied into zone pacing.
• NEWAdded:
  Redeploy: respawn during the early zones, late joiners deploy into a running match, limited lives with a last-life warning.
• NEWAdded:
  Spectator mode via !spectate.
• NEWAdded:
  Voice rules: squad and proximity based, depending on game phase; short "last words" window at the death spot.
• NEWAdded:
  Underwater screen effect.
• NEWAdded:
  Squad ping visible only to your squad; teammates get an outline glow.
• NEWAdded:
  Fists: every player now carries fists with custom punches and disarm.

Zone & gas

• Zone rebuilt on a hex grid; gas now grows directionally and creeps toward players instead of closing a whole cell at once.
• Warning sound when gas approaches.
• New layered gas visuals and improved closing of the final zone.
• Zone shown as discs on the radar and tablet map.
• Siren plays shortly before a zone closes; next-zone voice announcements restored.
• Grass disappears inside gassed zones (Blacksite, Sirocco, Junglety).

Squads & lobby

• Squad invite system with a warmup lobby panel and notifications.
• Squads require a minimum player count on the server; below it everyone plays solo, and existing squads dissolve.
• Warmup: dead players see the real scoreboard under TAB, living players get the squad panel on the tablet. Warmup tablet can't be dropped.

HUD & screens

• Old perk-pick, position-pick, tablet map and tablet store screens removed and replaced with new spawn select, store, map, lobby and player HUD screens.
• Spawn selection rewritten.
• Tablet map supports rotating and static radar.

Items & equipment

• Bump mines / breach charges: stick to moving objects, have armed and defuse states; placing over the limit detonates your oldest mine.
• Drone: reworked cargo delivery and cargo loss, tracks tablets, frees itself when stuck, reacts to power outages.
• Rope / rappel: more accurate movement and collisions, tuned fall speed, air steering.
• Parachute and exojump pickup simplified.

Balance

• Zone payouts and item spawn distribution adjusted; wave payouts round cleanly.
• Minimum match duration reduced; more cells per wave.

Fixes

• FIXFixed:
  Fixed client crashes at match end.
• FIXFixed:
  Fixed a crash from callbacks firing on destroyed objects.
• FIXFixed:
  Fixed plugin-spawned props missing their model on spawn.

• Fixed aspect ratio command
• Added Teams mode
• Fixed Exojump/Armor model display on the player model
• Fixed damage dealt to the Repulsor by the zone
• You now keep your perk after respawning from the Repulsor
• Zone-based item spawning: you spawn with items depending on the zone number

  • After 1st zone: spawn with knife
  • After 2nd zone: spawn with Glock
  • After 3rd zone: spawn with Deagle
• Added impact sound for cases
• Added Repulsor to supply drops
• Added !solo command for solo play
• Auto-teaming after game start
• Note: Pick position HUD currently doesn't show special icons for teams - coming in the next update
• Note: Tablet doesn't yet display your teammates - coming in the next update

• Repulsor now takes damage
• Balanced item spawns across the map
• Items can now spawn without crates
• Fixed glow around items
• You now keep 50% of your money after death (increased from 20%)
• All servers now support SDR connections instead of VPN (primarily benefits players from Russia) - simply enable the "Use Steam VPN" option in the tablet

• Added the ability to pick up Bump Mines from the ground
• Initial steps to balance red box spawning (max one big red box per hex)
• Fixed picking up ammo from the ground for pistols
• Molotov distance: will now detonate after 60s or after touching the ground
• Fixed an issue where ESC would block the buy menu

Danger Zone Beta is now live!

• Drones V1 are now active.
• Zone speed adjustments
• Fixed Bump Mine turning into Decoy bug
• Stability Improvements

Maps

• Various improvements to Junglety
• Various improvements to Blacksite

• Tablet Map now shows hexagons that represent where players currently are
• Added High-Res Upgrade for purchase to the shop, buying it displays smaller triangles instead of larger hexagons
• Added showing high value weapon crates to the tablet map if you are within a certain range of them
• Updated the look of the Buy Menu to better match CSGO
• Added Repulsor to the buy menu
• Various Volume adjustments and improved sound effects
• Removed third person effect when using the tablet

• Added our report system (!report playername reason)
• Added rote gating to vote kicking (VIPs + Server Boosters are allowed to vote kick)
• Stability Improvements
• Fixed additional Bump Mine Collision (not attaching to certain objects as expected)
• Fixed bug that causes player aspect ratios to not save correctly (!aspect x/y to set yours)

• Added Sirocco
• Added map voting at the end of every match
• Added a sound while flying (may need to increase volume later)
• Changed to 1 parachute insead of 3 on buy menu airdrops
• Further improvements to bump mines (to further mirror CSGO)
• Added missing congratulations announcer sound at end of match

Bug Fixes

• FIXFixed:
  Fixed bug related to instant shooting after swapping tablet
• FIXFixed:
  Fixed infinity bumpmine sound if you died during bump mine activation
• FIXFixed:
  Fixed screen effect during spectator after you died to zone
• FIXFixed:
  Fixed an instance where grenades disappear

• (Game Balance) Adjusted bumpmine stacking to be less powerful
• (Game Balance) Adjusted Parachute Momentum
• Added aspect 5/4 to !aspect command
• Now server should save your !aspect choice (need to test to verify, any bugs please report)
• B (Buy Menu) should open store
• Added esc to close tablet
• Fixed Bump Mine Name Tag when purchased from shop

• Improvements for bumpmines and exojump
• Now you need to hold E or your Use Key for 0.5s to pick up Parachutes/Exojumps
• Added additional hints
• Money bags now give less money ($300)
• (Game Balance) Parachute now reduces speed instead of a "clap"
• (Game Balance) Exojump now gives 90% fall damage reduction instead of 100% reduction

• Added Tab for Tablet Usage
• Added Buy Menu Bind for Tablet Shop Usage
• Added notifications for picking up Danger Zone items (Exojump, Parachute, Armor, etc)
• Added various tips for important Danger Zone related information. (Will be adding a command to disable these as well as saving your !aspect selection in an upcoming update.)
• Proximity Chat is ignored during Lobby Phase and Post Game Phase
• Spread out spawns in Lobby Phase.
• Breach Charge now displays its correct name
• Re-Added Vote Kicking (When we move to Beta, this will likely be disabled again in favor of a more consistent moderation approach.)
• Added an OCE Server located in Singapore

• Added color coated cases for items purchased from the buy menu.
• Re-enabled votekicking and increased ratio to 60% required (up from 50% which is the default)
• Enabled Proximity Chat (will be disabled when in lobby & post game in the future)
• Stability Improvements
• Fixed Respawn after Warmup
• Fixed spawn stacking when a player forgets to select a position
• Added additional NA East Servers (5 of NA East and 5 EU for now)

• Fixed Repulsor breaking your entire loadout (rare bug)
• Fixed enemies counter in hud (reminder to do !aspect 3/4 or 16/9 or 16/10 depending on your resolution if you do not have our custom hud showing in game)
• Fixed a bug that allowed you keep money after warmup

• MORE LOOT, EVERYWHERE!
• You can now carry two primary weapons
• Removed certain weapons from the pool entirely like the auto sniper
• You can now stack bump mines for more momentum
• Zero Fall Damage while you have an exojump equiped
• Being able to hit red boxes with your fists at the cost of reduced damage
• Added repulsor (respawn beacon) to Solos (may be moved to airdrops only later, but for now enjoy spawning with it!)