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The July 11, 2025 release notes for CS2 detail the arrival of community maps to the game’s matchmaking queues.

The 22-07-2025 release notes for Counter-Strike 2 are up. There are some much-needed bug fixes in there, but the main course of the meal comesfrom the map additions. For the first time in CS2, community maps are headed to matchmaking.

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Let’s take a look at the maps and everything else inthe release notes.

CS2 community maps being added to matchmaking queues

All of the above are the release notes, without the inclusion of the community maps. We’re giving them their own special section, because it is the first time community maps have been added to matchmaking in CS2.

Let’s dive into them:

This is a big moment in CS2 history, even if it isn’t quite theupdate players were expecting. Regardless, you’re able to dive into the different matchmaking modes to try out some of the newly added community maps now.

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