Every CS:GO case becomes available for rent in CS2

Valve released an update to CS2 that allows players to rent skins from any past case. The patch came out before Shanghai Major 2024, adding Viewer Pass and sticker capsules. There's also a new Music Kit "Ay Hey" by Perfect World. The Pick'Em challenge went live, available for everyone.

How to rent skins from any case in CS2

If you never bought rentable cases but want to try some skins, here's how it works. You need to have the case in your inventory. After purchasing a key, you'll get two options: "Open to keep" and "Open to rent."

The former option will give you a skin at random. And the latter will let you use the whole collection but only for one week. Note that either way, the case will be expended, and that the souvenir packages aren't rentable.

All teams qualified for Shanghai Major 2024. Who will play at Chinese CS2 Major?

All participants of the first Major in China.

CS2 November 27 patch

SHANGHAI 2024 MAJOR

• The Shanghai Major Hub is now available. Visit the hub to purchase tournament items, play the Pick'Em Challenge and more.
  
• Purchase a Shanghai 2024 Viewer Pass to receive an upgradable Shanghai 2024 Coin. With an active pass, you can upgrade your coin and earn extra souvenir packages by playing the Pick'Em Challenge. Additionally, you will show up on the Active Pass Leaderboard where you can compare your Pick'Em Challenge performance to your friends.
  
• All players with Prime status can place Pick'Em picks for free! However, to complete challenges and earn rewards from an event stage, you will have to activate a Viewer Pass before that stage begins.
  

MUSIC KITS

• A new music kit “Ay Hey” by Perfect World is now available for purchase in-game in standard and StatTrak versions.
  

GAMEPLAY

• Added "sv_quantize_movement_input" setting, enabled by default, to keep players from using analog binds to move at fractional speeds that the game is not designed to handle.
  
• In cases when servers toggle some game rules from competitive to deathmatch and back to competitive mid-match, the weapons will no longer disappear when dropped on the ground, but toggling game rules settings without reloading the map is not a generally supported workflow for community servers.
  

ANNOTATIONS

• Added support for turning off text background
  
• Added support for grenade types other than Smoke
  
• Increased node limit from 100 to 300
  
• Fixed annotation_delete_previous_node not cleaning up particle effects
  

MISC

• Added ability to rent weapons from all previous CS:GO weapon cases.
  
• Added policy settings to enforce client delta ticks order, namely sv_deltaticks_enforce and sv_deltaticks_log, which should help diagnosing configurations causing delta ticks out of order disconnects.
  
• Fixed a case where an unlocalized #SLOT prefix could appear in chat.
  
• Added a reference Counter-Strike Broadcast Playcast Webserver implementation: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Counter-Strike:_Global_Offensive_Broadcast#Reference_Playcast_Webserver_Implementation
  

MAPS

Basalt

• Updated to latest version from Community Workshop

Train

• Fixed various gaps in map
  
• Collision fidelity upgrades
  
• Blockers added for train in B to avoid unfair angles
  
• Various visual fixes

All Shanghai Major 2024 player signature stickers from Autograph Capsules