Counter-Strike 2 update The Armory released with weapon charms

Valve released the latest major update to Counter-Strike 2 that brings with it more than 100 new items including weapon charms. These charms are quite popular in other shooters, so it's not a big surprise to see Valve add them in. Plus, it's yet another cosmetic item for Valve to basically print money with.

This brings with it a new battle pass system, which Valve call an Armory Pass. Although they work more a like a ticket, and you can have up to five of them active at a time. Each Armory Pass costs £12.79 so they're certainly not cheap and they each give a total of 40 credits. All the new stuff is gated behind this system too, so you have to buy a pass (or five) and then actually play to earn Armory Credits to then redeem for the items.

The new weapon charms look quite nice, and you can place them anywhere on your weapons too.

In true Valve style, it's all random too. You can select a specific category of items to spend your credits, and then pay up to receive a random item from the collection. Obviously this is to get you to pay and play more.

Valve also made some changes to inventory items, placing a 7 day re-trade and re-market restriction on everything no matter how you got them. That includes the in-game store (including the Armory), Trade Offers and Steam Community Market.

There's also some network improvements, animation improvements and various bug fixes.

See all the changes on the special update page.