Valve may add the ability to view weapons in third person in Counter-Strike 2, according to a report from dataminer Maxim Poletaev, who is known online as Gabe Follower. He shared the information on social media, pointing to work in the game's animation systems that could enable such an addition.
Poletaev says the feature is expected to arrive as part of a forthcoming update to AnimGraph2, the animation system to which CS2 migrated in the summer of 2025. The developer has not announced a release date for that update, so the timing of any new third-person animations remains unknown.
From available details, the change would specifically add animations for inspecting weapons from a third-person perspective, integrating those motions into the newer AnimGraph2 framework. That suggests the team is continuing to expand and refine the game's animation capabilities following the migration.
Separately, developers recently addressed a bug that had been causing performance problems in CS2 and made adjustments to the Anubis map. Those fixes indicate ongoing maintenance and optimization alongside the longer-term animation work.
This account is based on the dataminer’s public posts and the observable direction of the animation system. Source: Gabe Follower (Maxim Poletaev).