CS2 console commands

Sets how many seconds players stay frozen at the start of each round, time they use to buy and plan.

Sets how many minutes each round lasts on maps without a bomb or hostage objective.

Ends the warmup period immediately and starts the match.

Restarts the match after the given number of seconds, resetting scores, money and rounds.

Allows cheat commands on the server, such as noclip, god and practice tools.

Sets how many seconds after the round starts players can still buy.

Sets how much money each player starts with at the beginning of a match and each half, in dollars.

Sets the maximum amount of money a player can hold, in dollars.

Sets the maximum number of rounds in a match before it ends.

Kicks bots from the server: all of them, one team, or a single bot by name.

Gives players unlimited ammo, either with no reloading or with unlimited reserve ammo.

Lets players buy anywhere on the map instead of only in their buy zone.

Sets the length of each crosshair line; smaller numbers give a shorter, tighter crosshair.

Sets the field of view of your weapon model, from 54 to 68; higher values show the gun smaller and further away.

Shows an FPS counter at the top of the screen; higher values show smoothed FPS or server timing.

Toggles noclip, letting you fly through walls.

Lists recent round backup files, newest first.

Restores a match from a round backup file: money, kills, scores and team scores.

Sets the file name prefix for round backups that let you restore a match after a crash.

Sets how many seconds the bomb takes to explode after it is planted.

Toggles whether a Terrorist gets the C4 at the start of each round.

Toggles teams switching sides at halftime.

Sets how many seconds the halftime break lasts.

Holds the game in halftime until you set it back to 0.

Stops rounds from ending when a team is eliminated or an objective is completed.

Sets how many seconds after round start a joining player still spawns in that round.

Toggles whether a team can win early once the other team can no longer catch up.

Toggles overtime when a match ends in a tie.

Sets how many rounds each overtime lasts.

Sets the money every player gets at the start of each overtime half, in dollars.

Pauses the match at the start of the next freeze time.

Lets Terrorists plant the bomb anywhere on the map, not only at bomb sites.

Sets how many seconds players are immune to damage after respawning.

Makes Counter-Terrorists respawn after dying.

Makes Terrorists respawn after dying.

Sets the delay in seconds between the end of a round and the start of the next.

Sets how many minutes each round lasts on bomb defusal maps such as Dust II or Mirage.

Sets how many minutes each round lasts on hostage rescue maps such as Office or Italy.

Sets how many tactical timeouts each team gets per match.

Sets a time limit in minutes for each map, after which the match ends.

Resumes a match paused with mp_pause_match or by a timeout.

Toggles the warmup period at the start of an online match.

Pauses the warmup countdown so warmup lasts until you end it.

Starts a warmup period, even in the middle of a match.

Sets how many seconds the warmup period lasts before the match starts.

Sets the base money a player earns for each kill, in dollars.

Sets the money a player gets for killing a teammate, usually a negative amount.

Sets the money a team gets for winning by eliminating the enemy on a bomb map, in dollars.

Sets the base money the losing team gets after a round, in dollars.

Sets the extra money added to the loss bonus for each consecutive loss, in dollars.

Gives every player this much money after each round, in dollars, on top of normal rewards.

Toggles whether grenades can be bought from the buy menu.

Sets which gun categories can be bought, as a bitmask of weapon types.

Controls whether CTs get a free defuse kit at round start.

Gives players armor for free at spawn: kevlar only, or kevlar and helmet.

Sets the best armor players are allowed to buy.

Toggles players earning money for their own actions, such as kills and bomb plants.

Toggles teams earning money for round wins, losses and objectives.

Sets which team can buy rifles.

Limits how many weapons of each type a player can buy per round.

Limits how many Zeus x27 tasers a player can buy per round.

Toggles kicking idle players and players who team kill or deal too much team damage.

Toggles automatic team balancing between rounds.

Restricts what dead players can spectate.

Toggles whether players can damage their own teammates.

Restricts human players to one team, leaving the other for bots.

Sets how many more players one team can have than the other.

Controls whose names players see when they aim at someone.

Spawns players at random points around the map instead of their team spawn.

Shuffles players randomly between the two teams and restarts the game.

Controls whether players collide with teammates and can stand on their heads.

Sets how many players can join the spectator team.

Swaps the two teams' sides and restarts the game.

Makes teammates count as enemies so everyone can shoot everyone.

Sets a custom name for the first team (the team that starts as CT).

Sets a custom name for the second team (the team that starts as T).

Turns off the radar for all players, always or only during warmup.

Toggles the team marker shown above teammates' heads.

Adds a bot to the server, optionally choosing its team, difficulty and name.

Adds a bot to the Counter-Terrorist team.

Adds a bot to the Terrorist team.

Lets bots use every weapon again.

Toggles whether bots can use grenades.

Makes bots leave automatically to free a slot for a joining human.

Controls how much bots talk over radio and voice.

Makes all bots crouch.

Sets the skill level of bots that join the game.

Stops bots from firing their weapons.

Stops bots from moving while they can still aim and shoot.

Makes bots wait until a human joins before they enter the game.

Sets which team bots join.

Kills bots instantly: all of them, one team, or a single bot by name.

Restricts bots to knives only.

Makes bots copy your movement and actions.

Restricts bots to pistols only.

Moves a bot to the spot you are looking at.

Sets the number of bots the server keeps in the game.

Controls how bot_quota is applied: a fixed number, fill to a player count, or a ratio to humans.

Restricts bots to sniper rifles only.

Freezes all bots in place so they stop thinking and moving.

Toggles bots changing their difficulty each round based on how well humans are doing.

Changes the server to another map while keeping connected players.

Changes to a Workshop map from the hosted collection by name.

Lists the Workshop maps available on the server.

Sets the game type and game mode in one step using a mode name like competitive.

Sets the game mode within the current game_type, such as competitive or wingman.

Sets the game type, which together with game_mode picks the game mode.

Hosts a Steam Workshop collection as the server's map group.

Downloads a Workshop map by its ID and loads it on the server.

Loads a map and starts a new server session on it.

Sets the map group the server rotates through.

Lists the maps installed on the server.

Switches deathmatch between free-for-all and team scoring.

Toggles the vote for the next map at the end of a match.

Sets the map the server will change to at the end of the match.

Sets how quickly players reach full speed on the ground.

Sets how quickly players can change speed and direction in the air.

Makes players jump again automatically while holding the jump key.

Removes the speed cap on jumps so players can gain speed by bunny hopping.

Scales the damage players take from falling.

Sets the ground friction that slows players when they stop moving.

Sets the world gravity, which controls how high players jump and how fast things fall.

Sets the upward speed of a jump, which controls jump height.

Switches back to the older jump code used before the 2026 movement changes.

Sets the maximum speed players can run on the ground.

Sets the speed limit for any moving object or player, per axis.

Sets how fast players fly while in noclip.

Sets the maximum stamina penalty from jumping and landing.

Sets how many of each other grenade type a player can carry.

Sets how many flashbangs a player can carry.

Sets the total number of grenades a player can carry.

Sets how much bullet damage teammates take when friendly fire is on.

Sets how much grenade damage teammates take when friendly fire is on.

Sets how long the flames of a molotov burn, in seconds.

Sets the grenades Counter-Terrorists spawn with each round.

Sets the melee items Counter-Terrorists spawn with, such as the knife or a Zeus.

Sets the primary weapon Counter-Terrorists spawn with each round.

Sets the pistol Counter-Terrorists spawn with each round.

Makes only headshots deal damage.

Heals attackers by a fraction of the damage they deal.

Controls which gun a player drops on death.

Toggles whether players can drop their knife.

Bans specific weapons by their item definition index.

Sets the grenades Terrorists spawn with each round.

Sets the primary weapon Terrorists spawn with each round.

Sets the pistol Terrorists spawn with each round.

Sets how many seconds the Zeus takes to recharge after a shot.

Scales the damage of HE grenades.

Removes weapon inaccuracy so every bullet goes exactly where you aim.

Runs a config file, executing every command in it.

Sets the server name shown in the server browser and scoreboard.

Turns server logging on or off.

Sends server logs to a web address by HTTP POST.

Controls whether attacks are written to the server log.

Toggles the server's pause state.

Stops the server immediately.

Sends a command to the server's remote console.

Sets the password for remote console (RCON) access to the server.

Shows the server name, map, player count and every connected player with user ID, ping and Steam ID.

Puts the server into a very low CPU sleep mode when nobody is connected.

Controls whether players with a matchmaking cooldown or Untrusted status are kicked.

Makes the server LAN only, with no Steam authentication or internet listing.

Toggles writing server logs to a file.

Sets a password players must enter to join the server.

Toggles whether the server can be paused with pause and setpause.

Allows only Prime Status accounts to connect to the server.

Sets the region the server reports to the server browser.

Sets the Game Server Login Token (GSLT) the server uses to log in to Steam.

Shuts the server down once all current games have finished.

Sets tags that describe the server in the server browser.

Overrides the maximum player count shown to people browsing for servers.

Sets the port the game server listens on.

Sets the public IP address for a server behind NAT.

Shows the current network status of the server.

Sets the maximum bandwidth each player can use, in bytes per second.

Sets the maximum lag compensation in seconds.

Sets the minimum bandwidth each player is allowed to use, in bytes per second.

Turns on Killer Replay, which shows dead players how they died.

Records every match on the server as a GOTV demo automatically.

Broadcasts matches through an HTTP relay set in tv_broadcast_url.

Sets the GOTV broadcast delay in seconds.

Turns on GOTV, the server's built-in spectator broadcast and demo recorder.

Makes changes to tv_enable take effect right away instead of on the next map.

Sets the maximum number of spectators on GOTV.

Sets the name GOTV uses on the server.

Sets a password for spectators joining GOTV.

Sets the port GOTV spectators connect to.

Starts recording a GOTV demo with the file name you give.

Toggles relaying player voice chat to GOTV spectators and demos.

Shows the status of the GOTV server.

Stops the GOTV demo that is currently recording.

Sends all entities to GOTV, not only what the director's camera sees.

Sends a chat message to all players.

Lets players see all text chat, with no restrictions for dead players.

Lets players hear voice chat from both teams.

Lets dead players talk to living players by voice and text.

Lets every player, including spectators, talk to every other player.

Controls who spectators can hear.

Sets how many seconds a player can keep talking to the living after dying.

Toggles voice chat on the server.

Starts a vote on an issue, such as kicking a player or changing the map.

Removes a player from the server by name.

Removes a player by user ID or Steam ID, with an optional message shown to them.

Toggles player voting on the server.

Sets how many minutes a player stays banned after a kick ban.

Toggles whether players can start votes to kick someone.

Sets how many minutes a player removed by a vote kick stays banned.

Sets the share of players that must vote yes for a vote to pass.

Lets you take damage without dying.

Shows your position, view angles and speed at the top of the screen; requires sv_cheats 1.

Draws the path your current grenade would take if thrown from where you stand; requires sv_cheats 1.

Ends the current round immediately.

Sends an input to map entities by name or class, such as opening doors; requires sv_cheats 1.

Removes an entity by name, class or index, or the one you are looking at.

Kills your own player with explosive damage; requires sv_cheats 1.

Switches the camera back to the normal first-person view.

Prints your current position and view angles as a setpos and setang line you can copy; requires sv_cheats 1.

Hands you any weapon or item by its class name, without buying it.

Refills the ammo of the weapon you are holding.

Toggles god mode, making you take no damage.

Speeds up or slows down the whole game.

Takes the given amount of health from your player.

Sends a numbered impulse command to the game, an old Source mechanism for one-off actions.

Makes your own player die instantly, a quick way to respawn or reset.

Plants the bomb where you are looking.

Respawns you after death.

Sets your view angles: pitch, yaw and optional roll.

Teleports you to the given map coordinates.

Shows a picture-in-picture preview of where your grenade will land while you aim it.

Shows the path of thrown grenades for this many seconds.

Throws the last grenade thrown on the server again, from the same spot.

Shows bullet hits on players, and optionally near misses.

Shows where bullets hit, with client impacts in red and server impacts in blue.

Sets how many seconds bullet impact markers stay visible.

Switches to a third-person camera behind your player; requires sv_cheats 1.

Toggles a black outline around the crosshair so it stays visible on bright backgrounds.

Sets how the crosshair line length is divided between the inner and outer parts with crosshair style 2.

Sets the opacity of the inner crosshair lines after they split, from 0 to 1, with crosshair style 2.

Sets the opacity of the outer crosshair lines after they split, from 0.3 to 1, with crosshair style 2.

Sets how far the outer crosshair lines split away from the center with crosshair style 2.

Toggles the warning icon shown on your crosshair when you aim at a teammate.

Sets how thick the black crosshair outline is, from 0 to 3.

Toggles whether the crosshair follows your weapon's recoil while you spray.

Sets the width of the sniper scope lines; 1 is a single-pixel hairline, higher values are thicker.

Toggles the T-shaped crosshair, which removes the top line.

Sets crosshair transparency from 0 (invisible) to 255 (fully solid).

Sets the crosshair color from a preset list, or 5 to use your own RGB values.

Sets the blue part of a custom crosshair color, from 0 to 255.

Sets the green part of a custom crosshair color, from 0 to 255.

Sets the red part of a custom crosshair color, from 0 to 255.

Toggles a dot in the center of the crosshair.

Sets the space between the crosshair lines and the center; negative values pull the lines closer together.

Toggles whether the crosshair gap changes depending on the weapon you hold.

Sets the crosshair style, such as static, dynamic with a fixed center, or the legacy style with fake recoil.

Sets how thick the crosshair lines are drawn.

Toggles whether the crosshair uses the transparency set in cl_crosshairalpha.

Controls whether you see the crosshair of the player you are spectating: off, friends only, or everyone.

Shows or hides your crosshair entirely.

Shows or hides your weapon and hands model; requires sv_cheats 1.

Toggles random viewmodel offsets to preview the allowed range; requires sv_cheats 1.

Moves your weapon model along the X axis (left and right).

Moves your weapon model along the Y axis (forward and back).

Moves your weapon model along the Z axis (up and down).

Applies a preset weapon position: 1 Desktop, 2 Couch or 3 Classic.

Sets the teammate color you would like to get in competitive matches.

Hides the HUD except for the crosshair and kill feed, without needing cheats.

Shows or hides the whole HUD; requires sv_cheats 1.

Forces the radar to show even with the HUD hidden, or forces it off.

Sets the color of the HUD elements like health, armor and ammo, from team color to one of eleven presets.

Sets the size of the radar box in the corner of the HUD.

Toggles whether the radar keeps you in the center, or uses the full radar area near map edges.

Sets the minimum size of player icons on the radar, from 0.4 to 1.25.

Toggles whether the radar rotates with your view or stays fixed with north up.

Sets the radar zoom from 0.25 to 1.0; lower values zoom in, higher values show more of the map.

Toggles whether the radar switches to a larger square map while the scoreboard is open.

Toggles whether your weapon and grenade list stays visible on the HUD all the time.

Toggles drawing the teammate markers above heads in each teammate's own color.

Sets what appears above teammates' heads: just a marker, or a marker with name and equipment.

Controls whether teammates get their own colors on the radar and scoreboard, and whether letters are added.

Hides selected HUD elements using a bitmask, 4 hides everything; requires sv_cheats 1.

Sets the overall size of the HUD; lower values make health, ammo and other elements smaller.

Toggles the name shown when your crosshair is over another player.

Sets how much of the screen width the HUD uses; lower values pull HUD elements in from the sides.

Sets how much of the screen height the HUD uses; lower values pull HUD elements in from top and bottom.

Toggles blocking number keys from buying items in the buy menu.

Toggles whether weapon radial menus select an item as soon as the cursor highlights it.

Controls whether you can take the silencer off: 0 cannot detach, 1 secondary fire detaches it.

Toggles whether a sniper rifle zooms back in automatically after each shot.

Toggles whether the use key also opens the buy menu inside a buy zone.

Toggles binding keys by their physical position instead of the letter printed on them.

Toggles controller and joystick input.

Sets how much vertical mouse movement turns your view up and down, before sensitivity.

Sets how much horizontal mouse movement turns you, as degrees per mouse count before sensitivity.

Toggles inverted vertical mouse look, so moving the mouse up looks down.

Sets crouch to hold (0) or toggle (1).

Sets walk to hold (0) or toggle (1).

Sets your mouse sensitivity; together with your mouse DPI it decides how far you turn per inch.

Scales your mouse sensitivity while scoped in with a sniper or other zoom weapon.

Inspects your current weapon, the action behind the inspect key, F by default.

Opens the chat wheel while held, for quick radio calls and pings.

Opens the graffiti wheel while held, so you can pick and place a spray.

Buys items automatically in the order listed in cl_autobuy, if you can afford them.

Assigns a command to a key so pressing the key runs it; with only a key it shows the current binding.

Resets all key bindings to the game's default layout.

Sets the list and order of items the autobuy command tries to purchase.

Sets the order in which the rebuy command repurchases your last round's items.

Saves your current settings and key binds to your config files right away.

Lists every key that has a binding, along with the command it runs.

Switches back to the weapon you held before, the quick switch on Q by default.

Buys again what you bought last round, in the order set in cl_rebuy.

Switches to your primary weapon; bind it to a key for direct weapon selection.

Switches to your Molotov or incendiary grenade; bind it to a key for direct weapon selection.

Switches to your secondary weapon; bind it to a key for direct weapon selection.

Switches to your knife; bind it to a key for direct weapon selection.

Switches to your grenades; bind it to a key for direct weapon selection.

Switches to your C4 bomb; bind it to a key for direct weapon selection.

Switches to your HE grenade; bind it to a key for direct weapon selection.

Switches to your flashbang; bind it to a key for direct weapon selection.

Switches to your smoke grenade; bind it to a key for direct weapon selection.

Switches to your decoy grenade; bind it to a key for direct weapon selection.

Switches a setting between 0 and 1, or cycles it through the values you list.

Removes the command bound to a key.

Removes every key binding at once, including the console key and movement keys.

Toggles ragdoll physics for dead players; requires sv_cheats 1.

Sets the maximum number of dead bodies shown at once; -1 removes the limit.

Shows command queue statistics on the HUD, useful for spotting network and timing problems.

Sets how many milliseconds the game sleeps each frame while it is not the focused window.

Caps your frame rate during gameplay; 0 removes the limit.

Caps your frame rate while menus and the game UI are open; 0 removes the limit.

Sets screen gamma in fullscreen mode, the value behind the brightness slider.

Toggles boost player contrast, which makes player models stand out from the background.

Toggles the build information text shown in the corner of the screen.

Toggles clutch mode, which silences voice and other distracting sounds until the round ends or you die.

Blocks voice and chat from everyone except Steam friends and party members.

Toggles blocking all voice and text chat from the enemy team.

Turns clutch mode on or off, ideal for a key bind during a clutch.

Sends a chat message only to your own team.

Sets the volume of the music played for the death camera after you die.

Selects the headphone EQ preset, the audio profile option in the sound settings.

Sets the volume of the music played for the map objectives such as a planted bomb.

Sets the volume of the music played for the main menu and other non-gameplay screens.

Sets the overall music volume, which scales all the separate music sliders.

Toggles muting MVP music while players from both teams are still alive.

Sets the volume of the music played for the round MVP.

Sets the volume of the music played for the action moments during a round.

Sets the volume of the music played for the end of a round when your team wins or loses.

Sets the volume of the music played for the start of each round.

Sets the volume of the music played for the warning when 10 seconds are left on the round or bomb timer.

Sets how loud other players' voice chat is.

Toggles hearing your own voice through the game, to test your microphone.

Toggles voice chat in the game: hearing others and talking.

Sets how loud your microphone input must be before the game treats it as speech.

Toggles open mic, so your microphone transmits all the time without push to talk.

Sets the master game volume, from 0 (muted) to 1 (full).

Sets how many seconds without data from the server pass before your game disconnects itself.

Joins a game server directly by its IP address and port.

Leaves the server you are connected to and returns to the main menu.

Sets the highest ping you accept when matchmaking looks for official servers.

Forces how you connect to servers: through Valve's relay network, directly, or the matchmaking default.

Adds fake network lag in milliseconds, for testing how the game plays with a worse connection.

Prints your ping to Valve's relay locations and the route the game picked.

Sets the password your game sends when joining a password-protected server.

Sets the maximum network data rate your game accepts from the server, in bytes per second.

Downloads a match by its share code and starts playing it.

Jumps to a specific tick in the demo that is playing.

Prints information about the demo that is playing, including the current tick.

Pauses demo playback.

Resumes a paused demo.

Sets the demo playback speed, for example 0.5 for half speed or 2 for double.

Pauses or resumes demo playback, handy on a single key.

Shows or hides the demo playback controls, also opened with Shift+F2.

Plays back a recorded demo file (.dem) from the game folder.

Starts recording a demo of the game you are in, saved as a .dem file.

Ends the demo recording you started with record and saves the file.

Plays a demo as fast as possible and reports your average frame rate, a common benchmark.

Toggles automatic help messages for new players.

Toggles getting a random weapon automatically on each spawn in deathmatch.

Hides other players' avatar pictures: all, or all except friends.

Controls whether Steam friends can join your game in progress: on all servers, official servers only, or never.

Toggles hiding graffiti sprays from other players.

Toggles hiding names and avatars of players you have muted.

Toggles replacing other players' names with neutral names, useful for streaming.

Empties all text from the console.

Toggles whether the developer console can be opened, the Enable Developer Console setting.

Saves the current console text to a condump log file in the game folder.

Turns random weapons in deathmatch on or off.

Toggles the in-game lessons and hints that teach new players.

Loads a Steam Workshop map by its ID on a local game.

Toggles whether the killer replay starts automatically after you die, when available.

Toggles X-ray outlines and names of players through walls while you spectate.

Opens or closes the developer console, the command behind the console key.

Creates a shortcut name that runs one or more commands.

Lists all commands and settings, optionally filtered by a prefix.

Lists every setting that is not at its default value.

Prints text to the console.

Searches every command and setting for text in its name or description.

Shows the help text, flags and current value of a command or setting.