CS2 Quick actions

Quick actions is the panel that saves you from typing console commands in the middle of a game. Each button sends a real CS2 server command to your live server, so a click does exactly what an admin typing in the console would do. This page lists every button, what it does, and the command behind it.

To find it, open your server’s page, click the Game-specific tab, then Quick actions (it’s the first panel, so it opens by default).

Before you start

• The server must be Live. While it’s stopped or starting, the buttons are greyed out.
• You need the Control servers permission on the team. Without it you can see the panel but not use it, and it says Needs the Control servers permission. Ask a team admin. See Roles and permissions.

When you click a button it lights up green for a moment. The command and the server’s reply also appear in the Console tab, so you can always check what was sent. Buttons don’t lock while a command is in flight: you can fire several in a row.

Beside some headings there’s a small i. Click it for a short explanation of that part; click anywhere else, or press Esc, to close it.

Map and mode

The top of the panel shows the Current map and, under it, the official maps in one row of small pictures. Scroll the row sideways for more. Click a map to load it: it sends changelevel <map> and keeps the game mode the server is in. The map that’s on says Now.

For Workshop maps, maps your team saved, and bigger pictures, click Workshop maps at the right of the current map. It opens the Maps panel. See Game modes and maps.

Under the maps is a list of CS2’s game modes, grouped as Classic, Gun Game and Other. Pick one and click Switch mode. After you confirm Switch game mode?, the server loads the current map again in the new mode, which briefly disconnects everyone.

Behind the button it sets game_type, game_mode, sv_game_mode_flags and sv_skirmish_id for that mode, then reloads the map. Some maps don’t support every mode. The full list and what each mode is: Game modes and maps.

The server remembers the last map you loaded. When you stop and restore it, it boots straight back onto that map.

Restart

Two ways to reset things, depending on how much you need to reset. Neither changes your address or port.

Button	What it does	Takes
Restart server	Stops CS2 completely and boots it fresh. Applies everything, including changes to MetaMod files and gameinfo.gi. Asks Restart server? first.	About 30 seconds
Reload map	Loads the current map again (changelevel <current map>, or host_workshop_map <id> on a Workshop map). Re-runs your configs and reloads plugins. Players get a brief reconnect. Asks Reload map? first.	About 15 seconds

Use Reload map after editing a .cfg file. Use Restart server when something is really stuck, or after changing files the game only reads at boot.

Match flow

Button	Command	What it does
Restart round	mp_restartgame 1	Restarts the match after one second: scores and money reset.
Start warmup	mp_warmup_start	Puts the server back into warmup.
End warmup	mp_warmup_end	Ends warmup now and starts the match.
Pause match	mp_pause_match	Pauses at the next freeze time, not mid-round.
Unpause match	mp_unpause_match	Resumes a paused match.

Teams and bots

Button	Command	What it does
Swap teams	mp_swapteams	Swaps CT and T sides.
Scramble teams	mp_scrambleteams	Reassigns players to teams at random.
Add CT bot	bot_add_ct	Adds one bot to the Counter-Terrorists.
Add T bot	bot_add_t	Adds one bot to the Terrorists.
Kick bots	bot_kick	Removes all bots.

Want a set number of bots, or harder ones? Use bot_quota and bot_difficulty in the console. See Console commands.

Practice

Two buttons that turn the server into a practice server and back: cheats on so players can noclip, no bots, $60,000 to spend anywhere at any time, infinite ammo, and the grenade camera.

Button	Command	What it does
Start practice	exec prac	Runs prac.cfg from the server’s game/csgo/cfg folder and restarts the round.
End practice	exec prac_off, your server.cfg and the mode’s config, then mp_restartgame 1	Runs prac_off.cfg, which turns cheats off, then the files a map load runs for your game mode, and restarts the round. Nobody is disconnected. In Deathmatch and Arms Race it asks End practice? and reloads the map instead.

Every CS2 server has both files, and they’re yours to change: SLASHPLAY only puts them back when they’re missing. A map change undoes most of practice, so click Start practice again after one. What each line does, and how to make your own version: Practice mode.

Player pause

The only mid-round pause CS2 has is one that players trigger: they type pause in their own console, and the match freezes. A dedicated server can’t do this itself, so this setting hands the ability to your players.

The Players can pause switch turns it on (sv_pausable 1) and off (sv_pausable 0, the default). When it’s on, any player on the server can freeze the match, which is great for a practice with friends and a bad idea on a public server.

Unlike the other buttons, this is a saved setting. It applies to the running server straight away, and SLASHPLAY applies it again every time the server boots, so it survives restarts and restores.

Troubleshooting

The buttons are greyed out. The server isn’t live, or you don’t have Control servers. Wait for Live, or ask a team admin for the permission.

I clicked a button and nothing seemed to happen. Open the Console tab. The command is listed there with the server’s reply, or an error such as Server is not ready. Match commands like Pause match also wait for the right moment in the round.

Switching mode dropped everyone. That’s expected: a mode only takes effect when the map loads again. Players reconnect on their own.

The mode went back to Competitive after a restart or restore. A mode you pick here lasts until the game process stops. Restart server, a stop and a restore all boot the server’s default mode again (the map is remembered, the mode isn’t). To boot into a mode every time, add it to Launch options.

Related

• Practice mode
• Game modes and maps
• Console commands
• The console
• Start, stop and restore