Counter-Strike 2, like many FPS games, has its fair share of bugs and glitches. One of these bugs has plagued players since early Spring 2023.
CS2 Boost bug found again.pic.twitter.com/DWuAIURAFD
— CS2 NEWS (@cs2newsupdate) August 15, 2024
The bug takes the form of a bouncing or vibrating effect that would occur when a player is boosted on a teammate. Many attempts have been made by players within the community to reproduce the bug, but none of them proved to be successful until now.
On August 31st, 2024, a user on X named Poggu posted a video along with an explanation of what is the true cause of the bug.
We just figured out what cases the "boost bug", it's the fucking ragdolls. Whenever you die while standing on a ragdoll your client side collision will be permanently disabled for that player.
— Poggu (@poggu__) August 31, 2024
This happens because the game disables player collision whenever your ragdoll touches… pic.twitter.com/ITYNkX2ZCA
The cause of the bug is directly tied to the model ragdolls, which are essentially the deceased bodies of players in-game. When a player dies, they leave behind a ragdoll. In a March 30th update, Valve disabled collisions between ragdolls completely. This seems to correlate with when the bug began to appear.
With a single cheat-protected console command (sv_player_ragdolls_collide 1) Poggu was able to completely remove the bug, and was able to boost without the vibrating/bouncing effect.
The reason why the bouncing effect couldn’t always be reproduced was because the anti-collision effect would technically only be enabled when the ragdoll came in contact with another ragdoll. This effect would then carry over to normal player collision, causing the bug.
