CS2 Console Commands

The developer console is off by default. Switch it on in Settings, under Game, by setting Enable Developer Console to Yes. It then opens with the tilde key, which you can rebind in the keyboard settings if your layout puts that key somewhere awkward.

To practise, start a game against bots on the map you want — an offline game with bots gives you a server where you are the host, which is the condition sv_cheats requires. Then paste the config in.

Saving it as a file is worth the two minutes. Put the generated lines in a text file called practice.cfg in the game’s cfg folder, and from then on the whole setup is one line in the console: exec practice.

sv_cheats 1 has to come first. Every other command in this list is gated behind it, and running them before it means they are refused one by one while the console scrolls past too fast to notice. That is why the generator marks that block as required and will not let you switch it off.

mp_restartgame 1 has to come last. Most round settings — round time, freeze time, starting money — only take effect at the start of the next round, so without a restart you have configured everything and changed nothing until the current round happens to end.

The line most often missing from other people’s configs is mp_roundtime_defuse. Defuse maps use their own round timer, so setting mp_roundtime alone leaves you with a two-minute round on Mirage, Inferno and every other bomb map — which is most of the ones you actually want to practise on.

bot_kick is in the first block rather than later for a practical reason: bots left on the server will walk into your smokes and shoot you while you are lining up a grenade.

sv_grenade_trajectory_prac_pipreview 1 draws the flight path of a grenade after you throw it, which is what makes lineup practice possible at all — without it you are guessing at why a smoke landed short.

sv_showimpacts 1 marks where every bullet lands, and sv_showimpacts_time controls how long the marks stay visible. Ten seconds is long enough to walk up and read a spray pattern rather than squinting at it from range.

sv_infinite_ammo 1 removes both reloading and ammunition limits. Setting it to 2 instead keeps reloading in place while making the reserve infinite, which is closer to real conditions if you are practising recoil rather than lineups.

ammo_grenade_limit_total raises how many of each grenade you can carry, so a smoke lineup session does not mean walking back to buy after every throw. Combined with mp_buy_anywhere 1 and a raised money cap, the buy loop stops interrupting practice entirely.