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- Esports Manager 2026 (2749950)
- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 26 August 2026 - 19:17:07 UTC
- Source
- steam_community_announcements
Patch NotesA big pass over the live match simulation, tournaments, the transfer market and the Workshop. Match SimulationPost-plant: won rounds stay won. A defence with a man advantage (or with no attacker left alive) now walks back and defuses under ten seconds instead of running for the exit. The defuser is chosen by who can actually reach the bomb in time — bare-handed defuses are allowed when the clock permits, not only kit defuses.Retakes go to the right site. The team now heads for the site the bomb is really on, instead of continuing towards wherever it was already walking.Attackers clear the blast. The whole attacking side now leaves the bomb area under ten seconds (staying only to contest a live defuse), wounded players leave earlier, and escape spots are picked by real path time for each player. The round where a full team stands on its own bomb and dies to it is gone.Saves sti...