Counter-Strike 2: PUGs and HTG servers

HTG's own CS2 servers are on the roadmap: always-on community servers, plus PUG servers started on demand. Until they're live, PUGs are organised in Discord on any server a member provides.

Joining a server

Premier and matchmaking lobbies can't join a community server, so you connect directly. Two ways:

Click the connect link posted in Discord, of the form steam://connect/<address>:<port>/<password>. Steam opens CS2 and joins.
Use the console: enable the developer console in settings, press ~, and type
```
connect <address>:<port>; password <password>
```

A passworded server joined from the in-game browser fails with "Bad password" and no prompt, so use one of the two ways above.

PUGs

Join a PUG in #cs-pugs. Grab @CS PUG to be pinged when one forms.
When 10 players are in, teams and the map veto are sorted in Discord, and each player gets the connect details.
Meet in PUG Lobby, then split to team channels.

Fair play

No skin changers or inventory plugins (!ws, knives, gloves), on any server HTG runs or uses. Valve permanently disables the server tokens of servers that offer them, and bars the account from making new ones. See publisher rules.
No cheats. Cheating anywhere is a permanent ban here (rule 5).

Sources (checked 2026-10-01)

Counter-Strike 2 dedicated servers (Valve Developer Community)
Valve server operator guidelines (rechecked 2026-10-02)

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