Game-breaking Counter-Strike exploit lets players create one-way smokes

A console command found by Counter-Strike personality DonHaci allows players to change the shape of smoke grenades.

The specific details, however, haven’t been revealed to protect the integrity of the game.

The exploit works by altering the perspective of a smoke grenade after its bloomed. The command can be bound to a key and used to repeatedly change the shape of a smoke until the desired effect is found.

A similar command changes the shape of an incendiary grenade and can even make it momentarily disappear. This is less impactful than the smoke exploit, though.

A one-way smoke sometimes happens naturally in Counter-Strike, but it often relies on pure chance. There are a number of one-way smokes that can be recreated, but the exploit makes it much easier. If a player is lucky, they can hide behind their smoke and catch out their enemies, while remaining hidden. The command negates this RNG factor.

Valve has yet to respond to the exploit, despite the outcry from the community.