When your connection drops or Counter-Strike 2 crashes throughout a aggressive match, you might return to the principle menu and see a Reconnect immediate. But if you press it, the sport can get caught on Connecting and by no means hundreds again in.

This often means the shopper can’t full the reconnect handshake with the stay match session. Most circumstances occur after a crash or restart, when CS2 or Steam nonetheless has stale session state, or when one thing disrupts the route again to the server like packet loss, NAT/firewall filtering, VPN/overlays, or a momentary Steam/CS2 service situation.

Below are a number of methods to repair the caught Reconnect immediate and efficiently rejoin the match.

1. Start a Competitive Queue Briefly, then Try Reconnect

Sometimes the UI/session state doesn’t refresh after a crash. Starting a queue can drive CS2 to re-sync matchmaking state, making Reconnect reply once more.

1. In CS2 major menu, open Competitive.
2. Select any map and click on Play.
   
3. As quickly as queue begins, click on the Reconnect immediate.
4. If the immediate disappears whereas queued, cancel queue, return to menu, then attempt Reconnect once more.
5. If it nonetheless hangs, go to the subsequent repair.

2. End CS2 and Steam Processes, then Restart

After a crash, background processes can preserve previous connection/session information alive. Ending them forces a clear startup and a contemporary reconnect try.

1. Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc to open Task Manager.
2. Find cs2.exe, steam.exe, and (if current) steamwebhelper.exe.
3. Right-click every and select End activity.
   
4. Launch Steam once more, open CS2, then press Reconnect.

3. Close CS2, Wait 2 to 5 Minutes, then Reconnect

If you crashed mid-round, the server should still deal with your previous connection as lively for a short while. Reconnect can dangle till that stale server-side session expires.

1. Close CS2 fully.
2. Wait 2 to 5 minutes (do not spam Reconnect).
3. Reopen CS2 and click on Reconnect.

4. Flush DNS

If this began after a community change or ISP hiccup, DNS cache can typically level you thru a nasty route. Flushing DNS forces Windows to rebuild cached lookups. It is fast and secure.

1. Search Command Prompt and select Run as administrator.
   
2. Run:

   ipconfig /flushdns

   

3. Open CS2 and check out Reconnect.

5. Clear Steam Download Cache (Resets Steam State)

This is principally a Steam reset. It can clear caught Steam-side cache/state after crashes or service hiccups and forces Steam to restart cleanly.

Note: Steam could restart and you might want to register once more.

1. Open Steam and go to Settings.
   
2. Open the Downloads tab.
   
3. Click Clear Download Cache.
   
4. Confirm and let Steam restart.
5. Launch CS2 and check out Reconnect.