Gaming Counter-Strike 2

[Chairman Steve]

Valve announced a new game!

Check out the official CS Twitter account for more detail than below. A limited testing run is being available today to a select group of players

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[Vidyoyo]

More like Counter Strike Poo

 

[hobbers]

Not exactly a new game but long overdue upgrade.

 

[Ajr]

I can't wait

 

[Pexbo]

wow cool smoke makes me want to play smoke simulator again.

 

[Amar__]

Wow, smoke

Counter strike was/is great, but I am not sure they need to introduce such big changes in the game such is smoke. I am pretty people behind it are laughing somewhere behind all that smoke.

 

[balaks]

Valve announced a new game!

Check out the official CS Twitter account for more detail than below. A limited testing run is being available today to a select group of players

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Woah Holy feck that's amazing news!

 

[Bosws87]

The best shooter of all time gets better.

Good to hear they are doing it correct with all the inventory and skins coming over, not that they really had a choice would of been outrage.

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lovely.

 

[hobbers]

Hopefully the new smoke physics stop all these different 1 way spots

 

[JuriM]

It's live, go update your Cs GO on Steam.

 

[Flying high]

Looks like valve messed up and banned loads of players. Normally I'd probably ignore it and just think they're all cheaters, except I got banned this time too. My first game ban in 40 years of gaming!

 

[Slevs]

Looks like valve messed up and banned loads of players. Normally I'd probably ignore it and just think they're all cheaters, except I got banned this time too. My first game ban in 40 years of gaming!

Cheater.

 

[girish]

I have played a lot half an hour of CS2 so far. I'm gonna play only after they fix most of the bugs reported by the user base.

 

[Flying high]

Cheater.

My ban got lifted last night, along with 1000s of others, it seems.

I have played a lot half an hour of CS2 so far. I'm gonna play only after they fix most of the bugs reported by the user base.

It's much better than on release. The rubber banding seems to be fixed. It feels almost like CS:GO now.

Not perfect, but certainly playable.

 

[Sky1981]

It's GO with a better smoke grenade

And some of my stat trak weapons gone missing during the migration it seems

 

[girish]

It's much better than on release. The rubber banding seems to be fixed. It feels almost like CS:GO now.

Not perfect, but certainly playable.

Will definitely try.

 

[Scandi Red]

Just re-release version 1.6 with better matchmaking and spectating options, you cowards! There was no need to change what was already perfect.

 

[Volumiza]

As someone who went in deep on CS back in the day, I always rate the old CS circa 1.3 to 1.6 as still the best online shooter, certainly my favourite. I was fecking great at it.

How does the new one rate alongside COD MW? Is it still a great game? How has it moved on over the years?

 

[mitChley]

As someone who went in deep on CS back in the day, I always rate the old CS circa 1.3 to 1.6 as still the best online shooter, certainly my favourite. I was fecking great at it.

How does the new one rate alongside COD MW? Is it still a great game? How has it moved on over the years?

Hard to compare, arcade shooter v tactical shooter, I doubt they see each other as big rivals.

 

[Volumiza]

Hard to compare, arcade shooter v tactical shooter, I doubt they see each other as big rivals.

Yeah I get that, I'm just a long time out of the PC brigade but have been toying with the idea of building a VR PC rig and knowing CS is still well supported would be a bonus.

Has CS become more tactical or changed loads since the old 1.3 days?

 

[MTF]

Yeah I get that, I'm just a long time out of the PC brigade but have been toying with the idea of building a VR PC rig and knowing CS is still well supported would be a bonus.

Has CS become more tactical or changed loads since the old 1.3 days?

The core mechanics and logic of the game are still the same. Still played mainly as a round-based game, defuse game-mode with 2 bombsites. What's different from 1.3-1.6 is that the game standardized around the 5v5 format as the main competitive game-mode, with both professional tournaments and in-game matchmaking played in that format.

It's very different than playing COD because of this format, outside of shooting all you have to play with are a frag, flash, smoke and incendiary (area denial for 7 secs) grenades. No kill-streaks or other gadgets. Pretty team-oriented also.

 

[Volumiza]

The core mechanics and logic of the game are still the same. Still played mainly as a round-based game, defuse game-mode with 2 bombsites. What's different from 1.3-1.6 is that the game standardized around the 5v5 format as the main competitive game-mode, with both professional tournaments and in-game matchmaking played in that format.

It's very different than playing COD because of this format, outside of shooting all you have to play with are a frag, flash, smoke and incendiary (area denial for 7 secs) grenades. No kill-streaks or other gadgets. Pretty team-oriented also.

Ok cool thanks. I'd forgotten about the no frills nature of it. Have they ever released any of the old maps? De.Dust etc? No tthat I'm stuck in the past or owt

 

[MTF]

Ok cool thanks. I'd forgotten about the no frills nature of it. Have they ever released any of the old maps? De.Dust etc? No tthat I'm stuck in the past or owt

Maps are one of the most stale aspects of CS, as the player base loves familiarity. So some of the most popular maps still include Dust2 (Dust is too CT-sided if you remember), Inferno, Mirage, Nuke. Others are newer like Ancient (Aztec remake in sort of style, but Aztec was also very CT-sided), Overpass, Anubis. But even for the maps you know the graphics and even some of the pathing will be changed.

Oh, guns also have skins now in case you haven't heard, and people are willing to pay absurd amounts of money for rare skins.

 

[Volumiza]

Maps are one of the most stale aspects of CS, as the player base loves familiarity. So some of the most popular maps still include Dust2 (Dust is too CT-sided if you remember), Inferno, Mirage, Nuke. Others are newer like Ancient (Aztec remake in sort of style, but Aztec was also very CT-sided), Overpass, Anubis. But even for the maps you know the graphics and even some of the pathing will be changed.

Oh, guns also have skins now in case you haven't heard, and people are willing to pay absurd amounts of money for rare skins.

Thanks dude!