Counter-Strike 2 on Steam
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For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.
  • Psythik@lemm.ee
    3·
    9 months ago

    So do you think the game is worth getting back into now, or should I just give up all hope at ever being half decent at this game?

    Last time I played was in 2014. Started as a Silver I, and worked my way up to Gold 1. I was never a competent player. I feel like if I try to get back into it now, the game will just be full of the same old players from past CS titles and I’ll still stand zero chance of ever getting gud. Or do you think the sequel will bring in enough new players that I might do alright?

    • macisr@unilem.org
      2·
      9 months ago

      I just play it for fun now. Try harding it made me miserable. But yeah, there are a lot of new players and it is a new ranked system so you might climb higher.

      • Psythik@lemm.ee
        2·
        9 months ago

        Been playing casual. Doing a lot better than I thought I would. So now I’m wondering if I’m better than I thought, or if casual matchmaking is skill-based as well.

    • CluelessDude@lemmy.zip
      0·
      9 months ago

      Yes and no, if you enjoyed your time why not? If you are thinking about features then no… The game is still very early open beta sort of feel atm it has the core gameplay but some things might feel off, and most game modes are missing, granted you haven’t played in a while so you might not notice any of this, I say give it a shot, the skill difference exists in all games but I’m a believer that it is what makes you passively get better.

      • Psythik@lemm.ee
        1·
        9 months ago

        You’re right, I didn’t notice that anything was missing until I started reading threads here and on the Steam forums. I’m having fun playing casual.

        • CluelessDude@lemmy.zip
          3·
          9 months ago

          Glad to hear! I’m also enjoying it, don’t let others opinions ruin your fun, I’m eager for the release of workshop things and server content so I can play around with them on my own server.

  • SrTobi@feddit.de
    3·
    9 months ago

    Tried to play yesterday but too many other people had the same idea… We’ll, going to tried in a few weeks

  • Lockely@pawb.socialEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    It’s really wild that they straight up nuked CS:GO for this and it both performs worse on higher end machines (reports of stuttering when ragdolls activate or shaders load in are rampant) AND it’s missing the casual war games modes like Arms Race.

      • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
        0·
        9 months ago

        Intel A770 with stable mesa drivers, can get around 100-130fps mid settings at 4K in CS2, but got 200+ solid and just ran vsync on at 144Hz 4K very high settings in CSGO. Maybe it’s just the Linux build (which notably received zero public beta testing) but my friend said the Windows version was lower frames on his AMD 580 than CSGO too.

          • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml
            2·
            9 months ago

            Pretty well overall. Performance is pretty solid on most games I play now, VRR is fixed finally, and I don’t get graphical glitches. I bought it a month or so after it came out and it was rough in the beginning, lots of crashes and glitches.

    • Still@programming.dev
      0·
      9 months ago

      well they kinda had to nuke csgo as you can’t transfer inventories between games

      the game is so fucked tho, on my 1060 I could play csgo at 1440p low at about 200fps, cs2 I’m lockynto get 100 on FSR performance

      and zooming with scopes are fucked get about 300ms of stutter every time

      • redhilsha@lemmy.ml
        1·
        9 months ago

        Dude I have the same hardware and FSR somehow performs worse for me.

        Though, I’m on LInux, I’ve yet to try it out on windows

        • Still@programming.dev
          1·
          9 months ago

          I found nuking my csgo configs fixed a bit of the performance

          I’m also on arch Linux, this fixed fsr for me

          • redhilsha@lemmy.ml
            1·
            9 months ago

            Nah, it’s mainly to transfer the Steam marketplace, I.E the thing that makes the most money for Valve out of Counter Strike.

    • nicetomeetyouIMVEGAN@lemmings.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      Shooting at kabinets, chairs and vending machines to create impenetrable forts with unlimited ammo only to get zombified by another dude in the same room at the start. Wwwhhhhaaaaaaaaaaahhh

        • towerful@programming.dev
          2·
          9 months ago

          Getting mad at that one guy that tries to get out after the barricade is built, and fucks everything up.

          Getting mad at the new guy that doesn’t know how the barricade should be built and just yeets random junk into the pile.

          That 1 ledge everyone is standing on, and someone chances their luck and gets zombed, and it all falls like dominoes.

          Damn, good times

  • cybermass@lemmy.ca
    1·
    9 months ago

    I really wish they had fixed the movement, considering it’s supposed to be a tactical shooter I would love to see some sort of footstep mechanic but it’s still ice rink battle simulator.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
    1·
    9 months ago

    I played it for an hour and realized I still suck at counter strike

    • towerful@programming.dev
      1·
      9 months ago

      Enshittification is about increasing monetisation of a previously free/cheap product.

      Adobe moving from a lifetime purchase to a subscription service: enshittification.
      Adobe not supporting old GPUs: not enshittification.

      Twitter locking rate limits behind subscription: enshittification.
      Twitter rebranding to X: not enshittification.

      Raspberry Pi prioritising business customers making SKUs rare and enabling scalpers: enshittification.
      Raspberry Pi moving to a new version of Debian making many tutorials outdated: not enshittification

      Ensittificstion is the process of a platform good for users becoming good for business customers, becoming good for investors/shareholders.

      Whilst it is a cool phrase, and an interesting observation, enshittification doesn’t apply to everything that has a core change.

      Enshittification would be mandatory ads in-game, some sort of P2W mechanic.
      Requiring better hardware is not enshittification.

        • towerful@programming.dev
          1·
          9 months ago

          Ok.
          CS:GO, a game released in 2012? Runs well on a 2016 laptop.
          CS2, a game released in 2023 can run well on a 2027 laptop.
          I don’t think that’s the argument you want to make?
          And I still don’t think it’s enshittification.

            • towerful@programming.dev
              2·
              9 months ago

              CS has always needed a GPU.

              CS:go required anything DX9 compatible with 256mb VRAM. Which would be an NVidia 6600, a midrange GPU from 2004 - around the time CS Source was released.

              CS2 minimum spec is a GTX650. Which is a mid range GPU from 2012, around the time cs:go was released.

              Something of a pattern there…

              If CPUs didn’t have integrated GPUs, this whole “cs is CPU dependent” thing wouldn’t apply, because you would STILL need a GPU.
              It’s just that intel bundled a barely passable GPU alongside the CPU.

              TBH, I think you are missing you’re argument.
              You should be arguing that there is no way to play cs:go now that cs2 has released. Meaning a potential hardware upgrade requirement.

              That is a bummer. That’s pretty shit.

              But it is NOT enshittification.

              That does not claw back value/money from customers to valve or its investors.
              Unless you can show me, beyond reasonable doubt, that Valve is making money from giving away CS2 for free to anyone that has purchased cs:go through the requirement of a hardware upgrade.
              Until then, this is not enshittification.

              Is it shitty? Sure.