In Counter-Strike 2, Valve may have just created my dream game

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In Counter-Strike 2, Valve may have just created my dream game
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Counter-Strike 2 looks like everything fans wanted, and then some.

, the next step for the greatest and most popular competitive FPS in history. As a long-term Counter-Striker this is something that is both deeply welcome, and of course slightly worrying. The thing about Counter-Strike is, and I know this is slightly hyperbolic, it already seems as close to a perfect competitive FPS as you're going to get. Whatever iteration is your particular poison, the fundamentals of this game are so strong that changing them in any way is both exciting and fraught.

The smokes in CS:GO created a one-size-fits-all cloud that sat in place, regardless of the surrounding location, and lasted for a certain time. Smoke grenades in Counter-Strike 2 now create volumetric 3D objects in the world which react to the environment and what's going on around them. In other words, the smoke fills spaces and can be moved by external forces such as a grenade explosion or the riptide of bullets.

While I may not notice this improvement in practice, beyond a general sense that things are smoother, I'm pretty certain I will be aware of it as part of the other side of Counter-Strike fandom, namely the outstanding competitive scene. I still watch pretty much every Counter-Strike major and it's these players who live on that razor's edge between ticks, and it's them who'll be the happiest about a change that goes right to the heart of CS as a competitive experience.

The maps Valve has chosen to tweak and overhaul also mostly align with what I'd want to see. Nuke's one of those where the visual overhaul is incredible and almost changes the environment without fundamentally altering the geometry. All those reflective surfaces are going to hit way different, and I'm very curious about whether they're going to adjust the T-side interior approach to A .

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