Description
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has been a favorite among gamers since its release in 2012. With over 1.5 million simultaneous players, it has become a go-to game for many gamers. Despite its slow-paced gameplay, it has become a strategic shooter with a competitive scene that awards millions of dollars to its participants every year. Valve, the game's developer, has been quiet for the past few years. However, the release of Half-Life Alyx in 2020 indicated that the company was secretly working on Counter-Strike 2. After participating in the limited test of the game, players can attest to the fact that Counter-Strike 2 is the real deal. Counter-Strike 2 boasts a new engine, Source 2, and a modern Vulkan graphics API, replacing the aging DirectX 9-based Source engine. Valve has rebuilt a decade-old game on a new engine, which it was not a small thing. The new engine creates a solid foundation for future updates and improvements.
New features are dynamic and volumetric smoke grenades, a new lighting model, and a non-ticking network model. Smoke grenades realistically fill spaces and grenades can be fired or thrown to temporarily create voids, while the new lighting model combines with improved assets such as maps, weapons, and operators to improve graphical fidelity. The non-ticking network model sends out shots, grenade throws, or movement microseconds after they happen.
The UI and blood splatter have also been redesigned to make Counter-Strike 2 feel like a more modern game, in keeping with its 2023 release date.
Counter-Strike 2's limited trial version has only one map, the classic de_dust2, and two game modes, deathmatch and competitive. The game's interface has been overhauled, with more emphasis on improved visuals, but also usability improvements.
Players praised the new features, which significantly improved the game. The new smoke grenades are a real highlight, delivering game-changing impact when used tactically by players to reveal an enemy player in unexpected ways.
Unexpectedly, the move feels a bit worse, but throwing a grenade at the top of your jump or holding someone over the head with a Desert Eagle is always perfect.
Counter-Strike 2 features several subtle quality-of-life changes, such as seeing your own legs, the minimap shows where you can be heard, enemies can now overlap the rag instead of cutting each other, and being shot produces a blood effect. directional to show you. the location of the shooter. The game also features better environmental effects, and equipping a grenade in practice mode provides a picture-in-picture view of where the grenade will land.
Counter-Strike 2's limited trial has a few technical issues, but overall it's an exciting game that should launch this summer with enough new features to justify the new figure. Counter-Strike 2 lays the foundation for years to come, and fans of the series are eagerly awaiting its release.
