I'm glad that they have found the workaround to call everything 2 tho

They are very aware of the meme and will never release a third game as "3".

Team Fortress 3 will probably just be called "forever" or have some other tagline to avoid being called 3.

7th if you count CS online 1&2 (9th if you also include CS Neo and Nexon: Zombies/Studio but that's pushing it even for me)

Takes time to unsuck

I have a 1070 and both performance and loading times have improved compared to CS:GO. 🤷

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

Released 2012? Huuuh???

Maybe they just renamed the successor to 1.6? 🤷

I would gladly travel back in time to 2012 tbh

That wouldn't be Counter-Strike though.

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.

If you're trying to be good, stop right there. You can become competent, you can grind nade lineups and do hundreds and hundreds of scrims or hours of warm ups and aim training and movement training, and there will ALWAYS be someone better than you, you will NEVER reach the top of the mountain. If you're playing to have fun and are having fun with the game, you should play, because counter strike IS fun, but after getting out of the grindset, all I see when I look at my friends play is how little fun and joy they're actually getting out of the game and it's depressing as shit, don't be like them

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.

Division 2 and Destiny 2 are much more sequels though than they are an updated platform, tons of content differences. Counter-Strike is much, much more iterative

Thats kinda the point! New engine for new cool features and graphics but same core gameplay. They've improved a lot of things. I think the CS audience is excited for this, but they haven't done anything over-the-top different to attract net new players

It’s just a graphical and engine update, it’s version 2 not a full new game. They’ll be able to make lots of small improvements over the next decades but the color gameplay hasn’t changed in 20 years and won’t change for 20 more because it doesn’t need to.

It's kinda a sport now. Valve has a model to stick to. Improving it beyond graphics is risky.

It is the last one. It's quite literally just an update to CS:GO.

They just updated the engine a bit, but it's the exact same game.

I played a few matches. It's still the same de_dust2.