CS2: A New Start?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 มิ.ย. 2024
- A new beginning, a new day, a new case, and a whole new set of controversies... can CS2 really be anustart for Counter-Strike? In this video I question if Counter Strike 2 is leaving more than just Source 1 behind
The counter-terrorism report: data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/...
0:00 - Leaving the old behind
0:55 - Dust2
1:35 - MONEY
2:36 - Profanity blocks
3:13 - Gore
3:33 - Realism no longer needed?
4:17 - Character models
5:01 - School maps
5:52 - Terrorists
7:30 - Regional influence
9:37 - Second chances - เกม
I miss map based character models so bad... where all my boys gone Valve??
I especially miss the Terrorists from inferno and shoots, and the FBI CTs
Right,the Phoenix don’t fit at all in most maps
now all terrorists on all maps are russians. a huge win for realism of the game! I love the change, even if I despise custom models
separatist gang 💯💯💯
@@512TheWolf512
Delusional and injecting politics into random discussions, classic.
When I hear "terrorists win" i begin shaking and crying. It must be changed to "bad guys win" immediately.
NO! it must me "enemy team"!!!
I can’t believe there’s a C4 in the game. So globally offensive. They should change it to a Hamster in a Microwave
@@antihooligan1398 no no NOOOO!!! It should be changed to children and bakers, bakers need to plant the cake, and we all know cake is a lie so it doesn't even really exist, we'll be bringing attention to issues like obesity and schizophrenia with that!
No. "Red team is the winner!" best option so far.
@@antihooligan1398 thats too aggressive they must change it to opposite team win
"Let's keep it clean, it's a family show"
Not them playing a rated M game, about terrorism.
Painfully ironic
Lol he's joking. They do need to keep it clean, but for the advertisers, not because it's a family show
@@gambello1195no he’s lying so he can pretend he was serious to the advertisers
@@gambello1195 He wasn't joking. He was being serious.
They memed the shit out of him afterwards, and he reluctantly laughed along.
The guy that say that is like TH-cam's CEO, use 18+ rating app (or not at all) but doesn't allow any 18+ contents.
7:37 The Italian flag hanging from that windowsill was of utmost controversy, and every past, present, and future player of CS will sleep soundly, knowing that it has been removed from the map forever
China moves in mysterious ways... Do not ask questions, and do not resist...
Good. I hate Italy.
from a map called cs_italy...
They didnt even bother to rebake the map after removing the flag lmaooooo its shadow still there
I fear the only way to stop this is if we start getting as upset about BS like this as the idiots who are upset about art having character. Fictional art is dying a slow death because people keep taking it out of fiction and adding construed "context" that helps their narrative best. God this makes me furious. Even though I don't give a fuck about a detail like this in a vacuum, the reason why it is changed is just foul and empowering the wrong people.
LESS character
MORE gambling
LESS story
MORE gambling
LESS controversy
MORE GAMBLING
What story
@@Scrum_Master_Revolution Operations
@@de_dan Yeah exactly, one operation 9 years ago trying to do story and then them never following up on it doesnt equal anything. CS2 has the same amount of non existent story content.
@@Scrum_Master_Revolution yk before CSGO there was text displayed when the map loaded. And it did tell a story, in a way.
@@benismann Sometimes, but outside of the main maps no really. And even then, most of the time all it did was describe the bomb targets as the were in 1.6 and that was it. CZ and CSS inferno both refer to each bombsite as being a gas pipeline but neither still featured it.
Counter-Terrorists vs Terrorists is fucking cool. It's pathetic and embarrassing to rip out more and more of the game's identity to satisfy people who will never be happy until Counter-Strike: For Kids becomes the official competition version of the game.
Counter Straik: Kids edition now with new unregulated gambling for toddlers
Oh wait... They already do that.
@@marcedoreste maybe you're a zoomer but Counter-Strike For Kids was the funniest internet video of all time.
@@acex222 Facts
@@acex222 and now back to George Lopes show…
The new counter-strike era is so much about raw competitive play, even the casual mode players are toggling cheats to not lose
surfing is dying :/
@@LeilaNamer There are a few surfing servers out there for CS2, but the official server browser seems to not work, and you're better off using a community made server browser.
That's been like that for a while tbh... Competitivity has ruined videogames overall for the last 10 or so years, where you either play full hardcore or are bound to have a sub-par experience due to cheaters or tryhards/smurfs
vote-kick need to be fixed in casual. Newbs shouldn't be kicked for being newb in casual.
@@Ferrari255GTOthe moment corporations at large saw the potential money that could be had from doing this among other practices like loot boxes and battle passes, dlc and more...
is the same moment where the decline happened, and time and time again gamers have proven to be literal sheep and never vocalized against these practices by voting with their wallets.
philip this is legitamately such a unique and interesting video about marketing and social consequencies of mass medium entertainment and i am really proud of you and glad you made it
Thanks! Didn't know where it was headed when I started with it
@@sumantnaskar6066brodie did you watch the whole video? lmfao
@@murxoz my comment was not relevant to the subject of the video. I saw his reply and asked him to talk on a separate topic.
Edit - my bad I stopped watching during his outro with the cs2 logo.
@@sumantnaskar6066point is that cheaters are mentioned at the end of the video
I really miss the Separatists. They were so iconic, especially the "I hate these chickens" line and the beef they had with those birds.
They're real too.
ETA, an acronym for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna ("Basque Homeland and Liberty" or "Basque Country and Freedom"), was an armed Basque nationalist and far-left separatist organization in the Basque Country between 1959 and 2018, with its goal being independence for the region.
Source: Wikipedia
@@V-XENO well obviously they wouldnt be removed if they weren't real
@@benismann Tell that to everyone who doesn't know they are, which is like 80% of the playerbase.
@@V-XENO Do they also hate chickens irl
they say something after this sentence. it ends with feed some bones or something
The "seriousness" of Counter-Strike is one of the main aspects that appealed to me as a kid. I liked how "realistic" the Rainbow Six were but I found them too tactical and complex, plus they didn't show you a weapon model. Counter-Strike was arcadey and accessible but still serious enough for me to imagine myself playing part of a high stakes anti-terrorist mission.
I miss that genre of first person shooters so much. The CoD MW campaign nails the dangerous tacticool atmosphere in many missions and I'm sure that's why many people find them memorable so I know I'm not alone on this.
Bingo! Same for me with racing games. I love me old NFS MW from 2005. It's right there on the border between realism and arcade fun. I tried forza, and Asseto Corsa, but they're just not for me. New Need for Speed games are terrible in my opinion ( mainly because i can't drive like in MW, but there's also this weird plot every time), though i had a little bif of fun with HEAT. Old COD games were awesome, i still play from time to time COD 1 and 2 and WaW, because they bring me joy that new games lack.
@@kniazjarema8587i played unbound it's really fun you should maybe try it if you haven't
MW was also released at the perfect time. Mw 1-3 were all realistic enough (for their time) to appeal to a wider audience than BO without being too complex like BF. Also these were the last stand alone games before all that pay to win, 1000 different loadout slots and whatnot that was introduced.
When i got my 360 i bought mw3 and was hooked, later we had lan parties where we played mw2 and occasionally mw1 which were both fun as well. Now pubg and cs have taken their spot for me.
You're 100% not alone in this. I always thought the same but could never word it the way you did. Good job.
Yup same. To quote famous Motown bassist James Jamerson: "The dirt keeps the funk.". No dirt, no funk. These squeaky clean modern games catered towards children and Twitters "social justice warriors" are about as interesting and appealing as a loaf of American toast. As soon as something is popular enough it gets castrated to appease them.
"fix the cheater issue that people *think* the game has" contraversial there Philip
I'm high trust factor I almost never see cheaters. I'm at only like 12k premier tho.
Honestly more people need to say that shit, I remember csgo in 2014-15 when cheaters were supposedly in every game... I ran into single digit number of cheaters over 1000+ hours, I genuinely think gamers just have severe ego issues and can't accept they lost.
@@TheInfectous nah, i almost never run in aim cheaters (like one in 30-70 games and its usually obvious), but often run into wallers. I have really good hearing and often get called a waller, but it helps me know the difference. I download the demo (type in demoui to get a handy tool to help, and press x to see through walls), and they do the dumbest shit. The best way to spot a waller is inconsistency.
Anyway, it's hard to say for 100% certain, because they play dumb very well most of the time, but sometimes it's just the only explanation excluding that they are just a walking coincidence machine.
A waller about 1 every 5 games. Way too many.
@@TheInfectous Whats your steam account? Ill show you my past 100 demos, more than 50% had clear cheaters. Unranked -> 10 000 premier
@@ANDR0iD Yeah it's not a big problem for people with high trust factor.. but streamers seem to struggle a lot with this issue. Watching them play makes me wonder how much effort Valve truly puts into their anti cheat, if at all. Obvious aim/wall-hackers spinning, bhopping around the map and even shooting faster than possible with some guns, and the AC is unable to detect that within a time span of a month? That's... not good.
Sure, hardly have to deal with it myself because my trust factor apparently is high enough, but I also played with a Wall Hacker about 2 weeks ago. He would call all enemy positions throughout the round. We reported him and so did the enemy team, yet his account is still not banned. Makes me wonder if hackers are really rare on high trust factor matches, or it's just less obvious (using less effective hacks like WH => getting reported less => maintaining decent trust factor, but still getting an unfair advantage).
personally I think a game themed after counterterrorism should aim for the most varied offensive political imagery possible. make a map with PRC special forces gunning down Uyghur militants, one with Black Wasps vs CIA infiltrators, and so on down the line until players need a reference guide to remember which side are supposed to be "the good guys." the incessant arguments will be great for engagement.
This is the dream alright. One of my favorite things about CSGO was the variety of terrorists and counter terrorists. I was devastated seeing only SAS and Phoenix in CS2. Part of the game died for me. There's so much untapped potential in having various realistic teams to play on, but alas, today's world just won't allow it
chudmaxxed
Wow epic opinion too bad...
@@atrusaeon4020 dab on gamer
@@atrusaeon4020 dab on gamer
In csgo if you put "-language pirate" in launch options, CT's where British navy in the UI and T's where pirates
Does it still work?
@@metasamsara unfortunately not :(
If every game bends to the will of these “potential problematic risks” we’re gonna end up with My Team vs. Enemy Team like COD did a couple years back.
Reminder that CoD Vanguard had a literal, unironic lesbian German soldier.
@@peepsbates Hey, you can’t say German anymore, that’s a buzzword!
@@peepsbates There were gay and lesbian soldiers in WW2 its actually a pretty interesting topic.
I assume youre talking about Constanze Muller (Ive nevr played the game she's who i could find) its kind of disingenuous to say she was a German soldier since apparently she switched sides to the allies.
If she was a nazi soldier it wouldve been a bit dumber (The Nazis did put gay people in the holocaust as well) but it actually just works with history.
@@peepsbatesi cant imagine the shock you will have once you find out that many gay and lesbians kept their mouths shut and proceeded to do what they were told to to not get murdered or put into jail. Theres also the so called Blitzmädels wich surely had one or another lesbian. On the other hand lesbians might have also not feared any consequences because homosexiality was only forbidden for men but this topic is very unclear and discussed.
at the end of the day both sides are whining about something so it doesnt matter
censorship needs to go the fuck away
woah now you cant say the certain word the starts with the letter f, please say fudge or frig or better yet say nothing or you might loose sponsorships
-50 Social Credits
What a broad, bland statement that means absolutely nothing.
@@lemontonkredditor
@@lemontonkit did mean something for you.
I missed having country flags next to the guns in the buy menu, just a little bit of some actual information someone could learn while playing. I'm no gun nut, without CSGO I never would have learned the Famas was French or the Negev Israeli. I also miss blood pooling beneath someone when they died on top of the bullet wounds, and you could shoot the dead to make them move which should be a thing :/
Yeah and they removed the weapon stats????
never noticed this was gone that sucks
I love kissing my cs 1.6 cardboard cutout
Gotta kiss the Ts good night
But real Chads pet their CS 1.5 execut- er, folder, tucked away in their HL1 WON folder. Like a cat.
CS2 is becoming more sterile and corporate and i hate that
soon we get lgbt agent skins
Genuine question, why do you hate that? And what exactly do you mean by sterile and corporate, can you give examples? Genuinely curious about an opposing viewpoint, since I personally have liked every change they made. (I only play like once a week though, so maybe I am not invested enough to "get it", no idea)
@@Preohhhbecause its a slow and painful crawl towards, blandness, homogeneity, and boredom, where we end up with these things not having any unique identity, even though games are supposed to escape reality and have fun, not emulate it with lengthy abstractions but if you look at it at a macro scale, its an emulation of reality or some aspect of it.
@@imgladnotu9527 Bland, homogenous and boring? What parts of CS2 are that, in your opinion? I personally can't see it, but do tell. I'd love to understand your perspective.
Also, you lost me a bit at the end. "emulate reality with lengthy abstractions" -what do you mean by that?
And if you ask me, CS2 is not really that realistic nor is it an emulation of reality. But again, would love to hear your viewpoint.
@@PreohhhYou don''t see it, I do. It's not there yet, but it's coming, slowly and surely. Even klik showed an example, where the word "terrorists" dissapeared off the screen. It's not much, but it's a step, and ahead of you is a staircase.
counter strike will forever be the best place to start nationalist banter between your teammates
You know there will be dialogues better than 90% of comedy movies when you get serbian and bosnian in one team
As a Canadian, Americans always make fun of me for saying call outs outside, washroom, water... Or saying sorry for flashing and shooting teammates 😂
@@K_End Yeah I've been pushing for a 1812 version two. So far, my American teammates hate me and that's about it.
Everyone in matchmaking knows how to correctly address their teammates' mothers in whatever the other person's native language is, if that isn't peak globalism I don't know what is.
@@gosling_choked_floyd_POGi think we're long past that era of cs. i haven't witnessed 2 balkan nationalists argue since maybe 2022. either their pcs can't run the game so they're barred from playing (the world is healing), or they've abandoned their nationalist ways (the world is healing)
Man, I just don't like some of the new agents being ripped literally from "CS1" and sold back to us. Any other company that does that would get fire all over their feeds
PLUS ... I feel like the personality in each faction's voiceovers, along with the map-specific faction use, really gave life to the whole package. now the Agents talk like corporate greenwashed advertisements, and they look like over designed, toothless, characters from a mobile game.
The agents are cosmetics, and the game is free. Why would anyone complain?
@@troublishone there are three exact agents that were literally FREE when each map had a designated T faction you'd play as. Now they're 2-5 bucks. You can shrug your shoulders, but the precedent you're allowing is not going to be friendly in 5 year's time.
I feel like the new agent voice lines are more boring then corporate. Some of the first ones had some personality added in, but it feels like they added too many too soon and just couldnt be assed to go further then the basic script.
Something being free doesnt guard it from criticism, thats retarded.@@troublishone
@@josephs.3372 The precedent that this sets is that cosmetics are fine to sell. I will not care in 5 years when they are selling key chains for guns or pet chickens you get in the match intro or match win celebrations. These do not affect me at all, or the game.
7:34 you have an arrow to the attachment on the soldier's helmet saying "lol wtf is this" and it is a nightvision monocular. They are very common among combat troops to see in the night or dark rooms/tunnels etc. His is flipped up on a Norotos Rhino mount because he is apparently in a bright enough area to not need to use it. A few CS CT models also have nightvision although I think they all use dual tubes instead of the monocular with 1 tube for viewing. Theres pros and cons to using 1 tube, 2 or even 4 but ultimately the "this" you were wondering about is nightvision for later use
Monocular will always look the coolest
I like the look of quads because theyre super expensive and look like a spider lol @@theowainwright7406
I call this death of creative freedom personally.
Creative freedom always dies when you are chasing the big bucks. Nothing new.
@@t-rekt8527 money kills the soul
this is a game about guys killing guys. Maybe it was "creative" 25 years ago, it sure as shit nothing creative now.
You must be young. The tension between art and commerce has been going on forever lol
@@TheArtkaw Nobody said otherwise. Why with the "must be young" comment?
amazing video philip! really love the part where the ritz cracker ad plays before the video has even started
amazing video? its been out for 2 minutes and its 11 min long
@@gfseoefjsfowstill an amazing video
5:51 RIP that security guard
Nah, he owed me a beer. He had it coming.
Gambling and cheating is a cancer.
Removing models from maps is just silly and won't help anyone.
Except that it's not gambling, and I get called a cheater every single day by noobs.
@@shouygui4955 "It's not gambling and there's no cheaters"
Absolute braindead comment
I’m so disappointed that after 5 months major things from the game and bugs are present,even the small things that gave the game flavour like different playermodels for different maps,but they most likely won’t come back.
Yeah, but honestly that doesn't matter as much anymore if you consider that it essentially comes full circle and goes back to "choose your own character" either way.
And as much as I liked the idea of different characters per map back when I played CSGO there's no point in it if most other people are just gonna be scuba man or some other skin they got.
@@Unknown_Genius well agents are pretty expensive,and on most matches i played recently there were like 2 or 3 people who had agents,rest default and it definitely sticks out
@@Pinkman999 It'd be for the best if they fully complete the cycle and add 2 or 3 extra default skins you can choose from is definitely something I agree with
To this day my college refuses to have a CS team solely because of the mention of terrorists. We have Valorant, COD and R6 but we cant have CS because they say "Terrorists" instead of "Attackers". Its so cool that I cant play my favorite game competitively because some people are scared of a word.
Where you live to be among such people?
Murica @@tonie5657
@@tonie5657my guess would be California
I work at a university with an esports team. They won't allow CS either even though their main game is overwatch. This is in Texas too.
@@tonie5657 Kansas believe it or not
Map based characters seemed like pawns at first glance, but had such an interesting faction history and personalities to explore via their voicelines. Their eyes reflected the sorrow and misery they endure in battle, others reflected determination and professionalism, but rarely indifference. I loved feeling part of that setting.
Modern agents scream for recognition, but there's nothing interesting or noble about them. They're the analogy of poorly written protagonists which the author wants you to like.
I loved the IDF and the GIGN, even had sweetest dreams replaying this green Cache again. Damn, I hope we get them back
5:44
The balls around the college level were less about the level itself, but VOID Interactive saying "Yes, we are aware why you have concerns and understand it. But we are still not going to abandon the vision of portraying a real life problem in a game supposed to depict real life problems."
But if it comes to content of the level, Neon Tomb and Valley Of The Dolls are much, much worse and I'm wondering why people aren't freaking about it.
Because when you play Neon Tomb, you realize just how much they were forced to hold back, really. Or do hundreds of innocent lives not matter if they're shot in a night club ?
I don't even play CS I am just here for phils quality content
Same here. 😎
I like the Arrested Development reference in the description
top notch comedy
The worlds first analyist and therapist….
@@goob8945ahhh yes the analrapist
@@goob8945 conflirmed 3kliksphilip is a nevernude
i thought anustart when i read the title
why does philip have the best sunglasses on youtube, low key banger rosefade aviators.
I played a game and a guy went in voice chat, Streamer Check. And then screamed the N-word several times. Then proudly declared all the twitch loser’s where gone afterwards and we could start having fun now…
damn what was his problem
i should NOT find this amusing... but thats funny
based lol
Absolutely correct behavior.
ok what is this reply section's problem?
You can't say fuck, but monetization your game with gambling and a skin market is fine.
Perceived harm is much worse than actual harm.🤦♂
Its a 18+ FPS...
It's because they are trying to appeal to advertisers rather than actual people.
I'm going to leave you a comment, because your content to the community is almost exquisite.
Everything you say is true, the question is: Does Valve care about your opinion or that of the rest of the people who play? NO.
The objective was to get the most monetary benefit from the game, and they forgot about the people who played casually, and who did not have computers worth more than 1,000 dollars or more, to enjoy a gaming experience at more than 144 fps.
I have a laptop, where CSGO was going at 500-550 FPS, and now in Anubis, with CS2 when they throw 2 smoke bombs at me, the game goes at 80.
Added to the number of hackers, it is unfeasible. Thank you
the thumbnail had me expecting another case unboxing millionaire video but this is even better.
1248loss
We need an anticheat and better ranking system + we dont need 5 stickers on weapons and we dont need 50 ranks across the maps!
On the ranking system, yes. Non prime sucs, and prime is too sweaty for me who works and goes to university. I can't keep up on prime, and it is only like 12k elo. I don't have time to learn all the maps. I just wanna spam inferno and be happy. It is just sputid that the max rank I can get is gn1 lmao. Idk about the anticheat problem I'm glad I have an old account and a very high trust factor.
You would be able to keep up on premier if it wasnt terrible at placing people. There are level 10 faceit players placed at like 5k and then level 1 faceit players placed at 20k. Its RNG @@ANDR0iD
We need fortnite dances i need to hit the griddy in cs
@@ANDR0iD You just aren't a high enough rank. I have a 10 year badge and have had prime since it became a thing in CSGO yet still get cheaters regularly.
@@ANDR0iDPrime sucks too. Sometimes you lose 500 points with a positive KD against higher ranked enemies...
heh I remember just because of the pixar lighting everyone talked about how cs2 was gonna be more child friendly and reduce on any mentions of death and violence. Then valved dropped the live leak skin peeler feature
Thanks for the interesting and well-thought-out video, Philip
Nice video
can't wait for your dissection... or analysis of that document :)
Me personally I think we should remove Overpass and Italy as they both take place in regions that used to be governed by dictators.
based and censorship pilled. Also remove guns from the game because they have killed people in real life before.
Bro that bowl made of keys is super cool
RAINBOW SIX SIEGE went hard on the family friendly advertiser stuff you mentioned, they removed dead bodies, military aesthetics (real world uniforms, unless they're from countries that don't really use their spec ops) and removed terrorists completely, all models, textures, references, audio lines, npcs that could be related to terrorism except for the use of "counter'terrorism"
I hope they never remove those OG Counter Terrorists win and Terrorists win sounds. Those sounds are one of mine and a lot of my friend's core memories 😢❤
Map based factions were such a nice and fun inclusion to make maps feel even more individual and unique.
...and I miss the IDF. All that's left are the poorly drawn stickers.
I think map based factions were cool and I also missed them but I do think it was good to remove the military of an occupying force who is currently committing genocide on the native population.
Yeah it sucks that Call of Duty and now Counter Strike stopped having map based teams. I will always remember how fun it was hearing the Mercs announcer in BO2 in one map, then the next I hear the FBI announcer.
@@henryyoho1742 It's a fuckin game bruh. Are you gonna boycott every single game that features nazi germany as a playable faction?
@@henryyoho1742 There is no genocide, 30000 people dead is not even close to what a real genocide looks like.
Go ask Turkey about what a real genocide looks like, they know all about it.
@@henryyoho1742Jews are natives tho and there's no cide of any sort happening.
art should evoke emotions, except videogame art styles of course those should only bring the happiness, no picasso's blue period allowed here only fortnite cartoony happy palette allowed
your music complements these videos so well
That key bowl is amazing 🔑
nice video, about the "what is this" at 7:34, That is a (monocular)night vision device 😎
pvs14 most likely
@lefunnyN1 Yup, PVS-14 (Or Jerry-14 if you go by the Chinese equivalent) mounted on a Bayonet-style J-arm and Dovetail. Jumps all over the place, piece of shit in general, but it does the job, gosh darn it.
Lots of helmets nowadays have bungee to help take up slack to stop them from bouncing around in the mount and keep them secure. Also acts like a cope dummy chord @@madsmadsen8380
Great vid, definitely finished it
it was posted one minute ago, how did you...
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or is it? @@Sam.Johnson
@@nodrognameerf [vsauce music plays]
Almost 10 years a fan, now. Love you Phil 💜💜💜
Very interesting video, great work Mr Kliks!
i find it extremely ironic and greedy to remove factions engaging in armed conflicts irl, in a game about literal terrorist planting b*mbs
in the couple years they will make the game even less realistic in its settings and environment and player models
That's my fear. Make it more "friendly" and nice, while making children in to gambling addicts.
greed and nothing but greed is what moves valve.
@@ikariameriks honestly im surprised there hasnt been more of a crackdown on those skin cases by various governments i have been playing csgo since i was about 13yo (about 9 years ago) and people in my school were wasting a ton of money on those cases and various 3rd party skin gambling sites etc.
it all comes down to money, make it more p.c. and more family friendly so it wont cause controversy but at the same time do nothing against skins and cases cause its a source of infinite cash
@@512TheWolf512 why innovate and make new games when cases and steam trading makes more money with 0 effort
@@512TheWolf512and we can only blame ourselves.
i wonder if youtube will demonitise this because it says fuck
-burger40
Right after the cluster f-bomb strike two ads played. well done!
you can literally go back 20 years and see south park episodes making fun of adults that draw insane parallels between media (movies, games etc) and real life. crazy to see that it hasnt changed at all
6:15 I think that would be a great idea!
Got pissed off with cs and picked up Tomb Raider remastered in a bit of serendipity. Wonderful change of pace.
Valve really doesn’t care, it’s as clear as day. They want kids opening cases and the money that brings. They are close to moral bankruptcy in my opinion.
honestly cases, skins and overall steam as a trading platform has been a downfall for valve in terms of creativity (its a goldmine in terms of finances ofc)
they are victims of their own success those 3 things basically generate infinite money for valve so they dont need to make video games because the cash is always going up and up, they dont even make the skins because fans make them for a small cut of the profits
@@lefunnyN1 - On the flip-side, they could have also not invested that money into engineering the Steam Deck, as brilliant of a device as it is
(I incidentally sold all of my CS2 items for good just to buy one), but in fact they did, and they've improved on the device significantly as well.
When Valve invests money into innovative hardware and software, they stand to win a lot more.
I think Valve isn't bothered by off-loading the making of skins to the community because they don't find it to be an innovative process anymore. With current Valve, you are simply not going to see a new game or a piece of tech until it contains something that is incomparable to anything that came before it.
Ergo, it takes a verrry long time, and they end up shelving a lot of projects along the way. What you may perceive as a creative black hole.
Funny Valve is the reason for lootboxes existing (TF2, CS:GO/CS2, Dota 2 etc) yet people will never blame them for it due to being incredibly bias to the company.
@@smugplushso we're ignoring the good things now? ah yes thats bias
How much good is needed to ignore the bad
Thank you again for publishing this video after you let it process first :)
going low in csgo was honestly a gem of a series . maybie with cs2 we can start to learn to have fun again
Hey Phil, thanks for the cool content.
Still waiting for IDF and Somali pirates (and other factions) to be brought back to the game.
You must get this a lot, but you're a great video creator Philip!! Having stopped playing the game a long time ago, you are the only CS youtuber I remain watching, solely because of the high quality of videos and analysis that you provide. Really good job! It also helped being subscribed to your other channels, as then it's not solely CS. :)
Thank you for putting my p250 x-ray video in yours ❤
What the world needs is a family friendly game about fictional terrorism.
I'VE MISSED THIS MAN!
it s meeee
7:34 - The object on the soldier's helmet is a monocular night vision scope thingy.
7:34 that's a night vision monocle on a flex mount in a position where it's not being used.
7:36 nightvision monocular folded up
Please one video about the state of the art anticheat we have .
Solve the cheater issue that people THINK the game has" -Philip. I guess he doesn't want to say things definitely without proof but cmon, it is so obvious and has been going on for months
Love the work buddy, keep it up!
Also a sollution to dilema of end round is "Round Lost/Round win" or "Enemy won the round/ We have won the round"
When the announcer says "Counter terrorist win" I feel offended, it implies the opposite team are terrorist when we don't really know what lead them to where they are 😢
HOW DID I NEVER REALIZE IT WAS THE IDF ON DUST2 LMAO
the only people who would really know are the people who were there when map lore used to be a thing.
finally, someone talking about the models of each map
Great video, been watching Philips for almost a decade and almost never have i seen him directly adress CSs many controversies. Btw, my friend and I actually made and finished a map of our high school in 12th grade, good times.
Removing the IDF playmodels was a huge L they removed the classic dust2 vibe
And the elite crew, amarchists, separatists, the pirates, professionals, FBI, GIGN, ST6, SWAT, GSG9... It sucks.
Well... fuck...
I honestly think that the only way Valve is going to fix the cheating issue is when cheating in games becomes illegal in a country... which is basically never....
I agree, but never say never, go lobby the EU they may do it. :D
@@ANDR0iD Well, hopefully... I could see EU doing it... NA... hmmmm.... don't think so.
NA sucks though
@@mrN3w7 nah, EU doesn't step that far, plus they'd be more likely to ban games first for whatever bullshit reason they can come up with
Pretty sure cheating in video games is already illegal in China... Despite China having one of the highest concentration of cheaters lol.
i love ur vids the only meta cs channel god bless you!
7:33
That is a PVS-14 on a Norotos Rhino mount and despite looking silly, it is actually how it looks irl
CS2 unfortunately can't distance itself from the previous title because it replaced it and forced all players to switch to it.
Comparisons and criticisms due to missing content from CS:GO will continue for a long time.
Exactly. We were forced into a change with less features and poor performance, with the already existing issues of CSGO exacerbated and they still dont deliver quality content to make up for it even though they make 40 milllion euro each month just from case openings alone.
2:20 I just noticed this guy on the logo has a creepy grin, I thought it was put there by Philip because of the zoom effect. Turns out, it's there on the official artwork too and now I cannot unsee it.
Anyways, great video although I think some might misunderstand it
I love the new music in your videos, Philip. Is there a new music album of yours in the works? I hope you release the new tracks in your videos as standalone content on one of your channels.
There needs to be a highlight on how people are bot farming arms race servers, multiple accounts join and start kicking everyone. Before you can report most of the time you have already been voted off
CS2 being the "most played game on Steam" is very likely 80% bot accounts. I truly believe that, because the game sucks.
It happened quite often in GO on Flying Scoutsman servers
Something something TF2.
funny that the IDF fighting murdering terrorists is "controversial"
Not as "controversial" as the KSK (An cosmetic agent in CS2 that still exists to this day) irl that used to commit assassinations agaisnt German politicians, as well as carryng out attacks against German immigrants lol
Your videos are so good theyre jsut so good
Such a great video, Philip!!
team names should change to my team and enemy team, and the player models should look like the stick figures on bathroom and traffic signs
I don't know, hearing the word "enemy" literally has me shaking in my boots. I suggest "Other Team" instead.
I still prefer cs source than cs2
5:30 I actually did a whole map of my school back in 2014 for a source zombie game, its mostly complete and detailed but never released it since optimisation is not great.
I wonder if I should atleast release it for gmod or if that would be troublesome.
2:56 thats because, iirc, twitch's official policy is that the streamer isnt liable for people appearing on the stream
So if a guy in game says a slur, you wont get in trouble. I had a "friend" "jokingly" threaten to do this a couple of times because of that rule
So, CS:GO was existing for 10+ years and no one was bothering about it's realism, but now suddnly someone is scared about it? Bullshit.
I dont think this game will ever be better than csgo
it is and it will be even more
Why not? What about it now would you consider to be worse than CSGO?
@@miguelisaurusbruh1158it is dogshit and inferior in every single way
Its been a year and its still missing 80% of CSGO's already existing content
People where saying this back when CS:GO was released.
It would've been better if the game was released separately and not replacing CS:GO.
Everything from 5:11 - 5:28 is so true, that was very well put.
That sure is an interesting key bowl you have. Is there a matching upside-down pineapple?
so in a game where ppl shoot and kill each other you cant say "fuck"HAHAHAHAHAH
There you are, playing the PvP in your contemporary shooter, and all of a sudden, you're a terrorist. You didn't ask for this. You didn't choose this. Yet, there it is, and it's treated no different than playing a counter-terrorist.
7:34 That is a PVS-14 night vision monocle, its just flipped up. Its using a rhino mount which always looks very goofy when up.
always an amazing watch :]
10:42
>"people ***think*** the game has" ?
so philip doesn't think there's a huge cheating problem in counter strike? bit of a shame really - not enough people are talking about it, and the r/globaloffensive mods aren't helping by censoring everything related to the problem