Counter-Strike 2 has been fully released, just in time for it to not be Summer 2023. The CS2 full release is a great base game missing a lot of features that we expected.
Honestly the most disappointing thing is the lack of ability to play private matches. Me and my friends that play CS we’re able to get friends that don’t play or haven’t played in a while to get on, but when there’s more than 5 of us we either have to split up or people have to sit out. Private matches are huge for the game growth and learning. Even without workshop maps it’s still an important feature
@@zway4252 I’ll have to give it a try, when I first saw it I’ll be honest I thought it was just some sort of matchmaking group. When looking it up I saw quite a few Reddit posts about it failing quite often so hopefully that isn’t the case
I like to play arm race, and danger zone mode. It's maybe kinda underated but everything just disappeared when CS2 was released, it's kinda disappointing for me :(
@@rizqiakhmadf3805 man you act like it ain't coming back Ngl the only game mode I played was arms race I never touched the defusal or other main game modes I hope Volvo ads em sooner than later
I'm not a game developer but I've worked on huge IT migrations and even if you lose a dozen features, getting to the other side of a migration is a huge difficult feat. Now that CSGO is gone it's all about fixing and improving cs2 and by 2024 I expect it to be easily the best counterstrike we have ever played. However that's from a purely technical standpoint.
valve games are a techdemo, why would you remove a techdemo, csgo? Because csgo is css and cs2 is source 2. They in essence drop ped another trading card april fools game
I'm having a good time playing cs2. But my biggest criticism is the location of health and armor. In csgo, health and armor where easy to see, large and had both a number health bar. Now the money you have is larger than those really important stats and I'm really hoping there will be a way to change that
@@wellingtonbruh3756I feel like QoL things like changing your HUD and whatnot is still a ways out. The game is technically sound, but I agree it's lacking on certain features, especially QoL. It's always the little stuff that matter to me personally.
about a year ago I switched from having a “gamertag” and started using my real first name as my steam/in game name, people are pretty much always nice to me, they treat me like their little brother or something. i think having a gamer name dehumanizes you and subconciously makes it easier for people to be mean to you.
@BlastinRope being mean, toxic and insulting others is the core essence that makes CS, CS. What's the point of playing if you aren't calling others slurs every 10 minutes...
I couldn't agree more with regard to the point about the tracers feeling misaligned. The first thing I noticed in CS2 was that I couldn't spray, and I realized that I had relied quite a bit on the tracers when committing to prolonged sprays.
"The reality is that CSGO's tracers aren't accurate and don't actually help a player learn a gun's spray pattern." - website in 2019 I think people are just looking for things to complain about
@@coreblaster6809i think you are a noob and u know actually jack shit about cs. By the way, that's exactly a noob, typical cliché comment some new player would make. I've been playing cs since the alpha version of the first cs and I'm telling you that something is wrong with cs2. You don't seem to understand the mechanics of what it was Cs. It's like calling the movement in quake 2 WRONG and make it more friendly for new players. Cs2 has a lot of problems, sometimes it doesn't seem to be cs at all.
@@coreblaster6809 No, the tracers are definitely different, and they definitely affected my ability to spray past 20 bullets. I'm not even necessarily complaining or saying it needs to be changed to be the same as CS:GO, but it's different, and at the very least needs time getting used to.
@@m3morizes they must be emphasised. That's what puts me off and I hate it. The past tracers were definitely not accurate, but these being accurate AND emphasised throws me off
The bullet travel interacts with smokes. And it's also weird, because the travel as you showed is not going where the bullet is, so the same goes for holes left in the smokes. They are left where the bullet travel path went, not where you crosshair is.
I'm very excited to see what they do moving forward, I'm no longer terrified they're not going to do anything. They've been putting in a ton of work lately, and with the uplift to Source 2 it's going to make the devs job easier to add new features/update existing ones. The future of CS is bright, we just have to get through a bit of the bugginess with the new version!
Yup, our monkey-brains are impatient but I believe in the future. This isn't like other games where they will release a really buggy mess and never improve, this has Valve quality and will surely change for the better.
@@whywhy8276 it's still gonna be the same as the others Now take a look at CoD MWII. Activision putting out unfinished recent releases just for the money. And now... we have *this*. Another unfinished game. A letdown. CSGO is still better than CS2. *Gameplay>Graphics* Remember this bro
@@coltyt9529 The fact is that we know cs2 will last at least 10 years like csgo did. The start of csgo was a total mess (way bigger than cs2) and many people didn't wanted to play the game at all and prefered css or even 1.6, csgo dev had a hard time making the game better bc of this hence why they make csgo unplayable now with cs2, they don't want that situation to happen again
The biggest thing for me about the full release that makes it different than the Limited Test? A linux build. I am so happy I can play. "Finished" or not, I am just happy to be able to play with my friends.
"So simple your mother could watch a match and understand whats going on" Reminds me of when the ELeague Major was on TNT and i actually watched it with my mom and she was able to understand after a brief walk through of what they are trying to do
I love the SC II background music that you use. I hate that you didn't mention CSGO 2 not running on Mac computers. There is currently no old CSGO and no new CSGO for Mac users, such a shame.
I'm glad they finally released it, but they practically killed the casual experience in favor of completing the competitive one. We might not even be getting an operation before the major next year with how many game modes we lost from go that still need to be added. Team Deathmatch? Retakes? Flying Scoutsman? Arms Race? Dare I say, Danger Zone?
The whole cs culture revolves around competitive, it makes sense for me. Not saying casual players do not matter, but the priorities they set were appropriate imo
I think what really needs to happen as soon as possible is for Global Offensive to be reintroduced as a separate Steam entry in a stripped down form without matchmaking and without skins. Call it Global Offensive Legacy Edition or something. Make it clear on the Steam store page that this version is unsupported and is mostly for playing private games and old custom maps and modes. It would make this whole situation sting a whole lot less as we wait for the rest of the game to be re-implemented into the new engine.
The DM map groupings are great. When all the maps where available I mostly ended up with mirage and dust 2, if not people would vote to change the map to them. Now I have the option to avoid them all together.
Unrelated but super proud of Mr Warowl, was watching some old videos and you’re in so much better shape now, I remember a video where you were really dogging on yourself about your physique and then one where you said you were on course to fix it. Super awesome how far you and your channel have come. ❤❤
As a solo queue player, it took me 30 games to reach 10 wins. I had an 10 and an 5 loss in a row. I played against pros (two players from the M80 team) and finished with 4,500 points. The solo queue line-up is crazy and causes mental health issues.
Unnecessary to say that this is very different for everybody, I’m not a great player, I got supreme in soloq at best, I’m not a carry I depend on teamwork to win games- and I got to 10 wins in 13 games in the beta and 14 after release- with leavers, toxic people and afk guys. Counterstrike is counterstrike and Solo is and will always be a special experience. That being said if you lose that much it might be time to accept that you are part of the problem, and your ranking might be justified. If anything I would say with 20 losses you should still consider yourself lucky to get about half the elo of someone who only lost 3 games🤣🤣 Why play Premiere Mode at all, if you want to play casually? Pick your maps, learn them, get better and then go for try hard- you’re someone who can’t even ride a bike expecting to be able to just pick up motorcycles, cars, scooters and airplanes and then blames everything on the planet you’re standing on when it goes as it’s supposed to.
Came back to comment that I don’t even feel like playing 10 games because it feels like torturing myself, I either encounter 5stack cheaters (YES, BLATANT AIMBOTTERS) or ppl who just leave the game forcing us to surrender
I like what developers do, they fix bugs fast, they listen to community - very good job. What is bothering me is actually all those business decisions from Valve. Because both locking 64 ticks and rushing release date were strictly business decisions and they are bad for the game in my opinion.
If you are complaining about 64 tick it proves you know nothing about how Subtick works LOL It also proves that valve should not listen to the community on everything, because they don't know what they're talking about 99% of the time.
new sub here because I watch your previous video last time and thanks for this video now I know about CS2 can't wait to play with you soon I'm a CS player since 2020 hello from the Philippines
I'm 30 years old and haven't played any CS in years. I used play 1.6 as a kid (even 1.5 against bots) after school all the time. It's amazing to see that this game is still going strong all these years later. It just warms my heart.
should play the new one, it sucks compared to 1.6, 1.6 and source. I mean i still play it, but the guns dont feel right. something aint quite right with the model physics either. CS source had better physics and sounds IMO
Thank you for touching on the issue of players with low-end pc. I used to be able to play csgo with my duo with no issues but now they can’t even run the game without facing severe lag issues. Hopefully valve finds a work-around with this problem.
My internet isn't great, and the new ping system feels horrendous in cs2 when you don't have good internet. Honestly, I wouldn't have an issue with cs2 existing, but the killing off of csgo is something that I don't support, and there's enough I dislike in cs2 that I'm not playing it. I started playing cs source again, and I honestly like it better than I ever liked csgo and cs2.
@@barkyyy what has better value? A $300(CAD) Xbox that can run most if Not all new games(COD, R6, Apex, BF) at 120 FPS or a shitty little laptop I could get for $300
Havent seen your channel like in 3 years that I stopped playing CSGO. I start back at CS2 and of course my internet mentor comes back. Always glad and looking forward to learning from you!
After having taken a break from cs:go for a very long while, I'm surprised at how much I'm enjoying CS2. I really want to see more maps and game modes.
The day of the release hit reg definitely felt crisper. Not GO crisper but better. The biggest problem is when hits are calculated sub-tick but the firing animation is the next tick. It makes spraying feel weird
War Games was unplayable due to hackers botting. I tried to join Wargames for an hour and got kicked from every server, and God forbid I have a server to myself some guy will join add his own bots then use them as votes to kick. Valve was doing absolutely nothing about it.
The CSGO team probably wanted and expected more upon release themselves. But often, software development timelines fall behind schedule and they said it was coming Summer 2023 so they were probably in a bit of a bind. I expect to see a lot of additions in the very near future.
i was sad to see that community maps are gonna come later, i feel like it's such an integral part of cs to spend a few minutes warming up before hopping onto a match or adjusting your crosshair
As far as I'm concerned, its not a full released untill they add AT LEAST the maps they teased in the trailer (baggage, shoots, etc.) Its missing key game modes like arms race, flying scoutsman, danger zone, etc. Not to mention key features like left handed, inv_nextgun, etc. Also, I was sort of hoping for native support for more community game modes like surf, kz, bhop, prison escape, zombies, etc. But that may be pushing it a bit too far
I think they knew nobody played the native arms race/demolition game modes. Would have been wasted effort to focus on those especially for new content like jailbreak, which the community will want its own way anyway I agreee though the lack of maps is killer. I think the thing is the community maps come from operations, and given mappers already had tools for at least a few months, we could have had a launch operation
Omg an official Surf mode would be wild. They don't really have to do anything other than hand pick a 5 of the best maps from each tier, and have a UI to let the player select their difficulty level. Just having that recognition from Valve would be so cool. Ofc I doubt they're going to do that, they don't need to, and existing surfers would probably find a way to be mad about it, but it would still be cool.
@@Delicomswhat do you mean nobody played it? Is there a statistic or something? I have never had a problem with finding a match ever in arms race and I played it every day for couple years.
The one thing I'm sad about is the removal of clan tags and team name switching. It was fun to try and play like a clan with a 5 stack also this change removes funny group tags, smh
@@Bestow3000 Why do you hate it. It allows the other team to know if they're going up against a sweaty 5-stack team or not. Unless you're the type of person to do this, it shouldn't bother you.
nah it's good, why would you wanna see a 1000 letter character clan tag taking up your whole screen and you don't know who it is unless you open the steam profile, atleast now i know if i played against the same person or not...
The reason that left hand perspective isnt in the game yet is probably because it affects the shadow that your player casts on the ground. In CS2 you can now see your own shadow, making it possible for the player to think more ahead of where and how far they are peeking so that enemies cant see you. Im sure they will fix this in the future but they simply havent implemented it yet.
This and smoke spam. They would also have to change the angle. I think it basically breaks the game or causes it to be unfair in certain scenarios. It will be interesting your this gets implemented.
All of these arguments are pointless, nobody is asking for that shit to be adjusted, they just want their weapon on the left so it doesn’t disturb them. What is the point of all these changes, left handed is no unfair or even real advantage- people should simply be able to choose if they want their game to look slightly off in order to play more comfortably. This isn’t about something like visuals breaking the Immersion, or getting an advantage what are you talking about. Nobody even asked for adjusted shadows and smoke spam
I don't think that shadows are problem, when you inspect your weapon or change view model shadow doesn't react to this. When you pick up or switch weapon shadow has a delay about a second. So it means that 1st person view is rendered separately from your model on server and they can do whatever tgey want. Hopefully they give us back everything they took and add more. I'm waiting for clear decals, cl_bob, left hand and so on.
I saw other content creators criticize the game but your way of explaining what you like and what you don't like is, by far, the best one. There's a lot to come, and it's going to take time. But I'm sure Counter Strike is here to stay for a long long time
You are right about the visuals, actually the cs2 footage recorded and showed in this video looks much more noisy than csgo, it makes me think "am I actually running 1080p60fps or is this 720p?"
7:09 this. Me and my friends didn't play CS for a long time and decided to jump into CS2 for old times sake. Turns out, one friend of ours was unable to play because his game kept crashing due to the graphics.
some things ive noticed with cs2: 1. hitreg is terrible, huge backtrack, people are getting shot behind walls. 2. same problem with awps, where the flick and shoot mechanic is severely changed by subtick, it is very inconsistent to hit flicks. 3. spray pattern, even though they say its not changed, it definitely feels different. there is a known difference between 64 tick spray and 128 tick spray, where 128 tick is slightly tighter, i believe it is the different with subtick. 4. movement, bhopping feels so impossible now before i can land 3 or 4 hops consistently on 64 tick now it is difficult to even start 1. 5. peekers advantage, probably same thing with subtick, but everyone is ferrari peeking me. i feel like something is off with camera and player model, but i havent seen proof. 6. player model is still very clunky, especially the legs, when u counter strafe on a slanted surface, the legs glide around. these are the definite cs2 mechanical differences, if yall seen some of this or have any other issues, let me know.
I actually felt the opposite; shooting is definitely not fun compared to CS:GO but hitreg I feel was far better. Unlike before where the game waits until the next tick to calculate the shot, in CS2 the game will calculate who shot first and then kill the first person to die on the next tick, even if they are behind walls as they technically died already. This difference means that previously missed shots in CSGO may have actually been hits that were unfairly recorded, as the enemy hitbox could exit the shot trajectory after the input tick and before the shot calculation tick. The difference now is that unlike CS:GO where pressing two buttons on the same tick would be the same, for example pressing a and left click on the exact same tick gives 100% accuracy, pressing two buttons on the same tick now gives you different results depending on the order no matter how precise and if the action was on the same tick, meaning that input timings are far more precise as the server retroactively calculates your inputs and old players who had the advantage of more lenient timings due to 64 tick are noticing the unresponsiveness as their inputs have to be more precise.
I mean, I was headed for Nuke and found myself under the Mirage map. I also got a Mirage... mirage on Dust II with random props spawning in. That was something new, right?
Tracers are absolutely a problem, I noticed spray control is way harder because my eyes default to relying on the tracers, and so it’s really annoying. It just felt like they added tracers for the sake of graphical fidelity.
tbh even if tracers were not totally accurate in csgo either thats pretty much how i learned to spray, i could not spray in CSS at all when csgo had tracers it finally clicked for me
Tracers look perfect to me, turn on folow recoil on crosshaire, they match, and the bullets go on top of the tracers. Crazy how thats the problem u have and every one of my games is getting insta peek head shot no matter ware i am in the map, Games trash
If there's one thing I'd like, it's for Competitive/Premiere mode to give you a rank after 10 matches played, not won. I'm on the opposite side of Warowl - a Silver 1-3 that likes the game and wants to get better at it, but for now, I've been in a couple of even matches, and the rest are curb-stomps. There's always a player that doesn't belong, being either way stronger than everybody else, or someone (usually me) finding themselves in the middle of coordinated smokes/flashes/pushs while I barely know how to hold my gun. That's kind of sort of normal at the start, buuuut it also means that the lower-skill players have to go through a lot of games to actually get ranked and matched appropriately against people of roughly their levels. Either by having even matches by chance, getting carried through the wins (which is a _horrible_ feeling), or waiting for the ranks to settle, which could take some time. I don't mind if I'm, like, 500 points on Premiere with a 3-7 win/loss ratio on those 10 matches, I'll gladly take it and grind my butt off from there. But _getting_ there at this point is going to be an exercise in endurance. And yeah, I know playing with stronger players makes you learn faster and can sometimes give you tips if your teammates are friendly, but that's the exception rather than the rule. (I'll also fully admit that I'm a masochist for going straight to Premiere, but I like having to go for every map and not being "limited" by 1 rank per map and having a more general skill assessment.)
Map specific ranked dont work any better, i was le on csgo and cs2 thinks i deserve silver 4 even tho last game where i got my rank avg csgo rank was something like LEM, so looks like cs2 is throwing 95% of players on silver ranks.
The tracers are kinda weird. Throw on a mac10 or mp9 and you literally can't miss if you use the tracers as an aid. But on the ak and a4 it just throws you off, probably because you're seeing the tracers from 2-3 bullets ago, so you process it wrong and end up not pulling down enough or staying on one side of the spray for too long. I guess it might depend on the spray pattern for the gun because with the galil the tracers also feel pretty helpful. A lot of people I've talked to said the galil feels better but no one can really say why. Could be the tracers making them more accurate.
The biggest change for me is not being able to see how much damage you did to which enemy mid-round anymore. This must be a massive inconvenience and I'm surprised this is not being talked about much. Is this being removed for good?
this is something that was always disabled in more competitive modes like faceit and also at tournaments, makes sense to me to remove it from comp as well
It was a huge info for your teammates if you knew how much damage you did to which enemy after dying just by opening up the console. I'll have to get used to it even though it inconveniences me. But I think it's a good change. Neither I nor my enemies now know the HP mid round if it wasnt an obvious shot (scout body shot for example). So you can definitely use that for your advantage, knowing your enemies don't really know that you're low on HP
After 23 years, de_dust2 and nuke are still instantly recognizable. That is some amazing map design for it to look exactly the same, even in dimensions.
@@9akslebws, I find it amusing that you've spent several paragraphs describing that we recognize things because their basic, defining qualities stay the same =)
@@davidthompson5710Office looked so great in Source with that blue and wood coloring. The backrooms gas station bathroom color palette of CSGO Office sucked, but fortunately the CS2 version looks much better.
Bob settings, war games, viewmodel recoil, workshop, are some of the things Im waiting for them to add, also hope they are working on a new operation, its been two years since the last one.
i think tracers even tho hitscan is an accesibility feature... i dont have the best headphones and sometimes just play on speakers, so it helps me navigate where people are even tho im unable to hear where they are
Valve with every update are doing insane things. On launch I was getting 130-150 fps in comp and now im getting stable 190-200. Things are looking bright!
@@louiscruz624 a red flag for what? optimizations after launch are completely normal because you have access to a lot more performance data, you don't cover everybody's hardware during a closed beta.
@@XEROXAYUKI it's also a red flag that they didn't know the yellow health bar was a bad idea and that you couldn't tell you were low health. They only got the feedback and replaced it in the limited test Basically all signs that the development was undercooked
I'm not a great player, but I do struggle a lot more on CS2 with my favorite weapons, such as the MP9. The new bullet traces are completely confusing when trying to aligning the shots.
Thought the same but after 20-30 games I dont notice much difference at all, it was way more confusing during beta than it is now. Ive noticed I've ended up playing all kinds of weapons I'd usually avoid as well which is great
I thought I was the only one having problems with MP9. I used consistently dink multiple people with it in CS GO and even get multiple kills sometimes. In CS 2 I'm barely getting even 1-2 hits with it.
My first reaction to not wanting to win 10 matches on a map was a very valid counterpoint. With how long term we've played the game before without our rank resetting, imagine the gratification of ranking up on a series of maps in one day after practicing something new, or just in general play seeing where your weak points are in terms of rank, etc. But for one off players, the ranks per map are never going to matter and they'll sabotage queue into premier anyways.
I had to reduce resolution to get above 60fps on my GT1030. Also, I seem to get more random headshots (I am useless at headshots...) and spray control has changed a lot. the P90 sprays way higher than is used to I think, and MP9/7 are also weird. Maybe that is just my clunky GPU?
Biggest issue I have and I know a lot of people who have is performance. So many freezes/crashes and random disconnects for no reason other than "game said no" fingers crossed they fix these issues in time but I hate the idea CSGO worked perfect 99% of the time yet CS2 is a 50/50 coin flip on whether it's going to perform well on that day.
@@ceshmate1953 there isn't any settings being changed that fix the issue for a lot of people, I can't find another game I cannot run on my pc yet cs2 runs like ass, issue is with the game not the pc
We are currently on Oct 2 build, game is getting better with each build. I hope they do something about player collision, its throwing my player in different directions when running alongside teammate.
As someone who's put thousands of hours into CSGO, and never really played MM, the switch really hurt. It sucks that CS2 doesn't really have what I want yet. Community servers and workshop maps are what kept me entertained for all these years, and now I have to wait to get any of it.
One more issue I personally have is that they decided to remove being able to check how much damage you did in the console when you die, instead they show how much damage you did in the NEXT ROUND. Very useful information going into a new round, tell your teammates how much you lit the enemies last round, so smart.
@@lorenzooliveira1157 id say it’s bad, you can’t even comm for your team if any of the enemies are lit (except if you lit a guy and he kills you, it still shows how much you hit him)
i was mainly excited to see what they could do with new gamemodes and stuff with the new engine. i was actually for once excited about how much smoother dangerzone could be on the new engine for example. but all we got was a slightly reworked mm experience
I was so surprised the game launched, for the past few days I actually still thought it was in beta... it really should still be an open beta, this isn't finished. Bare minimum we at least need everything that was in CSGO
I thought people were being silly for thinking valve would completely overwrite CSGO with CS2 when its release was teased last week, at least when CS2 isn't ready to replace it yet. Like, it's good that they are releasing CS2 for everyone but come on guys, they would be insane to do that! Guess I'm naïve...
I disagree. By replacing CSGO with CS2, the team is now getting more and more knowledge about the weaknesses of the code. SAme time, they are under more pressure to get things done, because there is "no other option" (CSGO). I hope that, with the immense feedback of the whole player base, the game will quickly grow in features and stability.
I really love the starcraft soundtracks that you use. Talking about a game i played for my whole life while listening to music from another game i played my whole life is amazing
Would of liked to see left hand view models regardless of what they are working on for it. Been playing CS with the left view model since 2014 and I’m playing so much worse without it
I would switch view model position based on what angles I was peeking/holding. Having screenshake and a massive weapon model blocking 1/3rd of the screen constantly is very frustrating
@@GhostedMemes No. Only the bare minimum is ingame currently. some of the most important settings like lefthanded and bobbing settings are not in yet and its aweful.
I used to do spray transfer 180, 1v4 clutch from pool inferno with 4 secs left, now I can't spray an enemy 2 meter in front ;D. The tracers made cs2 feel like it has bullet travel time. You kinda spraying in the past, bullets travelled already, they just haven't appeared to be that way yet.
tbh the most painful part is the home button on the menu being all the way to the left when the inventory and such is top middle... that or the removal of factions (though we might get them back with new models)
That's a regular design choice and has no dark patterns in it. The home button is clearly an icon, and it's beside the other icons. All web pages, including TH-cam, has the home button on the top left. Also, you barely interact with the home button. You can do nearly everything you can do in the home screen and more, via the Friends sidebar.
the most painful thing is how they changed the buy menu causing me to buy a taser when I want a p250 or a flashbang when I want armor XD good thing they have the refund option now though...
In online chess when you open an account it gives you a visible temporary estimated elo rank and when you’ve played 10 games or so it gives you your actual rank even if you’ve lost them all. This would be SO much better imo. Especially if there are going to be multiple season per year.
Personally i think the lack of left hand view model, is due to the smoke tracers. From the left hand, the position of the holes in the smoke might be different from the right hand due to the view model
I believe its because of now the players can see their own shadows and in csgo all viewmodel settings including left and right hand settings were only client (i.e only players themselves can see it) so holding the gun on left hand but seeing our shadow holding it on right would be very wierd... I also believe that now in cs2 player's own body is rendered for player's client itself for shadows because previously in csgo the engine doesn't render player's own body hence no shadow.
@@nanni5230 You're both right! Visually the bullet comes out of the gun, game play wise it comes out the head through the crosshair. Stand close to a corner, aim just off the edge and watch the bullets go through the wall.
this is what i think: they’ll make left handed a gimmick where you can switch to your other hand with a bind and it does it in-game as well with a quick animation of the agent switching the guns to the other hand so your player model will change with it. it will add more depth and strategy on how you position yourself where the gun might not be visible. i also think that valve is cooking something about the AI anti cheat where it’ll be so effective that it doesnt need a kernal driver to detect cheaters but theyre still cooking and gathering data, they dont wanna say it too early because the cheaters will catch it. they are playing the long game and the right game
I saw a video by BasicallyHomeless about AI anti-cheats, he said he talked to the developers of the anti-cheat and they were confident that it would eliminate cheating from video games, they couldn't reveal which companies were going to use the AI anti-cheat but they already had clients. IMO Valve seems to be exactly the kind of company that would invest in such a thing.
@@adityajadav9933anyone who knows about security knows anti cheat cant be eliminated...but I am with OP - Theyll be capalitalizing on gimmicks that were already features previously
A cool future video idea could maybe be like having the entire map be covered in smokes always and then play, maybe give everyone like infinite frags to utilize new mechanic
It's so frustrate that I can pick only a few weapon out of all the circle that I used to have. Sometime the game really want me to pick nagev for a reason 🔥
I like how it works with pistols. Now I can have both CZ and 5-7. Rifles are fine. But there are too many SMGs, LMGs and Shotguns for 5 slots. I think game needs more mid-tier slots.
Iv got a lot of faith in cs2 but I’m a bit anoyed with especially sprays and getting shot behind stuff. It also feels like I’m hitting and missing shots I should not be. Overall I am optimistic and can’t wait to see where it goes from here!
I am experiencing like these subtick issues, I am behind wall still got headshotted, im behind wall and I headshotted some one, game feels like it's 16 ticks at it's best...
@@Diopside. I hope they fix that and the spray. I point blank was spraying someone yesterday. And every butler missed. It was point blank I was aiming st his feet snd didn’t get the kill very very frustrating. Even my opponents were a bit confused.
@brian1were Information to the player is still sent at 64 ticks while information like when you shoot is processed immediately, meaning there is a delay between when you actually died according to the server and when you get that information yourself. It's causing people to die in situations where they were behind a wall fairly commonly.
Still feels like yesterday when csgo released.. geez I feel old. My only problem with cs2 is the new smoke and molly effects make my game fps drop in half, no matter what graphic settings. Admitted my pc is almost 10 years old, but it's still over the recommended system requirements listed on the cs2 shop page. I hope they work on the optimization.
Any plans for a return to counter strike refresher video, with how the new stuff works and refreshers of the old with new considered (like utility, weapon loadouts with economy and team roles, new competitive systems, etc)?
I have never experienced more instances of being head shot behind a wall immediately after getting there and it doesn't say it was a wall bang. Implying even though on my screen I'm completely behind the wall after running there my hit registration model is somehow not where my pov says I am than in thus game. It was even bad in the test play until a month or two before the actual cs2 release
The performance became MUCH better with the new update. I had a big freeze problem and the update almost fully fixed it. So I suspect the main focus of the update was to improve the performance for bad pcs
@@bumbo7196 bro i run cs2 on 8 year old laptop with way worse graphic card than recommended, and cs2 runs very well. It had crashes for me mainly due to caches and too much background RAM usage but it runs perfectly after i fixed that. I saw people claiming on reddit and steam that you need high end specs to run cs2 but that's just an outright lie and haters hating on the game. CS2 runs better for me than valo despite valo requirements being not even close to cs2's
@@bumbo7196 I have the exact experience, CSGO ran on max settings like butter, Valorant also runs although with lower settings like butter... but CS2 is happy to reach 40 FPS on pixelated, unintelligible graphics...
One thing I WISH they would do with CS2 is make it so solo players only get matched with other solo players, or at least an option. It'd just be a nice feature for the more casual players that aren't looking to sweat it out every single game because they keep running into 3-mans or 5-mans.
Not a lot of people know is that, during the creation of Counter Strike, the artist that created viewmodels was left handed. So in 1.6 all guns are right on the left handed, and mirrored on the right handed. It's funny how now the problem is exact opposite
I instinctively follow the tracers as it makes sense thats where the shot would go. This has messed me up massively with the AK, but all other weapons seem to be fine. Galil seems far more spot on, M4 seems good so I'm wondering if this is just limited to the AK specifically.
Yeahhh I agree with you. I personally after playing quite a no. of matches will say the AK feeels way more hard to control than it did in CSGO. Specially the part where you have to control the recoil, but your brain insticts lead you to follow the tracers coming out of the gun which mislead you. I many a times hit headshots where I thought I whiffed and am surprised. The Vice Versa is alsoo true tho..
They did remove Danger Zone as well. I haven't seen (or least read into patch notes for not playing in a long time) anything that explained why... So that was an interesting removal for CS2.
@thorjelly fair enough. I enjoyed it with friends from time to time but it's a BR and they get old quick. Hope they come up with something new this time though!
Any chance you could make another economy guide? Keep running into teammates that force on eco/save rounds for really crappy buys. Also curious about changes with mr12.
I think CS2 full release was, for all intents and purposes, an open beta. I can understand the pressure on valve to fully release and I believe they wanted to release it "in time" and release the rest of the modes and for them that was just easier to release it fully than call it a 'beta' and have everyone whine about it. I believe by the end of the year itll all be ironed out.
People are embarrassingly impatient too honestly. I miss cl_bob, left handed viewmodels, more than a couple maps etc. as well but I'm just sitting here vibing knowing that it'll all be sorted soon. Every update so far since the beta went sorta public has just been a positive experience IMO. I mean people can scream and cry as much as they want over it, I don't care, but I find that overly dramatic BS so silly
@@whatareyoudoingthis4 no - we set the expectation that this kind of behavior is okay. What the fuck happened in the past few years where it became acceptable to half release a game. As a corporation you need to be responsible for doing your own in house beta testing. When you say a games coming out, Im not saying it has to be perfect, but it should be *finished* - what if a doctor looked at you and said..."well, I don't REALLY know whats wrong cause I didnt finish my degree yet but as I study, Ill be able to give you better more accurate info about your diagnosis....", thats a shitty doctor...same for an architect, lawyer, janitor or GAMEDEV The only time releasing an unfinished game to the public is acceptable is if you're an indie dev studio....not now, not valve
@@wetter4293while this might be true globally we as gamers let them get away with this. And there's a reason for it. We don't care. There's too many opinions out there. And people will play the game and spend money on skins. No matter what game it is
@@wetter4293 the fucked up thing about the cs community is the bitchiness, i agree the game should have been better and more complete, but honestly after extensively playing cs2 it's not even close to being as bad as people say it is, and the fucked up part is everybody or close is wrong to why certain things are not working well, the amount of dumb shit i see on reddit and youtube by "community figures" who are genuinely talking out of their ass and quite often complain about an issue that doesn't exist is just sad, im not trying to say valve did perfect , far from it, if i had to decide i would just release a fully open beta and slowly work towards the end of the year, with that said what you said is true but you also have to remember how much people have been bitching about source2 constantly, every single day for years now, i think valve didn't do well but this community is honestly kind of embarassing, especially people like s1mple who can provide feedback to valve he just cries on twitter lmao, also valve has HUGELY improved cs2 with very frequent updates, when you take all that into consideration idk man i feel like the cs community is so childish
The new test build is pretty fun, can't wait to see the full game come out
Don't worry it'll be out and perfect by 2026.
@@mohitdingal8078 You're being ridiculous! This is Valve we're talking about!
2052 at the earliest.
Stop shilling valve will fix cs2 in 2069 ;)
@@TH-camDeletesMeForSpeakingknowing how valve loves putting all their effort into making their games with no bugs at all it should be out 2101
Just give it a couple of decades
Honestly the most disappointing thing is the lack of ability to play private matches. Me and my friends that play CS we’re able to get friends that don’t play or haven’t played in a while to get on, but when there’s more than 5 of us we either have to split up or people have to sit out. Private matches are huge for the game growth and learning. Even without workshop maps it’s still an important feature
you can play together in private Matchmaking with code.
@@zway4252yea but this is a lot different then being able to start up a private match.
@@zway4252 I’ll have to give it a try, when I first saw it I’ll be honest I thought it was just some sort of matchmaking group. When looking it up I saw quite a few Reddit posts about it failing quite often so hopefully that isn’t the case
I like to play arm race, and danger zone mode. It's maybe kinda underated but everything just disappeared when CS2 was released, it's kinda disappointing for me :(
@@rizqiakhmadf3805 man you act like it ain't coming back
Ngl the only game mode I played was arms race I never touched the defusal or other main game modes I hope Volvo ads em sooner than later
It was sad to see Arms Race being not included in the current build of the game. I hope it will return one day
yeah that was one of my favorite alt gamemodes
Yes and flying scoutsman too 😢
@@ihazd3mons406yep
Arms Race was my only interest in CS for the last couple years. This blows.
@@InCaldera bro its not even going away forever lol. All the gamemodes are coming back.
I'm not a game developer but I've worked on huge IT migrations and even if you lose a dozen features, getting to the other side of a migration is a huge difficult feat. Now that CSGO is gone it's all about fixing and improving cs2 and by 2024 I expect it to be easily the best counterstrike we have ever played. However that's from a purely technical standpoint.
valve games are a techdemo, why would you remove a techdemo, csgo? Because csgo is css and cs2 is source 2. They in essence drop ped another trading card april fools game
we'll have to wait for CS2GO for that
I'm having a good time playing cs2. But my biggest criticism is the location of health and armor. In csgo, health and armor where easy to see, large and had both a number health bar. Now the money you have is larger than those really important stats and I'm really hoping there will be a way to change that
No it was a bad move to remove cargo we lost like half content this shit sucks
@@wellingtonbruh3756I feel like QoL things like changing your HUD and whatnot is still a ways out. The game is technically sound, but I agree it's lacking on certain features, especially QoL. It's always the little stuff that matter to me personally.
6:22 I love how the friendly chatting and positive vibes transferred from CS:GO to CS2
about a year ago I switched from having a “gamertag” and started using my real first name as my steam/in game name, people are pretty much always nice to me, they treat me like their little brother or something. i think having a gamer name dehumanizes you and subconciously makes it easier for people to be mean to you.
@@BlastinRope I can tell ya right now that wouldn't make a difference in Europe lol
@BlastinRope being mean, toxic and insulting others is the core essence that makes CS, CS. What's the point of playing if you aren't calling others slurs every 10 minutes...
@@BlastinRope Nice! so I can trashtalk you using your real name :)
I have the impression that its way more toxic than csgo. Maybe because of the trust factor idk.
I couldn't agree more with regard to the point about the tracers feeling misaligned. The first thing I noticed in CS2 was that I couldn't spray, and I realized that I had relied quite a bit on the tracers when committing to prolonged sprays.
"The reality is that CSGO's tracers aren't accurate and don't actually help a player learn a gun's spray pattern." - website in 2019
I think people are just looking for things to complain about
@@coreblaster6809i think you are a noob and u know actually jack shit about cs. By the way, that's exactly a noob, typical cliché comment some new player would make. I've been playing cs since the alpha version of the first cs and I'm telling you that something is wrong with cs2. You don't seem to understand the mechanics of what it was Cs. It's like calling the movement in quake 2 WRONG and make it more friendly for new players. Cs2 has a lot of problems, sometimes it doesn't seem to be cs at all.
@@coreblaster6809 No, the tracers are definitely different, and they definitely affected my ability to spray past 20 bullets. I'm not even necessarily complaining or saying it needs to be changed to be the same as CS:GO, but it's different, and at the very least needs time getting used to.
skill issue, i spray fine in cs2@@m3morizes
@@m3morizes they must be emphasised. That's what puts me off and I hate it. The past tracers were definitely not accurate, but these being accurate AND emphasised throws me off
The bullet travel interacts with smokes. And it's also weird, because the travel as you showed is not going where the bullet is, so the same goes for holes left in the smokes. They are left where the bullet travel path went, not where you crosshair is.
well the opposite would be scuffed if spraying through a smoke no?
shotgun is more accurate than rifle LOL
I haven't played CS in years, but I still love watching your videos WarOwl! Thanks for your dedication to the game!
I'm very excited to see what they do moving forward, I'm no longer terrified they're not going to do anything. They've been putting in a ton of work lately, and with the uplift to Source 2 it's going to make the devs job easier to add new features/update existing ones. The future of CS is bright, we just have to get through a bit of the bugginess with the new version!
Lower ur expectation bro u can wait for another year for it to be a totally finished game
Yup, our monkey-brains are impatient but I believe in the future. This isn't like other games where they will release a really buggy mess and never improve, this has Valve quality and will surely change for the better.
@@whywhy8276 it's still gonna be the same as the others
Now take a look at CoD MWII.
Activision putting out unfinished recent releases just for the money.
And now... we have *this*.
Another unfinished game. A letdown. CSGO is still better than CS2.
*Gameplay>Graphics*
Remember this bro
@@whywhy8276 I've slowly losing faith in recent triple A titles like why tf am I even hyping up for these in the first place 😔
@@coltyt9529 The fact is that we know cs2 will last at least 10 years like csgo did. The start of csgo was a total mess (way bigger than cs2) and many people didn't wanted to play the game at all and prefered css or even 1.6, csgo dev had a hard time making the game better bc of this hence why they make csgo unplayable now with cs2, they don't want that situation to happen again
The biggest thing for me about the full release that makes it different than the Limited Test? A linux build. I am so happy I can play. "Finished" or not, I am just happy to be able to play with my friends.
Same! Besides the day 1 audio issues that forced me to wear earbuds + a headset over top to get discord sound at the same time 🤣
@@JesseBusman1996 I know it's fixed now, but putting '-sdlaudiodriver pipewire' in your launch options fixed this
@@JesseBusman1996 Yeah that was definitely funny, apparently they didn't have pulse support on day one so we had to wait for them to add it💀
Mac/Apple gaming users sacrificed their lives for the ability for Linux users to play
btw how is the experience on linux? im thinking of switching to linux from windows because games are starting to be more and more playable on it
"So simple your mother could watch a match and understand whats going on"
Reminds me of when the ELeague Major was on TNT and i actually watched it with my mom and she was able to understand after a brief walk through of what they are trying to do
A mom watching CS League?! Hell yeah!
It was also on TBS, that was a weird era.
I love the SC II background music that you use.
I hate that you didn't mention CSGO 2 not running on Mac computers. There is currently no old CSGO and no new CSGO for Mac users, such a shame.
lol I'm so used to Terran music because I play SC2 all the time, I didn't even notice.
I'm glad they finally released it, but they practically killed the casual experience in favor of completing the competitive one. We might not even be getting an operation before the major next year with how many game modes we lost from go that still need to be added. Team Deathmatch? Retakes? Flying Scoutsman? Arms Race? Dare I say, Danger Zone?
The whole cs culture revolves around competitive, it makes sense for me.
Not saying casual players do not matter, but the priorities they set were appropriate imo
Ask anyone with 1000+ hours in go and I would bet a dollar most of them only played comp DM and arms race
No pp bizon as well since it's a waste to put on, but mightve been fun in that moment
i understand and agree with most gamemodes, but TEAM DEATHMATCH? its just usless, everybody vs everybody is way better in every aspect
i wouldn't exactly say they killed the casual experience.... the original game mode is where casual spend most of their time on.
I think what really needs to happen as soon as possible is for Global Offensive to be reintroduced as a separate Steam entry in a stripped down form without matchmaking and without skins. Call it Global Offensive Legacy Edition or something. Make it clear on the Steam store page that this version is unsupported and is mostly for playing private games and old custom maps and modes. It would make this whole situation sting a whole lot less as we wait for the rest of the game to be re-implemented into the new engine.
Agreed heavily
without skins? jebus you savage!
But what about the old workshop?
wait you want a csgo edition just for play offline whit bots ? are you okay bro ?
Great work
The DM map groupings are great. When all the maps where available I mostly ended up with mirage and dust 2, if not people would vote to change the map to them. Now I have the option to avoid them all together.
Unrelated but super proud of Mr Warowl, was watching some old videos and you’re in so much better shape now, I remember a video where you were really dogging on yourself about your physique and then one where you said you were on course to fix it. Super awesome how far you and your channel have come. ❤❤
As a solo queue player, it took me 30 games to reach 10 wins. I had an 10 and an 5 loss in a row. I played against pros (two players from the M80 team) and finished with 4,500 points. The solo queue line-up is crazy and causes mental health issues.
Similar case for me
Unnecessary to say that this is very different for everybody, I’m not a great player, I got supreme in soloq at best, I’m not a carry I depend on teamwork to win games- and I got to 10 wins in 13 games in the beta and 14 after release- with leavers, toxic people and afk guys. Counterstrike is counterstrike and Solo is and will always be a special experience. That being said if you lose that much it might be time to accept that you are part of the problem, and your ranking might be justified. If anything I would say with 20 losses you should still consider yourself lucky to get about half the elo of someone who only lost 3 games🤣🤣
Why play Premiere Mode at all, if you want to play casually? Pick your maps, learn them, get better and then go for try hard- you’re someone who can’t even ride a bike expecting to be able to just pick up motorcycles, cars, scooters and airplanes and then blames everything on the planet you’re standing on when it goes as it’s supposed to.
Came back to comment that I don’t even feel like playing 10 games because it feels like torturing myself, I either encounter 5stack cheaters (YES, BLATANT AIMBOTTERS) or ppl who just leave the game forcing us to surrender
I like what developers do, they fix bugs fast, they listen to community - very good job. What is bothering me is actually all those business decisions from Valve. Because both locking 64 ticks and rushing release date were strictly business decisions and they are bad for the game in my opinion.
Valve higher-ups have a lot more income than sense 🤣
i would say 64tick is a business decision, they are still fixing shit so normalising data is very good
@@TheUnofficialHarry they r slowly becoming another Mr Crabs 😔
"Valve - we used to make good games, now we make money"
If you are complaining about 64 tick it proves you know nothing about how Subtick works LOL
It also proves that valve should not listen to the community on everything, because they don't know what they're talking about 99% of the time.
new sub here because I watch your previous video last time and thanks for this video now I know about CS2 can't wait to play with you soon I'm a CS player since 2020 hello from the Philippines
Been years since I've seen a warowl video, you're looking lean af!! good for you man!
the rubber banding when you touch your teammates is something that i didn't expect to be a problem in CS2 tbh.
yeah that's a weird one. On high ping I've run completely through my teammates before like the ending of The Men Who Stare At Goats
@@TheWarOwl woah woah woah spoilers! geez.
I'm 30 years old and haven't played any CS in years. I used play 1.6 as a kid (even 1.5 against bots) after school all the time. It's amazing to see that this game is still going strong all these years later. It just warms my heart.
Climbing through ladders and vents is the most memorable 🤣
And zigzagging through mazes are the best maps
Dust 2 still the most popular map on the most popular shooter lol
should play the new one, it sucks compared to 1.6, 1.6 and source. I mean i still play it, but the guns dont feel right. something aint quite right with the model physics either. CS source had better physics and sounds IMO
@@Ddubblerit sucks I won't play it. End of story
@@Ddubbleralways the same "it doesnt feel right" WHAT doesn't feel right? The fact that it's different?
Thank you for touching on the issue of players with low-end pc. I used to be able to play csgo with my duo with no issues but now they can’t even run the game without facing severe lag issues. Hopefully valve finds a work-around with this problem.
I’m at university and CSGO was the only competitive game my laptop could run well, I fr bought a Xbox because I had no games left.
My internet isn't great, and the new ping system feels horrendous in cs2 when you don't have good internet. Honestly, I wouldn't have an issue with cs2 existing, but the killing off of csgo is something that I don't support, and there's enough I dislike in cs2 that I'm not playing it. I started playing cs source again, and I honestly like it better than I ever liked csgo and cs2.
@@sassycat77 if you can afford an xbox you can afford a lower end gaming laptop that can run cs2 my guy
@@barkyyy what has better value? A $300(CAD) Xbox that can run most if
Not all new games(COD, R6, Apex, BF) at 120 FPS or a shitty little laptop I could get for $300
lol yea he never actually bought his own pc or xbox before that was all new information you just gave him.
Havent seen your channel like in 3 years that I stopped playing CSGO. I start back at CS2 and of course my internet mentor comes back. Always glad and looking forward to learning from you!
After having taken a break from cs:go for a very long while, I'm surprised at how much I'm enjoying CS2. I really want to see more maps and game modes.
100% with you on the tracers messing with my spray. Mac-10 feels especially bad with it for me personally.
use recoil-following crosshair
Okay then it´s just me I used to be so good with the mac-10 spray now I can´t hit anything
p90 for me. less hs
The day of the release hit reg definitely felt crisper. Not GO crisper but better. The biggest problem is when hits are calculated sub-tick but the firing animation is the next tick. It makes spraying feel weird
Yep, I’ve noticed that with the spray recoil assist is a bit behind from the actual server spray
Aight anchorman lmao!! Love the voice and vibe of the video, you need news fonts scrolling across the screen!!
the loss of modes like danger zone and war games is crazy imo. really hope they come back
War Games was unplayable due to hackers botting. I tried to join Wargames for an hour and got kicked from every server, and God forbid I have a server to myself some guy will join add his own bots then use them as votes to kick. Valve was doing absolutely nothing about it.
War games is gone? 😢
You can't even create a private match rn 😂
Yeah that mode were you become a flying sniper edit: I hope they bring back the modes
@@horriblypinkwar games was very functional, I literally played it the night before cs2 released
The CSGO team probably wanted and expected more upon release themselves. But often, software development timelines fall behind schedule and they said it was coming Summer 2023 so they were probably in a bit of a bind. I expect to see a lot of additions in the very near future.
I mean, they could have just delayed it until it was ready. Valve doesn't have shareholders to answer to - they set their own deadlines.
@@qu1253 No, they couldn't wait more becouse gaming scene was dyeing and it was the time for a New Operation anyway so they had to release something.
too many 'probably's
"see a lot of additions in the very near future"
no duh, alot of skins 🤣
They already released it after summer ended. They could've just waited longer
You are simply the best out here. Nice day every time warowlo uploads a new vid
i was sad to see that community maps are gonna come later, i feel like it's such an integral part of cs to spend a few minutes warming up before hopping onto a match or adjusting your crosshair
As far as I'm concerned, its not a full released untill they add AT LEAST the maps they teased in the trailer (baggage, shoots, etc.) Its missing key game modes like arms race, flying scoutsman, danger zone, etc. Not to mention key features like left handed, inv_nextgun, etc. Also, I was sort of hoping for native support for more community game modes like surf, kz, bhop, prison escape, zombies, etc. But that may be pushing it a bit too far
I think they knew nobody played the native arms race/demolition game modes. Would have been wasted effort to focus on those especially for new content like jailbreak, which the community will want its own way anyway
I agreee though the lack of maps is killer. I think the thing is the community maps come from operations, and given mappers already had tools for at least a few months, we could have had a launch operation
Omg an official Surf mode would be wild. They don't really have to do anything other than hand pick a 5 of the best maps from each tier, and have a UI to let the player select their difficulty level. Just having that recognition from Valve would be so cool. Ofc I doubt they're going to do that, they don't need to, and existing surfers would probably find a way to be mad about it, but it would still be cool.
@@Delicomswhat do you mean nobody played it? Is there a statistic or something? I have never had a problem with finding a match ever in arms race and I played it every day for couple years.
@@maniacpwnageking The surf servers will have to be 128 tick.
@@rihamission487 And that is why it will never happen. Valve effectively killed surfing in cs2 by forcing 64tick on everyone
The one thing I'm sad about is the removal of clan tags and team name switching. It was fun to try and play like a clan with a 5 stack
also this change removes funny group tags, smh
OW2 and CS2 are both trying to remove ways to see who's playing with a stacked team or not and I hate it.
@@Bestow3000 Why do you hate it. It allows the other team to know if they're going up against a sweaty 5-stack team or not. Unless you're the type of person to do this, it shouldn't bother you.
@@GameChanger-xi4iyHe hates it because they are removing that ability.
nah it's good, why would you wanna see a 1000 letter character clan tag taking up your whole screen and you don't know who it is unless you open the steam profile, atleast now i know if i played against the same person or not...
@@Bestow3000 If you play Premier MM it's obvious on the pick/ban screen who are queued - so it's not that.
Love the background music! while talking about cs2
Left hand mode is cut from cs2 for shadow issues according to the newest patch notes, I'm fairly sure.
The reason that left hand perspective isnt in the game yet is probably because it affects the shadow that your player casts on the ground. In CS2 you can now see your own shadow, making it possible for the player to think more ahead of where and how far they are peeking so that enemies cant see you. Im sure they will fix this in the future but they simply havent implemented it yet.
You are right, but it will either never come or not be switchable once the match starts
This and smoke spam. They would also have to change the angle.
I think it basically breaks the game or causes it to be unfair in certain scenarios.
It will be interesting your this gets implemented.
In csgo it was only local, so the conflict becomes real.
All of these arguments are pointless, nobody is asking for that shit to be adjusted, they just want their weapon on the left so it doesn’t disturb them. What is the point of all these changes, left handed is no unfair or even real advantage- people should simply be able to choose if they want their game to look slightly off in order to play more comfortably. This isn’t about something like visuals breaking the Immersion, or getting an advantage what are you talking about. Nobody even asked for adjusted shadows and smoke spam
I don't think that shadows are problem, when you inspect your weapon or change view model shadow doesn't react to this. When you pick up or switch weapon shadow has a delay about a second. So it means that 1st person view is rendered separately from your model on server and they can do whatever tgey want. Hopefully they give us back everything they took and add more. I'm waiting for clear decals, cl_bob, left hand and so on.
I saw other content creators criticize the game but your way of explaining what you like and what you don't like is, by far, the best one. There's a lot to come, and it's going to take time. But I'm sure Counter Strike is here to stay for a long long time
if you criticize, you get more views. That is a fact.
@@013nil no its not
you are such a good person in this community. nice vid
You are right about the visuals, actually the cs2 footage recorded and showed in this video looks much more noisy than csgo, it makes me think "am I actually running 1080p60fps or is this 720p?"
7:09 this. Me and my friends didn't play CS for a long time and decided to jump into CS2 for old times sake. Turns out, one friend of ours was unable to play because his game kept crashing due to the graphics.
some things ive noticed with cs2:
1. hitreg is terrible, huge backtrack, people are getting shot behind walls.
2. same problem with awps, where the flick and shoot mechanic is severely changed by subtick, it is very inconsistent to hit flicks.
3. spray pattern, even though they say its not changed, it definitely feels different. there is a known difference between 64 tick spray and 128 tick spray, where 128 tick is slightly tighter, i believe it is the different with subtick.
4. movement, bhopping feels so impossible now before i can land 3 or 4 hops consistently on 64 tick now it is difficult to even start 1.
5. peekers advantage, probably same thing with subtick, but everyone is ferrari peeking me. i feel like something is off with camera and player model, but i havent seen proof.
6. player model is still very clunky, especially the legs, when u counter strafe on a slanted surface, the legs glide around.
these are the definite cs2 mechanical differences, if yall seen some of this or have any other issues, let me know.
I have the same issues.. Just about everything you listed.
Getting dinked by people that aren’t even on my screen yet and missing AWP flicks that I should have clearly hit are definitely my biggest gripes.
I actually felt the opposite; shooting is definitely not fun compared to CS:GO but hitreg I feel was far better. Unlike before where the game waits until the next tick to calculate the shot, in CS2 the game will calculate who shot first and then kill the first person to die on the next tick, even if they are behind walls as they technically died already. This difference means that previously missed shots in CSGO may have actually been hits that were unfairly recorded, as the enemy hitbox could exit the shot trajectory after the input tick and before the shot calculation tick.
The difference now is that unlike CS:GO where pressing two buttons on the same tick would be the same, for example pressing a and left click on the exact same tick gives 100% accuracy, pressing two buttons on the same tick now gives you different results depending on the order no matter how precise and if the action was on the same tick, meaning that input timings are far more precise as the server retroactively calculates your inputs and old players who had the advantage of more lenient timings due to 64 tick are noticing the unresponsiveness as their inputs have to be more precise.
I mean, I was headed for Nuke and found myself under the Mirage map. I also got a Mirage... mirage on Dust II with random props spawning in. That was something new, right?
You are really on of my favorite youtubers!!!!
Tracers are absolutely a problem, I noticed spray control is way harder because my eyes default to relying on the tracers, and so it’s really annoying. It just felt like they added tracers for the sake of graphical fidelity.
tbh even if tracers were not totally accurate in csgo either thats pretty much how i learned to spray, i could not spray in CSS at all when csgo had tracers it finally clicked for me
@@Rosterizedyou might be able to try the cross hair setting
aim for the head and tap, spraying is for very low rated players.
Tracers look perfect to me, turn on folow recoil on crosshaire, they match, and the bullets go on top of the tracers. Crazy how thats the problem u have and every one of my games is getting insta peek head shot no matter ware i am in the map, Games trash
Elaborate. Is it trash because it’s easy for you or are you the one getting headshotted?
If there's one thing I'd like, it's for Competitive/Premiere mode to give you a rank after 10 matches played, not won.
I'm on the opposite side of Warowl - a Silver 1-3 that likes the game and wants to get better at it, but for now, I've been in a couple of even matches, and the rest are curb-stomps. There's always a player that doesn't belong, being either way stronger than everybody else, or someone (usually me) finding themselves in the middle of coordinated smokes/flashes/pushs while I barely know how to hold my gun. That's kind of sort of normal at the start, buuuut it also means that the lower-skill players have to go through a lot of games to actually get ranked and matched appropriately against people of roughly their levels. Either by having even matches by chance, getting carried through the wins (which is a _horrible_ feeling), or waiting for the ranks to settle, which could take some time.
I don't mind if I'm, like, 500 points on Premiere with a 3-7 win/loss ratio on those 10 matches, I'll gladly take it and grind my butt off from there. But _getting_ there at this point is going to be an exercise in endurance.
And yeah, I know playing with stronger players makes you learn faster and can sometimes give you tips if your teammates are friendly, but that's the exception rather than the rule.
(I'll also fully admit that I'm a masochist for going straight to Premiere, but I like having to go for every map and not being "limited" by 1 rank per map and having a more general skill assessment.)
Map specific ranked dont work any better, i was le on csgo and cs2 thinks i deserve silver 4 even tho last game where i got my rank avg csgo rank was something like LEM, so looks like cs2 is throwing 95% of players on silver ranks.
The tracers are kinda weird. Throw on a mac10 or mp9 and you literally can't miss if you use the tracers as an aid. But on the ak and a4 it just throws you off, probably because you're seeing the tracers from 2-3 bullets ago, so you process it wrong and end up not pulling down enough or staying on one side of the spray for too long.
I guess it might depend on the spray pattern for the gun because with the galil the tracers also feel pretty helpful. A lot of people I've talked to said the galil feels better but no one can really say why. Could be the tracers making them more accurate.
The biggest change for me is not being able to see how much damage you did to which enemy mid-round anymore. This must be a massive inconvenience and I'm surprised this is not being talked about much. Is this being removed for good?
this is something that was always disabled in more competitive modes like faceit and also at tournaments, makes sense to me to remove it from comp as well
It was a huge info for your teammates if you knew how much damage you did to which enemy after dying just by opening up the console. I'll have to get used to it even though it inconveniences me. But I think it's a good change. Neither I nor my enemies now know the HP mid round if it wasnt an obvious shot (scout body shot for example). So you can definitely use that for your advantage, knowing your enemies don't really know that you're low on HP
After 23 years, de_dust2 and nuke are still instantly recognizable. That is some amazing map design for it to look exactly the same, even in dimensions.
Office looks basically the same too.
@@9akslebws, I find it amusing that you've spent several paragraphs describing that we recognize things because their basic, defining qualities stay the same =)
@@davidthompson5710Office looked so great in Source with that blue and wood coloring. The backrooms gas station bathroom color palette of CSGO Office sucked, but fortunately the CS2 version looks much better.
Bob settings, war games, viewmodel recoil, workshop, are some of the things Im waiting for them to add, also hope they are working on a new operation, its been two years since the last one.
Cant believe bob setting are gone, like why.
what they did to bob he didnt do anything
I bet that workshop access will be available in 2024, since they’re still fixing the major issues and smoothing the rough edges
i think tracers even tho hitscan is an accesibility feature... i dont have the best headphones and sometimes just play on speakers, so it helps me navigate where people are even tho im unable to hear where they are
I really liked how they improved the tik rate, it was immediately felt for me
Same here
Valve with every update are doing insane things. On launch I was getting 130-150 fps in comp and now im getting stable 190-200. Things are looking bright!
But it's a red flag that these basic things weren't picked up in the closed beta in April
@@louiscruz624 a red flag for what? optimizations after launch are completely normal because you have access to a lot more performance data, you don't cover everybody's hardware during a closed beta.
@@louiscruz624wtf is a red flag here?
Its called TEST for a reason.
@@XEROXAYUKI it's also a red flag that they didn't know the yellow health bar was a bad idea and that you couldn't tell you were low health. They only got the feedback and replaced it in the limited test
Basically all signs that the development was undercooked
@@louiscruz624 do you always know if people are going to laugh at your humour before you attempt it? I think you're being unreasonable here.
Its not ready yet. I think it needs a few more months till its ready
nah
few more years maybe
The ending monologue was beautiful.
Even if I can't play it anymore (was playing on a labtop), I'm glad for CS2 release, this update was needed
I'm not a great player, but I do struggle a lot more on CS2 with my favorite weapons, such as the MP9. The new bullet traces are completely confusing when trying to aligning the shots.
i'm in the same boat, I hit shots I feel should whiff and I whiff shots that the tracers go straight thru the enemies
Thought the same but after 20-30 games I dont notice much difference at all, it was way more confusing during beta than it is now. Ive noticed I've ended up playing all kinds of weapons I'd usually avoid as well which is great
For me it's the M4A1S I can't spray shit at medium range with it anymore idk what happened or maybe I was always bad lol💀
I had to turn on follow recoil...Spraying feels weird in cs2 for sure
I thought I was the only one having problems with MP9. I used consistently dink multiple people with it in CS GO and even get multiple kills sometimes. In CS 2 I'm barely getting even 1-2 hits with it.
My first reaction to not wanting to win 10 matches on a map was a very valid counterpoint. With how long term we've played the game before without our rank resetting, imagine the gratification of ranking up on a series of maps in one day after practicing something new, or just in general play seeing where your weak points are in terms of rank, etc. But for one off players, the ranks per map are never going to matter and they'll sabotage queue into premier anyways.
Expressed my thoughts perfectly. good stuff
I had to reduce resolution to get above 60fps on my GT1030. Also, I seem to get more random headshots (I am useless at headshots...) and spray control has changed a lot. the P90 sprays way higher than is used to I think, and MP9/7 are also weird. Maybe that is just my clunky GPU?
Biggest issue I have and I know a lot of people who have is performance. So many freezes/crashes and random disconnects for no reason other than "game said no" fingers crossed they fix these issues in time but I hate the idea CSGO worked perfect 99% of the time yet CS2 is a 50/50 coin flip on whether it's going to perform well on that day.
turn particles to a lower setting maybe ? Helps with performance for some.
Yeah mid tier card only from few years ago are struggling, not everyone is cranking high end money for graphic cards.
@@ceshmate1953 there isn't any settings being changed that fix the issue for a lot of people, I can't find another game I cannot run on my pc yet cs2 runs like ass, issue is with the game not the pc
It's been a while since I played csgo but cs2 feels much more smooth and performant to me
We are currently on Oct 2 build, game is getting better with each build. I hope they do something about player collision, its throwing my player in different directions when running alongside teammate.
As someone who's put thousands of hours into CSGO, and never really played MM, the switch really hurt. It sucks that CS2 doesn't really have what I want yet. Community servers and workshop maps are what kept me entertained for all these years, and now I have to wait to get any of it.
One more issue I personally have is that they decided to remove being able to check how much damage you did in the console when you die, instead they show how much damage you did in the NEXT ROUND. Very useful information going into a new round, tell your teammates how much you lit the enemies last round, so smart.
It’s a change to the core of comp that isn’t necessarily bad or good imo
@@lorenzooliveira1157 id say it’s bad, you can’t even comm for your team if any of the enemies are lit (except if you lit a guy and he kills you, it still shows how much you hit him)
i was mainly excited to see what they could do with new gamemodes and stuff with the new engine. i was actually for once excited about how much smoother dangerzone could be on the new engine for example. but all we got was a slightly reworked mm experience
I was so surprised the game launched, for the past few days I actually still thought it was in beta... it really should still be an open beta, this isn't finished. Bare minimum we at least need everything that was in CSGO
I thought people were being silly for thinking valve would completely overwrite CSGO with CS2 when its release was teased last week, at least when CS2 isn't ready to replace it yet. Like, it's good that they are releasing CS2 for everyone but come on guys, they would be insane to do that! Guess I'm naïve...
I disagree. By replacing CSGO with CS2, the team is now getting more and more knowledge about the weaknesses of the code. SAme time, they are under more pressure to get things done, because there is "no other option" (CSGO). I hope that, with the immense feedback of the whole player base, the game will quickly grow in features and stability.
nice highlights bro. you're really good.
Love the Starcraft 2 sound in the background
I really love the starcraft soundtracks that you use. Talking about a game i played for my whole life while listening to music from another game i played my whole life is amazing
Would of liked to see left hand view models regardless of what they are working on for it. Been playing CS with the left view model since 2014 and I’m playing so much worse without it
not being able to switch between right/left is bugging me
I would switch view model position based on what angles I was peeking/holding. Having screenshake and a massive weapon model blocking 1/3rd of the screen constantly is very frustrating
@@jaemotooyou should def change your viewmodel settings, there are some really good console viewmodel settings that are gamechangers.
@@GhostedMemes No. Only the bare minimum is ingame currently. some of the most important settings like lefthanded and bobbing settings are not in yet and its aweful.
Would've* (would have)
I played it from release in 2000 upto around 2015 and I can't even stomach another 2nd of it.
Will you make all those guide videos just how you made csgo tutorials
I used to do spray transfer 180, 1v4 clutch from pool inferno with 4 secs left, now I can't spray an enemy 2 meter in front ;D. The tracers made cs2 feel like it has bullet travel time. You kinda spraying in the past, bullets travelled already, they just haven't appeared to be that way yet.
tbh the most painful part is the home button on the menu being all the way to the left when the inventory and such is top middle... that or the removal of factions (though we might get them back with new models)
if that's the most painful the game must be pretty good.
That's a regular design choice and has no dark patterns in it.
The home button is clearly an icon, and it's beside the other icons.
All web pages, including TH-cam, has the home button on the top left.
Also, you barely interact with the home button. You can do nearly everything you can do in the home screen and more, via the Friends sidebar.
@@TheWarOwlwell it's the same game sooo.💀
they sell you these new models as skins probably
the most painful thing is how they changed the buy menu causing me to buy a taser when I want a p250 or a flashbang when I want armor XD
good thing they have the refund option now though...
They also need to re-enable the command to enable/disable first-person bullet tracers.
In online chess when you open an account it gives you a visible temporary estimated elo rank and when you’ve played 10 games or so it gives you your actual rank even if you’ve lost them all. This would be SO much better imo. Especially if there are going to be multiple season per year.
Will you release a guide series for cs2 for the next generation of new players?
that's the plan!
You are a gem to this community!
the achievements being gone is really sad. as someone who spent hours getting some of those in csgo, i'm pretty upset they're just gone.
yeah
The most balanced and level-headed take on the CS2 release so far! Thanks as always Warowl ❤
7:06 I just noticed, nice flashblang transition edit here
Personally i think the lack of left hand view model, is due to the smoke tracers. From the left hand, the position of the holes in the smoke might be different from the right hand due to the view model
You shoot from your head, the view model doesn’t change where you bullets come from or how the smoke holes are rendered
@@percilenis8464 the smoke holes are view model based and it's most apparent when shooting a smoke from a couple feet away
I believe its because of now the players can see their own shadows and in csgo all viewmodel settings including left and right hand settings were only client (i.e only players themselves can see it) so holding the gun on left hand but seeing our shadow holding it on right would be very wierd... I also believe that now in cs2 player's own body is rendered for player's client itself for shadows because previously in csgo the engine doesn't render player's own body hence no shadow.
@percilenis8464 Stand super close to the smoke and you can see that what you said is not true
@@nanni5230 You're both right! Visually the bullet comes out of the gun, game play wise it comes out the head through the crosshair. Stand close to a corner, aim just off the edge and watch the bullets go through the wall.
this is what i think:
they’ll make left handed a gimmick where you can switch to your other hand with a bind and it does it in-game as well with a quick animation of the agent switching the guns to the other hand so your player model will change with it. it will add more depth and strategy on how you position yourself where the gun might not be visible.
i also think that valve is cooking something about the AI anti cheat where it’ll be so effective that it doesnt need a kernal driver to detect cheaters but theyre still cooking and gathering data, they dont wanna say it too early because the cheaters will catch it. they are playing the long game and the right game
hope you're right!
I saw a video by BasicallyHomeless about AI anti-cheats, he said he talked to the developers of the anti-cheat and they were confident that it would eliminate cheating from video games, they couldn't reveal which companies were going to use the AI anti-cheat but they already had clients. IMO Valve seems to be exactly the kind of company that would invest in such a thing.
@@adityajadav9933 damn, that sounds cool.
AI that "spectates"? How would it detect less obvious hacks, like radar hack?@@adityajadav9933
@@adityajadav9933anyone who knows about security knows anti cheat cant be eliminated...but I am with OP - Theyll be capalitalizing on gimmicks that were already features previously
Feels great when you AK someone in the head and they don't die. Even though the head moves, there's blood, and you get the headshot sound.
A cool future video idea could maybe be like having the entire map be covered in smokes always and then play, maybe give everyone like infinite frags to utilize new mechanic
It's so frustrate that I can pick only a few weapon out of all the circle that I used to have. Sometime the game really want me to pick nagev for a reason 🔥
Having both m4s in buy menu looks promising, but i never did that because of economy😅
I like how it works with pistols. Now I can have both CZ and 5-7. Rifles are fine. But there are too many SMGs, LMGs and Shotguns for 5 slots. I think game needs more mid-tier slots.
Iv got a lot of faith in cs2 but I’m a bit anoyed with especially sprays and getting shot behind stuff. It also feels like I’m hitting and missing shots I should not be. Overall I am optimistic and can’t wait to see where it goes from here!
I am experiencing like these subtick issues, I am behind wall still got headshotted, im behind wall and I headshotted some one, game feels like it's 16 ticks at it's best...
@@Diopside. I hope they fix that and the spray. I point blank was spraying someone yesterday. And every butler missed. It was point blank I was aiming st his feet snd didn’t get the kill very very frustrating. Even my opponents were a bit confused.
@@Diopside.subtick doesn’t have anything to do with your client side player position
@@brian1were buddy it's confirmed that subtick causing lag compensation issue which increases "ms" and causing this dumb shit issue.
@brian1were Information to the player is still sent at 64 ticks while information like when you shoot is processed immediately, meaning there is a delay between when you actually died according to the server and when you get that information yourself. It's causing people to die in situations where they were behind a wall fairly commonly.
3:23 Source 2 SFM can open CS2 demos. So if things like edits are what you had in mind here, SFM can do that.
Still feels like yesterday when csgo released.. geez I feel old.
My only problem with cs2 is the new smoke and molly effects make my game fps drop in half, no matter what graphic settings. Admitted my pc is almost 10 years old, but it's still over the recommended system requirements listed on the cs2 shop page.
I hope they work on the optimization.
So, could we please have some of the youtubers to point out the problems, rather than kiss their asses all the time??
Any plans for a return to counter strike refresher video, with how the new stuff works and refreshers of the old with new considered (like utility, weapon loadouts with economy and team roles, new competitive systems, etc)?
yep!
I have never experienced more instances of being head shot behind a wall immediately after getting there and it doesn't say it was a wall bang. Implying even though on my screen I'm completely behind the wall after running there my hit registration model is somehow not where my pov says I am than in thus game. It was even bad in the test play until a month or two before the actual cs2 release
It’s somehow both a step forward and a regression, and I don’t quite know how to feel about that
The performance became MUCH better with the new update. I had a big freeze problem and the update almost fully fixed it. So I suspect the main focus of the update was to improve the performance for bad pcs
it didn't fix my issues at all, CS:GO ran perfectly for me, and CS2 is pretty much unplayable to me now
@@bumbo7196 bro i run cs2 on 8 year old laptop with way worse graphic card than recommended, and cs2 runs very well. It had crashes for me mainly due to caches and too much background RAM usage but it runs perfectly after i fixed that. I saw people claiming on reddit and steam that you need high end specs to run cs2 but that's just an outright lie and haters hating on the game. CS2 runs better for me than valo despite valo requirements being not even close to cs2's
@@br0ken_107 well i cant even get a consistent 40 frames below my refresh rate on cs2 and valorant runs perfectly for me so...
@@bumbo7196 I have the exact experience, CSGO ran on max settings like butter, Valorant also runs although with lower settings like butter... but CS2 is happy to reach 40 FPS on pixelated, unintelligible graphics...
One thing I WISH they would do with CS2 is make it so solo players only get matched with other solo players, or at least an option. It'd just be a nice feature for the more casual players that aren't looking to sweat it out every single game because they keep running into 3-mans or 5-mans.
Not a lot of people know is that, during the creation of Counter Strike, the artist that created viewmodels was left handed. So in 1.6 all guns are right on the left handed, and mirrored on the right handed. It's funny how now the problem is exact opposite
I instinctively follow the tracers as it makes sense thats where the shot would go. This has messed me up massively with the AK, but all other weapons seem to be fine. Galil seems far more spot on, M4 seems good so I'm wondering if this is just limited to the AK specifically.
Yeahhh I agree with you. I personally after playing quite a no. of matches will say the AK feeels way more hard to control than it did in CSGO. Specially the part where you have to control the recoil, but your brain insticts lead you to follow the tracers coming out of the gun which mislead you. I many a times hit headshots where I thought I whiffed and am surprised. The Vice Versa is alsoo true tho..
Yeah AK is the problem
They did remove Danger Zone as well. I haven't seen (or least read into patch notes for not playing in a long time) anything that explained why... So that was an interesting removal for CS2.
it was an interesting game mode, but no one was playing it so it doesn't surprise me at all that it was removed at launch
@thorjelly fair enough. I enjoyed it with friends from time to time but it's a BR and they get old quick. Hope they come up with something new this time though!
They didny remove it, its just not updated yet
The game just got released, wait for things to be added.
I guess they had no time to perfect it and(or) maps are still under construction
Any chance you could make another economy guide? Keep running into teammates that force on eco/save rounds for really crappy buys. Also curious about changes with mr12.
Nice work on a gesture language, Owl. Dont think you will pass this one without any notice
I think CS2 full release was, for all intents and purposes, an open beta. I can understand the pressure on valve to fully release and I believe they wanted to release it "in time" and release the rest of the modes and for them that was just easier to release it fully than call it a 'beta' and have everyone whine about it. I believe by the end of the year itll all be ironed out.
Id rather they break their promises and focus on quality
People are embarrassingly impatient too honestly. I miss cl_bob, left handed viewmodels, more than a couple maps etc. as well but I'm just sitting here vibing knowing that it'll all be sorted soon. Every update so far since the beta went sorta public has just been a positive experience IMO. I mean people can scream and cry as much as they want over it, I don't care, but I find that overly dramatic BS so silly
@@whatareyoudoingthis4 no - we set the expectation that this kind of behavior is okay. What the fuck happened in the past few years where it became acceptable to half release a game. As a corporation you need to be responsible for doing your own in house beta testing. When you say a games coming out, Im not saying it has to be perfect, but it should be *finished* - what if a doctor looked at you and said..."well, I don't REALLY know whats wrong cause I didnt finish my degree yet but as I study, Ill be able to give you better more accurate info about your diagnosis....", thats a shitty doctor...same for an architect, lawyer, janitor or GAMEDEV
The only time releasing an unfinished game to the public is acceptable is if you're an indie dev studio....not now, not valve
@@wetter4293while this might be true globally we as gamers let them get away with this. And there's a reason for it. We don't care. There's too many opinions out there. And people will play the game and spend money on skins. No matter what game it is
@@wetter4293 the fucked up thing about the cs community is the bitchiness, i agree the game should have been better and more complete, but honestly after extensively playing cs2 it's not even close to being as bad as people say it is, and the fucked up part is everybody or close is wrong to why certain things are not working well, the amount of dumb shit i see on reddit and youtube by "community figures" who are genuinely talking out of their ass and quite often complain about an issue that doesn't exist is just sad, im not trying to say valve did perfect , far from it, if i had to decide i would just release a fully open beta and slowly work towards the end of the year, with that said what you said is true but you also have to remember how much people have been bitching about source2 constantly, every single day for years now, i think valve didn't do well but this community is honestly kind of embarassing, especially people like s1mple who can provide feedback to valve he just cries on twitter lmao, also valve has HUGELY improved cs2 with very frequent updates, when you take all that into consideration idk man i feel like the cs community is so childish