Steam Deck @sopuli.xyz Domiku @beehaw.org 1 yr. ago

Counter-Strike 2 is out, but it’s not Steam Deck Verified

www.theverge.com Counter-Strike 2 is out now

CS2 has replaced CS:GO in your Steam library.

This just seems odd to me. I know it’s a competitive game, and most folks will be playing with a mouse and keyboard, but it feels weird for Valve to put out a brand new game (built from scratch, at that) and not plan for this.

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- Preface: I am no game developer, but I am a software developer
  
  This comment does not make sense to me. There is no "simply" bringing any game to any other engine. Doing this is a huge undertaking and I can't imagine not basically starting from scratch, saving the art assets and bits of pieces of the code (given it's written in the same language).
  
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  Source 2 is basically the same engine but with better physics and graphics afaik
- CS2 was not built from scratch, it's a large update to CSGO
  
  this confused the absolute shit out of me
It looks like people are having some success, based on the posts at Proton-DB. I think that rating it as Gold is a little too charitable, though. Lots of people having control, audio, and visual issues.
I got it working on my tv, sound works just had to change it from default to HDMI 2 which is where it's going on my tv.

I'm using the steam controller and it works fine.

When I launched it, it was very slow. But I stuck with it for a bit and it picked up and became smooth enough to play. I don't know the exact fps but I won a bot match and for me that's actually pretty good 😂.

I think there might have been a sneaky steamdeck update. I'm playing on stable and cs2 2000142/13948

Playing on high graphics.
- I wonder if it was prepping the shaders, hence the initial slowness.
  
  I very much think that's the case. Will probably happen for every new level. I did have a bit of a hiccup sometimes but I think it'll be ironed out
Has anyone tested this on a Steam Deck yet and can report it's performance?
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  Seems like a very rushed launch to try and meet the "Summer" deadline (which they still missed by a week of course). Valve didn't even update Steam Rich Presence so it still says you are playing "CS:GO". The store page doesn't have the right video on it, there's no special graphic in the store or anything and the game banner hasn't been updated. Lots of cut corners. For some reason Valve has been going crazy lately, they also released the Dota compendium today, SteamOS 3.5 a week ago and SteamVR 2.0 just a few days ago. Makes sense they missed some stuff.
  
  No audio is not a Steam Deck only issue, its broken for a lot of people on Linux.
  
  I don't know what the deck uses but -sdlaudiodriver pipewire in launch options fixed it for me.
  
  The rest of it sounds like a nightmare tho.
  
  Wow, that's actually really embarrassing for them.
  
  I was also looking forward to maybe playing a bit with my son this weekend under the expectation that surely their flagship game would play well on their flagship console.
  
  Yeah, I managed to fix the sound thing and you can see that there's some very unfinished implementation for controller support (I used the WASD + Mouse preset for deck) but when I pressed B button the buy menu appeared even though the B button is not bound to the B key, also when I opened the menu the deck keyboard opened.
  
  I saw that the gpu was not being taxed nor the cpu, it seems there's some bug or something that doesn't help it achieve it's potential perfomance
  
  Yes, it's a very rushed release on linux
- https://www.protondb.com/app/730
- It says it's playable. Just had some small text apparently. I'm trying to install it but steam is being weird telling me I have no Internet connection lol.
This is the best summary I could come up with:

Counter-Strike 2, the highly anticipated upgrade for CS:GO, has finally arrived.

After years of rumors, Valve announced CS2 in March and opened up a limited test.

The updated game is based on Valve’s Source 2 engine, giving the game a much-needed facelift, reworked audio, UI enhancements, and upgraded Community Workshop tools.

There’s even a new “tick-rate-independent gameplay” that Valve describes as a way for servers to “know the exact instant that motion starts, a shot is fired, or a ‘nade is thrown.”

You can download the 27GB CS2 for free from Steam, with its listing directly replacing the more than 10-year-old CS:GO.

All of the items you’ve collected in CS:GO will be available in CS2, while stock weapons will also get an enhanced look thanks to the Source 2 engine.

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