Days after the surprise official launch of Counter-Strike 2, players have taken to Twitter and Reddit to share their disappointment over modes, maps, and technical features they miss from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
I love it. I do wish they had opened up mods and community servers before launch but the core game plays and looks so good. Most of the missing modes were never core to the game, hopefully they add some of them back after reworking them later (DZ?). It runs even better than GO did on Linux too.
CS2 feels like a downgrade from CSGO in a lot of ways, but CSGO at launch and CSGO at end of life were two completely different games, the same is probably true for CS2. Long term support is what keeps games going.
Would anything drastic need to be done to a map to just load it up in CS2? I would assume the file format is at least the same and they're built using Hammer.
Actually this maybe should have been named Counter-Strike 3. 1 was the original based on HL1, 2 is the Source version, and this should be 3. CS:GO is a variant of Source version with different gaming modes. I wonder if a GO version of this new CS will appear.
I dunno, my friends and I weren't so much interested in CS: GO, however we installed CS2 a day after the public launch, and we've been really enjoying it. Even got another friend on it, and he's enjoying it a lot too.
Suppose it depends on your perspective. We were never into the nitty gritty and just wanted games that played well and are enjoyable.
No peaking, iron sites, head turn, geometry grappling. CS is very much nostalgia mechanics. They started the competitive shooter genre, and they're still here.