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Counter-Strike 2 Is Now Live On Steam; Here’s What You Need To Know

A new age of first-person shooters and esports has dawned upon us: the next Counter-Strike 2 is live.

Counter-Strike 2 is live right now and has replaced CS:GO as the de facto multiplayer PvP 5v5 shooter for Valve and Steam platform. Don’t feel too bad: CS:GO has been around for 10 years so it’s only a matter of time until the replacement was all set and done.

CS2 is basically Counter-Strike but in the Source 2 engine, featuring a huge number of changes including brighter maps, better smoke grenade effects that are practical in high-level matches, and a whole lot more. Here are the changes in part 2 that are worth noting:

  • Upgraded lighting, materials, and mapmaking tools via the move to Source 2.
  • “Overhauled” and “updated” maps, as well as relatively unchanged “touchstone” maps such as Dust 2.
  • “All-new look and behaviour” for visual effects like fire, bullet tracers, and muzzle flashes (ah, the three elements).
  • A new ranking system called CS Rating.
  • “Reworked” audio.
  • A new “tickless” server architecture.

The maps you can play right now include:

  1. Mirage
  2. Overpass
  3. Vertigo
  4. Ancient
  5. Inferno
  6. Nuke
  7. Anubis
  8. Dust 2*
  9. Office*
  10. Italy*

*not in competitive map pool at the moment.

As for all the content CS:GO players have bought throughout the 10 years? They’re still available and in CS2. The game is still free-to-play, so if you want to see what’s new, now’s a good time as any to play it now.

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