CS2 feels like a game that is falling apart no matter where you look.

Valve said we were moving forward with subtick and a “better” Counter-Strike experience, but we are still dealing with endless bugs and broken systems. One example is damage prediction being enabled by default. Sometimes the enemy goes into the death animation, then suddenly stands back up like nothing happened. How is that even acceptable in a competitive FPS?

And that is only one issue. In CS:GO, at least we could easily play workshop maps with friends. Now we keep trying after every update to see if it works properly, and it still does not. Deathmatch is full of bots, so we are forced to use third-party servers like xplay or Cybershock just to have a normal warm-up experience.

I will not even go too deep into Competitive and Premier. Premier is completely ruined by cheaters. Even around 15k rating, there are players using wallhack everywhere. I added one cheater just to see how long he would keep playing before getting banned. Three months later, he was still spinning like a Beyblade and had reached around 30k Premier rating. He was still not banned.

Some people say “just play FACEIT if you want a clean game,” but FACEIT requires Secure Boot, and I do not want to enable something that can add input lag or mess with my system. Also, why should I have to force all my friends to install a third-party platform just to play Counter-Strike properly? On top of that, playing FACEIT does not help me level up in CS2, so I still have to return to the official game for weekly drops, and then the same problems start again.

Even basic things feel broken. Alt-tabbing out of the game and coming back takes time for the game to recover properly. Every update fixes one thing and breaks another.

CS2 has amazing potential, but right now it feels unfinished, unstable, and neglected. Counter-Strike deserves much better than this.

CS2 is a really great game to play with your friends, but it's full of hackers. The VAC in this game is terrible and they barely ban any of them.
However, when there aren't any cheaters and you're just spending the night playing with your friends, it's an amazing game.

Advanced Case Simulator & Spinbot Testing Ground 🔬💸

We truly admire this pinnacle of engineering delivered by Valve's developer team with a billion-dollar budget. CS2 is not a tactical shooter; it is the world's most advanced "case opening simulator" with a tiny community mini-game hidden behind it.

By allowing cheaters to showcase their geometric talents (360-degree spinning) and software skills, Valve is conducting a global sociological experiment that measures the patience threshold of ordinary players. We take our hats off to this industry-leading lack of vision and the sheer success of "earning billions by doing absolutely nothing." Vacnet is already the greatest myth in software history; nobody believes in its existence anymore. 🤫📉