CS2: The big box of crap review

[Peon]

CSGO was by far not perfect, and had quite a few issues that CS2 was supposed to fix, which it didn't and only brought in more of them.

Issue #1 - The game plays like dog crap and the bullet reg is worse than ever. It's not just my opinion btw, Skip to 5:58 for the "good" news: https://youtu.be/7e56RprYANA?si=lbZKAHmyUI8STOyt&t=358

Issue #2 - You get to choose from even fewer maps (in casual) than ever before, and if you like to play hostage rescue you get 2 maps, and that's it! The CS betas had more maps guys, are you stupid? Why split them up at all if there's barely any to choose from?

Issue #3 - The CSGO achievements are gone, and replaced with nothing. Remember all those things you worked hard for all those years? Well forget about them, they didn't matter, and you had no choice in whether you got to keep them or not. Basically, Valve said: "Suck it."

Issue #4 - The console is garbage and worthless now. Ever want to immediately see how many hits and how much damage you did (or didn't do) to enemies and how much they did to you? Well, you use to be able to, for the last 20+ years. Screw all that now, nothing you want matters.

Issue #5 - The Killcam isn't available anymore. Well, I know this was a new feature to CSGO, and I never knew I wanted it until I had it, when it became a priceless tool for pinpointing where death was coming from, while exposing cheaters to me with it's unmistakable gaze. Was this a handy feature for you? Well tough crap for you, because Valve didn't feel like including this anymore. Along with Overwatch being gone, identifying and reporting cheaters doesn't matter, so just deal with it.

Issue #6 - A lot of skins look way different now, with many of them actually looking like poop. Did you spend decent money on a skin because you liked the way it looked? Well hopefully you picked the right ones, because many of your favorites could now be ones you never would've considered buying based on how cartoony they look now.

Certainly I will find more issues as time goes on, but these are enough for now, plus I'm tired of typing.

[Renos]

Originally posted by Peon:

I just had a thought about why Killcam isn't in the game anymore, but imagine how terrible it would look now from your enemy's perspective, right? You might just be standing there doing nothing, maybe your gun could actually be firing (with muzzle flash, et all) with no bullets coming out, the tracers are going away from the enemy, or you're in a completely different position than it shows you to be, and that would be even more embarrassing for Valve, so it's better they don't even show it to you, because it's just even more bad news.

Some people are comparing CS2 to CSGO's release, and how it needed time to improve, but I remember CSGO at least being playable. Sure CSGO needed some polish and added features, but it wasn't broken af on release, and it didn't erase CS:S or 1.6 from existence.

nah CSGO was way more busted at launch in every aspect sure playable but nowhere near the level it needed to be for modern competitive play where as cs2 is mostly there with the only thing hindering it comp wise is the framepacing issue and some minor changes needed to positional audio mixing.
the weird issue regarding netcode at the moment wouldn't be an issue at lan when everyone effectively has a ping of 0.

[Khamal]

Originally posted by Peon:

Originally posted by d¢:

Not sure where you think the skins look like poop

I just saw a Leaded Glass M4A1S, and boy did it look bad... Otherwise, my USP-S has weird glare to it and the model looks nothing like the standard model, my one pair of gloves has an entirely different color going on, and all of my case hardened look cartoonish. I can't think of anything that actually looks good, but maybe it's because I've had to put my settings into the toilet just to make this game run with MINIMAL stutter. In case you're wondering, my machine specs are:

MSI RTX 4070
12th Gen Intel Core i7-12700KF - That's 12 cores @ 3.60 GHz
MSI PRO Z790-P WIFI LGA 1700
G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5
SAMSUNG 980 PRO M.2 2280 2TB PCIe Gen 4.0 x4
1000 watt psu

Originally posted by d¢:

As for the hit reg? Did you aim at the head and counter strafe or stop moving?

Right now, I'm aiming for center body mass, and praying anything hits.

That’s definitely a compatibility issue
I’m running a i9 9900k 4070 32gb ddr4 ram on a sea gate barracuda hdd with 5140x1440 on 250 fps top avg 200 with max settings except msaa
I’m on a driver from a few version ago gpu

[76561199040010521]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaG0zRS8X_w

this one is more accurate

[Magniankh]

The peeker's advantage needs to be fixed. I mean how does everyone have 10-15 ping and this is still an issue?? I do not understand netcode.

[Trypticon#3]

Game is broken like never before, seriously.

[Møghunden]

Originally posted by ping pong:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaG0zRS8X_w

this one is more accurate

I think this one is more accurate
https://www.youtube.com/live/iUz6OF6mg2k?si=r2v6tvA8UiXJCiSL

[Renos]

Originally posted by ping pong:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaG0zRS8X_w

this one is more accurate

the issue is that in csgo since all inputs where only processed within a tick and provided some sort of consistency if your inputs were rather inconsistent.
in CS2 since subtick now processes EVERY input it also includes your own inconsistency.
so it comes down to do you train out your own inconsistency with inputs
or
you can use alias commands in cs2 to make the game process inputs only during a tick like in csgo but valve may fix this as its technically a bug,

[Renos]

Originally posted by Magniankh:

The peeker's advantage needs to be fixed. I mean how does everyone have 10-15 ping and this is still an issue?? I do not understand netcode.

It is a weird side effect of having the game process hitreg at subtick speeds or sometimes rollback a tick.
basically since you can now die between ticks according to the server.
you can now move away from a peeker but the server waits until the next tick to tell you that you already died leading to the visual of death behing a wall but in reality according the server you died a few miliseconds before hand.
or case 2 the server decided to rollback and kill you to make the game somewhat more fair for a higher latency player.

[ReVoLT]

Using Elo for soloQ is beyond stupid. Expected from valve though.

[MrFox老板]

cs2 is crap since release

[Peon]

Wallhacked by multiple people today... So we got to keep that feature, while losing all the good ones. Thanks again Valve.