Counter-Strike 2 News

[ SOUND ]

• Fixed missing win/loss/MVP music in Casual
  

[ GRAPHICS ]

• Put range clamps on r_fullscreen_gamma, r_texture_stream_max_resolution, and r_character_decal_resolution
  
• Fixed smokes not rendering correctly on AMD GPUs on Linux
  

[ ANIMATION ]

• Adjusted grenade throw animations to reduce view obstruction
  
• Fixed a case where players would float a few inches off the ground after spawning
  

[ MAPS ]

• Various bug fixes and tweaks to Mirage and Overpass
  

[ COSMETICS ]

• Various bug fixes and tweaks to weapon finishes and stickers
  
• Updated Phoenix Soldier balaclava from green to original red color
  
• Fixed missing pouches on certain SWAT agents
  

[ MISC ]

• Fixed a bug where loadout shuffle would never happen
  
• Increased clickable area of sellback buttons in buy menu
  
• Fixed a case where the death panel would stay on-screen after respawning quickly
  
• Disabled CSTV and demo recording temporarily to increase server availability so more people can play
  

At the time of writing, Counter-Strike 2 has 7.5 million reviews on Steam, 88% of which are positive. That's pretty good going for a game that released less than 24 hours ago.

Except, of course, that the vast majority of those reviews are for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, a game that is no longer playable. If you filter the reviews to just yesterday and today, you'll find that there have been 3450 of them, just 59% of which are positive, which would give Counter-Strike 2 a rating of "Mixed".

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Valve has launched Counter-Strike 2 as part of which it has mothballed Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, the latter being arguably the most popular competitive game in the world and definitely the most popular on Steam. From CS2's first announcement Valve has been clear that this was the next step for the series, going so far as to name CS2 "the CS:GO killer" in its Twitter bio, though that playful phrase has since been replaced...
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Just in case the initial tease, and subsequent Twitter account banner change didn't give you enough of a hint, Counter-Strike 2 has indeed arrived on Wednesday, September 27.

As was always the plan, the game replaced Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Steam. In fact, the Steam store page retains pretty much everything from the original CS:GO page - reviews, details, release date etc., except it now carries the new name.

This is why it's hard to judge Counter-Strike 2's popularity compared to CS:GO, but what's immediately clear is that regardless of what it's called, Counter-Strike is the most played game on Steam. At the time of this writing, the game has 1,192,773 concurrent players online.

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Counter-Strike 2 released last night and has duly taken over from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive as Steam’s most-played game at the time of writing, but individual player reactions are a bit mixed. Valve’s new/revamped free-to-play FPS sports a range of exotic features and fixtures, from swirlier, reactive smoke to new server architecture, but it has launched without many of the modes, maps and functions Global Offensive diehards are accustomed to, after a decade of updates.

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