Counter-Strike 2 News

CS:GO update will strip players of their rank, at least temporarily

If you've not been keeping a close eye on the Counter Strike: Global Offensive blog, then you might be confused as to the whereabouts of your in-game rank. In the latest update, the CS:GO ranks have just been recalibrated and while it might look like Valve has just reset everyone's skill group, don't panic, because that's not the case.

The CS:GO ranks recalibration update has just come after what appears to be the biggest ban wave in the game's history, with Valve attempting to make the competitive FPS game that little bit more competitive again. "Typically when we ship changes to CS:GO's ranking system, the adjustments are small enough that we don't include them in our patch notes," Valve says in the blog. "However, today's update affects all CS:GO players so it requires some explanation."

Now, all players looking to get back on the competitive grind in any of the game's core modes (Competitive, Wingman, and Danger Zone) will need to play and win one game to recalibrate their ranks. Once the win has been registered, your MMR will be calculated and you'll be placed back into one of the many skill groups in the game.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive update for 1 August 2022

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Counter-Strike on Nintendo DS slaps

Fewnity is a French coder with a penchant for Nintendo DS projects, who over time has been building more and more ambitious projects. Always how it goes: you start off making Flappy Bird, and before you know it end up with an online version of Counter-Strike running on the hardware...
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Counter-Strike's famous Door Stuck video has been hijacked by copyright fraud

One of the most famous Counter-Strike videos of all time has been hit with the inevitable bogeyman of YouTube: Somebody's copyright claimed it that doesn't own it. The 35-second video has been a perennial joke in the CS scene since it was uploaded in 2007, and even has a spray in CS:GO dedicated to it...
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New CS:GO update adds Mutiny and Swamp to map rotation

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has gotten a quick update on July 23, and some fun changes have been made to Valve's massive FPS. Most of the update is focussed around the default launch of Trusted Mode, which previously didn't work out well, and some gameplay fixes but players will also experience a new map rotation.

Mutiny and Swamp are moving into official matchmaking for Casual, Deathmatch and Scrimmage modes and Chlorine and Jungle are being removed, freshening up the maps you'll be battling on.

In gameplay changes, grenades are finally getting a fix. They will now do the right amount of damage to teammates if the player that threw it has disconnected from the game or has switched teams. Decoy grenades are also being reworked to not damage your teammates by default, which will surely prevent some awkward situations.

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