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Counter-Strike 2 (PC/Steam Digital Game)

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  • Built on the Source 2 engine, Counter-Strike 2 is modernized with realistic physically-based rendering, state of the art networking, and upgraded Community Workshop tools
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Counter Strike 2 (CS 2) is now available for everyone for free on Steam.

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About This Game:
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.

A free upgrade to CS:GO, Counter-Strike 2 marks the largest technical leap in Counter-Strike's history. Built on the Source 2 engine, Counter-Strike 2 is modernized with realistic physically-based rendering, state of the art networking, and upgraded Community Workshop tools.

In addition to the classic objective-focused gameplay that Counter-Strike pioneered in 1999, Counter-Strike 2 features:
  • All-new CS Ratings with the updated Premier mode
  • Global and Regional leaderboards
  • Upgraded and overhauled maps
  • Game-changing dynamic smoke grenades
  • Tick-rate-independent gameplay
  • Redesigned visual effects and audio
  • All items from CS:GO moving forward to CS2

System Requirements, Minimum:
  • OS: Windows® 10
  • Processor: 4 hardware CPU threads - Intel® Core™ i5 750 or higher
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Video card must be 1 GB or more and should be a DirectX 11-compatible with support for Shader Model 5.0
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 85 GB available space
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Created 09-27-2023 at 02:12 PM by doubletoaster
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it is free to play. $14.99 is to match with other paying customers for an elite group to fight against. same game.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Counter-Strike 2 players with Prime Status are matched with other Prime Status players and are eligible to receive Prime-exclusive souvenir items, item drops, and weapon cases.

This package grants Prime Account Status in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and in Counter-Strike 2.
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I thought this was a F2P game from the get-go?

And looking at the reviews, the game is still plagued with aimbotters.

"Met lots of gifted individuals that can look at the ground while spinning and still click heads. Very impressive!"
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Not a bad idea to make it free to play for casual gaming and upgradeable for more competitive.
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juanjohnson
09-28-2023 at 02:28 PM.
09-28-2023 at 02:28 PM.
Quote from TurtlePerson2 :
This will be the fifth Counter-Strike game that I "buy"/play if I get this. Why is it called CS2?

CS 1.6
CS Condition Zero
CS Source
CS Global Offensive
CS 2?????

It's go 2
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TurtlePerson2
09-28-2023 at 02:45 PM.
09-28-2023 at 02:45 PM.
Quote from neuber :
I've been playing CS continuously since 1.5. I've been in the CS2 beta for months and I can pretty confidently say this is one of my fav iterations of CS. Anti cheat is supposedly improved but that has yet to be seen. (I exclusively play ranked competitive so idk what the experience was like in GO for casual). Subtick implementation is interesting though I was seeing bad desync not too long ago- it seems they fixed that issue. Hit reg is leagues better than GO though.
The game has also been made a bit more approachable for new players. Volumetric smokes eliminate one ways and fill gaps, you can sell accidentally purchased weapons etc.
I'm impressed that you've stuck with CS for that long. I've played a little bit of all the main CS releases, but probably spent 3-4 years where CS:S was my main game. I can't imagine playing the same game for ~25 years.
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andtokyo
09-28-2023 at 02:50 PM.
09-28-2023 at 02:50 PM.
I'm eligible for a 20yr coin if they introduce it and I played cs2 for the first time today. It crashed my amd 3600 / nvda 3060 desktop once and the rest of the games I lagged through. It's not ready for prime time fo sho.
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SirtyDanchez
09-28-2023 at 02:52 PM.
09-28-2023 at 02:52 PM.
Its not too early. Same cheats apparently work in here. I have seen a significant reduction from the limited play test start until now. Of course there will always be a few.
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CS:GO was inundated with cheaters. Too early to say if they fixed any of the issues and cs2. I want to point out that I'm not complaining about players that are better than me and calling them cheaters, I'm talking about very blatant and openly cheating using spinbot cheaters. Such a huge disappointment that they don't address this issue.
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TenseReward8527
09-28-2023 at 03:34 PM.
09-28-2023 at 03:34 PM.
haven't played this but you can often avoid hackers by simply only playing on private servers, which tend to have private moderation and extensive ban lists for hackers. Only way I can play bf1, for instance.
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thrustbucket
09-28-2023 at 03:55 PM.
09-28-2023 at 03:55 PM.
I would like to check this out. But don't have any interest in playing on pc.
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Y1tzy
09-28-2023 at 06:01 PM.
09-28-2023 at 06:01 PM.
Quote from TurtlePerson2 :
This will be the fifth Counter-Strike game that I "buy"/play if I get this. Why is it called CS2?

CS 1.6
CS Condition Zero
CS Source
CS Global Offensive
CS 2?????

Just a guess, but I think their logic is:
CS 1.6
CS Condition Zero = CS 1.7
CS Source = CS 1.8
CS Global Offensive = 1.9
CS 2 = well, 2.0
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darthalal
09-28-2023 at 06:41 PM.
09-28-2023 at 06:41 PM.
Quote from AmusedPanther530 :
You happen to know if this plays on steam deck? Barest minimum settings is fine.
It plays for me, fps seemed stable and generally usable considering the hardware. Totally unplayable on the built in controllers though. 🤣 I mean, it all works, but it's fairly hopeless to do well without a mouse/keyboard.

Audio doesn't work for me though. I didn't spend much time trying to fix and haven't googled yet, YMMV.
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Philip_Marc
09-28-2023 at 06:52 PM.
09-28-2023 at 06:52 PM.
Quote from Y1tzy :
Just a guess, but I think their logic is:
CS 1.6
CS Condition Zero = CS 1.7
CS Source = CS 1.8
CS Global Offensive = 1.9
CS 2 = well, 2.0
Steam's link of CSGO sent me to CS2 instead. I guess CSGO was just renamed.
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zechs77
09-28-2023 at 06:57 PM.
09-28-2023 at 06:57 PM.
You could have LOTS of steam money sitting in your inventory if you played CS:GO and never opened cases or sold some original skins. Check the market value, CSGO weapons cases going for as much as $100 each now.

If you sell on marketplace funds will go to your steam wallet and you can buy other games, dlc, items, etc.
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krew790
09-28-2023 at 07:06 PM.
09-28-2023 at 07:06 PM.
It isn't worth free with the current community it has. Its almost worse than COD
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psuvette
09-28-2023 at 07:11 PM.
09-28-2023 at 07:11 PM.
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Wow can't believe this is released already! I used to be such a big CS 1.6 player back in the days, nowadays when I go on CSGO I get my ass reamed. Reaction time just isn't what it used to be 🥹

The cs 1.6 days were the best.
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megapper
09-28-2023 at 07:12 PM.
09-28-2023 at 07:12 PM.
Quote from bonbon525 :
Yeah they need to do something about the hackers on cs. The game was awesome until it was plagued with them. Good thing fornite came out to replace fps games.

Found a 12 year old!
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AmusedPanther530
09-28-2023 at 07:18 PM.
09-28-2023 at 07:18 PM.
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It plays for me, fps seemed stable and generally usable considering the hardware. Totally unplayable on the built in controllers though. 🤣 I mean, it all works, but it's fairly hopeless to do well without a mouse/keyboard.

Audio doesn't work for me though. I didn't spend much time trying to fix and haven't googled yet, YMMV.

Oooohhhh thank you very much. And yes lol I tried CSGO on deck and using the controls is very hard.

I just wanted to know because the deck is my most powerful PC, yes I'm not joking. The only reason I bought it was because had steam money from CSGO items ironically and wanted new to be able to play few games my old laptop failed at.

Didn't want to spend the time installing 30 GB file if this CS2 didn't play.
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cwagdev
09-28-2023 at 08:00 PM.
09-28-2023 at 08:00 PM.
Quote from neuber :
No Mac but it does have native Linux support which is cool

It better given steam deck but that is cool. Unfortunately not helpful. Rude to strip GO from us.
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