It’s important to take all this with a grain of salt and wait for official confirmation, but rumors are circulating that Counter-Strike 2 could be coming soon.
Richard Lewis, a prominent journalist and anchor within the Counter-Strike community, said: received evidence from the source Valve is gearing up to release a new version of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in the near future, with the beta likely arriving this month or April.
The project has a working title of Counter-Strike 2 and is said to be in development for “a while”. Lewis says Counter-Strike 2 is his Valve priority, and he’s one of the reasons why the current version of his CS:GO “has received little attention for a while.” increase.
According to these sources, Counter-Strike 2 will run on the Source 2 engine, and the move “should result in better game optimization and graphical fidelity.” It’s also said to have 128 tick servers, which represents how fast the game’s servers can process information, similar to Valorant.
Matchmaking has also been improved in this new version, and Valve seems to hope that third-party services will no longer be needed to bring players together in a more efficient way.
Sources say Counter-Strike 2 is “almost ready”, but it’s unclear what this new version means for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and its competitive scene. As mentioned, Dota 2 moved to Source 2 in a new version called Dota 2 Reborn, co-existing with the original. In the end, the two versions were merged into one.
Another piece of evidence that might suggest that this rumor is true is Gabe Follower 2, The latest NVIDIA driver says it “introduced support for unknown app executables called ‘csgos2.exe’ and ‘cs2.exe’.”
Gabe Follower 2 also states, “Since at least early December, we have fairly reliable information that Valve has been testing CS:GO on Source 2 with the help of third-party QA firms in the US and EU.” says. % but enough to share. ”
They also said that this new version is “It’s not going to be a new game. It’s not Counter-Strike 2, it’s not a rebrand, it’s just CS:GO Source 2. And your skin will be fine and available in the new version. ”
Something strange happened. The latest NVIDIA driver introduced support for unknown app executables called ‘csgos2.exe’ and ‘cs2.exe’.Why the project is called Counter-Strike 2 and what it cooks @csgo? https://t.co/U9YKlAjwgy pic.twitter.com/PU8Op9uGLq
— Gabe Follower 2 (@gabefollower) March 1, 2023
Again, it’s important to take all this with a grain of salt and wait for official confirmation, but at least it doesn’t seem like we’ll have to wait long to see if this is true. There are rumors that it is under development.
Despite being released in 2012, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is still one of the most played Steam games, currently with 583,156 concurrent players. SteamDB. The next highest game, Dota 2, has 262,745 players.
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