Counter-Strike: Global Offensive will soon be no more. Valve has formalized the arrival this summer of counter strike 2and the tests begin this Wednesday, March 22.
Most played game on Steam, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive will soon bow out, after several years of immense success. But, let the fans be reassured, it will not disappear completely. It will just become counter strike 2as Valve announced in a statement on March 22.
” With Counter-Strike 2, Counter-Strike makes the biggest technical leap in its entire history and guarantees new features and updates for years to come. says Valve, which plans to launch this following this summer, as a free update.
Some lucky people can already play Counter-Strike 2
Ahead of the global launch, Valve obviously intends to solicit the community of passionate players to test the new features of this counter strike 2. The closed access tests begin today, and will be selected by elected officials according to established criteria (playing time in Counter-Strike: Global Offensivenotably).
The competitive shooter will be based on the Source 2 graphics engine. Among the developments, the developers already show the rendering of smoke grenades in a video published on YouTube, with smoke that really influences the clashes. The lighting will also gain in realism. The environments will be redesigned, but the veterans should not be too out of place either.
The gameplay promises above all to be more reactive. Valve says: ” Counter-Strike 2 has been designed to greatly reduce the time between performing an action and taking it into account. Previously, the server used discrete time intervals (‘ticks’) to retrieve game state. Thanks to the update of the architecture allowed by Counter-Strike 2, and the use of ‘subticks’, the server now knows the exact moment of a move, a shot or a grenade throw. ยป
Good news: all items and skins collected in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive will not be lost when migrating to counter strike 2. It was the least we could do, while some spent mind-blowing sums to obtain exclusive decorations.
If some may think that counter strike is a saga that belongs to the past (the time when we organized LANs with our friends) and only attracts an elitist niche, they are wrong. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has never brought together so many people. In recent days, it has even broken its record for players connected at the same time (1,416,861 people according to SteamCharts). In short, this counter strike 2 in the right moment.
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