Valve has announced Counter-Strike 2, a successor of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, to be available to play sometime in the summer of 2023. The release of Valve’s new Source engine 2 also brings forth new graphical and performance improvements to be expected from CS2. Valve has also confirmed that Counter-Strike 2 will be a free-to-play game. If there is no delay in production and error detection, players can expect to get the sequel title by June 2023.

Counter-Strike 2 is being touted as the new FPS killer game. CS 2 is definitely attracting the masses. Fans have started speculating whether this new title by Valve will be the death of games such as Valorant. While fans are pitching CS 2 vs Valorant, FPS god Dr Disrespect has some views of his own.

Dr Disrespect believes Valorant should not be concerned

In his recent stream, Dr Disrespect opened up about the CS 2 vs Valorant battle. “If I was Valorant I would be like okay… We don’t have to be like too concerned,” said Dr Disrespect. He believes Valorant should focus on themselves, as both games have their own merits.

While talking about CS 2 smoke grenades, The Doc considered them a “sweet little feature.” Lamenting how it was a missed opportunity by Valve, he notably said CS 2 can incorporate the smoke with gameplay.

“But it would be interesting how it will affect the pro scene,” said Dr Disrespect. “That might be fun to watch.”

CS 2 vs CS: GO – The visible differences

On the last day of the ESL Pro League for CS: GO, they showcased a show match of Counter-Strike 2. While fans are pitching CS 2 against Valorant, an obvious question arises; how much better is it than its predecessor?

Exceptional visuals and lighting work, thanks to Source 2 

Source 2 is the engine behind visually stunning games like Half-life: Alyx and DOTA: underworlds. Source 2’s physically based rendering system makes the lighting in Counter-Strike 2 realistic and with proper reflections. 

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Map overhauls and rework 

Getting new renditions of maps is a touchy factor for sequels video games. While fans do expect some changes in the maps, changing them drastically could also make fans hold a grudge. CS 2 developers are taking a different approach. They have divided maps into three categories: 

1. Touchstones – Standard tournament maps that only gets graphic and lighting changes. They include Dust 2 and Mirage in this.
2. Upgrades – Nuke and Ancient are the two maps getting changes in textures and rendering due to the Source 2 engine.
3. Overhaul – Overpass is getting a complete makeover. Being one of the oldest maps, it duly needed this for this map to be included in Source 2 engine code.

CS: GO had a major flaw in processing smoke

Terrorists and counter-terrorist saw different things through the smoke. The smoke in CS: GO was static and unidirectional. This made FPS shooting in CS: GO hard. CS2 has changed this completely and made the smoke volumetric which interacts when fired through. That will definitely lead to new stats being created around smoke.

CS: GO has received a lot of love from pro and casual players. Will CS 2 deliver on that front? This is this million-dollar question.

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