If there’s one factor, one single factor, that is stopped me from going professional in Counter-Strike 2 all these years, it is the audio on these grenades—fuzzy and low-fi, prefer it was recorded by the Elephant Six Collective. Atrocious mids, swampy highs, lows with the callous insouciance of a neglectful husband*. I refuse to topic my ears to that.
Properly, now I will not should, and my CS2 profession can lastly bloom. In an update earlier immediately, Valve introduced that the sport’s ‘nades are nearly irresponsibly hi-fi. They “now have distinctive higher-fidelity sounds for draw, examine, pin-pull, and throw.” Our lengthy nationwide nightmare is over.
Also, other things, but I fail to see how they compare in significance to our new crystalline ‘nades. Most promising, I think, is the addition of cs_script, “a JavaScript based scripting system for Counter-Strike maps” that can now be used by community mapmakers.
This opens the door to a whole bunch of buckwild possibilities, like community-made custom CS2 game modes (you can see an example of the scripting language in action in this X post from Gabe Follower).
That apart, now you can peer at different gamers’ loadouts whereas spectating, there is a new Genesis Assortment of 17 skins—a recent injection of stuff for the sport’s eternally absurd skin market.
Oh, and there are “various improvements to subtick shooting consistency,” which has either been a huge improvement or caused an outbreak of collective psychosis among the CS2 fanbase.
By which I mean, it’s easy to find players reporting back these improvements have entailed better hit registration for their guns in games, but very few of them are giving hard numbers. Without someone actually taking the time and tools to measure these perceived improvements, it could all be a case of the placebo effect. Still, hopefully it really has made the game feel better and we’re not all delirious.
*Just for clarity, I don’t know what any of this means.
