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Premier also now seems to be the mode for ranks and such. Competitive carries ranks per map and nobody seems to be playing.

They're also both this weird 13 rounds to win format now instead of 16.

Guess I'm playing Premier from now on.
 
porchrat said:
Premier also now seems to be the mode for ranks and such. Competitive carries ranks per map and nobody seems to be playing.

They're also both this weird 13 rounds to win format now instead of 16.

Guess I'm playing Premier from now on.
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They also have seasons now attached to Premier though I don't know how it works.

4-stack is disabled in Premier. You can only solo, queue 2,3 or 5. Apparently 4-stack is considered abusive...
 
Fulcrum29 said:
They also have seasons now attached to Premier though I don't know how it works.

4-stack is disabled in Premier. You can only solo, queue 2,3 or 5. Apparently 4-stack is considered abusive...
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I heard they are getting cases of the 4 stacks voting off the 5th guy constantly. So they've stopped it with the software equivalent of a brick to the face.

Sort of makes sense. People can be damn toxic.
 
Latest release notes:

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Counter-Strike 2 - Release Notes for 9/28/2023 - Steam News

[ SOUND ] Fixed missing win/loss/MVP music in Casual [ GRAPHICS ] Put range clamps on r_fullscreen_gamma, r_texture_stream_max_resolution, and r_character_decal_resolution Fixed smokes not rendering correctly on AMD GPUs on Linux [ ANIMATION ] Adjusted grenade throw animations to reduce view...
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Release Notes for 9/28/2023

[ SOUND ]
  • Fixed missing win/loss/MVP music in Casual
[ GRAPHICS ]
  • Put range clamps on r_fullscreen_gamma, r_texture_stream_max_resolution, and r_character_decal_resolution
  • Fixed smokes not rendering correctly on AMD GPUs on Linux
[ ANIMATION ]
  • Adjusted grenade throw animations to reduce view obstruction
  • Fixed a case where players would float a few inches off the ground after spawning
[ MAPS ]
  • Various bug fixes and tweaks to Mirage and Overpass
[ COSMETICS ]
  • Various bug fixes and tweaks to weapon finishes and stickers
  • Updated Phoenix Soldier balaclava from green to original red color
  • Fixed missing pouches on certain SWAT agents
[ MISC ]
  • Fixed a bug where loadout shuffle would never happen
  • Increased clickable area of sellback buttons in buy menu
  • Fixed a case where the death panel would stay on-screen after respawning quickly
  • Disabled CSTV and demo recording temporarily to increase server availability so more people can play
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Yesterday's release notes:

Release Notes for 9/27/2023 Night

[ SOUND ]
  • Weapon sounds will no longer sound like they come from the spot you are zoomed into
[ WATER ]
  • Updated water in Nuke to fix an issue with smoke
  • Reduced maximum amount of water refraction since it was looking too noisy/distracting
[ MISC ]
  • Fixed a case where the death panel wouldn't show
  • Fixed a case where the preview crosshair wouldn't show in game settings
  • Fixed a case where debug text would appear on the crosshair
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The launch release notes:

Release Notes for 9/27/2023

[ COUNTER-STRIKE 2 ]
  • Counter-Strike 2 is now available and free to play
  • Season One of Premier has begun
[ GAMEPLAY ]
  • Enabled Competitive matchmaking
  • Enabled Wingman matchmaking
  • Enabled Private Matchmaking
  • Added Training Day, a brief introductory experience for brand new players
  • Improved player-against-player movement collision
  • Improved consistency of bullet penetration
  • Player reflections in water are now occluded by smoke
  • Molotov fire now floats above the water
  • Fixed character ambient occlusion being visible through walls
  • C4 bomb lights don't reflect through walls
  • Fixed some rare cases of viewmodel lighting corruption
  • Adjusted smoke behavior to cover cases where smoke would stop less than a player's height above the ground
  • Fix various bugs with switching teams in the middle of offline Deathmatch
  • Fixed Famas reloading too early
  • Chickens can finally fall off Vertigo
[ SOUND ]
  • Added the new CS2 default music kit
  • Added new audio customization settings
  • Various mix tweaks and adjustments
  • Various bug fixes related to music kits
  • Updated the game startup sound
  • Added background ambience to main menu scenes
  • Restored the clutch_mode_toggle function
  • Fixed a bug where sometimes c4 defuse and planting sounds could not be heard in certain locations
  • Fixed some surfaces being incorrectly tagged causing incorrect footstep sounds in certain locations
  • Fixed a bug where attackers could not hear headshot feedback through wallbangs or smokes
  • Body damage feedback for attackers will now play within the same distance as it does for onlookers through smokes and wallbangs
  • Fixed a bug where scoping in affected directional sound
  • First person damage sounds are now more impactful
  • Removed several legacy audio convars that existed in CS:GO but never had an effect in CS2
[ ANIMATION ]
  • Adjusted character additive lean animation
  • Adjusted jump animation, particularly when repeatedly jumping
  • Adjusted jiggle-peeking animation
  • Adjusted animated character head position relative to camera position
  • Added bullet belt to negev
  • Reduced foot sliding when carrying slower weapons
  • Fixed character momentarily standing during crouch-planting animation
  • Fixed incorrect viewmodel deploy speeds
  • Fixed pops in some weapon inspect animations
  • Inspecting weapons may now interrupt deploy animation
[ MATCHMAKING ]
  • When one or more party members get convicted of cheating and permanently banned, all their associates will be penalized with loss of Profile Rank and CS Rating
  • In Premier, players with a very high established CS Rating are not allowed to party with accounts that do not have an established CS Rating
[ MAPS ]
  • Various bug fixes and tweaks for all shipped maps
  • Adjusted vertical audio occlusion boundaries in Nuke and Vertigo
  • Added an extra bell in Inferno
  • Casual and Deathmatch maps are now separated into multiple map groups
[ MISC ]
  • CS:GO Players who started playing more than a week ago will receive a commemorative CS:GO coin and CS:GO Music Kit
  • Added Store tab to main menu
  • Enabled all interactions with inventory items
  • Replaced weekly drops with a weekly Care Package. Choose from weapon cases, weapon finishes, and graffiti
  • Added demo playback support
  • Added the ability to favorite and shuffle loadout items
  • Added new item icons
  • Office and Vertigo are available as main menu scenery
  • Various updates for weapon finishes, including fixing overly strong wear on several Custom Paint Job finishes
  • Reworked Phoenix Street Soldier balaclava texture to resolve visibility issues
  • Enabled animated eyes on agent character models
[ WORKSHOP TOOLS ]
  • Game clients running in workshop tools mode are not allowed to connect to VAC secure game servers
  • Added an all-new help system featuring contextually relevant guides and information. Guides include gray scale value ranges for alpha channel masking, paint-by-number mask color assignments based on current finish type, and much more!
  • Removed dynamic props from solid color inspect backgrounds
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A map issue that I have experienced on Dust is sound accuracy.
 
porchrat said:
I heard they are getting cases of the 4 stacks voting off the 5th guy constantly. So they've stopped it with the software equivalent of a brick to the face.

Sort of makes sense. People can be damn toxic.
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I played two Premier games last night, and the comms suck, one had barely any comms and other took a while to get the players going with teamwork.

I don't know why anyone will and want to play Premier mode without comms. It is no place to be green.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
I played two Premier games last night, and the comms suck, one had barely any comms and other took a while to get the players going with teamwork.

I don't know why anyone will and want to play Premier mode without comms. It is no place to be green.
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Why? You have to start somewhere.

You will see a lot of players brand new to CS now. Especially as you're going to be calibrating from scratch. Don't chase them away. Be understanding.

There is no other mode that can prepare you for competitive CS. They have to learn.

I don't get that attitude. Honestly a game can't grow if older players just bully new people.
 
porchrat said:
Why? You have to start somewhere.

You will see a lot of players brand new to CS now. Especially as you're going to be calibrating from scratch. Don't chase them away. Be understanding.

There is no other mode that can prepare you for competitive CS. They have to learn.

I don't get that attitude. Honestly a game can't grow if older players just bully new people.
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All I am saying is that in Premier mode you will have to use comms. Then there is also the Discord/TeamSpeak/etc. disparity where you have one group on your team not engaging with the other players.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
All I am saying is that in Premier mode you will have to use comms. Then there is also the Discord/TeamSpeak/etc. disparity where you have one group on your team not engaging with the other players.
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People will learn. New people will not realise comms are necessary right away.

As to discord I tend to only play as a group of 5, so we're all in discord. On the rare occasion that there are people outside of that group in the game, all of us in discord have all the others muted, so that we can use in-game comms without an echo. Then we use in-game to make sure those outside of discord can hear us.

I've played with a LOT of people recently that don't even have mics. That's definitely a disadvantage. I don't know why people with 10 year veteran coins are playing without mics.
 
Lol,


I guess many currently topped players have either cheated or have been carried by cheaters to the top. A better picture will be have around 50 matches or so on the leaderboard.

Last night when I played I saw that the old NiP roster is out to beat the scoreboard.
 
PrimeSteak said:
Ok, so I tested cs2 with my new driver... Nothing has changed /sigh

I guess I should put this game on the shelf for the next three months
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A friend helped me change my video and game settings and the game is so much better now. I can actually get headshots in deathmatch
 
I was with an alliance for a couple of years - still on good terms with them but I needed a break.
Now I have to relearn to solo queue. It was one of the hardest things in CS - still is.
 
TribbleZA said:
A friend helped me change my video and game settings and the game is so much better now. I can actually get headshots in deathmatch
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Yeah? What did you change?

I just set all my stuff to Low (which the game recommended for me anyway, I just bumped up the textures to Medium...), and it's playable again...
 
PrimeSteak said:
Yeah? What did you change?

I just set all my stuff to Low (which the game recommended for me anyway, I just bumped up the textures to Medium...), and it's playable again...
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That is pretty much what we did - with a few other settings. Will look now
 
New patch is already out. Fourth since exiting limited test release:

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Counter-Strike 2 - Release Notes for 9/29/2023 - Steam News

[ SOUND ] Fixed a case where grenade sounds were missing when exploding in-air Added separate sounds for grenades landing in vs out of the playable area [ GAMEPLAY ] Fixed a case where both terrorists in a Wingman match would appear to have the bomb [ MISC ] Various bug fixes for the Vulkan...
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Release Notes for 9/29/2023

[ SOUND ]
  • Fixed a case where grenade sounds were missing when exploding in-air
  • Added separate sounds for grenades landing in vs out of the playable area
[ GAMEPLAY ]
  • Fixed a case where both terrorists in a Wingman match would appear to have the bomb
[ MISC ]
  • Various bug fixes for the Vulkan renderer
  • Updated Phoenix Soldier icon to reflect recent balaclava color change
  • Fixed a rendering issue in the nametag inspect panel
  • Disallowed binding toggleconsole to mouse1 since it was preventing normal menu interactions
  • Various bug fixes and tweaks to weapon finishes and stickers
  • Fixed a case where surrender votes would incorrectly fail
[ ANIMATION ]
  • Fixed a case where foot pinning wasn't active
[ MAPS ]
  • Various bug fixes and tweaks to Ancient
[ PERFECT WORLD ]
  • Players who launch the game in China and have previously accepted the Steam China Subscriber Agreement will now get a prompt at launch which allows selecting "-perfectworld" or "-worldwide" mode
  • Launch prompt can be activated with "-promptperfectworld" command line flag or completely bypassed if "-perfectworld" or "-worldwide" command line flag is used
[ COMMUNITY DEDICATED SERVERS ]
  • To launch a community dedicated server, you can use this reference command line:
    • cs2 -dedicated +map de_dust2
  • To enable logging, add to your server commandline:
    • +sv_logfile 1 -serverlogging
  • Or add to a config file:
    • sv_logfile 1
    • log on
  • To enable HTTP logaddress forwarding, ensure logging is enabled as above and use:
    • logaddress_add_http "<server address>:<port>"
  • Dispatched logs can be handled the same way as CS:GO
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The biggest update is to allow dedicated private servers. At this point I don't think that the game is ready as an esports title. That odd delay to the game which is giving peekers advantage and counter to spraying is breaking the game. Why, only Valve can tell.

Now that demos are disabled, it is impossible to spectate some perceived issues. The demos are glitchy though I think it has to do with its reduced tick rate.

The audio is another matter. At least Valve is proactively updating the game.

My own advice is to learn to tap and burst by repetition. Not to hold angles, but to keep on slicing your angles. Jiggle peeking.
 
I see many say that the spray patterns aren't the same anymore, but I am quite sure that it is still the same. What I think that most players are experiencing are changes to the spread. The recoil remains the same.


It is possible that the new ticker system may impact the spread, but sub-tick now also means, or at least how I understand it, that the computation is done on the server side. It would be interesting to see whether there will be any variation with private servers.

I also think that there are slight changes made to the models which will impact movements.
 
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