Counter-Strike 2

Known for its productions such as Half-Life, Portal, Counter Strike and Dota, Valve may make a very important announcement soon.

All this shows that the project is largely ready. According to Lewis, Valve will offer a more enjoyable gameplay by including 128 tick servers in the new CS game. It is also stated that he carried out the tests.

Valve, the creator of the popular first-person shooter game Counter-Strike, is reportedly launching an updated version of the game on the Source 2 engine ...

It is unlikely that the new game will immediately become the main game played at the pro level, as Valve will want to ensure that the game is stable before making such a change. The game, called Counter-Strike 2, is set to feature major improvements including 128 tick servers and an updated matchmaking system. The game, called Counter-Strike 2, is set to feature major improvements.

Rumors about Counter-Strike 2 on the Source 2 engine have been around for quite some time, but most players still did not believe that Valve would take such ...

According to his unnamed sources, the new Counter-Strike is “absolutely real”, the game has been in production for some time and may be released under the name Counter-Strike 2. Valve plans to do it by April 1. But it seems that all these rumors were not groundless.

A report suggests that a new version of CS:GO is incoming, and it could be called Counter-Strike 2.

On Twitter they claim that “it won’t be Counter-Strike 2, it won’t be even a rebrand, just CS:GO Source 2.” They also added that “your skins are fine, they will be available in [the] new version.” Regardless of the name, it seems Counter-Strike fans are getting a Source 2 upgrade soon unless this is all an elaborate April Fools prank by Valve. [more popular than ever](https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/counter-strike-global-offensive-is-more-popular-now-than-it-has-ever-been) if Steam concurrent player numbers are any indication. But rumblings of Counter-Strike 2 have gotten louder over the weekend due to a [Valorant](https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/games/valorant).” Gabefollower [supported](https://twitter.com/gabefollower/status/1632378590619639808?cxt=HHwWgICxjb7rr6ctAAAA) Lewis’s claims of a new version built in Source 2 but disagreed on the rebrand. The team working on this new version includes “members that have overseen development of previous iterations in the Counter-Strike franchise,” according to Lewis, which might explain why some CS:GO issues have been “largely unattended” for a while.

Read More: Best FPS games: what's the best shooter you can play in 2023? The news was reported by journalist Richard Lewis, who claimed to have been told of the ...

The source added that Counter-Strike 2‘s development is the reason that a number of issues have gone unattended in Global Offensive. Additional features in Counter-Strike 2 reportedly include an improved matchmaking system that negates the use of third-party matchmaking software. Counter-Strike 2 will also take Valve’s first-person shooter (FPS) series to 128 tick, which is double the standard tick rate for current Counter-Strike: Global Offensive servers. It is claimed that a number of professional [Counter-Strike](https://www.nme.com/games/counter-strike) players have already tested the game in secret, with Lewis’ sources claiming Counter-Strike 2 is “about ready to go.” [Counter-Strike: Global Offensive](https://www.nme.com/games/counter-strike-global-offensive) is reportedly getting a sequel, with a beta for Counter-Strike 2 tentatively planned for this month.

After years of hope caused by multiple community leaks, the Source 2 engine is reportedly being implemented in Counter-Strike.

[asked about their plans for the future](https://dotesports.com/counter-strike/news/esl-reveals-future-of-csgo-tournaments-following-counter-strike-2-reports). Journalist Richard Lewis reported on his Substack that Valve will launch a beta product called Counter-Strike 2 [at the end of March 2023](https://dotesports.com/counter-strike/news/when-is-csgo-2-release-date), which could redefine the future of the game’s esports scene. It’s unlikely that Valve will force teams to play Counter-Strike 2 instead of CS:GO during the BLAST Paris Major because of the lack of time to learn the game.

Counter-Strike has the most egregious lootboxes and a still-thriving gambling scene, and the next game needs to take better steps to address it.

Adding new cases gives gambling sites more tools to squeeze money out of young and naive people, but even without knowledge of third-party sites, attaching a dollar value to skins explicitly makes these cases gambling more than any other lootbox in the medium. But Valve is a huge megacorp with a stranglehold on the PC market, it doesn’t need a gambling ring to keep itself afloat. Countless stories still surface about people plunging themselves into debt or emptying their parent’s credit cards because of a predatory system that preys on vulnerable people with a roulette game that appears as though it could make you wealthy. I easily found a YouTuber opening cases on a gambling website to his audience of 77,000, continuing to spend money in the hopes of getting a good cosmetic. Valve will inevitably lose a lot of money if it changes the system. That alone is an incentive for people to buy, buy, buy, and spin, spin, spin. [Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s](https://www.thegamer.com/tag/counter-strike-global-offensive/) gambling fiasco hit its boiling point in 2016 when two YouTubers were unearthed to have been behind one of the biggest sites, advertising it on their channels to millions of impressionable young gamers, all without disclosing their involvement. Valve decided to take action against their site and the countless copycats popping up, announcing plans to tackle gambling operations using their game and its market—but seven years later, not much has changed, as one Google search will present a wall of lucrative betting and roulette games. It’s still a problem, and Valve’s crackdown is one big game of whack-a-mole, but the blame lies at its door. Valve has claimed it is trying to combat gambling for years now, ever since that tipping point in 2016, and while there are fewer sites (most of which are built around betting on esports games with cases and skins), CS:GO isn’t helping things by continuing to release new cases. But it’s backed itself into a corner, since upending that entire system would crash a marketplace it’s carefully cultivated and fueled for years. It’s not subtle, and it’s no wonder that an entire gambling network has formed around it.

Counter Strike has been a beloved game among gamers for many years, with its latest iteration, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO), released in 2012.

[Valve](https://www.gizchina.com/tag/Valve), the developer of CS:GO, has yet to comment on the situation. Regardless of what the new version will be called, it seems that Counter-Strike fans will be getting an upgrade soon. They have also confirmed that players’ skins will be available in the new version. The team working on this new version includes members who oversaw the development of previous iterations in the Counter-Strike franchise. [CS:GO](https://www.gizchina.com/2021/03/09/steam-accidentally-removed-41-games-including-cs-go-and-dota-2/) will be made in Source 2 and is said to have improved matchmaking. According to Lewis’s sources, a beta for this new version could launch in March.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is one of the most popular games on Steam, but that hasn't stopped rumors that the game will soon get a massive update that ...

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is usually the [most-played game](https://steamcharts.com/) on Steam, with an all-time peak of 1.3 million players. It's also likely that the move to Source 2 will require higher minimum specs to run well. It will feature an improved match-making system and 128-tick servers, intended to compete with its major rival in the competitive shooter space, Valorant.