Counter-Strike Online 2: Release date still 2023

On 23 March 2023, Valve announced Counter-Strike 2 for summer 2023. A concrete release date has not yet been named, but a testing phase will begin soon.

Counter-Strike Online 2: Release date still 2023

On 23 March 2023, Valve announced Counter-Strike 2 for summer 2023. A concrete release date has not yet been named, but a test phase will begin soon. Valve has now confirmed this in an official press release.

• The fourth Counter-Strike part is officially called Counter-Strike 2, but is primarily a technical upgrade of the regular CS:GO.

• All achievements, skins and co. will be kept and transferred to the new game for free.

Counter Strike 2 Online: What’s New

Counter-Strike attempts to improve the successful gameplay of Counter-Strike visually and technically at the same time:

• A new engine gives the tried and tested game principle of Counterstrike a fresh new look.

• New dynamic smokes: With the new game engine of Counter-Strike 2, Valve has further developed and dynamised the smokes. Smoke grenades now create volumetric 3D objects. Now not only do all players see the same smoke regardless of their position, but the smoke can also interact with the environment. It reacts to lighting, grows and fills spaces naturally. The shape of the smoke cloud can be shifted and cut by bullets and grenades.

• Map are revised: There are three approaches to improve the maps.

• First, there are the Touchstone Maps, the classic maps with solid fundamentals that have only been improved in terms of exposure and character rendering. Second, there are the upgrade maps. These are maps that use the new Source 2 lighting, including a physics-based rendering system that creates realistic materials, lighting and reflections. And finally, overhauls. The oldest maps have been completely overhauled, rebuilt from the ground up with all the tools and rendering features of Source 2.

• New Sub-Tick Updates: In Counterstrike, milliseconds between a click and a tick can make the difference between a hit and a miss. For this reason, sub-tick updates have been introduced in Counter-Strike 2. Now the tick rate no longer plays a role when moving and shooting, so the server knows exactly when you have shot, jumped or peeked.