This just seems odd to me. I know it’s a competitive game, and most folks will be playing with a mouse and keyboard, but it feels weird for Valve to put out a brand new game (built from scratch, at that) and not plan for this.
CS2 was not built from scratch, it’s a large update to CSGO which simply brings in the source 2 engine plus some really interesting gameplay changes. That said in order to do this they dropped mac support entirely. People woke up from playing the game last night to find they now had a large update that removed the files from their system. I’ve also seen people report a lot of Linux issues but I’m playing it on Linux Minut just fine.
Preface: I am no game developer, but I am a software developer
This comment does not make sense to me. There is no “simply” bringing any game to any other engine. Doing this is a huge undertaking and I can’t imagine not basically starting from scratch, saving the art assets and bits of pieces of the code (given it’s written in the same language).
I am a game developer and can tell you that bringing a game from unreal 4 to unreal 5 is pretty straight forward, you can disable the new features like lumen and get the same result. Some moves are harder. Like unity to godot or unreal is a huge change but source to source 2 doesn’t seem like a huge move. They didn’t rewrite the entire engine for it. That said they did replace and rewrite a lot of things. The gameplay logic is generally still the same code.
I guess that makes sense. Thanks for the insight!
Source 2 is basically the same engine but with better physics and graphics afaik
CS2 was not built from scratch, it’s a large update to CSGO
this confused the absolute shit out of me
It looks like people are having some success, based on the posts at Proton-DB. I think that rating it as Gold is a little too charitable, though. Lots of people having control, audio, and visual issues.
I got it working on my tv, sound works just had to change it from default to HDMI 2 which is where it’s going on my tv.
I’m using the steam controller and it works fine.
When I launched it, it was very slow. But I stuck with it for a bit and it picked up and became smooth enough to play. I don’t know the exact fps but I won a bot match and for me that’s actually pretty good 😂.
I think there might have been a sneaky steamdeck update. I’m playing on stable and cs2 2000142/13948
Playing on high graphics.
I wonder if it was prepping the shaders, hence the initial slowness.
I very much think that’s the case. Will probably happen for every new level. I did have a bit of a hiccup sometimes but I think it’ll be ironed out
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Counter-Strike 2, the highly anticipated upgrade for CS:GO, has finally arrived.
After years of rumors, Valve announced CS2 in March and opened up a limited test.
The updated game is based on Valve’s Source 2 engine, giving the game a much-needed facelift, reworked audio, UI enhancements, and upgraded Community Workshop tools.
There’s even a new “tick-rate-independent gameplay” that Valve describes as a way for servers to “know the exact instant that motion starts, a shot is fired, or a ‘nade is thrown.”
You can download the 27GB CS2 for free from Steam, with its listing directly replacing the more than 10-year-old CS:GO.
All of the items you’ve collected in CS:GO will be available in CS2, while stock weapons will also get an enhanced look thanks to the Source 2 engine.
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