More than a decade after the launch of counter strike global offensiveValve is reportedly preparing to announce a new take on its storied tactical shooter. Also, a beta version could arrive later this month. According to the esports journalist (through ), Valve has been working on a sequel to CS:GO for some time, and that game is “almost ready to go”. He says the studio recently hosted a secret playtest of the first-person shooter that involved a group of professional gamers who flew into Seattle. According to Lewis, Valve tentatively plans to begin beta testing the game with the broader Counter-Strike community no later than April 1. “The big priority is getting this out and then polishing it up, fixing any bugs and bringing it to the level people expect from CS,” one of Lewis’s sources told him.
As for improvements, the new Counter-Strike will reportedly feature improved graphical fidelity thanks to a behind-the-scenes switch to Source 2, the latest version of Valve’s in-house game engine. Also, Lewis says the game will support 128 tick serversa feature that would bring CS in line with and reduce latency. Valve is also said to have significantly improved the matchmaking experience, which should make the community less reliant on third-party services like FACEIT. Valve did not immediately respond to Engadget’s request for comment.
😳🚨With one of the latest drivers from NVIDIA, a new game profile has been added to the NVIDIA control panel called “Counter-strike 2”!
It apparently has 2 executables:
-csgos2.exe
-cs2.exe pic.twitter.com/hWsWOh4YKV— Aquarius (@aquaismissing) March 1, 2023
Rumors suggesting that a new Counter-Strike game is around the corner have been circulating for years, but there are a few reasons to assign more weight to this latest report. For starters, Lewis has a solid track record. In 2015, he wrote a report confirming rumors that one of the top professionals CS:GO teams at that time had . There is also evidence that corroborates his claims. At the beginning of the month, some CS:GO fans evidence found that NVIDIA GPU drivers have included references to “csgo2.exe” and “cs2.exe” since February.
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