Valve is on the verge of releasing a major update for counter strike global offensiveaccording a report by esports journalist Richard Lewis (through Forbes). Sources close to the situation tell Lewis that Valve could finally release a remake of the game on the company’s Source 2 engine as soon as this month.
Lewis, who has broken big CS:GO stories in the past, he says he was told that Valve has already recruited a group of professionals CS:GO players to test the updated game at the company’s headquarters in Seattle. Porting the game to the Source 2 engine, which is used by some of Valve’s other games, such as dota 2 and Half Life: Alyxcould allow for better performance and graphics.
That’s apparently not the only update Valve has been working on. Lewis adds that the “new” CS:GO could come with an improved matchmaking system that is more like 3rd party platforms where players can find and join CS:GO matches, such as FACEIT or ESEA. Valve is also expected to increase the verification rate of the servers used by the game from 64 to 128, which could reduce latency during online matches.
It’s hard to believe that more than 10 years after the release of CS:GO (and over 20 since the original title’s release) that Valve would drop a huge update on us with little to no fanfare. But this is not the only evidence of a possible update. Last week, you/GIVE on Reddit discovered a suspicious pair of executable files, named “csgos2.exe” and “cs2.exe”, included in recent drivers released by Nvidia.
While it may seem like Valve is releasing an entirely new game, Twitter users @gabefollower and @aquaismissing explain that this could simply indicate that Valve is moving the game to the Source 2 engine and that the developers may have been a a little loose with the file name. Hopefully we don’t have to wait much longer to see what’s called counter attack 2 However, it comes down to, as Lewis puts it, the game being “almost ready to go.”
