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[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago (1 children)

CS2 and Alyx also happened, it's a thing now.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

CS2 is a half-assed sequel meant to be the bare minimum necessary to keep Valve’s cs money printer going.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Completely half-assed. They only:

  • Moved the game to a new engine
  • Rebuilt the codebase from scratch because the previous codebase was 100% spaghetti.
  • Made sure the game feels as close to the CSGO experience as possible. The resident CS nerd Ropz said the movement is 1 to 1 with CSGO which is not a small feat.
  • Rebuilt the server architecture for better online experience
  • Changed how smokes work which has noticeably altered the meta
  • Redoing all the maps
  • Reworked the audio
  • Made sure all the skins can be transferred over and look somewhat decent.
  • Bunch of minor QoL things that they didn't need to do but did anyway

Fucking lazy devs.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And they did it for free

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

what are you talking about CS makes them loads of money in micro transactions

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They could've done nothing and CSGO still would've made them loads of money. They could've put a price tag on CS2 and ask extra money to transfer skins over. They could've easily monetized it but they didn't.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I'd say fuck deadlines or management over lazy devs, sure, there are some, but most of the time it's a deadline thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I like the smokes