What’s new in Counter-Strike 2 and How to play it?

For a long time, Counter-Strike Global Offensive players had been waiting for the next-generation game, Counter-Strike 2. A few months ago, Valve released the newest game to limited players. Finally, the company brings the successor to the popular CS: GO game for PCs to everyone. Also, the CS: GO is not available anymore, unfortunately. Here are the details about the new features and how to play Counter-Strike 2…

Counter-Strike 2 comes with a lot of new improvements

Since the first trailer of the new game, we knew that the game would change several things we used to. Now, we can see that Valve brings a lot of new changes, including smokes, lightning system, and more. Especially, the company has focused on the visual effects and audio.

According to the official announcements, the new game comes with all-new CS Ratings with the updated Premier Mode, new leaderboards, Upgraded and overhauled maps, dynamic smoke grenades, and more. The brand says that the CS: GO achievements won’t be available in the new game, but all items will be moved forwarded to Counter-Strike 2.

Counter-Strike 2 System Requirements (Minimum)

• CPU: Core i5-2400 / Ryzen 3 2200
• RAM: 8 GB
• VIDEO CARD: 2 GB GeForce GTX 950 / Radeon R7 265
• DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 2048 MB
• PIXEL SHADER: 5.1
• VERTEX SHADER: 5.1
• OS: Windows 10 64-bit

What’s new in Counter-Strike 2

• Gameplay: Smoke now has the ability to interact with other gameplay events, creating new opportunities. Bullets and HE grenades can push smoke to briefly clear sight lines or expand occlusion.
• Reacts to Lighting: In Counter-Strike 2 smoke particles work with the unified lighting system allowing for more realistic light and color.
• Full Overhaul Maps: The overhauled maps have been fully rebuilt from the ground up, leveraging all of the new Source 2 tools and rendering features.
• Upgrade Maps: These are maps that use new Source 2 lighting, including a physically based rendering system that produces realistic materials, lighting, and reflections.
• Touchstone Maps: Classic maps with solid foundations that players can use to evaluate gameplay changes from CS:GO to Counter-Strike 2. These have improvements to lighting and character read, but otherwise haven’t been changed.
• Source 2 Tools: The Source 2 tools and rendering features will be available for community mapmakers to make it easier to build, experiment and iterate. And stay tuned for the Source 2 Item Workshop, which will be available later on in the limited test.

If you would like to play the new game, you can download it by going to Steam, and you can click here.