
And your skins are fine, they will be available in new version." They also say that this new version "won't be new game, it won't be Counter-Strike 2, it won't be even a rebrand, just CS:GO Source 2. I can't confirm this 100%, but it's decent enough to share." Gabe Follower 2 also says that they have "fairly reliable information that Valve has been testing CS:GO on Source 2 with the help of third-party QA companies in the US and EU since at least early December.
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Eventually, the two versions merged into one.Īnother piece of evidence that may hint towards this rumor being true comes by the way of Gabe Follower 2, who noted that the latest NVIDIA drivers "introduced support for unknown app executables called 'csgos2.exe' and 'cs2.exe.'"

As Lewis mentions, Dota 2 moved to Source 2 with a new version called Dota 2 Reborn and it lived alongside the original. Matchmaking will also be improved in this new version and Valve appears to be hoping that third-party services won't be necessary to put players together in a more efficient way.Īccording to the sources, Counter-Strike 2 is "about ready to go," but it is said to be unclear what this new version would mean for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and its competitive scene. This project is said to have a working title of Counter-Strike 2 and to have been in development "for some time." Lewis mentions that Counter-Strike 2 has been a priority for Valve and is one of the reasons why the current version of CS:GO has been "largely unattended to for some time."Īccording to these sources, Counter-Strike 2 will run on the Source 2 engine and that move "should improve the optimisation and graphical fidelity of the game." It is also said to have, much like Valorant, 128-tick servers, which is a number that describes how fast a game's server can process information.
