Counter-Strike 2

What's so bad about the latest update?
I've not played in awhile but just checked and they seemed to have introduced the "Armory" along with "charms". Unsure if they are referring to this part of the update or something else

[ THE ARMORY ]
  • The Armory is now available in the store (https://store.steampowered.com/sale/armory)
  • Features 3 new weapon collections, 2 charm collections, 2 sticker collections, the Gallery Case, and the Heat Treated Desert Eagle
  • Purchase and activate an Armory Pass to start earning Armory Credits
  • Make progress toward credits whenever you earn XP with an active Armory Pass
  • Redeem credits for items in the Armory

[ CHARMS ]
  • Introducing Charms: dynamic items you can apply to your favourite weapons. Currently available exclusively in the Armory
  • Drag and drop Charms to precisely place them on the weapon of your choice. A weapon can have one charm attached at a time
  • Use a Charm Detachment to detach the Charm from a weapon. The Charm will return to your inventory and can be reused
  • Redeeming a Charm from the Armory grants three complimentary Charm Detachments. Additional Charm Detachments are available for purchase
Full details below, quite long

[ THE ARMORY ]
  • The Armory is now available in the store (https://store.steampowered.com/sale/armory)
  • Features 3 new weapon collections, 2 charm collections, 2 sticker collections, the Gallery Case, and the Heat Treated Desert Eagle
  • Purchase and activate an Armory Pass to start earning Armory Credits
  • Make progress toward credits whenever you earn XP with an active Armory Pass
  • Redeem credits for items in the Armory

[ CHARMS ]
  • Introducing Charms: dynamic items you can apply to your favorite weapons. Currently available exclusively in the Armory
  • Drag and drop Charms to precisely place them on the weapon of your choice. A weapon can have one charm attached at a time
  • Use a Charm Detachment to detach the Charm from a weapon. The Charm will return to your inventory and can be reused
  • Redeeming a Charm from the Armory grants three complimentary Charm Detachments. Additional Charm Detachments are available for purchase

[ INVENTORY & ITEMS ]
  • All items acquired from the in-game store (including the Armory), Trade Offers, and Steam Community Market are now subject to a 7 day re-trade and re-market restriction
  • All stickers, patches, and charms available on Steam Community Market, in the Armory, or on friends' Steam Inventory web pages can now be previewed on your own inventory items
  • Removed ability to delete weapon cases from your inventory
  • Added sticker scrape level selector when applying new stickers to weapons
  • Added precise sticker wear level selector when scraping existing stickers on inventory weapons. Any applied stickers can only increase their sticker scrape level
  • Added a way to immediately remove existing stickers from inventory weapons in addition to sticker scraping
  • Added nametag module preview on the actual items when applying nametags
  • Fixed several cases where applying nametags or stickers would unequip the weapon from your loadout
  • Customizing a base weapon that's currently equipped will now auto-equip the newly customized version

[ ANIMATION ]
  • Improved character posing when on large slopes
  • Made feet pin and unpin differently for all use cases to help remove aggressively leaned characters (AKA the MJ lean)
  • Pin/unpin IK logic now not affected by poor server ping times
  • Feet IK now repositions to idle pose if the feet have pinned at a largely different pose to that authored
  • Re-authored run, walk, and crouch content to fix wide/scissor leg posing when traversing
  • Changed ladder animations and behavior so characters heads are much more representative of where the player camera is, including characters now display crouch correctly when on ladders
  • Removed popping when crouching or uncrouching while jumped and reduced leaning on jump animations
  • Fixed character's pose popping when falling off a ledge
  • Fix for many cases where character's posing would subtly pop when traversing with slow moving weapons

[ GAMEPLAY ]
  • Flashbangs and HE grenades no longer prematurely detonate when they exceed their 'stuck bounce' limit

[ GRAPHICS ]
  • Added a Display selection dropdown for non-windowed Fullscreen mode to the Video settings screen
  • Fixed graphics artifacts for fire effect in the Advanced Video tab

[ AUDIO ]
  • Fixed a bug where UI sounds wouldn't position correctly when in-game
  • Fixed an issue where step sounds would play for the local player but fail to broadcast to other players and vice-versa
  • Fixed an issue where ragdoll water splash sounds would erroneously play on alive players
  • Fixed a case where voice chat didn't work on community servers
  • Fixed a case where incoming voice chats would sometimes never close

[ NETWORKING ]
  • Added telemetry option to display graphs of network jitter and misdelivery
  • Changed how packet misdelivery is measured. Previously, if packets arrived out of order, this could be counted as misdelivery even if it was corrected and did not impact gameplay. Also, jitter was not considered, even though excessive jitter can disrupt smooth gameplay. The new measurement method will only count reordered packets as misdelivered if they impact gameplay. Furthermore, if network jitter exceeds a threshold where gameplay is affected, the packets are counted as misdelivered even if they are not dropped and arrive in order

[ MAPS ]
  • Ancient
    • Fixed some disappearing geometry
    • Fixed some cases where players could detect player movement through water from across the map
    • Fixed some pixel peeks
    • Fixed a case where player shadows could be seen through geometry
    • Adjusted some clipping for better player movement
  • Anubis
    • Fixed some missing collision
    • Nudged some geometry and clipping that were blocking grenade throws
    • Improved clipping on some floors for more predictable grenade throws
    • Fixed a pixel peek
    • Adjusted clipping in a few areas for better player movement
  • Dust2
    • Fixed some clipping at B site
  • Italy
    • Added to competitive matchmaking
    • Fixed bird animations
  • Mirage
    • Fixed some C4 stuck spots
  • Nuke
    • Fixed a pixel walk
    • Fixed some C4 stuck spots
    • Fixed some gaps in geometry where items could get lost
    • Fixed some disappearing geometry
  • Overpass
    • Adjusted some grenade clipping to prevent bad grenade bounces

[ WORKSHOP ]
  • Added optional 3rd layer to environment blend shader
  • Added biplanar mapping as an option for environment shaders
  • Added optional wetness layer, paintable in Hammer on environment materials with the feature enabled
  • Added color correction, roughness, and normal adjustments to foliage shader and static overlays

[ MISC ]
  • Removed support for command line options that were intended for development purposes only
 
What's so bad about the latest update?

It’s essentially a purely cosmetics update, seems like they’ve done absolutely nothing to address the complaints with game play and hackers that a large chunk of the community has.

Game has been out for a year now and we’re yet to have any of the maps teased in the release trailer like train, or the game modes from CSGO which lots of people enjoyed are still missing.

I hate to be so negative about the game as it seems like I’m just jumping on the bandwagon, but truly have zero desire to play it with how the game is at the moment :(
 
Yeah they literally have only removed overpass for dust 2 in the premier match making in a full year haven't they.

Everyone looking for a new refreshing take on the competitive shooters like CS / Valarant, should try Spectre Divide, if you haven't already. It's all I've been playing since it came out.
 
I dont care if they do cosmetic stuff or not, whatever. If they are going to make a billion dollars a year from this game they owe it to us to actually improve the hard things to fix like hack use. They made some effort but not a billions worth for sure and wheres the maps. My poor arms race, look how they massacred my boy :P
Cache will come back, I feel thats the real update to try. I've been playing bodycam, Ready or Not is good. The Finals if you are bored, see if you like its free. Theres plenty of alternative games tbh, I want to try this latest ms flight sim in Nov

Stick to the ten mans, there is some games that get organized. Way back in the day a good server couldnt be beat, the only problem is the skill difference but I dont mind being beaten by someone actually good though its tough to play.

Try: https://discord.gg/c6pS4s3a
this is a public forum so thats a limited invite but just mention it or msg me and I'll post another. Its not my discord server but they play 10 mans there. I cant barely play properly at the moment, mostly just havent the right setup but I still play office lol
 
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What's so bad about the latest update?
So after the update, if you tried to play casual D2, this would be what would happen:


And if you didnt rush mid with nades and molotov suicide, they would just kick you.

Then they updated again and removed nades from giving you points or whatever, so now people are rushing mid or B tunnels with shotguns or P90s to die as quick as possible, and again if you dont do that exact thing (i.e. if you just want to play the game normally) they would kick you:


If you try deathmatch you will come across similar farming tactics where people are running around with knives trying to stack as many points or whatever as possible to get BS cosmetic skins. These people would literally rather spend hours rushing mid with nades and instantly dieing than actually playing the game, just to max out some BS cosmetic thing.

Valve basically broke the game for casual folk who just want to play a simple casual game after a hard days work.
 
So after the update, if you tried to play casual D2, this would be what would happen:


And if you didnt rush mid with nades and molotov suicide, they would just kick you.

Then they updated again and removed nades from giving you points or whatever, so now people are rushing mid or B tunnels with shotguns or P90s to die as quick as possible, and again if you dont do that exact thing (i.e. if you just want to play the game normally) they would kick you:


If you try deathmatch you will come across similar farming tactics where people are running around with knives trying to stack as many points or whatever as possible to get BS cosmetic skins. These people would literally rather spend hours rushing mid with nades and instantly dieing than actually playing the game, just to max out some BS cosmetic thing.

Valve basically broke the game for casual folk who just want to play a simple casual game after a hard days work.

Ah yeah, I can see how that would be very frustrating. I luckily don't run into these problems as I really only play the premier mode (ranked). Still get the odd toxic people in ranked like but it's no worse then any other game.
 
Something for the OG's, I've been playing this game for over 20 years now... Not so much now, but it's crazy that such a simple concept has worked so well for soo many years...
 
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