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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is likely one of the hottest video games on Steam, however that hasn’t stopped rumors that the sport will quickly get a large replace that may rework it in a single day. According to a brand new report from journalist Richard Lewis, sources have confirmed {that a} hypothetical “Counter-Strike 2” is certainly actual, and the deliberate launch date for the beta is March or early April.
The report means that this new recreation might be on the Source 2 engine, reasonably than the getting old authentic Source engine that powers Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. It will characteristic an improved match-making system and 128-tick servers, meant to compete with its main rival within the aggressive shooter house, Valorant.
It’s unclear if the 2 variations of Counter-Strike will coexist, or if Valve plans to drag an Overwatch and change the unique Global Offensive completely. It’s additionally possible that the transfer to Source 2 would require greater minimal specs to run effectively.
Counter-Strike 2 would truly be the fifth Counter-Strike. The authentic Counter-Strike was a 3rd-celebration mod for Valve’s seminal recreation, Half Life. Those builders and the rights to the IP have been bought by Valve in 2000, earlier than launching the mod as a standalone title that 12 months.
4 years later, Turtle Rock Studios would create the unique Counter-Strike 2 with Counter-Strike, Condition Zero, with Valve additionally releasing a remake of the primary recreation later that 12 months constructed with its, on the time, new Source engine.
While Counter-Strike all the time had a cult following, it wasn’t till 2012’s Global-Offensive that the sequence actually took off, with it frequently main Steam’s month-to-month charts by variety of gamers, and being solely second to PUBG: Battlegrounds in variety of concurrents.
Another multiplayer FPS recreation coming quickly to Steam is Arkane’s Redfall, however that isn’t the one retailer entrance the title might be releasing on. Starting May 2, the Redfall will even be obtainable on the Xbox Store, each on console and PC for buy or by way of Game Pass, in addition to the Epic Games Store.
Sometimes when multiplayer recreation’s have multi platform releases equivalent to this, like final 12 months’s Warhammer 40K: Darktide, gamers are segmented by retailer entrance. I actually, regardless of having the ability to play Darktide by way of a PC Game Pass subscription final fall, needed to choose up a duplicate of the sport by way of Steam simply because my mates are a gaggle of crusty tryhards that refuse to do any PC gaming on another platform, which actually made me rethink a few of these friendships.
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