Valve’s ‘Counter-Strike 2’ Could Debut This Month With Source 2 Engine: Here’s What We Know

Speculation and rumors in regards to the subsequent iteration of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive have been build up for years, however there have been no updates till now. According to esports journalist Richard Lewis, Valve is lastly making a transfer in direction of the Source 2 engine and will migrate the sport onto it as early as this month.

Despite nonetheless having a major following, it’s laborious to imagine that CS:GO is now over a decade outdated and has handed its peak, making a brand new replace mandatory.

Lewis stories that his sources, talking beneath the situation of anonymity, revealed that “indeed there was a new version of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on its way and that had been worked on for some time.” And, the brand new model of the sport is “almost certainly set to be released under the working title Counter-Strike 2 and the tentative release date for the beta is in this month of March with April 1st at the outside.”

Further, Lewis claims that an unnamed group {of professional} gamers had been secretly flown to Valve’s headquarters in Seattle to get an early take a look at the sport. And, shifting the sport over to the Source 2 engine ought to enhance the optimisation and graphical constancy of the sport.

Lewis’ sources have additionally confirmed that the sport will get new 128 tick servers—shifting away from the 64 tick sort—to enhance the latency and matchmaking expertise.

It stays unsure whether or not any potential adjustments to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive will lead to a model new working title for the sport, comparable to Counter-Strike 2, or if it is going to comply with an identical method to Dota 2 by merely rebranding.

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