“Biggest CS:GO leak on Source 2”: Latest Dota 2 patch all but confirms the long-awaited port

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Recent discussions about CS:GO have centered on the release of its long-awaited port to Source 2 and speculation about the development of a sequel to the decade-old FPS title. The latest Dota 2 patch that saw the debut of a new hero has added fuel to rumors about the Source 2 port.

Source 2 is Valve's video game engine that plays successor to the original Source engine, with Dota 2 being the first title to be ported from the latter to the former. Titles like Robot Repair, Artifact, Dota Underlords, Half-Life: Alyx, and Aperture Desk also use the same engine.

The long-awaited port of CS:GO from Source to Source 2 has been the topic of discussion for years now. The recent conversations about the port began when new game profiles were found in the February Nvidia update. Additionally, information about the port was also spotted in Dota 2's 7.32e update.

According to recent Twitter posts from @gabefollower, who has been consistently covering discussions about the FPS title, the latest Dota 2 update contains a wealth of information about the upcoming Source 2 port. The user shared a number of screenshots with the word 'CSGO' highlighted in various lines that contained other phrases like 'parity maps,' 'personal,' 'zoo,' 'materials,' 'spray kit,' and 'models.'

@gabefollower also posted on March 2 that NVIDIA drivers contained unknown app executables for "csgos2.exe" and "cs2.exe" which expectedly got the community excited. @aquaismissing later claimed on Twitter that while the Source 2 port was actually happening, "cs2.exe" was an old and irrelevant file.

In their developer community forum, Valve describes the Source 2 engine as follows:

Given that CS:GO has been around for over a decade, fans have been expressing their discontent