Community and esports reaction to Counter-Strike 2: 'Quit Valorant, it's done, it's f***ing over'

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Following weeks of teasing, Valve today announced Counter-Strike 2(opens in new tab), the next step for perhaps the greatest and most popular competitive FPS in history. Counter-Strike players are their own breed, both deeply in love with the game and always grousing about its problems, and one thing Counter-Strike 2 did right off the bat is address longstanding complaints and get those fans excited. The reaction is almost universally positive, though naturally, bear in mind very few people have played the game itself at this point.

I could just reproduce dozens of different variants on all-caps «let's goooooooo» and various internet goblins talking about what Counter-Strike 2 does to their sexual organs, but beyond the anticipation there's some deeper appreciation for what Valve is trying to do here and how it's approached updating the game: I mean, it looks like my dream Counter-Strike(opens in new tab). 

Just look at those smokes… they're so beautiful. «Counter Strike 2 has some seriously impressive gameplay driven GPU usage,» says Digital Foundry's Alexander Battaglia(opens in new tab). «This reminds me of the cool ambition in graphics we saw back in '05-11. Movable and deformable volumetrics.» Volumetric af!

Everyone loves the smokes. «These new smokes completely change everything,» writes SixFU(opens in new tab). «Like fighting around a smoke is now a whole ass chess match itself.» Sauce Science Guy(opens in new tab) sees through the whole thing though. «There is no smoke if my team has p90s taps head»

«They better add the liquid in bottles tech next,» says Karsvolcanospace(opens in new tab). «Check the website, that's in too,» says the helpful RaptorDotCCP. Karsvolcanospace is happy: «This truly is an upgrade