Counter-Strike 2 is better with follow recoil – here’s why

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While competitive FPS games are everywhere nowadays, few compare to CSGO’s unparalleled attention to realistic gunplay. Shooting in any of the Counter-Strike games is rarely as simple as aiming at the head. Instead, it involves real-life gun mechanics. There’s recoil and bullet spread, and players must carefully learn to control weapon spray. It makes for a superior challenge, but with the Counter-Strike 2 release date inbound, there’s a good reason for the next Valve shooter to introduce follow recoil, and make Counter-Strike 2 a little more accessible for players other than pros.

The trick to managing spread may be the same, but in CSGO, every gun comes with a unique spray pattern. I spent my initial months in CSGO playing on recoil maps; shooting in strict lines and staring at meticulously placed dots to try and judge how best to combat my chosen weapon’s recoil troubles.

Follow recoil existed in CSGO, but was locked behind the ‘sv_cheats’ command after you fed ‘view_recoil_tracking’ into the console. In CS2, however, players can enable follow recoil simply from the settings menu, and it has the potential to be game-changing. Among many new ‘noob-friendly’ features in CS2, follow recoil nabs the top spot by dialing the complexing of shooting down to something more manageable.

What exactly is Follow Recoil?

In Counter-Strike 2, players can enable follow recoil from in-game settings to make their crosshairs follow the bullets. This way, they won’t have to guess when to reset, spray down, and even learn patterns for each weapon. The crosshair will be delivering all visual information in real-time. You can see a demonstration of follow recoil, courtesy of YouTuber Ross Courtright, in the video below:

With follow recoil,