Until the digital newspapers stop being filled with news about Microsoft taking over Call of Duty owner ABK and seeing what the regulators decide, on PC it doesn’t concern us, besides, people continue to play the umpteenth version of what was its spiritual predecessor even today. The latest rumor says? CS:GO 2 is reportedly in development and the manner in which we learned of its existence has been most curious.
They have been talking about a Counter Strike update for a long time, think that CS:GO has already turned a decade and PC technology advancements have been great all this time and its obsolete technology, even if it’s not they make a bad game, it needs an update.
CS:GO 2 is mentioned in the latest NVIDIA drivers
Since the appearance of Half-Life: Alyx, a game designed exclusively for virtual reality, we have been biting our nails to see the end of the story of Gordon Freeman, which remained unfinished after Half-Life: Episode Two already appeared in 2007. In other words, more years have passed since then than since the launch of the first to the penultimate game of the saga, if we do not take into account the game starring Alyx Vance.
On the other hand, Counter Strike started as a multiplayer game that Valve released in the late 90s to take on the titans Unreal Tournament and Quake 3, received an update with the release of Half-Life 2 based on the Source engine, then later a new version called Counter Strike: Global Offensive which is still played today. Unsurprisingly, at the time of this writing it is the most played on Steam with 750,000 players in play at the time of this writing.
What we didn’t expect, at this point, is that we would see references to a new Counter Strike, specifically CS:GO 2, and no, Valve didn’t officially announce it. , but the information appeared on the most hidden and unexpected place: the latest NVIDIA driver, especially in its source code.
What do we know so far about this game?
Well, we didn’t know, the only thing we had proof of was the transfer of the original CS:GO that appeared a few years ago from the Source engine to Source 2. Visually, there are no differences between the two versions of the engine and it’s not a visually impressive advancement like the Unreal Engine except when it came out we were still using single core CPUs and yes CS:GO still uses a single core of processor. As for the new engine, it is the one with which Half-Life: Alyx was developed and a conversion of the currently most played title on Steam was announced at the time.
What we don’t expect is a second part in the sense that Valve with CS:GO 2 wouldn’t have taken the opportunity just to update the game to run better on modern PCs, but would have taken the opportunity to create new content that can sell as a second part of your competitive shooter. Which, let’s face it, needs a technical facelift after so long.
