I can’t fathom who could be interested in it outside of peer pressure or nostalgia.
I could barely finish one full round. Haven’t touched CS in years but did enjoy 1.5 and 1.6 quite a bit back in the day.
Just move on.
I picked up CS about 5 years ago and it's... still a great game?
fast twitch team shooter where solid teamplay and good shots win.
Valorant is too... gimmicky. I don't want magic, I want straight forward tactics.
4/5 of my last solo queue lobbies were solid -- people communicating and playing decently well together. Can't ask for more.
For deep gaming with competitive elements nothing can touch Escape from Tarkov for me.
It’s just that not having ADS into iron sights or vaulting in 2023 game feels archaic. The movement is incredibly clunky; I suppose to preserve that 2000 feel.
Sure Valve didn’t want to break the expectations, and lose a skin-selling cash cow. I was just hoping it would be more than a VERY subtle facelift and more of a very incremental update than a 2.0
The marketing was simple - they replaced CS:GO with the new version. It’s like Twitter changing to X.com without marketing the new brand
And thank god. Nobody was asking for thi.s
> The movement is incredibly clunky
Clunky to some is incredibly layered to others. Simple, yet oh so difficult to master, but crisp to input (well... there's some nonsense with the subtick system currently making it less crisp than players want, but that can be overcome). CS has multiple movement based subcommunities for a reason.
(from your original comment) > Just move on.
Because you enjoy the mechanics of other competitive shooter titles, doesn't mean that everyone does. You seem to think that if everyone played Apex, Warzone or Tarkov they'd suddenly enjoy it, and presumably their PC or some other factor limits them. Newsflash: plenty have played the others and come back to CS.
It's akin to telling a rugby player: hey, why are you still playing rugby? American Football is so much better. Rugby is an archaic game from the 1900s.