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Friday Fun Thread for March 24, 2023

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Counter Strike 2 got announced. I probably wont be dropping in 3000 (yes I achieved Global Elite, but at the cost of everything) hours like I did in Csgo or 2000 in cs 1.6, but I see myself playing it once in a while nonetheless once its out, some very exciting new updates.

The game just refuses to die, dare I say the best FPS of all time. No other game comes close to winning feeling as good and losing sucking as bad (and killing being as satisfying and dying being as enraging).

Its color tone and movement have more of that weird and slightly dystopian CSS vibe. I hope they re-prioritize private servers, there was no better community than those for FPS games

The maps are low contrast and high saturation relative to GO, which Im not a fan of, I hope that will be adjustable.

As for community servers, valve is usually pretty hands off, I dont expect them to do anything outrageous.

weird and slightly dystopian CSS vibe

Is that specific to CS:S, or just the Source Engine? Granted, I guess ever since CS:GO, Valve's made their games feel less...empty? Maybe it's just all the little details that could be afforded even in late-2010's CS:GO, but maps in GO don't have the same "off" vibe as older Source stuff.

I guess they didn't admit CSGO was the real CS2 to avoid announcing a game numbered "3".

Were it not buried under a pile of technical debt and a lack of interest from Valve, we could be seeing "Team Fortress 2: 2"

The next CS will be CS:Alyx

I am excluded from the beta, sadly.

The requirements about getting a beta invite are quite vague, if you have some playtime recently, there is a chance.

I have 9.3 hours in the past two weeks. Even though that's probably low I've been a really consistent player for 10 years.