This just seems odd to me. I know it’s a competitive game, and most folks will be playing with a mouse and keyboard, but it feels weird for Valve to put out a brand new game (built from scratch, at that) and not plan for this.
CS2 was not built from scratch, it’s a large update to CSGO which simply brings in the source 2 engine plus some really interesting gameplay changes. That said in order to do this they dropped mac support entirely. People woke up from playing the game last night to find they now had a large update that removed the files from their system. I’ve also seen people report a lot of Linux issues but I’m playing it on Linux Minut just fine.
Preface: I am no game developer, but I am a software developer
This comment does not make sense to me. There is no “simply” bringing any game to any other engine. Doing this is a huge undertaking and I can’t imagine not basically starting from scratch, saving the art assets and bits of pieces of the code (given it’s written in the same language).
I am a game developer and can tell you that bringing a game from unreal 4 to unreal 5 is pretty straight forward, you can disable the new features like lumen and get the same result. Some moves are harder. Like unity to godot or unreal is a huge change but source to source 2 doesn’t seem like a huge move. They didn’t rewrite the entire engine for it. That said they did replace and rewrite a lot of things. The gameplay logic is generally still the same code.
CS2 was not built from scratch, it’s a large update to CSGO
this confused the absolute shit out of me
It looks like people are having some success, based on the posts at Proton-DB. I think that rating it as Gold is a little too charitable, though. Lots of people having control, audio, and visual issues.
Has anyone tested this on a Steam Deck yet and can report it’s performance?
It says it’s playable. Just had some small text apparently. I’m trying to install it but steam is being weird telling me I have no Internet connection lol.
So I loaded it up on my steam deck specifically for this comment. I only use the deck in handheld mode so I can’t report much other than the game is entirely broken.
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Inputs are for mouse/keyboard only. Controller support doesn’t seem to be there so I had to navigate the menus via touch screen. No big deal but I got into a practice match with bots.
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Initial realization that the above issue means you can’t move at all. There is no way to play the game.
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Realize there is no sound at all. Sound is broken in the game on Steam Deck (although on my Linux Mint desktop it works fine.)
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Just sitting there watching bots kill me was about 8-30 FPS. It was real hitchy and clearly not able to run on steam deck yet.
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Feeling like I had done my due diligence I uninstalled it.
Overall rating: Garbage. Unplayable, even if you plug in a mouse and keyboard and play without hosting, maybe you could get 30+ FPS stably but no audio is an instant deal breaker in CS2.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Counter-Strike 2, the highly anticipated upgrade for CS:GO, has finally arrived.
After years of rumors, Valve announced CS2 in March and opened up a limited test.
The updated game is based on Valve’s Source 2 engine, giving the game a much-needed facelift, reworked audio, UI enhancements, and upgraded Community Workshop tools.
There’s even a new “tick-rate-independent gameplay” that Valve describes as a way for servers to “know the exact instant that motion starts, a shot is fired, or a ‘nade is thrown.”
You can download the 27GB CS2 for free from Steam, with its listing directly replacing the more than 10-year-old CS:GO.
All of the items you’ve collected in CS:GO will be available in CS2, while stock weapons will also get an enhanced look thanks to the Source 2 engine.
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