Counter-Strike: World Offensive is without doubt one of the hottest video games on Steam, however that hasn’t stopped rumors that the sport will quickly get an enormous replace that can rework it in a single day. In accordance with a brand new report from journalist Richard Lewis, sources have confirmed {that a} hypothetical “Counter-Strike 2” is certainly actual, and the deliberate launch date for the beta is March or early April.
The report means that this new recreation shall be on the Supply 2 engine, quite than the growing older unique Supply engine that powers Counter-Strike: World Offensive. It would characteristic an improved match-making system and 128-tick servers, supposed to compete with its main rival within the aggressive shooter area, Valorant.
It is unclear if the 2 variations of Counter-Strike will coexist, or if Valve plans to drag an Overwatch and change the unique World Offensive totally. It is also possible that the transfer to Supply 2 would require greater minimal specs to run effectively.
Counter-Strike 2 would truly be the fifth Counter-Strike. The unique Counter-Strike was a third-party mod for Valve’s seminal recreation, Half Life. These builders and the rights to the IP have been bought by Valve in 2000, earlier than launching the mod as a standalone title that yr.
4 years later, Turtle Rock Studios would create the unique Counter-Strike 2 with Counter-Strike, Situation Zero, with Valve additionally releasing a remake of the primary recreation later that yr constructed with its, on the time, new Supply engine.
Whereas Counter-Strike all the time had a cult following, it wasn’t till 2012’s World-Offensive that the sequence really took off, with it commonly main Steam’s month-to-month charts by variety of gamers, and being solely second to PUBG: Battlegrounds in variety of concurrents.
One other multiplayer FPS recreation coming quickly to Steam is Arkane’s Redfall, however that isn’t the one retailer entrance the title shall be releasing on. Beginning Might 2, the Redfall may even be out there on the Xbox Retailer, each on console and PC for buy or by way of Sport Go, in addition to the Epic Video games Retailer.
Generally when multiplayer recreation’s have multi platform releases akin to this, like final yr’s Warhammer 40K: Darktide, gamers are segmented by retailer entrance. I personally, regardless of with the ability to play Darktide by way of a PC Sport Go subscription final fall, needed to choose up a replica of the sport by way of Steam simply because my pals are a bunch of crusty tryhards that refuse to do any PC gaming on another platform, which actually made me rethink a few of these friendships.