r/GlobalOffensive • u/Mr_Deeptalk • Mar 07 '26
Discussion People overhype CS:GO now
To be honest CS2 is in a state where its far superior than CS:GO Gameplay whise. Sure CS:GO had more content but that doesnt mean CS:GO is the better game.
Valve "released" CS:GO now because they are confident that CS2 is just the better game. Do you honestly think they would if it wasnt the case?
People overreact and hype a dead game for nothing because of nostalgia reasons.
be reasonable and act rationally please.
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u/olat_dragneel de_overpass Mar 07 '26
I like how you say "tbh" and continue to state opinion as fact. I played CSGo for the last couple of days and I can't go back to CS2. Except for the graphics and smokes, it just feels like a huge downgrade. Sorry, I meant: "tbh, CSGO is just plain better then CS2".
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u/NoInfluence6844 Mar 08 '26
Then keep playing CSGO, people are just tired of the endless nostalgia spam. No one's stopping you and no one cares
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u/Comfortable_Dirt4599 Mar 08 '26
I care more about his opinion than yours.
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u/Opening_Abrocoma9609 Mar 08 '26
Yet no one cares about yours
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u/olat_dragneel de_overpass Mar 08 '26
Nothing to do with nostalgia. Keep playing CS2 and be happy being part of the reason why the game's sorry state is acceptable.
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u/Mjolnoggy Mar 07 '26
>Do you honestly think they would if it wasnt the case?
Yes. They literally did so with both Source and CS:GO.
That being said, CS:GO has better feeling gunplay and movement, which is what the game is all about, and it feels better at mid to high ping compared to CS2.
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u/vivalatoucan Mar 07 '26
Idk if they’ve done anything, but the ping disparities are starting to feel slightly better. It’s still worse than GO, but 60 is starting to feel like less of a significant disadvantage. I used to play on 100 sometimes in GO. I can’t imagine cs2 being playable at a high rank
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u/schoki560 Mar 07 '26
yea when I used to play DM on Moscow servers the delay was so bad..
nowadays I sometimes forget that I'm on 50 ping and not my usual 18
sure sometimes u notice it but sometimes it feels really good
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u/vivalatoucan Mar 07 '26
It feels good (maybe better than low ping?) when swinging but definitely worse than low ping when getting swung. It exacerbates the accepted fact that you can’t hold static angles in cs2
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u/brutaldonahowdy Mar 07 '26
yeah, i’ve felt this since cs2’s release. i’m now on a 7800x3d which gives me pretty good fps on cs2 (i’ve not benched it), but cs:go still feels better to shoot on
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u/TheQuietLavender Natus Vincere Mar 07 '26
I also find CSGO to be more visually appealing. And sure CS2 is probably better for competitions, but I find it looks overly bright, lacks contrast and the textures are to smooth for my liking (especially metals looked less pristine in CSGO, just look at the AK).
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u/ZephGG_ Mar 07 '26
You can set brightness to 73% and it will look a lot closer to CS:GO, and if you have shadow boost on your monitor it doesn’t really make it harder to spot enemies either
The only problem after doing that is that certain textures are way too bright like the stone textures on ancient or the walls/stone on Inferno, miss the CS:GO versions of these textures for sure
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u/Rares_Mihai Mar 07 '26
Honestly the BIG pros that CSGO had were DangerZone and community servers. Gameplay wise I like premiere more than i did competitive, i like how the game loads much faster where i dont have to wait 5 minutes for every game and even when it crashes, i can start it again rly fast, but I miss DangerZone a lot and KZ or surf is still attrociously bad compared to GO
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u/Lionheart_513 Mar 08 '26
I see lots of reminiscing about how cool DZ was.
At the end of CSGO I was GE in wingman and MM. I wanted to get howling alpha in DZ to complete the trifecta and I could never find a game.
If it was this great thing that everybody loved, then why was I waiting 25 minutes to find a game? We have to stop with the revisionism. Maybe it was good, maybe it was bad, either way nobody was playing.
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u/Rares_Mihai Mar 08 '26
I was literally explaining my personal view, what revisionism do you mean?. I had periods of time where i didn't even play mm, just non stop DZ. I probably have 1k hours in DZ. Regarding 25 minutes waiting queue, I've never experienced this
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u/WaveBr8 Cloud9 Mar 07 '26
Only thing I've liked a lot more from playing it recently is how much less floaty it feels + kill feed back. That's it honestly
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u/enfu3go Mar 07 '26
My bullets actually go where i shoot. Its just so much more responsive. And my ak doesnt double fire. In cs2 it will double click my ak and its so annoying.
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u/Old-Savings-5841 Team Spirit Mar 07 '26
Is that cs2 retardation? Always thought it was typical logitech double click
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u/BrainCelll Mar 10 '26
Yeah i cant fast tap too cause it randomly goes into burst. I think its because of subtick system. I was told its my mouse but i dont have this problem in NONE other games
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u/SayYouWill12345 Team Spirit Mar 07 '26
Bro I actually cannot believe you are complaining about cs2 bullets not going where you are aiming
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u/enfu3go Mar 07 '26
Its rng to an extent its not consistent at all
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u/MustaKookos Mar 08 '26
How is it RNG exactly? If you're talking about bullet spread, that exists in GO too?
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u/deino1703 10 years coin Mar 07 '26
the shooting in csgo is still significantly better. performance is also a huge advantage to csgo. you must be very inexperienced to not be able to notice the difference.
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u/Past_Perception8052 BIG Mar 07 '26
i’d wager at least 50% of people on here played less than 1k hours of csgo
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u/gab0rik de_train Mar 08 '26
10k hours here, u/deino1703 is 100% right. Most obvious example to me is the AK spray... was so much better in CS:GO. And the Quality of Life is severly lower due to performance of cs2
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u/Puiucs Mar 08 '26
i have almost 2k just in cs2 alone. you cannot fathom just how many hours i have in cs:go and cs1.6. been playing since 2000.
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u/SayYouWill12345 Team Spirit Mar 07 '26
I have 8k hours in csgo and 5k in cs2
I prefer almost everything about cs2 including the shooting, with the one exception being the hs response time, but considering cs2 is more accurate as a result, I don’t even mind the tradeoff. Kz movement is also better in csgo but that has minimal influence on my competitive matches
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u/Deuce519 Mar 10 '26
Cs2 will be the better game in a couple years lmao most of these idiots in here weren't around for the switch over to csgo... People HATED global offensive for so long lmao now those same people are glazing an old dead game and hating on cs2 lmao when i new version drops in the future, everyone will say cs2 is better than the new one lol its a vicious cycle that wont stop
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u/fisherrr Mar 07 '26
You must be bad to not be able to adjust to anything new
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u/TheFlash1294 Parivision Mar 07 '26
You can adjust to something new and still think that something old was better. It's not an either-or situation.
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u/fisherrr Mar 07 '26
It was just a comment on their idiotic ”iF yOu DiSaGReE yOu mUsT bE nOoB” type of message
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u/nefariousBUBBLE Complexity Mar 07 '26
100p that's my line of thinking. The games are what they are. People play whichever one has the better competitive scene because that's the most important piece as long as the game is playable, and it is. While I preferred CSGO movement, really the only issue I have with CS2 is the damn servers. Subtick is ass and I wish they'd ditch it or actually fix it. But overall, I do think it made some critical improvements like eliminating one-ways, improving the smokes in general, making HEs wirth more to buy, graphics, which make it easier to fucking see. CSGO was so dark it was difficult to see people at times.
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u/deino1703 10 years coin Mar 07 '26
i have over 2000 hours in both csgo and cs2. i am actually much better at the game in cs2 than i was in csgo, but i can still recognize the difference.
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u/Puiucs Mar 07 '26
"the shooting in csgo is still significantly better" - no it isn't.
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u/enfu3go Mar 07 '26
Its a night and day difference. Bullets go where you shoot. Its more responsive between movement and shooting.
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u/Puiucs Mar 08 '26
"night and day" and i a blind test you would never be able to figure it out. it's all just nostalgia.
or maybe your PC isn't too strong so you need the extra FPS from cs:go to make it feel smoother.
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u/enfu3go Mar 08 '26
I have a pretty decent pc, 5700x3d and a 5070ti. Its pretty noticeable switching between games how movement and shooting feels.
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u/Exact_Package_7264 Mar 07 '26
found the level 2
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u/Past_Perception8052 BIG Mar 07 '26
he’s actually level 4 bro. did some digging and found his faceit
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u/DowntownWay7012 Mar 11 '26
I think people tested the same movement of the mouse and recoil pattern and it was 99% or even 100% identical between GO and CS2. Literally the same bullets in the same pattern at the same time with the same input.
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u/florianw0w Astralis Mar 07 '26
shooting, movement, performance and fps are better in csgo than CS2.
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u/chrisgcc Mar 07 '26
Shooting is better in cs2. I'm not sure why anyone thinks otherwise. Movement is still better in csgo, and obviously performance is better. It's a 25 year old engine. I would hope it's better.
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u/ZehDaMangah Mar 07 '26
For years I've read complains about getting "CS:GO'd". People are blinded by nostalgia and bad memory thinking the game was perfect.
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u/Past_Perception8052 BIG Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 07 '26
nobody was getting csgod by the end of csgos life, it was fine
now you get “cs2d” every game and it’s like what’s even the point
the csgod meme was like 10 years ago
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u/Puiucs Mar 07 '26
"nobody was getting csgod by the end of csgos life" - and here we go. proof of blind nostalgia. proof that people forget so easily everything.
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u/Past_Perception8052 BIG Mar 07 '26
you are genuinely insane if you think you were getting csgod in 2023 at anywhere near the same frequency as you get cs2d now
i remember clips of being csgod blowing up with thousands and thousands of views. now it just happens every game and you have to accept it
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u/copinglemon The MongolZ Mar 07 '26
Every game? Are you sure you're playing CS2? I've played like 100 games on premier in the current season and can think of maybe one instance where something odd happened. Have you tried taking a break from the game?
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u/chrisgcc Mar 08 '26
It was way worse in csgo than it is in cs2. I don't get where you're coming from. Genuinely rose tinted glasses. Cheating was also much worse in csgo.
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u/Puiucs Mar 08 '26
here you are, even in this place full of hatred, you still lost the argument because people do not forget just how bad cs:go was. stop being nostalgic for no freaking reason.
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u/Jaded-Web-4604 Mar 07 '26
Getting csgo'd was more of a meme in the late csgo days when pros missed BECAUSE they slightly moved or did an over adjustment literally csgo'd was only a joke.
CS2'd is when you shoot someone point blank still and crouched with awp and the bullet goes through him. Also dying behind walls every game.
Like do you even know what shoulder peeking is? You probably dont' because you are a cs2 noob but that used to be a thing where you slightly peek in around the corner to get information because you didn't use to die behind walls.
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u/Ok_Reception_8729 Team Spirit Mar 07 '26
u die behind a wall because your internet is shit or you're playing on servers too far away - either way you would've died according to the server
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u/Past_Perception8052 BIG Mar 07 '26
playing on 70ping turkish community servers csgo is genuinely better feeling than 15 ping france or uk server on faceit
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u/vivalatoucan Mar 07 '26
The shit Internet that you’re describing is one coast of the US to a server in the middle or equal distance of another region. A lot of people live that far from the people that they play with. That said, for other games it can be far worse. I just don’t know how they did it so much better in GO
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u/Jaded-Web-4604 Mar 07 '26
I have fiber optic 500mbs connection with around 10-30ping depending on the server but hey I guess I gotta upgrade cuz im playing on shit internet
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u/wafflepiezz 10 years coin Mar 07 '26
I prefer CS2 but you’re delusional if you don’t see how much more responsive CSGO is.
Like I play with 80 ping in CSGO and yet I feel very little delay in the shooting on the 128-tick servers. And my spray actually feels way more consistent as well. Also, you can hold an angle in CSGO and not get driveby-peeker’s advantage.
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u/Mrgbiss Vitality Mar 07 '26
This discussion is somewhat pointless imo. CSGO is dead and after a short hype period will go back to being as dead as source and 1.6.
CS:GO has better gunplay and movement right now but it’s also just very aged and ugly. And CS:GO took a decade to get that good. CS2 will be much better eventually
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u/Exact_Package_7264 Mar 07 '26
CS2 will be much better eventually
I remember people saying this at the launch of cs2, saying "in a year or 2 cs2's gunplay and movement will be superior to csgo"
we're approaching 3 years now.
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u/CriticalCreativity Liquid Mar 07 '26
It has been 3 years, and the game is much better than it was on launch. CSGO was no bed of roses in 2015
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u/Exact_Package_7264 Mar 07 '26
and cs2 still has inferior gunplay and movement than csgo, so not sure what your point is.
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u/PawahD Mar 07 '26
I'm not so sure, wasn't it 2015 when they fixed hitboxes and animation sync with it?
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u/Vizvezdenec Vitality Mar 07 '26
In 2015 people were whining that csgo is bad and has no patches and valve gave up on the game.
2015 was 3 years after csgo release.
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u/Mr_addicT911 Mar 07 '26
Interesting, if only they had an almost 1:1 games whole existence as experience to design the new one around, instead of needing another 10 years.
I also find it hilarious, when cs2 launched people were giving feedback and some people were saying "the game just launched be patient csgo wasnt perfect at launch" and now the same people are saying "still complaining? its been 3 years"
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u/SayYouWill12345 Team Spirit Mar 07 '26
The state of cs2 3 years after its launch is ABSURDLY superior to csgo 3 years after its launch
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u/PawahD Mar 07 '26
Is it? 3 years passed and frametimes are still inconsistent as hell, 1% and 0.1% lows are still horrendous, gunplay and animations are still not fixed, movement is getting there. In 2015 they already fixed hitboxes and animation sync, so the core gameplay (gunplay and movement) was already nearly the same as it was at the end of csgo, no? Or maybe the animations were only fixed in 2016-17, but still, the bar is in hell if this is the benchmark for what's acceptable
The whole "x was also bad in the first y years too" is just a bad argument, devs are supposed to learn from their mistakes and improve. Having a cycle of introducing a new title every 10 years and the game only being good after several years each time is fucking awful
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u/SayYouWill12345 Team Spirit Mar 07 '26
Gunplay and animations are better than even peak csgo in many respects - just not all yet. FPS is an ok argument… I don’t really notice it because I have a 7600x3d and did some optimizations (230 p1). Even then, nobody is going to care about the performance in like 5 years anyway.
How can they learn from their mistakes when they are using entirely new systems with a completely new set of challenges?
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u/PawahD Mar 08 '26
In which respects is the gunplay better in cs2? Also fps won't be okay in 5 years on their own with just bruteforcing better pefromance with better hardware, the issue is 1% and 0.1% lows relative to avg fps aka lag spikes. That won't improve unless the devs fix optimization. I can also safely assume that your 0.1% lows are already undesirable even with a strong cpu with vcache
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u/Mr_addicT911 Mar 07 '26
There is no reason for it to not already be at the level csgo was at its prime, hot take it should have taken MAX 1 year to get there and we still arent close
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u/SayYouWill12345 Team Spirit Mar 07 '26
It seems like you think that cs2 is just an update for csgo. You realize it literally fully reworks everything about how the game functions from the ground up? It only matches csgo at a surface level, but the technological challenges are completely unique to cs2.
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u/Mr_addicT911 Mar 07 '26
You are right, the multi billion dollar companyt, one of the most profitable per employee count in the world shouldnt be expected to nail stuff they already have 20+ years on before releasing a new game to a franchise, give them 3 years maybe 10?
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u/SayYouWill12345 Team Spirit Mar 07 '26
Now you are acting like csgo is perfect. It is very much not, including on the networking and responsiveness front. It seems like you forgot people complaining constantly about it before cs2 existed.
Again, cs2 uses completely new technology that has never been pushed in the way that valve is pushing it, and they are trying to make the game objectively superior to csgo in every way, which would have been IMPOSSIBLE with source 1 and csgo’s networking. They have already succeeded in many things (cs2 is objectively more accurate than csgo), and are still doing more.
If they wanted to just make another game with all of csgo’s fucked issues, they would have kept everything the same, but valves employees are and always have been more ambitious than that.
Anyways we still have 1.6 players trying to convince us that it was the best version of the game, so csgo player’s opinions on how the game “feels” doesn’t really matter to me.
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u/Mr_addicT911 Mar 07 '26
So now its not that they couldnt make it a game on the stantards like csgo, its that csgo wasnt even good either? Brother csgo had its issues but nothing like cs2 and comparing the two isnt good faith. Have a good day
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u/Codacc69420 Mar 07 '26
People were saying this up until cs2 released, constant complains about hitreg and begging for source 2
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u/Exact_Package_7264 Mar 07 '26
if only they were basing cs2 on a previous game, the transition could've been so much easier... oh wait
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u/czeja Mar 07 '26
"As dead as" because that's the path the developer wants us to take, and, rightly so because it's where their resources are being channeled.
Otherwise we'd all be here playing 1.6
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u/SeventhIce Mar 07 '26
If 20k players is dead I don't wanna know what 4 digits looks like
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u/Mrgbiss Vitality Mar 07 '26
I doubt it’ll have that many in a month or two
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u/Mrgbiss Vitality Mar 07 '26
Good for you but I don’t think a significant part of the community have any interest in switching to an insupported game that’s disconnected from the e-sport etc
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u/Possible-Address8714 Mar 08 '26
Of it will be. Valve stole the csgo playerbase by putting cs2 under its IP and replacing it. then they took the support away from csgo. They are only now bringing it back. If cs2 was originally a separate release with csgo retaining its support. Csgo would be beating it by a mile
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u/Jaded-Web-4604 Mar 07 '26
cs2 wont be much better eventually you are just coping. Can't you see they have almost completely given up on the game? They aren't even trying to fix it. Last "real" update to gameplay was like what 8 months ago?
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u/Vizvezdenec Vitality Mar 07 '26
LUL.
Have heard exactly the same thing about csgo somewhere in 2015. That there are literally no patches, last one was 8 months ago, a lot of bugs, gibe me back my 1,6/source.4
u/Mrgbiss Vitality Mar 07 '26
CSGO was horrific at release. It took a long time get really good. But yes I wish they updated cs2 more. Especially with more content now that they supposedly don’t have to navigate ”old spaghetti code”.
But CS2 also already has a ton up upside
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u/Nyx793 Mar 07 '26
Movement and spraying i still feel better in csgo. I see too much rng and jumping shots in cs2 they should lower the accuracy of jumping shots and rng for ar.
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u/they_call_me_justin guardian Mar 07 '26
Its actually hilarious how hostile this community behaves towards someone who prefers cs2 over csgo.
I enjoy both games lol.
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u/throwaway77993344 2 Million Celebration Mar 07 '26
I played 1h of CSGO dm followed by 30mins of CS2 dm. CSGO feels way worse. The movement is maybe better but that's it
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u/Scatterer26 Vitality Mar 07 '26
People gonna downvote me to hell for this.
In CS2 if I click on the head its 97% headshot.
In CSGO if I clicked on the head it was 80% times a headshot.
I am not lying my headshot percent went up by like 10% after CS2 released immediately not me doing anything new.
I don't know about the spray. My spray wasn't good in csgo or cs2. But clicking on head is waaay better in cs2 than in csgo.
Sub tick does work most of the time.
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u/Professional-Crew344 Mar 08 '26
I am going to preface that I think most people saying shooting in csgo is better than cs2 are coping, but in your case, it could be that head hitboxes in cs2 are SLIGHTLY larger than in csgo so you hit more hs for shots that are not perfectly on your opponents head and has a chance to miss
the only valid argument is that spraying has less screenshake in csgo, everything else is pure delusion.
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u/Lukesaurio Astralis Mar 07 '26
Shooting and movement still better in csgo.
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u/chrisgcc Mar 08 '26
Movement yes. Shooting no.
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u/Lukesaurio Astralis Mar 08 '26
Played a mox 5v5 with some friends the other day. All level 10 guys, we could all agree that the only crispier shooting mechanic in cs2 is the one taps. But the spraying is waaaaay better in csgo.
Visuals -> CS2(cs2 has way better clarity and overall visibility) Smokes -> CS2 Movement -> CSGO Tapping -> CS2 Spraying -> CSGO Config -> CSGO, you actually miss 10 times more cl_bob after 5 minites in csgo. Peeker advantage -> CSGO was way better to hold angles, due to pickers advantage being way less aggresive.
Sad part is most of the things that are better in CSGO should be fixable in CS2, but Valve.....
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u/chrisgcc Mar 08 '26
Spraying is completely fine in cs2. The reason shooting is better in cs2 is because the hit reg is a lot better. Also, I genuinely couldn't care less about bob.
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u/trq- Mar 07 '26
Where are all these posts from silvers and/or young kids coming from?
You either haven’t played a single game back then on ESEA 128 tick servers or you need help if you’re seriously telling me you’re thinking CS2 is the better game gameplay-wise
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u/SHADER_MIX Vitality Mar 07 '26
Big est thing that hit me was the sound on kill, there is a bass sound on kill in cs2 that is just absent on csgo and it feel so weird now
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u/ivchoniboy Falcons Mar 07 '26
People don't complain about the gameplay, but about bad netcode, bad programming that let's you die behind walls just way too often.
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u/ImIncredibly_stupid Mar 07 '26
cs:go still feels better than cs2
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u/Exact_Package_7264 Mar 07 '26
just downloaded csgo, and you're right. cs2 feels terrible in comparison
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u/enternameher3 Mar 07 '26
Feels so good getting deaged through a one way smoke
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u/Past_Perception8052 BIG Mar 07 '26
feels so good to have an earthquake on my screen shooting ak in cs2
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u/Puiucs Mar 07 '26
you don't have an earthquake. stop exaggerating for no reason.
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u/Past_Perception8052 BIG Mar 07 '26
load csgo right now and spray ak and then load cs2 right now and do same
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u/Standard_Abrocoma_70 Mar 07 '26
I never got to play csgo since I started playing after cs2 had released. After finally experiencing csgo i can say without nostalgia bias that it definitely feels better than cs2 and if the servers stay as active as they are right now I won't be touching cs2 much
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u/vgullotta The MongolZ Mar 07 '26
I agree with you, but asking people to be reasonable and rational in 2026 is gonna let you down a lot lol
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u/just_some_onlooker Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 07 '26
What really happened was, valve didn't wanna give us 128tick public servers. CSGO source also had some problems. They also made changes to the game because valorant or whatever... UI wise.
Everyone in the world aside from Valve knew fuck all about CS2 source 2,and touted it as the holy grail of make counterstrike better.
And here we are today.
Atleast once a week some poes is complaining about his skin not looking great,or something fridge gif crap.
The reality is that for most old vets, CSGO played better. For most knew kids, they don't give a fuck because they just arrived ...what they DO keep seeing is the publicity around skins.
Fucking skins man... It's the reason why arms race is shit and why there's 1mil players daily.
Anticheat? Work in progress. Performance? Work in progress. QOL like bob or proper working subtick... Whatever that means? Work in progress.
Does valve care enough? I don't know... I think they care enough to keep the pro scene going because fanbase and global outreach. Enough to actually fix the game ...we'll tey're working on some new shooter...
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u/Own_Nefariousness Mar 07 '26
I don't understand this argument that keeps popping up, nostalgia nostalgia, CS:GO to CS2 is not like CS 1.6 to CS:S or CS:S to CS:GO, CS2 is literally supposed to be an updated version of CS:GO, but it fails at doing that. Tell me, how is it nostalgia when CS:GO literally feels better to play ? CS2 is superior in every aspect except gunplay. How is it nostalgia when people can boot up CS:GO today and notice that CS2 still feels awful ? Yeah, it has a lot of improvements, nobody is denying those, people don't want to go back to CS:GO, but CS2 simply doesn't feel good, even after so many years and at this point one has to wonder if VALVe even cares anymore ? I'm hitting shots and sprays like I could never in CS2, the feel of the gunplay is buttery smooth. Seriously do you guys get anxious or something when CS2 get criticized or what ?
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u/enfu3go Mar 07 '26
I played a match last night and my one taps were insane. Also my ak doesnt double click in go but it does a lot of the time in cs2.
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u/Own_Nefariousness Mar 07 '26
It's so unbelievably refreshing in a bitter-sweet way knowing who knows how long it would take for CS2 to finally feel like CS:GO, if ever...
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u/Puiucs Mar 07 '26
"but it fails at doing that" - it doesn't fail. it had issues, but most of them are now fixed.
"notice that CS2 still feels awful" - it feels better than cs:go
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u/Own_Nefariousness Mar 07 '26
I respect your opinion, but I will stay truthful to mine, which mirrors big players in the scene as well, CS:GO feels MUCH, much better than CS2 when it comes to gunplay, and my biggest grip since release with CS2 has been spraying, which is CS:GO was so refreshing to experience again. So while I believe you are enjoying CS2 and to you it feels better, to me and a lot of pro players, it doesn't, but most people won't switch to CS:GO because of the QoL improvements of CS2 which are massive. Sadly I cannot. Rebooting CS:GO reminded me how much I hate the state CS2 is in right now so I'm out until VALVe fixes it, if they ever do.
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u/IPlayChessBTW Mar 07 '26
Honestly CSGO with subtick and the new smokes would be peak for me
I know subtick gets a lot of hate, but I feel like people don't remember how terrible 64 bit could be. Can't tell you how many times I shot a dude but the server decided he wasn't hit or how many times an opponent and I traded because we shot on the same tick. I have never had a trade happen in CS2.
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u/SDMffsucks Mar 07 '26
I much prefer CS2 for general gameplay, but man CSGO worked better. Hosting private games in CS2 just kicks everyone back to the lobby half the time.
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u/bleztyn Luminosity Mar 07 '26
This subreddit is a cesspool of CS2 dickriders that swear on their lives that the game is better right now when 2 years after launch we’re still getting updates to fix basic stuff like JUMPING
It might become better one day, but it’ll take many more years as it did for CSGO
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u/HalleyC0met phoenix Mar 07 '26
CS is a game that focuses a lot on how it feels to play, and that's very low level engine stuff that requires a lot of development time. CS2 of course lacked quite a bit on a few things on release, but that's no longer the case.
CS 1.6 does some things best than any other CS, exactly like CSS, CSGO and CS2 do.
Of course gaming communities are full of whiny crybabies which complain all the time. Glad to see that's subsized nowadays.
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u/HalleyC0met phoenix Mar 07 '26
The lack of content is atrocious but I'm glad to see they're working on map scripting, hopefully we'll get real ineresting stuff aside from usual comp (which I love)
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u/t3ram bloodhound Mar 07 '26
I actually don't intend to play CSGO again, not because i don't like the game but if i want to play CS i just want to play MM and that's it but if Valve didn't force people to play CS2 the community would be as split as with 1.6& Source back than.
CS2 in its current state is good but it could be way better
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u/AulusVictor Mar 07 '26
They released it yet the game doesnt have official servers so it is not in position to threaten cs2. Although if the game still had weekly drops then it player base would multiply xD. Even graphics in cs2 is lazy washed out garbage without contrast, csgo on higher settings look much better for this reason
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u/KKamm_ Mar 07 '26
Partially agree as there’s definitely a lot of people in here that live on exaggeration. But the movement, color contrast, and personalization settings in GO are a pretty great deal different than CS2. I can see it being tough to completely mimic after going from source to source 2, but the lack of progress in the last 2 years does scare me a little
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u/Normbot13 Mar 07 '26
i’ve been happy with cs2 but the second i booted up csgo i noticed how much better air strafing is, it’s an entire world of difference.
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u/exiledhalo Mar 07 '26
Id agree with you, personally only thing lacking is the content. However I do understand them not re-adding certain stuff like danger zone. It was fun but if im being real I didnt actually play it that much and neither did most of the player base, so can understand why they dont put effort into putting it into cs2. (Mind you im not against danger zone being in the game I'd play it from time to time, just wouldn't see it as the best use of time at the moment) But this doesn't give them a pass to remove alot of the maps in comp/wingman, maybe im just uneducated but once a map has been added from my pov there isn't really much work that needs to be done maintaining it especially if the map isn't meant to be played in pro play (ie hostage, wingman, community(community maps might be a cost thing so understandable)). Although maybe they are trying to keep game file size down, if they never remove maps and keep adding overtime the file size could balloon.
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u/cHowziLLa Falcons Mar 08 '26
they’re still improving cs2’s netcode, its eventually gonna feel as good as csgo.
remember csgo was trash when it was first released
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u/Ecstatic-Discount-37 Mar 08 '26
i remember playing 1.3 up to 1.6 and going to source.
History repeats
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u/BrainCelll Mar 10 '26
To be honest CS2 is in a state where its far superior than CS:GO Gameplay whise
Hell. No.
Operations? More maps? Shots go where you actually shoot? 300 fps even on potato pc? No stupid loadout thing?
Valve "released" CS:GO now because they are confident that CS2 is just the better game
They re-released cs go for legal/lawsuit purposes
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u/Ok-Challenge-5873 Mar 10 '26
Both games had their complainers and glazers. Neither are perfect both are fun. Changes were made with cs2 that I don’t like but it is what it is I’m still happy to receive the graphics overhaul we did. The most hittersweet part of cs2 is that it can’t run on a potato which makes the return of CSGO honestly a godsend. CS is one of the games she actually likes but she doesn’t play it so she’s not really good at it so comp was never a question. Now she can play it with her laptop
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u/Aggressive_Notice977 Mar 12 '26
Bro it's not about nostalgia. It's about the game. Csgo has smooth movements, better responsiveness, I mean CS2 is good because it has better graphics but if you keep the graphics aside. CSGO feels better. I can tell if they make servers for CSGO additionally. I bet most of the players will play CSGO
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u/Jaded-Web-4604 Mar 07 '26
"To be honest CS2 is in a state where its far superior than CS:GO Gameplay whise."
Bot spotted
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u/jpnd123 Mar 07 '26
Movement and fps is better on CSGO, everything else I think is better on CS2
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u/Kind_Revolution_8800 Mar 08 '26
I played yesterday after 2.5 years and it felt amazing basically the mechanics all shots was clean and connected spray was amazing even tapping on 128 tick maybe cs2 has better graphics and utility but shooting in csgo is significantly better
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u/Agustt10 Mar 07 '26
Am I the only one who feels that CS:GO's recoil control is 100 times better?
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u/PromotionNo6937 Mar 07 '26
To say it's all nostalgia is just ignorant. the preferable net-code, movement, camera-recoil, and lack of blinding muzzle flash effects makes it feel better, run better, and spray better, see better, etc. Stop choking on Valve's dick.
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u/jeerkin2urvoice 10 years coin Mar 07 '26
Bullshit, CSGO is and will forever be the better game. Anyone saying otherwise is most likely a decently new player or just straight up dumb as hell, period.
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u/Puiucs Mar 08 '26
as somebody who's been playing since the release of cs:go, cs2 does feel much better now (as long as you don't have a weak PC).
cs2 had issues which valve actually fixed (albeit it took them way too long). my biggest one was fixed a while ago with the audio delay reduction update.
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u/Mthatnio Mar 07 '26
People couldn't stop shitting on CSGO and saying that Valve was going to kill it's legacy if they did not release a CS2. They could go on for hours on why it was a bad game.
Now it is the best game there ever was.
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u/nlewis4 Mar 08 '26
I agree. This sub can literally never be happy with anything. They just regurgitate whatever opinion youtubers/streamers/pro's have.
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u/skilyx Mar 07 '26
Link your faceit account first before making a statement
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u/YouDoNotKnowMeSir Mar 07 '26
Like ESEA profile history is still around, link ESEA account if you want the real feedback on csgo.
That will really show the OGs lol
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u/Puiucs Mar 07 '26
people just love to hate. cs2 is definitely in a better state now than cs:go was.
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u/Jabulon de_cache Mar 07 '26
its too similar to cs2 for it to spawn a division I think. like the thing is CS2 is just a reskin of GO, where it should have been made from scratch
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u/xoteck Mar 07 '26
People were hating go back in the day now they hate cs2 and glaze go. Nothing deep there pro and cons for each game
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u/Assinmik The MongolZ Mar 07 '26
As someone who’s played both for a very long time, cs2 feels more responsive than 64 tick. I like that you don’t need a bind and different line ups from 128 pro play to mm 64 tick servers. I will say I’m lucky and have low ping most games, I’ve heard subtick really handles poorly with higher pings.
I will say I though, faceit servers have always felt better than 90% of mm or prem servers on both iterations of the game. I think Valve really needs to look at the high server load issue in the EU. The quality of the server is very poor and I think creates far worse gunplay feeling.
Offline, cs2 has the most responsive feel. I will probably be hanged for saying it though. CSGO will always be my favourite, but I’m not blind to cs2 improvements and I believe subtick can be greater in the long run.
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u/F13M6 Mar 07 '26
I'm really happy with CS2 tbh. Yes the 64 subtick thing is ass and annoying for bhopping and there's odd desync with people dying behind walls (I'm wired and I still get this sometimes even in my servers), but it's still a great game and I love the little details this game has that CS:GO doesn't have. Gunfight wise and some gameplay mechanics wise CS:GO is way better than CS2, but I'm still glad we have CS2 and I like the game. + who knows, we might get GO style smooth visual recoil in CS2 one day and better hitreg (even tho it has improved a lot recently)
Honestly once they add the GO maps and the bring back operations (probably never because of lawsuits against cases and stuff), 128tick, CS2 would be perfect imo
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u/ExpensiveMove6628 Mar 07 '26
Its reddit. People here wanted danger zone even though it was just not popular. They make it seem like something is very popular or messed up even though only a tiny fraction of the playerbase cares about it. valve noticed this too and they dont base changes on reddit feedback anymore. Its the equivalent of the loud obnoxious customer in the coffee shop who complains a lot but only comes to buy his coffee there twice a year.
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u/Coconut0226 Mar 07 '26
I agree very much cs2 gameplay is far better, and I have literally zero desire to go back to a worse game. People who suck in cs2 love to say go was better
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u/Past_Perception8052 BIG Mar 07 '26
i was fucking ass in csgo and am 10x better in cs2 but i have no desire to play it for more than an hour whereas i can shoot bots in csgo or play a 1v1 server for hours and have fun
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u/Coconut0226 Mar 07 '26
It’s just a preference, lots of people still play 1.6 lol. I just noticed a pattern that most of the people who say csgo was better are older and not very good at cs2
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u/Past_Perception8052 BIG Mar 07 '26
no i agree that is definitely part of it but hearing pros and high elos talk about how csgo is better even though cs2 has been out of nearly 3 years is sad
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u/IEATPEOPLE22 Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 07 '26
Csgo is better. The only thing is for me cs2 seems to run better. To me they’re the same game
On cs2 I’m getting like 120-170 fps on low medium 1440
Similarity on csgo I’m getting 70-100 for some reason which is weird. With frequent drops
And this is a 7 year old intel MacBook I use to play go on and yea I know Mac is blasphemy
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u/Headshot_ 400k Celebration Mar 07 '26
Integrated graphics? I vaguely remember Intel having issues with dx9 games running worse than dx12/vulkan ones
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u/snello2009 Mar 07 '26
What is reasonable and rational for you? Because for me is this case it's about enjoyin a game that i like and between cs2 and csgo i play csgo. That's been said, who gives a damn if i like more that and if you like more the other? Just play what you like, and stop saying to other what they should do and that they should think like you do. Everybody likes different things. Stop this argument about nothing.
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u/Azalot1337 Mar 07 '26
yesterday i played cs2 with the bois and it was fun. today i played csgo and it was fun
doesn't always have to be black and white.. im just happy we got both now i guess?