Watch on YouTube Simple gameplay from the Counter-Strike 2 Limited Test, showing a competitive 5v5 game on Dust 2. Source 2 launched for Dota 2 in 2015 and a souped-up version powered Half Life Alyx in 2020, so it's hardly brand new, but clearly the development effort to rebuild a game more than a decade old in a new engine was substantial. We'll take a closer look at Counter-Strike 2's technical changes in a Digital Foundry analysis soon, but the basics are the game ditches the old Source engine, based on DirectX 9 and originally released in 2012, for Source 2 and the modern Vulkan graphics API. I've been taking part in the game's Limited Test, and despite some technical failings typical of pre-release software, I'm having a blast. That's because, since Half-Life Alyx was released in 2020, Valve has been secretly working on a new Counter-Strike: Counter-Strike 2.
The game has continued to develop and evolve all this time, but for the last few years developer Valve has been quiet – no new operations, Counter-Strike's take on a battle pass, have been released, once-frequent weapon balance tweaks have ceased, and updates of any kind have slowed to a crawl.
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I'm joined online by 1.5 million concurrent players, and even when I take a break from playing, I follow the thrilling competitive scene that awards millions of dollars in prize money to its participants each year – not bad for a slow-paced, strategic shooter series that started life as a Half-Life mod in 1999. I've been playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for 11 years now, since its release in 2012, and it's gone from being a LAN party curio to my go-to game I've sunk literally thousands of hours in, whether I'm testing hardware or testing my mettle in its online matchmaking.
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