• KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      CS2 is a half-assed sequel meant to be the bare minimum necessary to keep Valve’s cs money printer going.

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        2 months ago

        Completely half-assed. They only:

        • Moved the game to a new engine
        • Rebuilt the codebase from scratch because the previous codebase was 100% spaghetti.
        • Made sure the game feels as close to the CSGO experience as possible. The resident CS nerd Ropz said the movement is 1 to 1 with CSGO which is not a small feat.
        • Rebuilt the server architecture for better online experience
        • Changed how smokes work which has noticeably altered the meta
        • Redoing all the maps
        • Reworked the audio
        • Made sure all the skins can be transferred over and look somewhat decent.
        • Bunch of minor QoL things that they didn’t need to do but did anyway

        Fucking lazy devs.

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              2 months ago

              They could’ve done nothing and the game still would’ve made them loads of money. They could’ve put a price tag on CS2 and ask extra money to transfer skins over. They could’ve easily monetized it but they didn’t.

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          2 months ago

          I’d say fuck deadlines or management over lazy devs, sure, there are some, but most of the time it’s a deadline thing.