• KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world
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    3 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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      3 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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            3 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.

      • owsei@programming.dev
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        3 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.