Counter-Strike: International Offensive is reportedly getting a serious replace quickly

Valve’s on the precipice of launching a serious replace to Counter-Strike: International Offensive, in line with a report from esports journalist Richard Lewis (through Forbes). Sources near the state of affairs inform Lewis that Valve may lastly launch a brand new model of the sport on the corporate’s Supply 2 engine as early as this month.

Lewis, who has damaged large CS:GO tales previously, says he’s advised that Valve already enlisted a gaggle {of professional} CS:GO gamers to check out the up to date recreation on the firm’s Seattle headquarters. Migrating the sport to the Supply 2 engine, which is utilized by a few of Valve’s different video games, like Dota 2 and Half-Life: Alyx, may enable for higher efficiency and graphics.

That’s apparently not the one improve Valve’s been engaged on. Lewis provides that the “new” CS:GO may include an improved matchmaking system that extra carefully resembles the third-party platforms the place gamers can discover and be part of CS:GO matches, like FACEIT or ESEA. Valve’s additionally anticipated to extend the tick fee of the servers utilized by the sport from 64 to 128, probably making for much less latency throughout on-line matches.

It’s exhausting to imagine that over 10 years after the discharge of CS:GO (and over 20 for the reason that launch of the unique title) that Valve would spring an enormous replace on us with little to no fanfare. However this isn’t the one proof of a doable improve. Final week, u/DAOWAce on Reddit found a suspect pair of executable information, named “csgos2.exe” and “cs2.exe,” included in latest drivers launched by Nvidia.

Whereas it could sound like Valve’s releasing a completely new recreation, Twitter customers @gabefollower and @aquaismissing clarify that this might merely point out that Valve’s transferring the sport over to the Supply 2 engine and that builders might have been a bit lazy with the file-naming. We hopefully gained’t have to attend an excessive amount of longer to see what the so-called Counter-Strike 2 is all about, although, as Lewis says the sport’s “about able to go.”