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[Holammer]

Someone poked around in Nvidia's February drivers and found a profile for what looks like CS:GO's hotly anticipated SauceToo update. Something that's been speculated on for about seven years now. There's plenty of evidence from data-mining CSGO & DOTA2 that development is ongoing and Valve even joke about it.
More importantly for the average gaffer, is there something else waiting to be found in Nvidia's drivers?





Gabefollower investigated older driver and the update is indeed new.

 

[64bitmodels]

Give it to TF2 instead, CSGO is boring as fuck & the former is in more need of an update than the game that's been played to death

 

[MiguelItUp]

Give it to TF2 instead, CSGO is boring as fuck & the former is in more need of an update than the game that's been played to death

 

[Moses85]

For HL3

 

[MiguelItUp]

For HL3

Man, I wish. I'll always wish. But I really don't know. At this point if it were to happen I feel like it wouldn't live up to people's expectations, whatsoever.

But hey, a Source 2 update for TF2 and CSGO? I can see that for sure.

 

[Boneless]

Cs2, yes give it to me.

 

[ThisIsMyDog]

Give it to TF2 instead, CSGO is boring as fuck & the former is in more need of an update than the game that's been played to death

 

[KyoZz]

Nvidia, your number one source for video games leaks

With one of the latest NVIDIA Drivers, a new Game Profile has been added to the NVIDIA Control Panel.
Called "Counter-strike 2", it has 2 executables: - csgos2.exe - cs2.exe

ESL also twitted




Credit for finding goes to u/DAOWAce
Source

 

[BennyBlanco]

Valve making a videogame?

 

[simpatico]

Are you guys not in the secret alpha?

 

[hinch7]

If actually a thing..

Give me a new/updated Source with working anticheat system.

 

[Fake]

Left 4 Dead 2 with Source Engine 2 next PLEEEAAAASSSEEE.

 

[Holammer]

Update from Gabefollower.

Left 4 Dead 2 with Source Engine 2 next PLEEEAAAASSSEEE.

Future proofing games like L4D2 or TF2 with a Source2 port would be nice, games that are currently chugging along on a 19 year old engine.
Source2 TF2 with SF2M would save the sanity of many SFM artists.

 

[Fake]

Update from Gabefollower.





Future proofing games like L4D2 or TF2 with a Source2 port would be nice, games that are currently chugging along on a 19 year old engine.
Source2 TF2 with SF2M would save the sanity of many SFM artists.

If they want an incentive, Portal 2 on NS did a good reception, so revisite those old games with a updated engine would be a good move.

 

[dorkimoe]

As someone who has played counterstrike for literally 20 years, i would LOVE to see them make an actual CS2 with bigger maps, maybe more players, more modes and switch up the gameplay. But i guess they dont really need to with how successful CSGO still is.

 

[ACESHIGH]

All that for folks to keep playing dust2

 

[Holammer]

As someone who has played counterstrike for literally 20 years, i would LOVE to see them make an actual CS2 with bigger maps, maybe more players, more modes and switch up the gameplay. But i guess they dont really need to with how successful CSGO still is.

It's a 'Don't fix it if it ain't broke' situation.
If I had a say in day to day business operations at Valve, I would make a "Counter-strike Legends" spinoff aimed at the console crowd. With ADS, ballistics model and purdier graphics.

Do what CrossfireX failed to achieve.

 

[DemonGamerTTT]

One can only hope...

 

[Rykan]

This isn't going to be some huge revelation for CSGO. DotA 2 is using Source 2 as well and the changes really aren't that massive for the end user.

 

[Klik]

They just updated new banner on Twitter. Looks like its gonna be just called Counter-Strike

https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/11xlz1r/new_banner_on_twitter

 

[Holammer]

They just updated new banner on Twitter. Looks like its gonna be just called Counter-Strike

https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/11xlz1r/new_banner_on_twitter

It's alright? A rebrand along with the Source 2 update was expected.

 

[TVexperto]

It's alright? A rebrand along with the Source 2 update was expected.

I like the minimalistic approach. Do we know when it will release?

 

[Holammer]

I like the minimalistic approach. Do we know when it will release?

Soon™

SteamDB tracking of depot updates and unpublished blogs suggests it should be close to release.
Valve fans datamine everything.

 

[KuraiShidosha]

Future proofing games like L4D2 or TF2 with a Source2 port would be nice, games that are currently chugging along on a 19 year old engine.
Source2 TF2 with SF2M would save the sanity of many SFM artists.

This would be very nice in general. I'm playing through HL2 and E1 right now in VR and the CPU performance is pretty bad. You'd think these old games would be an absolute breeze for modern computers but there are many times where my CPU frametimes spike up hard and I drop frames. Meanwhile in HL:A on Source 2 engine, my CPU frametimes are extremely steady and always extremely fast. Clear engine bottleneck. Source was amazing back 20 years ago when CPUs were all single core and we only targeted 60 fps in 2D, but times have changed and these games need updating for sure. Just seeing the new main menu scenes in HL2VR with the massively increased lightmap resolutions from modern bakes makes me believe these games could look GORGEOUS and run pristine on Source 2.

 

[Lukaku's First Touch]

So what will this mean? Completely new gfx?

 

[Holammer]

So what will this mean? Completely new gfx?

We don't know, but it is probably mostly under the hood stuff offering better performance and a rebrand.
They still want people with 10 year old laptops to be able to play it.

 

[FearlessBelgian]

So its confirmed, its just a update of CS GO... No CS GO 2 or CS 2...

 

[Holammer]

A new CSGO branch called "today", whatever that means.

 

[Holammer]

It's happening. Someone make a thread later, I'm too lazy.




edit forgot smoke!

 

[Yoshichan]

fucking DAMN that looks crazy

 

[Tokio Blues]

Well.. it has to runs in all pcs, so it's looks... OK. Not too impressive.

 

[Stitch]

 

[Gudji]

Oh shit does it have a release date?

 

[Holammer]

Oh shit does it have a release date?

"Summer".

The volumetric smoke is going to change the meta, especially when you can disperse it temporarily with a grenade.

 

[Holammer]

Steam :: Counter-Strike 2 Release

steamcommunity.com

There will be a beta test.

 

[Elder Legend]

So its confirmed, its just a update of CS GO... No CS GO 2 or CS 2...

It is CS 2. Go look above.

 

[hinch7]

So happy. Time to finally upgrade GPU.. maybe lol.

 

[FearlessBelgian]

It is CS 2. Go look above.

No its not, infact it is but is a update for CS GO...