Re:Valve releases Counter-Strike 2
by bravetraveler on Thursday September 28, 2023 @11:37AM
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Definitely take Reddit with some salt - that's what they're made of, after all :)
I enjoy it, they dealt with my major complaint with GO - the colors being dreadful/dreary. I appreciate how things generally feel brighter.
That said, I am having some weird visual things. Dynamic lights and the player contrast/highlight thing mess up smokes pretty good:
https://i.imgur.com/90wpKmO.jpeg
This is on Fedora with Flatpak Steam, latest stable kernel/Mesa.
Performance does need some work; when I manage to get it to actually ignore vsync (hence ~160 FPS), my frame times are all over the place - with a 7950X3D and 6900XT.
Looking at reddit, it doesn't look like it, but that's just reddit. I don't like it too. It's just a worse-looking, worse-performing game. The gamemodes and maps I liked are gone too.