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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

it looks a lot like the last one, not very excited

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’s just a graphical and engine update, it’s version 2 not a full new game. They’ll be able to make lots of small improvements over the next decades but the color gameplay hasn’t changed in 20 years and won’t change for 20 more because it doesn’t need to.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the all that does is reinforce my point

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I mean, it’s a free update, you don’t have to be excited or even play it. If you don’t like it then there are plenty of other fishes in the sea as they say

[–] BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one 13 points 2 years ago

It's kinda a sport now. Valve has a model to stick to. Improving it beyond graphics is risky.

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It is the last one. It's quite literally just an update to CS:GO.

They just updated the engine a bit, but it's the exact same game.

[–] Cornpop@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

It's an entirely new engine built from the ground up.

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I played a few matches. It's still the same de_dust2.

[–] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Some of the other maps got significant layout changes. Dust 2 remains the same because dust 2. If they changed the layout on that map I'm sure they would get a lot of angry competitive players.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

it looks a lot like the last one, not very excited

I don't think it's much about excitement and more to converge their games on Source 2 engine. Dota2 moved years ago and it was barely a footnote for casual gamers. This time the switch is more noticeable and for the time being even a regression (which some vocal people are very mad about which I don't get about a free game).