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Counter-Strike 2 is a free-to-play multiplayer tactical first-person shooter developed and published by Valve. Released in September 2023, it is the fifth main entry in the Counter-Strike series and serves as a direct replacement for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Steam. Two teams, Terrorists and Counter-Terrorists, compete in objective-based rounds across modes such as bomb defusal and hostage rescue. Built on the Source 2 engine, the game introduced volumetric smoke physics, revised weapon handling, and a new sub-tick server architecture. It inherited all cosmetic items from its pred…
- Released
- 2023
- Genres
- Shooter, Tactical
- Platforms
- Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Game modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Engine
- Source 2
- Developer
- Valve
- Publisher
- Valve
Key facts
- Developer
- Valve
- Publisher
- Valve
- Composer
- Mike Morasky
- Series
- Counter-Strike
- Engine
- Source 2
- Platforms
- Windows Linux
- Release
- September 27, 2023
- Genre
- First-person shooter
- Mode
- Multiplayer
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Encyclopedic overview
Counter-Strike 2 is a 2023 free-to-play first-person shooter video game developed and published by Valve. It is the fifth main entry in the Counter-Strike series, produced as an updated version of the previous entry, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (2012). As with its predecessor, the game pits two opposing teams, the Counter-Terrorists and the Terrorists, against each other in various objective-based game modes.
Counter-Strike 2 features major technical improvements over Global Offensive, including a move from the Source game engine to Source 2, improved graphics, and a new "sub-tick" server architecture. In addition, many maps from Global Offensive were updated to take advantage of the features of Source 2, with some maps receiving complete overhauls. The game was announced on March 22, 2023, and was released on September 27, 2023, for Windows and Linux, replacing Global Offensive on Steam.
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