Counter-Strike 2

Cheater-Strike 2. Just a playground for cheaters to fight other cheaters and valve turning a blind eye.

got high, queued into Dust2, top fragged, forgot i was even playing

game crashes sometimes but so do i so it’s fair

smokes don’t land where i want them but they look real pretty floating in the air

matchmaking is either god-tier or i’m babysitting 4 guys named brayden who think “planting” means calling me mommy

gun sounds are sexy, movement feels like butter, and my aim improves exactly 15 minutes after the edible hits

would i recommend?
yeah. just don’t queue solo while sober.

One of the few games where you can be currently winning, top of your team, being supportive of your teammates.

And then lose one round and have a VERY angry Russian (who is bottom of the team) shout and scream at you about how bad are

(Includes the Russian language too)

I suck at the game but at least i can scream at russian people

This game is good. When i was 14, me and my cousins boxed in our backyard in the summer while my parents were out shopping. For some reason one of them was fully naked and grappling me a lot and I was kinda uncomfortable but I was too young to really understand what was happening. A few years later he was sentenced under incest and domestic abuse charges. I wonder sometimes if he's why I'm the mess I am today. Oh also do yourself a favor and play this game with high-energy eurobeat for the best experience.

It was the late '90s, a time when the internet still buzzed with the sound of dial-up modems and cybercafés were sacred temples for young gamers. That’s where I first discovered Counter-Strike. Back then, it was just a Half-Life mod — a simple idea: terrorists vs. counter-terrorists. But for me, and for many from my generation, Counter-Strike was much more than that.

I remember my first matches on maps like de_dust and cs_assault. Games full of adrenaline, improvised strategies, and shouting between friends whenever someone pulled off an epic play… or died in the dumbest way. But it was also in those servers where I met the people who, without realizing it at the time, would become my best friends.

As time passed, we grew up. We studied, worked, moved away, some of us became parents. I now have several kids, responsibilities, a life that no longer revolves around spending afternoons at a LAN café. But one thing hasn’t changed: I still play Counter-Strike. Not every day, of course. Sometimes once a month, maybe twice. But always with the same friends. We log in, even if it’s just for an hour, and we’re back to being those kids from the 2000s — yelling through our headsets, laughing at silly moments, and coming up with absurd strategies that never actually work.

The most beautiful part is that now my kids watch me play, asking about that “old game” I like so much. Some of them have even started playing it too. I tell them that thanks to Counter-Strike, I have my best friends. That it was more than a game; it was a bridge between eras, a bond that’s lasted decades, a space where we’re still ourselves, no matter how much our lives change.

Counter-Strike didn’t just define a gaming era — it defined a part of my life. And as long as I can lift a mouse and hit the “buy AK-47” key, I’ll be there, in the server with my lifelong friends. Because some matches, simply, never end.

Are you an angry racist? Do you enjoy bullying your teammates into quitting a ranked match? Do you have an insatiable gambling addiction? If you answered yes to any of these questions then Counter Strike 2 is the game for you!

At one point this was my thing but not anymore. If it's your thing still that's cool.

I was uninstalling this and the 80gb of storage space floored me enough to write this. The original was 20gb, for reference. There's so much bloat that it caused my face to twist when I realized how much space was wasted on a game I don't play anymore. And that was when I wrote this.

Like I used to have a lot of fun playing on the original (inaccessible still) CSGO, and all of the workshop maps associated with it. Lost to time now, most of them. I used to even enjoy competitive, quite frequently too (My record was Gold Nova Master before one of the great ELO/matchmaking changes).

And I guess I got older, the game just makes me very angry now, frustration is a big driver for improvement here. But I can't say for sure what it is even that makes me feel so bad playing this game. I stopped playing roughly around when they changed most of the gun sounds, and there's been a truly extraordinary amount of updates since then.

Source 2 is also a very impressive upgrade. However for my personal taste there's something now missing from the game visual style. It feels like 2006 again when every developer got access to the bloom setting and used it so often gamers got sick of it. The UI change feels weird to me and I can't navigate the menus anymore and I don't have the inclination as it is anyway to learn where all of the buttons went.

It doesn't help that this game seems almost predatory. Skins, gambling, and real cash are permanently attached to the game now and it's been that way for a very long time. You certainly do not need them to play, but very often you will find people obsessed with skins and the skin market. I own some myself, some skins are quite pleasant looking and some offer stat tracking on the gun you have the stat track skin for.

And I deeply miss hosting my own servers and having my friends join to play Michael Myers, yknow? We'd get a bad comp match back then, and instead of going "we ball" or "run it back" we'd do something else in the game and cool before jumping back in. Now the game only feels focused on further developing this competitive community. Which I suppose is fine? Even though I feel a sense of revulsion anytime I meet someone who takes competitive CS2 seriously now, same extends to many competitive games. And I know that's a personal feeling.

I think the only thing I can take away from this is something basic, the game will not remember the people like me who played it differently. It will not remember all of the workshop maps, either. Among the missing maps were heavily scripted stories, a bank heist, a fantasy where you slay a dragon. Gone. Because CS2 needed to replace CSGO. The developers decided that both could not co-exist and thus wiped the face of the workshop clean.

The thing about those heavily scripted maps too was that I'm pretty sure the people that had made those were Russian. Those were made pre-war. Those workshop maps might be permanently lost, who knows what happened to the creator after so many years.

Remember this was Valve, by the way. Very well known for mod and community support at one point.
It's also the same Valve that let Bethesda attempt to monetize the Skyrim workshop over a decade ago now, we shouldn't forget that either and remember who to hold accountable for mistakes like this.

And I use mistake generously here. Sometimes it's not so easy to say.

Of course this entire review is based on memory, some relatively recent, I can't afford to give you a proper review of what the gameplay is like today, and it would date the review anyway. Neither can I truly explain the minutiae of how this game does not respect you nor your time. I want to say it uses the same method of keeping users that a social media platform does, keep the player irritated so that when they do improve the dopamine hits are enhanced. But that's speculative.

I don't think I've ever written a negative review for a Valve product.
I've never felt offended by anything they've done up until recently.


Must be that I'm real sick of the way we've been going for the past decade now. Maybe someone else remembers, maybe I've lost it.

I dunno, that's all I wanted to write.
ez pz lemon squeezy

lot of hacker, i que for mirage all the time, 13 rounds in a row i play against hackers, i can't take it enymore. VAC is the biggest bullshit ever, im gonna go to valve headquarters and band all their wifes, fuck this game

A game with the most toxic, racist, and stupid player base. Im either being accused of cheating or being called a bot. Without a doubt the best game i own! 10/10 would recommend!

weirdly addictive, but super toxic, like my ex.

As my first FPS game, csgo was a bit overwhelming. I soon started to gain skills like aiming at head level. Before I knew it, I was performing лучше and better. I stopped making silly ошибки and я got vastly better at not умирающий to the enemy игроки. For the наиболее part, everyone I've met was helpful and хороший, there есть the иногда рывок however. As Я по-прежнему play csgo все более и более, Я уверен, что я буду продолжать совершенствовать. Я рекомендую эту игру для всех!

Valve, I'm not tired about CS2 but

We're tired of your unnecessary updates and dumb maps that no one plays, much less knows about. Make a better anti-cheat system. CS2's anti-cheat system isn't even close to CSGO's. CSGO has a lot of things that aren't available in CS2 today, even CSGO's performance is better. Give us back the missing content. De_Cache De_Cobblestone Especially Hostage Mode, there are only two maps. Assault, Agency, and Militia are still missing. Also, there are only two Agents on each map. CT SAS and TT Phoenix, which don't fit all maps. Return all the default CT and TT agents that were present in CSGO. If CSGO isn't broken, don't fix it. CS2 isn't good enough for CSGO today. I hope that with future CS2 updates, they return what was in CSGO, so I'll change my review to positive. For now I'm not happy with the changes after almost 2 years of release, except for the De_Train map which is the only positive thing I can say, but my review remains negative for now.

It's messed up how you stopped the Classic Offencsive mod. I cannot ever recommend a Counter-Strike game that does not allow FREE mods like that! That's the most important core part of the game! So what if it's on the older version? Older games still have mods, don't they? Worst thing you've done EVER. I hate it. It's messed up. You should reconsider. :(

Screw you, Valve, and your crappy casino!
This game is nothing but a shallow copy, a parody of a great series of games.
#AllowClassicOffensive

#AllowClassicOffensive

Gamblers, bots and cheaters are going to play your stupid ruined game anyway, let people who like CS play it the way they want.

This game is a piece of garbage. It only exists for a skin market, so Valve can skim extra money off of minors gambling illegally.

I am probably going to be VAC banned for beating 4/5 of the aim bot users in my lobby, because VAC knew they were hacking, and assumed I was as well because I outplayed them. This game is a joke, the anti-cheat is a joke, Valve is a joke.

Best game if you want to break your monitor. Would recomand to non autistic people

Valve cancelling classic offensive is just a big F you to the CS and modding community as a whole. We thought Nintendo was the bad guy but seems like Valve is joining Nintendo, unsure what to say really

they released an unfinished port of cs:go then decided to nuke fun community projects like classic offensive (that would not harm cs2 at all)
valve sucks, i hope we'll get to see regulations that fuck your legal gray area in-game gambling features even further

/i love it, i dont get only why there is this VAC issue which is kicking people with no cheat out of game, meantime when there are cheaters it doesnt kick them at all.

good for encountering cheaters and russian.

best game ever made

If you’ve ever dreamed of experiencing hacks in every match, this game delivers! 😎
Download this beautifully broken masterpiece—equally addictive and trash at the same time.

make this "anti shi*t" better valve


after playing this shi*tty game for near thousand hour
My friends and I played together and the opposing team was cheating as usual. Even though they were cheating, they were still losing and they even reported us and we flagged by vac "irregular"

i cant believe how dumb this game anti cheat is
i'll never return to this game

I played CSGO for 10+ years. They murdered one of my favorite games of all time with this garbage. Today was the day I uninstalled. Too many cheaters. Matchmaking is broken. Etc.

At times very fun and good game, but there are many cheaters.

After all these years playing CS, I’ve finally realized I wasted my time. CS2 is completely overrun by cheaters, and Valve is doing absolutely nothing about it. Every week they drop a new case to sell skins, but fixing the actual game? Nope. I don’t even like Valorant, but I play it just because at least it’s not a cheating playground. Honestly, I feel sorry for anyone still defending this trash game. If it weren’t for skins, nobody would touch this mess.

They murdered csgo. Replaced its dark, tactical style with a bright soulless esports style.

**"This game teaches you 10 new things:

1_How to speak like an Indian

2_How to speak like an Arab

3_How to be racist

4_How to be depressed

5_Teaches you creative new insults

6_Never be the first one to enter a room

7_How to embrace racism (like a true pro)

8_Russians? Kind? Think again.

9_Iranians? Also not winning any kindness awards.( im iranian )

10_Spoiler: No one in this game is nice to you.
Overall, it’s a weirdly fun game—just its not easy to play it in hospital . :/

It's a funny game, but when you enter an important match, you get paired with four completely retarded monkeys who speak a crazy sounding language that even the AI doesn't understand. Then, in the final round, those four retarded monkeys will kick you and laugh at you in their monkey language.

-Install it
-Play it
-Got russians in my team
-Got 10 minutes long lesson of Russian
-lost 13-1
-got brain damage
-aproved the game to friends
-Good game

A game that only crazy people who are thirsty for becoming professionals play, and congratulations, we are their pamphlet.

This used to be the best game ever but now it's just filled with cheaters and bad hit reg crappy subtick system. Please fix valve or it will die soon!

RIP CSGO u will be missed. This is a terrible game to replace GO. If they released this seperately from GO this would have 0 players online. Fix ur game valve. I click on man, man no die.

leads to gambling addiction, and including that you get free russian and romanian lessons when you fuck something up

10/10

this game actually just sucks
it is an incredibly frustrating game
youre trying to improve at the game and youre playing ranked, the formula for a counterstrike game is trying to improve but never truly having fun, stuck with teammates who harass you for any little mistake you make, forced to listen to racism, homophobia, misogyny and all sorts of toxicity that force you to mute teammates in a game where communication is incredibly important, while the enemy team either has a smurf owning you or are a blatant wallhacker and youre just losing and feeling like garbage for it, youre playing the same maps with the same guns and the same strategies, the developers cant be bothered making a good anti cheat because they simply dont care because they rake in $millions of dollars from people who want to gamble their money for a 0.000000001% chance for a knife
this game turns people into assholes
youre only truly free when you get out of low ELO
and then youve only got cheaters
uninstall or dont install in the first place

Full of cheaters, still unoptimized after so long, and basically its a heavy greasy poop of a game

Unplayable for newcomers. 9 out of 10 games are Hacker vs Hacker Lobbies.
thx valve for not giving a f*ck about your game and preferring to add skins instead of actually working on it

Was good, especially with friends
But 6 out of 10 matches with cheaters is still an issue lol

this game is pretty fun, but cheaters ruin it. i had a gay man in my team named SShifann who e-touched me, and asked me to send him naked pictures. (I did)

its 2025 and developers of this game still cant figure out how to deal with cheaters in official matchmaking.
I understand that there's a balance between limits of Server-side processing and Giving to much information to Players Client application, but still, its valve for gods sake, figure something out. game is not bad, but overall experience is 1/10 for this reason. I would recommend you do not buy this game

The game is unplayable. Every time when you shoot a bullet is like you spin a roulette. Sometime is going in the upper left of the crosshair other time in the upper right or bottom left or bottom right and if you are lucky is going in the middle where is supposed to go. If you don't believe me, just enter a game and single shoot the weapon at the wall. I paid for the prime to stop playing with cheaters but I feel like if you don't play with a wallhack at least you don't have what to do on the official servers. I reached lvl 10 to play premier but even there are cheaters. I think I will search for a private server that are punishing the cheaters. Sadly they are not giving experience. I can't recommend this game when CS 1.6 is better in every possible way and he was released in 2000.

I’ve always been a fan of the Counter Strike, but when I finally decided to buy Counter Strike 2, I hesitated. Due to some past unjust VAC bans, I didn’t dare buy the game on my main account, so I couldn’t play with my friends at the time. Looking back, I realize how foolish that was. Now, my friends aren’t around anymore, and I deeply regret not enjoying those moments with them.

The game itself is incredible — refined gameplay, great graphics, and a solid community. But the time I missed out on still lingers with me. If you’re thinking about getting into the game, don’t make the same mistake I did. Cherish the time with your friends, because you never know how quickly it can slip away.

Тhe game had potential, but it's completely ruined by the overwhelming number of hackers. It's frustrating and unfair, making it almost unplayable. Developers need to take action before it's too late.

The worst servers in terms of ping. The most toxic players, the most cheated servers and no anti-cheat. Valve, when will you wake up!

I love this game, but I feel like I'd love it more if I played CS:GO; I never got around to playing the original CS:GO, and everyone keeps telling me CS2 is worse. Best FPS game I've ever played though, and I'm not even a fan of FPS games...

best fps game exept when a russian guy starts screaming at u for no reason

Go outside. Exercise. Read a good book. Connect with God. Go do something else, anything else... to prevent yourself from never taking accountability, growing angry, and wallowing in self-pity.

cs2? at first I thought it was a free game until I saw my teammates knife would turn.
some idiots like to put the blame on u when they can't beat it.
If u win, hell say nice or good gun.

This game ruined my family, I sold the cottage and the car, and bought a knife. While playing, I realized I like male voices... 'I guess I'm gay' kept echoing in my head.
No, no, no, I'm just bisexual.
But I digressed, it's just a great game, but I'm dying inside... xixi