Less than a week has passed since we got CS2's biggest update yet. But the community are far from satsified.
On October 3rd, Valve rolled out "The Armory" in the form of a slightly delayed one-year anniversary update of the transition from Counter Strike: Global Offensive to CS2.
Whilst skins and other cosmetics stuff have become staple parts of many Counter-Strike updates over the past years, a large part of the community is not satisfied with Valve's work.
Why is the community unhappy with the latest update?
In part, the unhappiness is due to increased focus on cosmetics rather than gameplay:
Not a lot to get excited about in this update unless you're into cosmetics. The leg animation changes were needed, but from someone who cares primarily about gameplay: meh https://t.co/YRAJiLJLhp
— WarOwl (@TheWarOwl) October 3, 2024
Others pointed out issues like massive FPS drops immediately post update:
FPS Drop after Today's CS2 Update is true. I personally lost roughly 14% FPS on Average and 18.6% on 1% percentile FPS.valve pls fix pic.twitter.com/A54BTB9ARj
— Thour CS2 (@ThourCS2) October 3, 2024
Former BIG Clan and fnatic AWPer Owen "smooya" Buttefield summed it up in his typical demeanor:
Game still shit but we have new skins let's fucking go https://t.co/TGiTso9HnS
— Owen Butterfield (@smooyacs) October 2, 2024
But there was also a small minority of people like Christoffer "Chr1zN" Storgaard who appreciated the gameplay adjustments:
Ngl this CS update is veeeery enjoyable gameplay wise so far with the limited time that I have tried it.Good job, @CounterStrike
— Christoffer Storgaard (@Chr1zN) October 3, 2024
And, we need to mention the immediate exploits by the community to earn XP fast, in order to level up their Armory-passes as quick as possible, which forced Valve to step in:
went hongkong server and i thought these guys are bot as usual but turns out they were farming exp for battle pass xdd pic.twitter.com/VdXpbqj5Ss
— hugo (commission open) (@RushBorDie) October 3, 2024
In all, it seems as if Pros are largely happy, but casuals are not. The casual wanted an actual operation with new maps, like in CS:GO. Even more importantly, they wanted a working Anti-cheat.
What do you think about the update? Are you happy with the cosmetic stuff or sad that Valve did not add more new/improved gameplay features?