After 1600 hours in CSGO/CS2, I can finally say with confidence that it's become a garbage game.

I used to love CS... and underneath all the problems, CS2 is still a good game.

However, network lag and frame stuttering is atrocious. Cheaters are rampant, and the community is more toxic than ever. Despite doing it all the time in CSGO, private lobbies do not work for me, or my friends anymore. Hostage mode only has 2 maps, and all the other modes have not been re-introduced to the game. No retakes, no arms race, etc. Sure, you might be able to find them on community servers, but after Valve introduced matchmaking, the community servers are not as populated as they used to be.

Premier is a good idea in theory, but in execution its a mess. Standard comp was changed so you are ranked on each map individually, which is cool, but it takes 10 WINS on each to get ranked. Until then, it's going to suck to play your favorite maps a lot.

It's just not fun when about half the time I face off with someone, the game stutters and I lose the duel. This was never an issue for me in CSGO, and I play plenty of other games without such issues. I hate to admit it, but plain and simple: Sub-tick sucks in it's current state.

Sadly, I can't recommend CS2 at this point in time. The game needs work. In the future I'll change my review to a positive one once we get more updates.

After 1600 hours in CSGO/CS2, I can finally say with confidence that it's become a garbage game. I used to love CS... and underneath all the problems, CS2 is still a good game. However, network lag and frame stuttering is atrocious. Cheaters are rampant, and the community is more toxic than ever. Despite doing it all the time in CSGO, private lobbies do not work for me, or my friends anymore. Hostage mode only has 2 maps, and all the other modes have not been re-introduced to the game. No retakes, no arms race, etc. Sure, you might be able to find them on community servers, but after Valve introduced matchmaking, the community servers are not as populated as they used to be. Premier is a good idea in theory, but in execution its a mess. Standard comp was changed so you are ranked on each map individually, which is cool, but it takes 10 WINS on each to get ranked. Until then, it's going to suck to play your favorite maps a lot. It's just not fun when about half the time I face off with someone, the game stutters and I lose the duel. This was never an issue for me in CSGO, and I play plenty of other games without such issues. I hate to admit it, but plain and simple: Sub-tick sucks in it's current state. Sadly, I can't recommend CS2 at this point in time. The game needs work. In the future I'll change my review to a positive one once we get more updates.