The Mewling Manbabies Of CS2

[@PERPowns]

CSGO was never perfect until the day CS2 was released.

[@Timic83tc]

If only valve didn't delete it and we could actually go back. But valve pulled an overwatch 1 and people love them too much to admit they messed up.

[@KindriEvans]

@@Timic83tcthats weird, I thought almost everyone in the community was saying “fuck you valve” for doing that

[@mariushager9983]

Yep. Like is cs2 worse in some aspects? Sure especially for better players. But the amount of bad players blaming their shit level on the game is insane to me

[@trueboomshakalaka364]

They were not aware of something worse. Old is gold, so at that stage people calling source and 1.6 perfect.

[@WheepyUwU]

​@@trueboomshakalaka364 "Get csgo'd get csgo'd kekw" Turned into "Csgo was perfect go shoot some bots you'll see!!!" Fuggin hell man

[@TanToRza]

There was literally a meme on Reddit, ‘being CSGOed’ by which you would show a shot you took and how it apparently missed your opponent. And yet all of a sudden CSGO was the best thing ever with no flaws. The short term memory loss of gaming communities is astonishing.

[@christom5334]

Two things can be true! Was csgo perfect? No but it was a lot better then what we have now and the community outrage is a show of that!

[@TanToRza]

@@christom5334 if the game is so shit and the community dislikes it so much, why is it constantly getting over a million peak players? Constantly Reddit posts about how other games are better, and yet there are fewer players playing those games.

[@doliniplanini2260]

@@christom5334 i dont get cs2'd Getting csgo'd was a feature in the gameplay though, we miss that classic so much! best game eva! 🤣🤣

[@ghostx80x2]

​@@TanToRzabots farming cases

[@christom5334]

@@TanToRza I never said the game was shit? People still love Counter strike and have been hoping for improvements now that its starting to look really slow you see more outrage! Are some of complaints not fair and or people just being shit at the game sure but why ignore all the other legitimate ones? One year of a bad CS game will not make community stop playing! This keeps up and we will see.

[@Spencer_Hewins]

Can literally tell how shit people are by how they move outside of duels

[@CruxWTF]

idk if im having an aneurism or if there is no sound on any of the videos from like 43:00 - 52:55

[@derekwilliams9477]

Same here I had to double check everything to make sure I wasn't hallucinating

[@426alan]

Its properly due to the copyright music that they had to mute the sound. Plus doesn't seem like he was talking in those times

[@SaintGGod]

The only part where he makes sense

[@Hanansen]

holyshit I though my sound acting up

[@Raxyz_0]

@@426alan He definitely is on 46:26

[@S-B-R]

Oh nice of you to make a video about my mate Bryn, thanks Richard he'll love it.

[@brynking8092]

Hey Bryn here! Shalom. Richard don’t listen to this man, he’s a Reddit goblin level 4 with 14 avg. I am mentally ill BUT not that mentally ill Ps:CS is abit of a mess Much love, kisses 😂

[@fyroe]

@@brynking8092 Why do you call yourself kisses

[@FreshKolibri]

Remember when Richard made a point of how Valve is hiring and training all these people for CS2 when talking about CS2 development being slow and that it's going to pick up in speed later Suddenly in this video the narrative shifts to the CS2 team being small, really makes you think

[@sterlingk20_ctr39]

as a brokie still running a 1070 i fully understand my low frames are my issue not the game.

[@MusicJunkie37]

I have a 970 and still get pretty consistent 144 on most maps, I have basically everything on low though.

[@Darkswe]

CS2 haters are a bit like flat earthers, they have tons of "theories" but they contradict eachother constantly

[@sfzndo]

saw the title and thumbnail and instaclicked

[@yeahno555]

Friday morning? Work project due? Richard drops a 2 hour video? We gonna make it

[@1cedcoffee]

Richard Lewis made a 2-hour video about Loba? Damn

[@kyoseryt]

I got scared a little and thought Richard was going to shit on the community for wanting a better experience/content but was glad to see he was just shitting on dirt munching redditors posting clips of themselves missing shots and blaming the game, love ya Richard

[@Tobygas]

Could you not have loved him anymore had he shat on the community, since he has definitely voiced his opinion about said "community". Like why would it be scary for you if he shat on the community? It would be fair thing to do if you had seen any of his other videos regarding the said "community"

[@Helperbot-2000]

casual cs players when they learn it actually takes time for electrons to go through ten thousand transistors, travel through a wire to the server, go through ten thousand more transistors, travel through another wire, and go through another ten thousand transistors, before the action can be updated on your screen: 🤯🤯🤯

[@qBeYcarpet]

The cs community should be reminded and ridiculed more about when valve changed the weapon sounds in csgo all the pros and casuals were outraged about the game being ruined. Then everybody silently changed their minds after getting used to them. So much for understanding what's best for the game better than valve lol

[@sthlmfps]

Cs2 might feel trash to play at times but man ive played more cs in the last year then i did for the past 3 years. Its still a top tier competitive experience anyone saying otherwise is delusional.

[@beatsalad1]

the optimization point is somewhat disingenuous Richard, even though your points about the majority of the people complaining being troglodytes is correct. there are many people (including pros) with top-of-the-line rigs who experience stuttering/stability issues and FPS problems in the game, not to mention things such as the water on ancient effecting competitive integrity by lowering the FPS of the entire lobby.

[@uguraslan1965]

If you use valve recommended settings, game is actually smoother than csgo ever was. Frame timing and pacing is better than cgso for my rig. Understandbly, our monkey brains want to see higher number in fps counter and that is all that matters to it. Csgo was a mess. Just google "csgo is not smooth" and you will see. People were tweaking the shit out of their systems to make it relatively smoother.

[@FreshKolibri]

The whole rant about people needing to get a job and upgrading their PC, arguing that game makers have no obligation to improve the perfomance, making a dogshit analogy to car makers and them not having to increase the speed of an owned car is incredibly elitist and serves as a perfect example as for why people consider Richard to be a Valve shill. It is an objective reality that many people experience unsatisfying fps levels compared to CSGO even on mid range PCs that are not that old when it was perfectly fine in CS GO. The appearance of CS2 in no way justifies this drop in performance and bad game optimization is unacceptable in a competitive game like this.

[@treimar]

That Ryzen 5, RTX3050 guy is capping tho. Or their laptop has a 4k screen or smth.

[@hoxfrey9093]

as a brainrotted reels watcher, i hate how people just turn their whiffs into content and become popular for that. what happened to posting good clips lmao

[@DolbaebCS]

it only took cs2 two monts to reach same amount of bug clips that csgo has in 12 years

[@fyroe]

"I have no brain and I must post" fucking hell I love you Richard

[@Rayn-117]

saw the title and thought it read “The Mewing Manbabies Of CS2” 🗿

[@c4rgob0b]

i'd rather take a visual downgrade than a core gameplay downgrade, if was forced to switch games.

[@SumerianScientist1]

What is the core gameplay downgrade?

[@c4rgob0b]

​@@SumerianScientist1 forcing 64 tick on faceit players. subtick hasn't proven anything dont think I have to say much more

[@matias5132]

I'm going to try to be as calm as possible with this subject,because I'm already tired of the argument of “oh but csgo had millions of problems in the beginning”. The game was shit at the beginning and the years went by and they improved it? yes. Now the more than 10 years of experience in csgo, where are they? in cs2 they are clearly not there, just because csgo sucked at the beginning doesn't mean that cs2 has to start the same way as csgo.

[@decadunce]

You are right, sure it doesn't have to be but it's the trend for Valve online multiplayer valve games.

[@jamiestewart3452]

How a Reddit ‘proves’ a point: posts one clip on Reddit, slowed down, cringe music. How the GOAT esports journalist proves a point: Multi-hour video essay using 100s of sources as evidence. GG, no re.

[@The56thEmpire]

1:53:00 "I have no brain, and I must post" fully got me 😭 could be applied to so many areas of the internet, that's one for all time imo 😂😂

[@FedtTony]

You can't make people like a game they don't enjoy. Most people I know don't want to play anymore simply because they don't find the game fun. So I'm stuck just playing KZ and surf now (on CS source since it's still broken in CS2).

[@Polyvalent]

since when is surf broken in cs2 I've set PR's on multiple surf maps since release

[@FedtTony]

@@Polyvalent KZ is, haven't tried surf in CS2 since the server browser doesn't show them

[@rusi6219]

Is it really "broken" or was the inadequate movement programming allowing for it simply fixed? This reminds me of when bhop exploits were nerfed and people complained how valve "broke" movement.

[@Polyvalent]

@@FedtTony what server browser are you referring to? filter by map with prefix "surf_" and go crazy. Looking at the populated list as I type this

[@bipolarminddroppings]

44:00 Rich, the video mutes for about 30 seconds here, I think there's some copyrighted song playing. Is that a youtube automated mute or did your editor do it themselves? Does it again over and over for the next ten minutes.

[@SandwichManStudios]

Never heard of anyone using csgo voice chat to improve their social skills.

[@madsthielemann4852]

1:33:32 they changed the deag headshot multiplier from x4 to x3.9 when they did the damage and damage falloff changes to make the x2 body shot spam kills less likely. Im pretty sure that's when these long range deag headshots that doesn't kill started occurring. this was the same patch were they mega buffed the m4a1, september 21 2021. you're welcome :D

[@MercLazarus]

Clubbed to death getting those parts of the vod muted is depressing since its such a banger

[@Vogurt]

Playing in a 5 stack at 11-16k in middle America (Minnesota) has been pretty much perfect since release.

[@F1stzz]

I've been watching JERICHO's CS streams pretty much all year long - he's barely stumbled upon a couple hackers throughout this whole year, and he's playing at 15-19k, it's all on the record 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@CountCocofang]

Completely unrelated but TIL that the LoL sub blacklisted "Riot harassment", "harassment" and "Riot harassment lawsuit" through their auto mod.

[@jw0017]

1:01:18 - As someone who works in IT and Tech support for businesses, this is such a common thing the phrase "well it worked fine before" is scarily common... people just do not understand the lifecycle of computer components because of how fast technology moves... its entitlement as far as i can figure out

[@drkrn]

Also not keeping in mind that a random driver update, or OS update, can completely break any working system to not fault of the developer. Yes, I make a videogame, I didn't make a patch, AMD/NVIDIA just randomly upgraded their drivers and destroyed performance or created visual bugs. How is it my fault, am I supposed to know how Nvidia's unreleased update will destroy my game?????

[@jw0017]

@@drkrn yeah it's crazy man

[@jw0017]

i will just never understand the mentality of "I paid for decent parts 8 years ago so thats me sorted for the rest of my life playing video games" what in life ever works like that?

[@F1stzz]

​@@drkrn you'd think people would start approaching these topics differently now after that recent buzz around the gaming performance of AMD CPUs on 2H23 & 2H24 Windows updates - yet here we are still 😁

[@jw0017]

@@F1stzz they never learn

[@2441-t1z]

As someone who mainly enjoyed vanilla kz movement in csgo, 27:51 is so true, bhops in comp games are the most wasteful way to move. Not only are you giving away your position, it also fucks up your aim and most importantly you are in 99% of the cases slower just because the people bhoping around do the most retarded strafes because they are used to the kzt game mode which is completly different to vanilla movement, so the only thing they are doing is moving slower and louder. Fuck bhops in comps. That said rip movement in cs2 :(

[@troubleshootingGG]

“I’m crying, in the, club … because, the skins, are different” KEKW

[@overtone55]

I wonder if these people remember when in CSGO you could perfectly accurately jumpshot with a scout, and there were particular places on the map where it was literally impossible to shoot someone back who was jumping up and down (for like 3 years)

[@K1m9857]

It could only be just me But part of the video is muted Maybe for copyright? Not sure

[@talksickcs]

Thanks for including the stream date!

[@hsanrb]

10:35 This is why I explicitly call my keybinds WeSAD... because when I hit all the keys we are all going to cry. Apparently reddit did the crying for me, but we sad we'd never do this dance and its 2024.

[@sunderkeenin]

On the optimization issue, Valve is doing a great job. There are games which are actually poorly optimized and they are very common, but CS2 is not one of them. There are games which look amazing and scale up to higher quality textures and detail well like NFS 2015, but the whole deferred rendering TAA -> FSR/DLSS mess has been a terrible way to mask optimization and performance issues at the cost of having good motion and just generally blurring the details of games. In a few decades I do hope we look at this period in time and look poorly on the way Unreal Engine is holding back gaming.

[@lionheartzcs2]

im at the point where as soon as I hear someone talk about an operation, subtick, or cheaters in every lobby, I just tune them out. The real issues like performance, ping differences feelling worse than go and the current map pool are what need to be prioritized and im sure itll get better over time. I feel like a lot of people have already forgotten how many weird issues CS2 had at launch and how much better the game already feels 1 year in.

[@Raxyz_0]

1:30:50 I don't think this fully applies to TF2 because they're still selling cosmetics for it. I agree that no company should be obligated to support an old product, but if you are still officially selling that product, it should be well within your right to complain about any issues it may have. Funnily enough, if they had unlocked all cosmetics and made everything untradeable, the bot problem wouldn't even exist and they could easily and legally end support for it. Although that opens another can of worms about people who spent thousands on hats that are now functionally worthless. I'd argue it's still a more ethical choice than making passive income from a broken product, but YMMV.

[@bigbelly8649]

6min mark is tarkov level desync regardless of how wide he peaked.

[@1Cawn]

Glad when I feature in these videos I'm on the side of telling people to check their heads, haha.

[@treimar]

I remember when Half Life : Alyx released and ppl were mad that it was VR only. But at the end of the day it is the best VR game ever made. All Valve games have these dummies arguing how bad they are.

[@ACowIsHuge]

thank you man. Good to see there are still Legends out there setting people straight.

[@lowfatmochalatte1328]

The fact there's a bad hitreg compilation on csgo and not cs2 proves subtick is better than go 128 tick surely.

[@doliniplanini2260]

Shots accurately aimed at player models in cs2 hit more than they did in csgo man its that simple. its just way better with the timestamped shots muh feeling of "crispness n snapiness" though 😿

[@nightfire_CSGO]

Tapping feels better in cs2, spraying felt better in GO, simple as

[@NotoriousBBB]

I understand latency but there is not contest that dying behind walls is way worse in cs2 than csgo.

[@bipolarminddroppings]

You might be able to play the game better than me, doesnt mean you know the game better than me, it just means I got old. Let's hop in a time machine and go find the 16 year old me and make it a fair fight. Eh? It weird to me, I used to post clips to a discord group of my irl friends that were very similar to these but they all had titles like "Fuck me, I'm so bad" or "Why did I peak that?"

[@soldatheero]

I am 37 and still playing as hard as when i was 17 tbh

[@TurntableTV]

Major changes to the game would imply a higher development time. As is, Valve is not your Riot or Ubisoft type of company. They target multiple projects over the year and some may not include CS2 as an urgency. If they release an operation of somekind I can already see the comments: "Aaah, is this it?" "Valve doesn't care.", "Valve are lazy cunts." The fact that I can still say "I played this game for over 20 years and still enjoy it." says a lot about Valve and how much they "don't care".

[@Gam3freak1199]

To the COD skill based mm point; what i think they're more upset about is that there isnt a ranked mode so the casual experience is "ruined". Having a soft MMR in the casual mode and having a hard MMR in a ranked mode would probably help but the complaining wouldn't stop because the reality is people like to complain.

[@soldatheero]

haha the rant about kids needing to get a job and by a comp has me in stitches. so true

[@Flecky]

genuine qurstion have you even played cs2? fell like im getting gaslight into feeling that it isnt shit

[@TanToRza]

Do you question about whether or not you are getting gaslit into feeling it is shit by all the videos about how the game is dying, while subsequently getting peaks of over a million players?

[@SaintGGod]

He doesn't play CS period lmao

[@SaintGGod]

Like literally, he actually doesn't play CS

[@michaelyang4416]

I’m not gonna pretend I know why it does, but it does feel worse I don’t think it’s shit but it’s definitely worse

[@Flecky]

@michaelyang4416 it's thr fact they took csgo off us.should of been some sort of grace period

[@captainzero119]

some parts of this video are completely muted to the point I couldn't finish it , shame because I was really enjoying it, was that editing or youtube did it? Anyway, big fan of your work Richard

[@KamKrzem]

16:44 but don't the red squares indicate that he hit every pellet in the head?

[@regbar0]

I was listening to this on the podcast format and in the first half of the podcast there are chunks of silence. It seems like some of the clips you wanted to show weren't playing audio because the silence jumps back to you talking. Weird.

[@j11889]

guys i don't play cs anymore, can't anyone break down the elo ranges so i know how to mock people properly again?

[@paumartisa]

isnt the audio messed up?

[@alexannuk5988]

It is a good day when Richard drops a video

[@astar2394]

It always frustrates me seeing the general consensus on reddit about cs2. I love the game and I have only ever seen one cheater and I've played cs2 from the beginning. Game is great, people don't appreciate what they've got.

[@rusi6219]

Just wait a decade when a new CS title is released then everyone suddenly remembers how great cs2 was

[@heiroglyfx]

Today? THE 1 year anniversary during which said mewlers shall be most upset? Absolutely turbobased.

[@DEK441]

1:01:21 FPS!

[@vincecs]

Still it's mind-boggling to me that CS2 as a competitive FPS put so little emphasis on performance.

[@kulture_vulturee]

Excellent video, perfectly encapsulates why I can't stand to visit the globaloffensive subreddit because it's 90% whining

[@sea3267]

my honest opinion is that they fucked up big time. you'd think that they learned from their mistakes when CSGO was released. for me the movement feels off, spraying doesn't feel good and then your mental goes way down when you have to second guess if someone is cheating ( and yes sometimes you're just that bad at the game compared to your opponent). this is miles better than csgo release IMO, but i feel sad because cs2 could have been so much better from the start. with time CS2 will get better, but not that many people are patient.

[@rgndsnali]

2:01:23 -peak

[@danielvanwinden9672]

Love when he pauses it and the killfeed says Rich Femboys

[@bobbobo2568]

5:30 I am sorry to say that. I love Richards content and literally everything. However the dying behind the wall IS an issue. It is an issue even on 5ms ping for everyone on the server.

[@lemagicien9182]

K time to actually explain how sub tick works cause even though Richard Lewis will trash everyone for saying they blame sub tick for everything doesn't even himself explain how it works cause he doesn't know himself. How sub tick works is it sends your bullet down range where you clicked your mouse in real time. This means you can literally have 1000 ping and still where you clicked in real physical time, the computer will record the input and once that input is uploaded to the server it will send the bullet down where you clicked in real physical time, effectively, sending it back into the past. This is why there is a complete disconnect between what you think you shot and what you actually shot. Anyone who has a decent understanding of how latency and netcoding works knows that on paper this is a great idea but in online play is fundamentally flawed. You cannot sending your bullet back in time 10-20 milliseconds, it will just create issues like this in CS2. Richard showing these clips of people clearly dying behind walls 5:46 is so out of touch and honestly brain dead. First, that didn't happen in CS:GO and on top of that, isn't good netcode no matter how you spin it. I don't think anyone wants to have that feeling of dying behind walls. Next, he even goes as far as saying that we're gonna pretend that no shooting issues happening in CS:GO. They did happen in CS:GO but completely differently. What happened in CS:GO was ghost shots would happen. Bullets where your crosshair was exactly on the enemy would go straight through. Go watch CrowBCat's video titled CSGO'd random critical miss and the first clip of Karrigan shooting a deagle aiming straight at the head just went right through. This was the type of shots that happened in CS:GO. Richard is just completely out of touch with anything CS related. He parades that he has been part of the scene for 20 years but bro you've just been a journalist, like your incite on the game hasn't been relevant what so ever.

[@Hyperus]

You are entirely wrong but go on. I don't know where this "subtick compares real times" came from, its completely bogus, its not a thing. Imagine this for a second. Someone peeks you, you see them peek, shoot, your shots do nothing and then you die. Why? Because what he saw was from earlier and so clearly the CT couldn't have possibly defended. Thats what you are suggesting. It makes no sense. Reddit would be full of clips like this, but its not. Add this to the github url. /SteamDatabase/Protobufs/blob/master/csgo/usercmd.proto /SteamDatabase/Protobufs/blob/master/csgo/cs_usercmd.proto Add this to the github url and you can just literally read the usercommand structure and see that its completely bogus. The dude there died behind the wall because he is predicting ahead and lag compensation in combination. You can't wait for the server to confirm that you did in fact strafe back. And with Lag Compensation the server rolls back the position of the target to what the shooter saw at that moment. CSGO does the same things.

[@nightfire_CSGO]

“Go watch CrowbCat video” I don’t have to, it was played during THIS VIDEO but good job exposing you didn’t even watch it

[@lemagicien9182]

@@nightfire_CSGO yeah buddy i'm not gonna watch 2 hours of Richard Lewis talk about how he knows nothing about the game. And it just even proves the point further is the problem with CS:GO was ghost shots. Bullets going through enemies. Now CS2 you have dying behind walls, shots completely missing or going back in time. You are just as out of touch as the clown Lewis. No way was CS:GO even close to as broken with the shooting as CS2.

[@HienLeGia]

Hey Lewis, your subject matters showed up 😂😂😂😂

[@pandarexx780]

This video can be summarized as: Lag exists lol.

[@WhatUpChoom]

Purely about the performance thing i have a rx 6950xt and a ryzen 5800x3d and ancient has many moments where my fps can half. the rest are fine no issues but that one map has issues

[@denvernuggsjeans]

great coverage as usual richard

[@kulture_vulturee]

Any chance to fix the claimed parts of the video?

[@Horatiusxa]

I’m still rocking a GTX 970 on my decade old desktop, and I just live with the 60 fps. You get what you pay for! When I actually buy a good modern PC it’s gonna feel sooo good tho…

[@malooft]

Am I having a stroke or is it constantly muting?

[@Bane_Diesel]

I am early for once and you know who's fault it is? Liquid. I should still be watching a bo3 rn.

[@mckinleyostvig7135]

Oof

[@efliedus1267]

Watched and laughed until 16:20. Are you really gonna protect and excuse this shit? It is 2m distance between them, man showed all hitreg points, that should be kill. You laughing it off as a spread of pellets, sure... by your standarts spread goes only in upper half of a circle? cuz afaik blast spread of pellets is somewhat close to full circle(very jittered but still). In that case his back also should be filled with lead, and yeah still dead. Shotgun sometimes really inconsistent at these ranges, in extreme cases you can OHK in armored body, or you will not kill point blank HS. Nothing wrong with protecting game you love, but to be fully blind to it's issues? That is mental.

[@jesse8250]

Lol

[@solome6478]

Anyone else getting a lot of cut out audio or just me?

[@jonnyboy7350]

1. movement: movement is a core part of what separates counterstrike from other games, specifically strafe momentum movement. this core mechanic was totally Crapped on by the devs, not cared about at all as shown by the game being released (csgo being shutdown) and for several weeks the movement was atrociously bad, as in bhopping was impossible. no excuse, if any of the dev team played csgo that would not have went live in such a state. 2. subtick: subtick is something I can't speak too much on, I don't know why it feels so different (not in a good way) holding an angle is pretty terrible right now, again feeling not sure why, I've had way way more success just swinging an angle over and over again on CT side instead of holding an off angle. comparatively in csgo I would hold angles at head height and hit shots pretty consistently. For reference I peaked LEM playing CSGO in my free time. played Faceit with a team for a little bit, we weren't the best but CSGO was always fun. 3. deleting csgo: I think this is where Valve fucked up, csgo had so much content, tons of game modes, really fun community stuff, and more. Why did csgo have to be deleted and replaced with cs2, the answer is $$$$$, always is. CS2 would not have gotten 99% of this backlash if they had just released it as a separate game; announced the end of support for csgo (leaving a small team to keep the game running) and put all counterstrike resources towards cs2. No fires, no rush on maps, game modes, and such, just able to make cs2 into another great game. Skins would migrate at some point, but people could still play flying scoutsman on the weekend. 4. The little things: tracers lie, where are the maps, a lot of skins looked terrible in cs2, optimization yucky, game doesn't run on old hardware, bugs (however that would be fine if csgo was still around to play instead,) 10 wins on every map?? who came up with this people just want a single rank to tell their friends, rip the community workshop stuff "who cares about that anyways" Valve. 5. Cheating: wow what a deal breaker, the main ranked system was/is useless since the anti cheat Valve had been "working on" just got scrapped I guess. Overwatch was panic promise as the attitude was changing towards cs2 they had to say/do something, unfortunately couldn't even deliver on that. at least people could feel like they were catching cheaters and making a difference in the game. I saw people saying they weren't running into cheaters that much. from my experience (this was a couple months ago, I've given up having fun playing cs2) once I hit 15k there was a cheater 1/5 games (blatant) when I was play at 18-20k it was 1/2 games someone was blatant on a fresh account. 6. The Vibe: what a stupid word that is over used, but it fits so much so well. the majority of friends I have that loved csgo, some super casual some extremely competitive, have given up on cs2. the ones that still play regularly are always complaining and have too much money in skins to leave the game. clearly the love for cs2 from valve is gone. some people will say that it's because of the bile that people are throwing at the devs. fair enough. but in my opinion the people who made cs2 didn't have the love for counterstrike to begin with. as seen by the state of which cs2 was released and csgo was thrown out. It was a good run, had a lot of fun with csgo..

[@alpenacademy]

Between 59:00 und 1:07:00 the video fkn floored me. I will never recover from this loughter

[@Jako1987]

1:00:00 over 60fps on that rig is pretty impressive

[@exsk506]

2hours of leaving this filthy world and listening to my old man

[@tomboomeronacrv]

im algo bumping and I dont even know what it is. I just know we're in for a treat, and you will be too

[@Jakee3_]

We do need CS to start communicating with their audience though. You can’t have an esports franchise with this level of isolation from them, the one line patch notes are an actual piss take compared to how much treatment deadlock gets, Gaben literally has more hours in deadlock than he does in any of the CS games combined, I think that says it all really.

[@c0refreAk.]

well i can't complain about my 400+ FPS in CS2. People rather complain instead of investing more money into their hobby and finally updating their out of date GTX 1060 cards or worse. People really think that hardware doesn't age and tech development is just coming to a standstil because you dont want to upgrade your rig but you want have good performance somehow? insanity

[@prawtism]

Damn, just watched the Matrix again

[@shady6131]

omg I haven't laughed this hard in years! 😂😂😂😂 that post of that guy who asked chatgpt to fix the game is just top tier 😂😂😂😂 i am literally crying from laughing so much

[@doliniplanini2260]

1:37:57 well said Rich tickcels focus on the clitenside animations which are irrelevant really

[@K1m9857]

Its odd how these "bad actors" dont have the balls to get on the desk and talk Or show evidence

[@JR-cm9sh]

that first clip had me dying. bro slow walks into the OP he just spotted with an SMG in his hands. This it too much. people can't be this stupid. it's an elaborate troll. it must be, i can't accept this to be reality

[@CaptainKeytie00]

I dont get this video. Why are you making fun of bad players using reddit or non-bad players posting their bad plays on reddit. What is the issue here?

Yeah, if this bald mf would actually play the game, he would notice how bad the player model movements are, doing Michael Jackson moves

[@dementionalpotato]

its funny

[@Tobygas]

Because the people posting the clips are saying that the game is shit, but in reality they are shit

[@jesse8250]

I think buddy watched the video on mute

[@CaptainKeytie00]

@@Tobygas Some do, but not all. That confused me.

[@finkitsallover]

The morons "Are Valve doing the same as this Activision patent?" Yes Valve totally copied from a patent of one of the most litigious gaming companies.

[@Rusty_Justice]

Reddit and twitter was a mistake

[@raghavbharadwaj8245]

can you ask your overlords to release the update already?? You said they hired new people and they were working on it ,it takes TIME to learn the new source engine blah blah. You said it around the release or maybe at the start of this year. Im not sure how much more they can learn unless they hired freshers

[@louiemimis598]

Do you know what the problem is Richard? You dont play the game. Its plainly obvious. You have no idea how the game feels because all you see of it, are the pro matches. Where there is 0ping and people have 5k hours minimum. To an average player with an average connection the game is 10x worse than GO. I won't pretend to know whether is the subtick or their netcode but something just feels wrong. And you would know that if you ACTUALLY played the game.

[@lnt.helmuth]

It appears as though people prioritize posting on social media over actually looking at the game, testing it and find out how it actually works. Not to be rude but I'm honestly not quite sure why I watch the videos in which you read community posts when I'm so sick and tired of all the invalid complaints about CS2. I'm probably subconsciously drawn to a good rant. I do appreciate your work though, in spite of only getting into CS during covid, hence a lot of it is before "my time" so to speak.

[@shady6131]

dude listening to richard diss people makes me laugh so much😂😂 he's funny

[@zilliq-qz5uw]

I don't mind fucking up the sound but muting clubbed to death during the piano bridge, nah, that I can't forgive. Jk of course I'll watch the rest in a day or two hopefully it's going to get fixed. Throughly enjoyed the first part !

[@MrDucktastic]

The Wasda - I haven’t heard that since CSS. Kids be calling it +W these days.

[@michaelmenter6175]

Richard Lewis is the Goat of Esports broadcasting. Him and ThoRIN spit the news as it is. Not what you reddit dogs want to hear.

[@mikevismyelement]

I've gone past being disappointed with CS2. I am completely apathetic. The game is disappointing to anyone with thousands of hours in CSGO. These Redditors are shit idiots but the pros are complaining about the game too. Is Ropz shit? Twistzz? AleksiB?

[@RLewisReports]

Pros will complain about any minor change to the game because it's in their interests to not have to adapt. Pros said molotovs would ruin CS so don't take their opinions as gospel.

[@shookya6976]

The only bright side is that it’s completely free. Valve has never seen a cent of money from me since I purchased CSGO in 2015. If people really dont like the game, just dont pay them anything.

[@zaptvcsgo7776]

I was lowkey shit in csgo and im still shit in cs2 :) but the game for sure feels worse in terms of responsiveness or crispyness.. dont really know the word to describe it! could just be a thing to get used to etc etc! I remember feeling something felt offff playing csgo for the first couple of years aswell compared to source. But it evetually turned into something very solid so cant be mad at it! (and even if it never turns into something solid i still cant be mad because the game is free and im a pleb! so i will stfu now!) thanks

[@mikevismyelement]

@RLewisReports fair points. I was merely demonstrating that the feeling of the game being "off" is shared among low and high elo players. Them pulling CSGO had an unintended effect, fans have now elevated that game to mythical status. I'm not pretending that game was perfect but the actual aim/shoot/movement gameplay loop felt better in that game than CS2.

[@kutagen]

@@RLewisReports Hi Rich, wasn't that because at the start, Molotovs couldn't be put out with a smoke and didn't have time to explode and would fly like a smoke across the map? I don't even remember any more because at this point it's been more than a decade and all I can recall is the hltv headline with glaive's opinion on the matter.