Recent reviews by 30p87

Linux user with Wayland + Nvidia here.

- Needs FSR, otherwise it's not playable for me with a 1070.
- MSAA x4 causes ~2 seconds freezes when eg. zooming in with a sniper, MSAA x2 runs fine.
- Anything above mid settings is also not playable competitively.

This means that CS2 looks, especially edges, which flimmer a lot due to lack of high MSAA and FSR, worse than CS:GO, especially for competitive play, except with shadows.

- Inferno crashed my game twice, after that it crashed on startup.
- Now it fails to even download as it reports corrupt download files
- Deleted steamapps/downloading directory
- Deleted steamapps/common/Counter-Strike Global Offensive directory
- Switched download region from Germany to Switzerland and then India
- Tried another account
- Nothing changed at all
- All other games download and start like normal

- Even the main menu lags and flickers a bit like steam itself or bad electron apps do

Overall this does not feel like a competitive game, not even like a competitive beta or alpha game.
It feels like I just downloaded some random Chinese knockoff from the depths of Steams hell and run it through wine 1.0.
It is so much worse than any other Valve game ever was.
Why did you replace a fully working, functioning and heavily played game with some bugged, alpha stage crap? Was it so hard to just open up the beta, still as separate game, downscale resources for CS:GO servers and upscale CS2 servers? It's not like both game servers never ran at the same time, for months without problems.
Just opening up the beta would naturally give everyone the chance to transition over to CS2 completely once it worked good enough for them, while leaving a perfectly working game for the rest. Once enough players of all systems with various configs have confirmed good compatibility, you still could have shut down CS:GO's competitive servers.
Even worse - you not only took down servers, but essentially forced players to reinstall their game if they decided to play a literally different game, so CS:GO instead of CS2. You did not take down CS:S or CS 1.6, so why CS:GO?
I still respect and honor Valve for developing tools like Proton and providing Native support for games, but this time they really ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up.


Was it really less work for you to replace CS:GO with CS2 instead of one click of a button to open up the beta?

The native version does not work, but proton 6.3.8 does