Recent reviews by Natus Perdere

CS 2 is the true successor of CS-GO while also sharing the best things of the outgoing version. The game has only 2 big flaws which made me uninstall it and go back to games like R6-Siege which seems like have a lot more support from the developer.

1. The sub-tick system is a good thing when the servers are actually 128 tick instead of the base 64, basically for the sub tick system to work as intended you need to be playing in FACE-IT otherwise i would argue that the older 64 servers of CS-GO were getting better hit-reg and less de-sync.

2. I want to clarify that the problem has been gradually coming to light over the year of the Games life. Cheaters in Premier Match Making. There seems to be no working anti-cheat in CS or a very bad one " might as well turn it off if its there" .The cheater problem has always plagued CS but not to this extent. Reaching 20K Rating in Premier was a real thing up until recently (above 20K there was a 100% guarantee there was at least 1 cheater per team). On the time of writing this review the problem has starting effecting lower Ratings where now its very difficult to reach 20K as there are boosters using cheaters to carry their team to a higher rating. I would argue that there is a 50% chance at least 1 player is a cheater in 10K rating and above. (Keep in mind we are only speaking of the Premier MM)


PREMIER: What it was and what it is now!

When premier was introduced in CS-GO it was not a paid system or just a badge like now.
To get Premier you didn't have to pay money. You needed to buy CS not premier!
To get Premier status you needed have a 2 factor and a mobile number which would always be assigned to that account. this way less people would risk cheating and getting banned as it was linked to their phone and would not be able to reuse that mobile phone number to make a 2 factor. Then slowly by the years that changed into just being a paid badge that allowed you to play in Premier only MM in ranked and now its just a Badge that shows that you paid to get the game, No 2 factor is needed on new accounts to get the Premier badge as any one cane buy it.

The Premier system is useless and has no future in CS 2. Remove it or make the game cost like CS-GO did before.

The game it self is probably one of the best 5v5 competitive shooters ever, i would put it up there with CS franchise. The issue which makes everything not playable is bad servers and very bad netcode. Peekers advantage is a real problem...Bad hitboxes on skined operators and some not so balanced operators and gadgets. Now that CS2 is having some issues it would be great to see Ubi(painsoft) to take advantage of it and fix the main issues and stop milking the Assassins creed franchise cow... The game has survived somehow this long and it could out do CSGO as CSGO is gone with the new release of CS2.

Played a whole evening for the first time. Very interesting take on the player movement where it feels like a smoother version of Squad/ Arma movement (also R6 siege) very well incorporated. TDM is pretty fun but if the individual rounds would be a little longer lets say instead of 50 kills make it 75 then it would be perfect. The other game mode which is basically Conquest from Battlefield is also very well balanced but i think if every team had one more squad (5 players)so in total 10 more players it would be perfect as some times it feels like there is no one in the zone you are and u got to run through empty buildings to the other side to find 2 players randomly shooting down the street. So far the maps have pretty good flag placement for capturing and the maps them selves are not huge nor small. Although the lack of variety of maps is felt after one evening of playing.(I know its a Beta therefore not a problem) The weapons feel good and sounds are representative according to the weapon. The selection of weapons for a Beta is more than enough although would like to see a bigger variety like in BF4/BF3 when the game comes out of Beta!Now for the attachments. Very nice system! a huge amount of unlocks to customise your guns! much better than BF2042 which is a full price AAA game and is lacking at every aspect except maps variety after one year of its release!!!

The game needs some work done on net-code as players and vehicles some times freeze and teleport around.
The game also needs some sounds adjusted as people may be firing 2 meters from you and it might not even have a sound.
The game also needs a lot of work done on optimisation as it currently performs bad(Low Frame rate overall for the graphical fidelity it presents) due to overly relying on CPU and RAM (same problem with BF2042 if i am not mistaken and if we take an extreme example Arma3 has the same problem) PC specs for me are 1080p gaming (Ryzen 7 3700x + RTX3060ti+ DDR4 32gb of 3600mhz ram with 16 cas latency)and got around 80 fps in Conquest/ TDM 100 fps. Another friend I played with all evening has a 1080p setup(ryzen 7 5800x+ RTX2070+ DDR4 32 3600mhz cas 16) Conquest 100fps not stable/ TDM 140 fps) on both our setups the GPU never got utilised at its fullest potential
One more thing to improve soon would be collision models between vehicles and soldiers (the game freaks out when that happens and u are being teleported around like crazy).
Lastly the grind for attachments feels too long if more weapons are being added. I would say leave it as is but if another bunch of weapons are added lower the grind time for attachments and make weapon unlock speed longer.

If you are a Arma millsim player and like team based military hardcore shooters then this game is the ♥♥♥♥!!! unless Arma4 comes out

BEST GAME EVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER