CS2's Season 2 is about to begin! This marks the end of Season 1's 500-day-long spree, and should bring with it small but meaningful changes to the competitive map pool and CT weapon balance.
Was TF2 abandoned because valve lacked the resources to stop botting? Or is it because they decided to focus on new games and the steam store? Really seems like they had a huge following for that game but never did anything with it, but instead actively ignored them
@@candybar121 they stopped the bot problem for the most part, games playable at least. i think part of it has to do with esports, as dota and cs are more inherently competitive and valve didnt really align with how tf2 competitive ended up. highlander is tough because 9v9 is a ton of ppl for an esports team to support, and 6s doesnt have much class variety, plus they probably didnt want to balance the weapons around competitive when it would affect casual in negative ways. this is a problem because the community comp format bans a lot of unlockable weapons and i really doubt valve wanted that in an official format. when meet your match came out (tf2 update that rehauled matchmaking with official competitive mode) it had alot of problems (no class limit, weird unlocks legal, broken matchmaking system) and turned a lot of ppl away from valve comp. imo valve probably saw the success of dota and cs esports and wanted to replicate that, similar to how they saw the success of tf2's economy and applied it to cs and dota. when that didnt work, they probably saw spending so much time on a source 1 game from 2007 that has consistent community contributions and figured they could just leave it as is. this is all speculation obviously but hope this provides context for non-tf2 players
@ and also the fact that they're a private company (no shareholder pressure) and own Steam.... there's really no financial incentive to take real risks. The sad truth of it.
@@candybar121 it was abandoned prior to the botting. who knows if the botting made them fully decide to quit or if there literally is only one guy on the team and he doesn't have access to anti cheat lol
welcome? maybe like 3 months after the game releases, but more than a year after? I can't even bring myself to care enough to get a ranking in premier for a meaningless update
I would like to see m4a1-s mag capacity back at 25, I'll say that if they do that, it should be balanced. CT economy is always tougher to manage than T economy it seems. Hopefully Famas doesn't become too buffed.
I wouldn't be surprised if Season 2 has a ton of bugs on release. Bugs that could be instantly found upon game testing, but somehow valve overlooks them anyway.
Why would they care? They can do whatever they what, whenever they want and you can’t do anything about it. Unless you boycott them… but you won’t, because you’re addicts. Pathetic.
PLEASE, I am BEGGING YOU. Call out the FAMAS full auto animation! The shooter pulls the trigger for every shot instead of holding the trigger down! You can see at 1:45 here.
I purposefully held out on consuming anything else about the news cause I knew you'd have to make an update video sooner or later. My waiting paid off. Thanks for the video, Philip! Hyped!
Still waiting for the SG553 fire rate buff to 600 RPM as it should be... This is insane. And the Aug should be 3150$ if both M4s are going to be 2900$. The Aug is going to be obsolete at this rate.
I think you do, it seems to allude to if you ever got a premier rating, then you'll get one, just that for season 2, it will show your highest rank in the form of the color on the medal, whereas season 1, it will not, which is nice because I played like 30 matches total in season 1 and the amount of cheaters I ran into was just annoying. Faceit with subscription and verification is much better.
Heres to hoping that nades are thrown immediately upon releasing the fire key (as opposed to a few frames after), and some performance improvements to smokes and mollies! 😮
they definitely need to make them consistent, idk what was up with the jump update but there are some smoke lineups that are possible but they're like 1 out of 1000 throws possible, which is odd. Then there are some that land 20% - 40% of the time, even if thrown 'perfectly', then there's the ones that existed before the jump update and those just needed adjustment and aiming lower to hit with 100% accuracy. I mean, having perfect inputs when doing a lineup for a smoke when it comes to how far you run, if it's right and left click combo with a variation on the right click, if you crouch whilst throwing it, all these done at slightly different times can mess up the lineup a ton somehow, and so a really cool lineup that's discovered might be possible, but it won't land consistently.
Gratulation for breaking the streak of being on holiday when something is happening to cs 😂 ❤ or have you planned holidays next week when it releases 😅?
I really hope season 2 will make a new era for CS 2. It has felt so unfinished. I mean the "release" is basically just access for everyone for the beta. The new medal is awesome and I hope the VAC 3.0 will be big. I know Deadlock will use it too so I bet its a big priority for valve.
Will I get the Season 1 medal even if I currently don't have a rank due to inactivity? Cause I haven't played in a while and probably won't have time to play until next week either, but I'd like to have the medal
@@zgaminggallery9910 "Deleting CSGO", you do realize that CS2 is the source 2 update to CSGO that people wanted and screamed for since like 2014, right? You can downgrade by selecting it in the beta tab - just doesn't have any official support anymore for obvious reasons. Classic Offensive used parts of code that were leaked ~4 years ago, so parts that are closed source and are under no circumstance allowed in modding.
Could you make a video on how often weapons are bought? Or how many people use each wepaon in matches? CS2 brought fully optional loadouts into the game and I'm just curious how many people us R8, CZ75, negev and such. Are there any soaurces on it?
This is way overdue. The A4 and A1s have been at parity for a while, being a situational choice more than economic. More importantly though, the state of the Famas was just criminal, not only being worse than the galil (its t-side analogue) but also worse than the mp9 in almost every metric. The buff to accuracy isn't what I would have gone with, I would have slightly reduced damage drop-off. You shouldn't need 3 headshots to kill at common rifle ranges (Mirage mid for example, completely ridiculous). I guess we'll see how it plays, but I fear I'll still be raging over double-dinking ts for 93 in 2 and then getting one-tapped with a nearly $2000 piece of kit.
So this season doesn't affect season 2 rank ? I haven't played a single game of premier because I don't have a proper setup yet ( I literally play on my tv without desk while using my thigh as mousepad ) So I'm asking if I can try premier before getting a setup next week
@@REICHSLEITERX I think it won’t matter. Any rating you gain now will be a bonus for next season. Without rating you will start relatively low anyways. So I think just play whenever you feel like it
I'm just really sad the content they've shown in the trailers isn't even out yet. CS can be frustrating at times but playing Wingman on Safehouse or (my dearest) Lake is always fun. I was so excited to see Lake in the trailer and couldn't wait to get my hands on it, only to find out that Wingman only consisted of the One-Site versions of the other maps (at that time). I don't understand their release strategy. Especially in Wingman. They keep releasing entirely new maps while removing the other previously entirely new maps. It's not even some cheap way to induce FOMO. I'm literally just disappointed. CSGO used to be a game where I'd be surprised by all the new things that happened since I last played.
1:40 FAMAS. Not "for MAS". With the right process this check should only take the length of the video itself, watching through the video once, noting subtitle errors (if any), then fixing them. This shouldn't take more than 10 minutes.
eeh, at 2050 famas is still situational for longer sightlines. but we don't have to resign ourselves to mp9 every time we aren't eco or fullbuy atleast now.
There has been an alarming lack of lens flares in Philip thumbnails as of late.
Valve, please fix.
darkness consumes
philip, please kliks
@@Clybius😂
Every thumbnail he does usually is done with AI unlike the charming old ones
TF2 is still on its first dueling season.
Dueling was added 15 years ago 👴
Was TF2 abandoned because valve lacked the resources to stop botting? Or is it because they decided to focus on new games and the steam store? Really seems like they had a huge following for that game but never did anything with it, but instead actively ignored them
@candybar121 Literally every question that has ever been asked about Valve's behavior can be answered with "they got bored."
@@candybar121 they stopped the bot problem for the most part, games playable at least. i think part of it has to do with esports, as dota and cs are more inherently competitive and valve didnt really align with how tf2 competitive ended up. highlander is tough because 9v9 is a ton of ppl for an esports team to support, and 6s doesnt have much class variety, plus they probably didnt want to balance the weapons around competitive when it would affect casual in negative ways. this is a problem because the community comp format bans a lot of unlockable weapons and i really doubt valve wanted that in an official format. when meet your match came out (tf2 update that rehauled matchmaking with official competitive mode) it had alot of problems (no class limit, weird unlocks legal, broken matchmaking system) and turned a lot of ppl away from valve comp. imo valve probably saw the success of dota and cs esports and wanted to replicate that, similar to how they saw the success of tf2's economy and applied it to cs and dota. when that didnt work, they probably saw spending so much time on a source 1 game from 2007 that has consistent community contributions and figured they could just leave it as is. this is all speculation obviously but hope this provides context for non-tf2 players
@ and also the fact that they're a private company (no shareholder pressure) and own Steam.... there's really no financial incentive to take real risks. The sad truth of it.
@@candybar121 it was abandoned prior to the botting. who knows if the botting made them fully decide to quit or if there literally is only one guy on the team and he doesn't have access to anti cheat lol
1:43 new Going Low in CSToe series confirmed
Tow* since it's an anagram of two
That would be amazing
i remember feeling nostalgic watching the going low on csgo series back in 2014. now i feel nostalgic for the time i was watching it...
Phillip you are uploading alot. Trying to make a comeback like you talk about in new year video nice
I do love how much he has been uploading recently.
Let’s hope lake comes back as well ;)
@@maxunbanned 🙌😭
can't wait for season 2: episode 1
Does that mean we will have a season… _3_ in a valve game?! Impossible
End of season 2: Valve has shut down CS2 due to no reason at all.
they will skip from season 2 to season 4
season 2 episode 1
Hoping for danger zones return
It will take years before we get it back unfortunately. We have yet to see other gamemodes return.
I completely forgot about this, and would love to give it another go!
It’s not coming back. Not in near future.
🙏
Its never coming back
This is super unexpected, but very welcome!
welcome? maybe like 3 months after the game releases, but more than a year after? I can't even bring myself to care enough to get a ranking in premier for a meaningless update
We are getting closer to understanding Valve time, now that we have a rough metric of 500 days for a single season's passing.
can't wait for VAC 3.0 to disappoint everybody
oh wow, does that mean the game even has VAC? doesn't feel it lol
If only he knew
0:50 5 minutes ... months* 😂
M4a4 price cut, Famas buff.
This sounds too good to be true, thank you Valve.
I would like to see m4a1-s mag capacity back at 25, I'll say that if they do that, it should be balanced. CT economy is always tougher to manage than T economy it seems. Hopefully Famas doesn't become too buffed.
they really put famas at $300
That was valve humor, on the text on the photo of the $300 dollar famas it says “this is a joke. Promise. You will find out price change next season.”
My teammates will still somehow throw pistol round
Even seasons work in valve time
I wouldn't be surprised if Season 2 has a ton of bugs on release.
Bugs that could be instantly found upon game testing, but somehow valve overlooks them anyway.
i am compiling a video im sending directly to the devs...they already have a lot of bugs to fix that they haven't yet
and yesterday while playing this game with good peeps i said "and we still are on season 1 what is valve doing lmao" WELP
how dare you wake up my neurons from their long slumber with a peek of dangerzone philip
there's been a lot of seasons. it's winter right now.
-burger40
U dropped this buddy (6)
Thx for weather update
Oh, burger40! Its the legend burger40 with another legendary burger40 comment.
Babe wake up, valve remembered cs2 exists
Welcome to the second season of premiere where you will face even more cheaters than in season 1
Cs2 announced then 'released' just to be forgotten by Valve almost immediately lol
it was funny a few months into the release, then it became sad... now I don't even care after so long
Why would they care? They can do whatever they what, whenever they want and you can’t do anything about it. Unless you boycott them… but you won’t, because you’re addicts. Pathetic.
Dangerzone... my fav mode. I've chilled out from playing competitive with that mode. (The only down were the cheaters...)
Love the Danger Zone intro. PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!!!
disappointed there was no opportunity to use Caboosing
I still heard it anyways, phantom caboose
PLEASE, I am BEGGING YOU. Call out the FAMAS full auto animation! The shooter pulls the trigger for every shot instead of holding the trigger down! You can see at 1:45 here.
So hyped to play the last season of CS!
I purposefully held out on consuming anything else about the news cause I knew you'd have to make an update video sooner or later. My waiting paid off. Thanks for the video, Philip! Hyped!
thank you for this video
"valve waking up" hahahahah ya right Philip.... Still can't hold an angle without a shoulder patch one tapping us... Waking up, lmao you're funny dude
Cheater-Strike 2: Season 02.
Yep, who needs anticheat right?
CS2 skin addicts be like: “At least I got my pixels with a slightly better quality now!”
I laughed so hard at 5 minutes long season for absolutely no reason
ahh i love philips comedy bro that cstwow had me dying hahaha
Bet Philip will be on a vacation on the same day season 2 begins
Such a nice update, im exited about the stats
I cannot wait for Cs2 season 2 episode 1
Still waiting for the SG553 fire rate buff to 600 RPM as it should be... This is insane. And the Aug should be 3150$ if both M4s are going to be 2900$. The Aug is going to be obsolete at this rate.
Big question is do you get the season 1 badge if your rating has expired? I have no plans going into that joke of a gamemode..
you dont
FOMO?
I think you do, it seems to allude to if you ever got a premier rating, then you'll get one, just that for season 2, it will show your highest rank in the form of the color on the medal, whereas season 1, it will not, which is nice because I played like 30 matches total in season 1 and the amount of cheaters I ran into was just annoying. Faceit with subscription and verification is much better.
bro changed the title in front of my eyes
edit: it was "CS2 - Cool Season 2?" 💀💀💀💀
Heres to hoping that nades are thrown immediately upon releasing the fire key (as opposed to a few frames after), and some performance improvements to smokes and mollies! 😮
they definitely need to make them consistent, idk what was up with the jump update but there are some smoke lineups that are possible but they're like 1 out of 1000 throws possible, which is odd. Then there are some that land 20% - 40% of the time, even if thrown 'perfectly', then there's the ones that existed before the jump update and those just needed adjustment and aiming lower to hit with 100% accuracy. I mean, having perfect inputs when doing a lineup for a smoke when it comes to how far you run, if it's right and left click combo with a variation on the right click, if you crouch whilst throwing it, all these done at slightly different times can mess up the lineup a ton somehow, and so a really cool lineup that's discovered might be possible, but it won't land consistently.
1:42 how low will it go is a call back to his old series of going low on csgo where he just threw games till he hit silver I believe (I love you)
I love this song, shouts out to father phil
thumbnails on point
I'm interested on the weapon changes, even a drop in price will changes overall matches after all.
America: Eggs aren't cheaper but guns are!
The funny thing is I was just thinking we should get some type of reward for playing ranked
0:55 don't really like this. If someone has ranked once they should be eligible, feels like a shit way of keeping player playing.
Cs2 seasons feel like an early access title’s attempt at a ranked system from an aspiring indie dev company. It’s embarrassing.
it feels like this is not aimed at "normal" people. Just the few addicts with the FOMO who spent ridiculous amount of money on skins...
I don't think I even like premier, I just don't care for hyper competitive modes
@@TheSasudomi Sounds about right, it pretty much only got added because people want it to be interested in games, same with the leveling system tho.
Community is still hanging without vscript
Gratulation for breaking the streak of being on holiday when something is happening to cs 😂 ❤ or have you planned holidays next week when it releases 😅?
> how low will it go for cs toe
Committing to the rhyme like this needs to be commended
And yet the issue of rampant hacking continues, but don’t worry, train is now in the competitive pool. That will sort it 🙃
Great thumbnails
were finally out of beta! (now into play testing)
Thanks for not doing a 10 minutes video with info that could be said with 4
will you address classic offensive situation in next videos ?
I really hope season 2 will make a new era for CS 2. It has felt so unfinished. I mean the "release" is basically just access for everyone for the beta. The new medal is awesome and I hope the VAC 3.0 will be big. I know Deadlock will use it too so I bet its a big priority for valve.
New year new valve
Will I get the Season 1 medal even if I currently don't have a rank due to inactivity? Cause I haven't played in a while and probably won't have time to play until next week either, but I'd like to have the medal
as i understand it you will only need an active rank for the season 2 medal but im not to sure either.
@@fabiank.2415 I see, let's hope so
C'mon Valve you gotta have De_Fenestration in the official competitive map pool for Season 2
Wonder when they are going to fix the busted sub tick crap.
1:44 i love the reference
people talkin bout Cs2 new season, but no news on them cancelling Classic Offensive , philip can you do a new update vid
probably same reason as for deleting csgo
@@zgaminggallery9910 "Deleting CSGO", you do realize that CS2 is the source 2 update to CSGO that people wanted and screamed for since like 2014, right? You can downgrade by selecting it in the beta tab - just doesn't have any official support anymore for obvious reasons.
Classic Offensive used parts of code that were leaked ~4 years ago, so parts that are closed source and are under no circumstance allowed in modding.
Cs devs be like: we took away vertigo and called it an update
Wonder how many viewers got the going low in csgo reference
I have a question - what song is used in the beginning of the video?
Thanks!
you really got my hopes up for dz😢
Many did not realise but I think the left hand thumb was slightly moved up in the m4a4 when the character is holding it. What does this prove?
Danger zone, we need it please...
There sadly is not a single new crumb of content TEASED not even updated
unless they get rid of the soapy movement on anything but LAN, every update this trash game gets is meaningless.
This game was dead on arrival. It was nothing to do with original counterstrike anymore.
But will they finally fix packet loss and jitter
Wonder if they will re release season for season 2?
Probably not since that would be content.
Can we have a separate bind for the knife?
sucks a lot that i have no money for prime status, sucks even more i couldnt get the csgo music kit
Could you make a video on how often weapons are bought? Or how many people use each wepaon in matches? CS2 brought fully optional loadouts into the game and I'm just curious how many people us R8, CZ75, negev and such. Are there any soaurces on it?
are they trying to tie the release of season 3 to that of half-life 3????
This is way overdue. The A4 and A1s have been at parity for a while, being a situational choice more than economic. More importantly though, the state of the Famas was just criminal, not only being worse than the galil (its t-side analogue) but also worse than the mp9 in almost every metric. The buff to accuracy isn't what I would have gone with, I would have slightly reduced damage drop-off. You shouldn't need 3 headshots to kill at common rifle ranges (Mirage mid for example, completely ridiculous). I guess we'll see how it plays, but I fear I'll still be raging over double-dinking ts for 93 in 2 and then getting one-tapped with a nearly $2000 piece of kit.
So this season doesn't affect season 2 rank ? I haven't played a single game of premier because I don't have a proper setup yet ( I literally play on my tv without desk while using my thigh as mousepad )
So I'm asking if I can try premier before getting a setup next week
You will get ranked closer to your S1 rank. But doesn’t matter anyways climbing is so fast in cs2 everyone will have their real ranks back in 1 week
@SupersternNo1 maybe I should wait till I establish my skills again and start with S2 ? Because I'll always be solo queuing and that's hel' enough
@@REICHSLEITERX I think it won’t matter. Any rating you gain now will be a bonus for next season. Without rating you will start relatively low anyways. So I think just play whenever you feel like it
I'm just really sad the content they've shown in the trailers isn't even out yet. CS can be frustrating at times but playing Wingman on Safehouse or (my dearest) Lake is always fun.
I was so excited to see Lake in the trailer and couldn't wait to get my hands on it, only to find out that Wingman only consisted of the One-Site versions of the other maps (at that time).
I don't understand their release strategy. Especially in Wingman. They keep releasing entirely new maps while removing the other previously entirely new maps. It's not even some cheap way to induce FOMO. I'm literally just disappointed. CSGO used to be a game where I'd be surprised by all the new things that happened since I last played.
I think they are waiting a week so they can drop crazy stuff for cs2 (i like dreaming)
I hope this game is ready for launch soon
Oh I thought I need 25 wins to get a medal, relieved I don’t have to play any premier
especially with no anticheat lol
1:40 FAMAS. Not "for MAS".
With the right process this check should only take the length of the video itself, watching through the video once, noting subtitle errors (if any), then fixing them. This shouldn't take more than 10 minutes.
bro is fighting youtube auto-generated subtitles
where are you taking a vacation to?
eeh, at 2050 famas is still situational for longer sightlines. but we don't have to resign ourselves to mp9 every time we aren't eco or fullbuy atleast now.
I guess they won't send you on holiday this time :)
philip not licking, no cat, no open mouth in the thumbnail... has he fallen off?
I think everyone will keep using the MP9, having the full nade set is just too important, we'll see though
how low will it go, for cs toe
I have 61 wins in premier but no rating. How do I get cool thingy with stat thingy thing
Did you at any point struggle with screen tearing in cs2? I get high frames but it feels like im on 75hz
Damn cs2 economy is the only one experiencing deflation
Will it use your all time best elo during the season, or the current rank you have at the end of it?
I still have 9 wins to get a rating and the medal, anybody know when the season ends?
why is d2 and mirage still in the map pool??
the season 1 medal won‘t have a colour depending on your rating, right?
so no anticheat still? Got it.
thank god for the famas boost
Pros are still trying to get Train banned. I doubt it will sadly be ignored as much as Vertigo was and same will happen in Premier.
Where is Lake???