The Future of Counter-Strike: Exciting Updates and Competition Ahead.

Valve has been secretly working on a new Counter-Strike game, Counter-Strike 2, which is expected to launch this summer with enough new features to justify the new numeral. The game ditches the old Source engine for Source 2 and the modern Vulkan graphics API, and the three big ticket items are dynamic, volumetric smoke grenades, a new lighting model, and a 'tickless' networking model. Despite some technical failings typical of pre-release software, the new features upgrade the game in meaningful ways, and it feels like the combined output of at least three years of ideas and experimentation.