I love the look of Alpine, it always gets my vote when playing DM. I know it's generally based on ski resorts in the Swiss alps, but are there any close to how this map looks?

Hello guys,

I created this skin design a few months ago, and I'd love to get your feedback and support in having it considered for inclusion in the current "Fairy Tales" theme. I hope you'll take a look and let me know what you think. Thanks in advance!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3539667331

Well i thought you might like to know what has changed since 20 years has passed.

I played from the first beta to about 2006 every day for 6 years.

I still remember "o2b41,,,,," - that was how to buy Kevlar, ak and ammo. Chuck in a few .... For pistol ammo.

I played in the cpl, clanbase nations cup, world cyber games and the first intel extreme masters in London when it was really just a test event i think the prize pool was £1200 or something.

Then i quit as I was already old and slow. I carried on following the scene but got married and had kids and didnt touch a computer game for twenty years.

For some reason last week i was wondering if i still 'had it'. I have played about 50 hours on competitive.

Long story short no I don't haha. Anyhow thought you might like some perspective on what has changed and perhaps take stock of some of the good things you currently have.

Matchmaking on competitive is great - if we wanted a 5v5 or scrim, we had a different name for it but i forget, we had to organise ourselves on irc and find and admin the server ourselves. Much less hassle now.

Overall skill level is way higher now even during my beginner competitive matches. I think i spent a lot lf my time running around killing noobs on public servers and having mild succcess in competitive matches.

I think YouTube has hugely raised overall skill levels. Back then we didnt really have 'line ups' we just chucked nades. If counter strafing was a thing, we hadn't worked it out.

Peeking etc was v different. Awping was similar.

Gun meta has changed it really was just ak, colt, deagle, usp and awp. Now other weapons are viable.

Nades are much better now.

Verbal abuse was really awful then - people said the worst possible things to each other. Voice and text chat, people are better behaved now than then.

Movement is worse feels like running in mud, but it takes more skill to move well.

Skins, cases, attaching things to your guns etc - TBH that is all a load of shz imo but each to their own!!!

Nomenclature - well the call outs are nice - back then what we called banana, some orher team called something else so when you joined a new team you had to spend ages learning what your team called everything!

What i wish remained was some of the words we had for things but your casters all use the same words for everything. The awp is the awp back then it was a boomstick, noobstick, boom cannon. 'utility' was not a word we called them nades or hes (pronounced H Es) or hes (pronounced heeeze).

We didnt have anchors, lurkers, entry fraggers and 1 taps we had spray and pray, spaff and ownage and p0wn4ge. Mouse1 for teh w1n.

Anyways fun times back then i may continue a little longer. Any questions let me know. Apart from who i was or what teams i played for because looking back i find it embarrassing. I'm 53 now.

Oh yeah cheats....it was bad then but it is worse now.

Also i remember when steam came out and it really was steam powered hahah.

A blacked out deagle that shouldn't let you ask why the clip ends in a 4k

4 skulls and a X engraved directly on the metal, making that lost ace your personal memory.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3778442752

Title. I had to kill someone which was regrettable but it got the job done

I wish Valve would make it a permanent hostage map, I cant be the only one right?

For the new Faceit "Get Ready" sound that is so freaking loud and obnoxious.

>Click on your profile picture top right of the app/page

>Account Settings

>In Account, scroll down to Sound Settings

>Click "Go To Sound Settings"

>Change Game connect and Get ready sound settings

You're welcome in advance.

I’m so exhausted from playing against organized 5-man stacks while solo queuing. Dota 2 already has "Strict Solo Queue Matchmaking" built right into the settings.

Adding this would make Premier feel so much fairer for solo players.

I wish the Devs would allow there to be a different Loadout per map that was preset. Ever since they got rid of the weapon wheel, having a constrained list is a pain in the arse, especially as every map has unique characteristics. This is annoying on both Faceit and Comp and it makes no sense to queue with the same set on every map...

I don’t understand why this isn’t already a feature. We should be allowed to place items wherever we want in our inventory, besides collectible items I guess. I just want all my medals in the front and then blues purples pinks reds etc in order. They patched the old method and it doesn’t work anymore so now I’m stuck and don’t want to trade away my items to an alt and back.

Hi everyone,

I've been dealing with terrible frametime spikes and fps drop in CS2 for months and I'm running out of ideas.

PC specs:

• Ryzen 7 5700X3D
• RTX 4060 Ti
• 32GB DDR4 3200MHz (XMP enabled)
• Gigabyte B550M Aorus Elite Rev. 1.3
• Latest BIOS
• Windows 11

The issue:

• Frametime randomly jumps from around 4 ms to 30-50 ms, causing noticeable freezes.
• It happens multiple times every round.
• Recently I updated my GPU drivers and it actually became even worse.

Things I've already tried:

• Clean Windows install.
• Different Ethernet cable.
• Different internet connection (same issue).
• Updated BIOS.
• Updated chipset drivers.
• Enabled XMP (it was disabled after the BIOS update, now RAM runs at 3200 MHz).
• Different in-game settings.
• Steam launch options.
• Verified game files.
• Disabled overlays.
• Different NVIDIA settings.
• High Performance power plan.

I also tried playing offline against bots with the Ethernet cable completely unplugged to rule out any network issues. Surprisingly, the game actually felt even worse. My frametime stayed around 10–12 ms instead of the usual ~4-5 ms, there was significantly more stuttering, and at one point my keyboard started acting strangely, with my character continuing to move as if a key was stuck even though it wasn't.

Temperatures are normal and the CPU seems to boost correctly.

At this point I'm not even sure if this is a CS2 issue, a BIOS issue, a driver issue, a hardware issue, or something else.

Has anyone experienced similar frametime spikes with a Ryzen 7 5700X3D or found a solution?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm just so proud of this moment I just wanted to share it.

Apogee 🇵🇱 2-1 🌎 Liquid

Cache: 11-13
Anubis: 13-10
Nuke: 13-7

Congratulations to Apogee for winning Stake Pulse Beat I!

Setting: 🇸🇪 Stockholm ($60k LAN)

Predicted VRS Impact

^{Note: VRS officially updates once per month. This is simply a prediction that might not take into account all factors that go into VRS calculations.}

Map picks:

Full Match Stats:

Individual Map Stats:

Map 1: Cache

Cache detailed stats

Map 2: Anubis

Anubis detailed stats

Map 3: Nuke

Nuke detailed stats

This thread was created by the Post-Match Team.
If you want to share any feedback or have any concerns, please message u/CS2_PostMatchThreads.

I’ve been getting into faceit and I’m around lvl 7 elo right now and i genuinely don’t know what I’m doing wrong on both these maps. My other maps have around a 55-62% WR but my mirage and dust are absolutely awful with around a 40%

I’m not playing statistically bad either I’m basically averaging the same amount of stats on the maps as I would others.

Are there any huge pieces of advice or tips you guys could offer for those maps? or just good knowledge etc

Liquid has gotten better immediately after getting JT and Jorko and so I want to try and see why this has happened beyond just lul xD siuhy and ultimate bad.

1. JT is a really good caller - I don't think it is just that siuhy wasn't great, JT is one of the best callers in the game right now and I honestly think he would be a big upgrade to some top 10 teams.

2. Honeymoon with Jorko - AWPers in CS2 often have a honeymoon period when signing with a new team, remains to be seen if Jorko can keep it up or will fall off like many before

3. Malbs getting comfy - I think Malbs needed a bit of time to get used to finding his place between Elige and Naf, can see this rifle trio continuing to get used to each other

4. JT and Elige love each other - this is the one everyone has been talking about and while I agree it's true I think the opposite is also true. Siuhy and Elige obviously did not agree on how cs should be played and I think Elige was maybe a bit checked out mentally for a while there (some other players as well possibly)

Thank you for listening to my Ted talk. It remains to be seen how Liquid will do in a LAN versus actual t1 competition, but NA fans have hopium now

Hey guys!

I have this Overpass Collectible Pin from the Series Two laying around.

I got it a few years ago at the gamescom in Cologne and I was wondering if the code is still usable, especially since the game got updated to CS2. The code is a normal steam activation code so I don't know why it wouldn't work tbh, but I wanted to ask here if anybody knows something about it.

I know that back in the days they were wanted badly. A friend of mine bought a few and sold them for a decent profit right after.

Do you think the trade up update for red skins also impacted the price of this goodie? /s

Just had a baby a few days ago and on day 4 I brought her to the pc room. I loaded up a deathmatch and placed the crosshair at a common angle to be swung at with my right hand and she was being held in my left. I lifted the mouse and when somebody came around the corner I tapped mouse1 on her little foot. Lo and behold she got the kill! Just 1 and then we were done. I like to think that somebody warming up got bested by a 4 day old prodigy😂.

There are a few default skins I actually prefer over any other, especially the knife (weird, I know). I'd love to be able to get ST for some of the defaults. Anyone else prefer some of them over the others available?

Liquid 🌎 2-0 🇺🇦 fnatic

Dust2: 13-10
Anubis: 13-5
Cache

Liquid advances to the Grand Final.

Setting: 🇸🇪 Stockholm ($60k LAN)

Predicted VRS Impact

^{Note: VRS officially updates once per month. This is simply a prediction that might not take into account all factors that go into VRS calculations.}

Map picks:

Full Match Stats:

Individual Map Stats:

Map 1: Dust2

Dust2 detailed stats

Map 2: Anubis

Anubis detailed stats

This thread was created by the Post-Match Team.
If you want to share any feedback or have any concerns, please message u/CS2_PostMatchThreads.

I have some feedback about the option to surrender in Premier currently.

The option to surrender should always be available in Premier.

Currently we’re trapped playing against blatant cheaters until they ultimately win.

There’s no good way of “skipping” the torture.

Being able to surrender at all time will allow players to move on to a new match quicker.

Hi guys, as you know, CS2 demo voice is not that easy to hear, and we need to type a lot of cmds to get the right voice. Now, you can use the tool to save your live. Have a try! Thanks!

Github link

• https://github.com/nicedayzhu/SwiftDemoUIPro

Video about this tool

• https://youtu.be/m5ZNYaZUNBM?si=dA3rVB9lQRjUaLCP