what's up guys this is M3RKMUS1C and welcome to Counter-Strike 2. today's
video is honestly gonna be insane there's been so much ridiculously awesome gaming news today
um not so much for Call of Duty that's that's aggressive but this announcement right here for
Counter-Strike 2 and The Limited Test is like the fattest W this is mostly what I want to focus on
for this video but I also wanted to talk about fortnite's creative mode like 2.0 Unreal Engine
5. there's some ridiculous stuff coming out of that as well and there's also some news about X
Defiance which I don't see too many people talking about most likely because the Counter-Strike 2
news is like the most insane thing today and we're also going to talk about Cod we need to talk about
Modern Warfare 2 in war zone 2. but unfortunately not for good reasons so right off the bat let's
jump into Counter-Strike 2 and The Limited Test now right now you cannot play Counter-Strike two
they're doing some limited testing so if you guys want to get into the game right now make sure to
drop a like And subscribe they're giving me all of the beta keys so if you want to get into the game
that's how you're gonna have to do it I'm totally kidding but if you want to just kidding don't do
that but that is kind of how it's working so far I mean I'm pretty sure they're gonna have Pros
playing the game I would assume some CS go content creators whether that's like YouTubers twitch
streamers people and players who who are very involved in the game should be able to get access
to this before everyone else but as we scroll through this along with some tweets as well you'll
see how you can get access to the Counter-Strike 2 limited tests yeah so this is the first real thing
right here it says the next era of Counter-Strike begins this summer Counter-Strike 2 is the largest
technical leap in counter-strike's history ensuring new features and updates for years to
come oh my God as I'm sure you guys know I played a lot of Cs go when all that hype was like going
on years ago I haven't played it as much but I have redownloaded the game I want to get back into
it especially as we keep reading and you learn about all the stuff that's going on says here
all of the Game's new features will be revealed when it officially launches this summer but the
road to Counter-Strike 2 begins today as a limited test for select CS go players during this testing
period we'll be evaluating a subset of features to shake out any issues before the worldwide
release Counter-Strike 2 arrives this summer as a free upgrade to CS go so you don't have to pay
for it says here so build your Loadout hone your skills and prepare yourself for what's next read
on to learn more about some of the features of the Counter-Strike 2 Limited Test okay yeah so we have
a video here on responsive smokes we can check that out I actually have not seen any of the video
that they put out on Twitter or YouTube all right here we go responsive smokes information can mean
the difference between success or failure as a result smoke grenades have become a Cornerstone
of Team tactics Counter-Strike 2's new game engine we've evolved smokes and made them dynamic
oh puffy clouds create volumetric 3D objects that live in the world
they're living now all players see the same smoke regardless of position but the smoke
can interact with the environment in interesting ways it reacts to lighting Bros to fill spaces
naturally the shape of the smoke cloud can be proved that's crazy by bullets and grenades
oh my good dude that's gonna lead to some insane tactics provide even more tactical opportunities
that's awesome look and play better I can't wait dude this is looking amazing they're getting me
hyped I'll just go ahead and say it I'm terrible at Counter-Strike now I play the death match like
a few minutes ago I've got a long ways to go if I'm gonna get back on Counter-Strike but that
already looks awesome this is a pretty massive overhaul of smokes I'm not exactly sure how
everyone's feeling about that I've been too out of the loop with Counter-Strike but I would imagine
that if they're gonna have responsive smokes where grenades and bullets can kind of like temporarily
clear the smoke so you can shoot through it and actually see what you're shooting at I
want to assume that that's a feature that people actually wanted they have another video right here
it's called moving Beyond's tick rate all right here we go it's visceral and satisfying gun play
yeah firing a weapon looks pretty simple you click your mouse your character shoots your target takes
damage but there's a lot more happening behind the scenes in previous versions of Counter-Strike the
game only oh here we go moving and shooting in discrete time intervals or ticks and time
between those ticks didn't exist for the most part the experience was seamless but sometimes those
milliseconds between click and tick could be the difference between Landing or missing your shot
that's why with Counter-Strike 2 we're introducing sub-tick updates
now the tip rate no longer matters for moving and shooting so the server will know the exact
moment to try out your shot jumped your jump or peaked your Peak wow your server will calculate
your precise actions between ticks so what you see is what you get that is so crazy I
remember seeing the tick rates being like one of the biggest complaints that people had for
Counter-Strike you'd essentially have to play on community servers to be able to play at 128
ticks because the standard tick rate was just not high enough on the default like
valve servers so I guess it just said and now we have sub tick updates which I guess
basically is saying Hey The Tick rate doesn't really matter I hope it works out that way and
that it's extremely smooth and that everyone will stop complaining about tick rate sounds
great we'll just have to see how it plays alright we have leveling up the world next oh my goodness
that is very old with over 20 years of history maps are a fundamental pillar of Counter-Strike
and in Counter-Strike 2 maps are getting a new look but don't worry you can still bring along
your countless hours honing strategies and exploiting every corner in crevice
we took three approaches to improving Maps while retaining their Rich Legacy
first there are Touchstone Maps classic maps with solid foundations that players can use
to evaluate gameplay changes from CS go to Counter-Strike 2. these have improvements
to lighting and character read but otherwise haven't been changed okay next we have upgrades
these are maps that use new source 2 lighting including a physically based rendering
system that produces that's insane materials lighting and reflections and finally overhauls
maps have been fully rebuilt from the ground up leveraging oh my God it looks so good
these tools will be available for Community map
makers to make it easier to build experiment and iterate
rates to lighting player read and materials and Counter-Strike 2. even the familiar will feel
brand new foreign that is nuts yeah I mean it says it right here this is exactly what I thought when
I saw the maps too cleaner brighter and better I mean that's exactly how you could describe this
I moved the slider over I mean here's overpass from CS go and here's overpass being revamped
for Counter-Strike two I mean that is insane the difference between the two you know I guess
you could make an argument for CS go that this looks a little bit more like gritty and stuff
potentially more realistic but in terms of the contrast and the colors and stuff and how nice
the map actually looks I think it looks better in CS2 this change for nuke is a little iffy to me I
don't know how you guys are feeling about that don't get me wrong the lighting here is really
nice there's also really nice Reflections off the surfaces too but I feel like I kind of like the
original style better I don't know if that's just me but this does look really clean though oh we
have new dust too look at that they didn't really have to change that much with dust too obviously I
mean you're not gonna see I think nearly as many changes for the Touchstone Maps because they're
essentially perfect like you don't really have to do much or change anything but they've somehow
made these Maps look even better it's crazy I was just playing on Dust too and it still
looked amazing yep we have Source two tools says that the tools and rendering feed features will
be available for Community map makers to make it easier to build experiments and iterate and stay
tuned for the source2 item Workshop which will be available later on in the Limited Test this
is probably a huge relief to a lot of players it says your items in a whole new light the
entirety of your CS go inventory is going to come with you to Counter-Strike two Rejoice my fellow
nerds not only that but you'll keep every item you've collected over the years but they'll all
benefit from Source 2 lighting and materials in addition to supporting Legacy models and finishes
all stock weapons have been upgraded with high resolution models and some weapon finishes take
advantage of these new models as you guys may or may not know I do have a pretty big inventory on
Counter-Strike I've gotten a ridiculous amount of requests to have people either buy stuff from
me or just give it to them for free that wasn't going to happen in the first place but now we
also have Counter-Strike 2 and everything is going to move from CS go to Counter-Strike 2
in terms of your inventory so I cannot wait for that high def visual effects as well from the
UI to the gameplay all visual effects have been reimagined which I'm sure is going to look amazing
look at that ketchup environment effects as well so what okay what is that explosion though that's
explosion could probably look better I like the molly the liquid inside actually looks really
good I feel like it could still look better but it's probably not the biggest priority all this
stuff is basically the finishing touches I mean oh look at the global Elite oh accurate audio
as well Counter-Strike 2 sounds have been reworked to better reflect the physical environment be more
distinct and express more game States they've also been rebalanced for a more comfortable
listening experience I'm really curious to see how the sound's gonna be for Counter-Strike
too because I got my eardrums blown out just by watching like the pre-done videos at full
volume I mean I feel like I'm partially deaf now but it did sound great though and we're at the
bottom of the website now it says there's more to come The Limited Test Only evaluates a subset of
Counter-Strike 2's features so that major issues can be resolved before the summer but there's
much more to come in just a few months we'll reveal all of the details of Counter-Strike 2
and we can't wait to share it with you I can't wait to see it let's go now if we go to their
Twitter they do have some more information that I'm going to share with you guys as well this is
probably the most important tweet that they put out it says Counter-Strike two this is a
clip from Counter-Strike 2 by the way we get to see how the grenade interacts with the smoke so
you can see he smokes but the grenade basically just got rid of it and then he gets a triple head
what are you doing they also said here that in CS2 jump throws are possible and consistent without a
bind therefore there is no jump throw bind try jump throws and let us know what you think they
say that but the majority of the player base actually is not in the Counter-Strike to play
test so for them to say try the jump throws is a little goofy just because most of us are
not even playing this right now but yeah sadly they had to put out this tweet saying beware of
scams the only way to check for Limited Test access is to launch CS go through Steam and
check the main menu do not log into third party sites claiming to check your steam
account for Access or offering Limited Test access or keys there are no Limited Test Keys
um yeah also be on the lookout for YouTubers who are saying that you can get into The
Limited Test for Counter-Strike 2 by liking and subscribing that's probably not gonna work
wink okay so this is a pretty big tweet as well it says players are selected for the Counter-Strike 2
Limited Test based on a number of factors deemed important by the Counter-Strike 2 development
team including but not limited to recent Play Time on valve official servers trust factor and steam
account standing so my assumption here is that if you haven't been vac banned if you have Prime
enabled and you've been playing on the official servers pretty regularly you might have a higher
chance of getting into the Counter-Strike 2 test me personally I haven't been vac banned ever I've
got Prime enabled and I have not been playing that much Counter-Strike recently so I would
imagine that my chances of getting into the limited tests are probably not great but I'm
gonna try to play some more and see if I can get in so I can get you guys some more Gameplay at
least if you want to see it wait is this new being able to see your feet because it says here's feed
picks yeah they got the videos that we watched on the website from earlier okay so we're on Modern
Warfare 2 my recording crash I don't know what's been going on with Windows 11 but it's just been
randomly freezing on me so hopefully I didn't lose the entire like first half of the video where I'm
talking about CS go too or really Counter-Strike too my bad but there's been a lot of other really
interesting stuff going on with gaming as well so we're gonna play a little bit of Modern Warfare 2
while talking about it I would play CS go right now but all of my settings and keybinds are all
messed up and stuff I just reinstalled it on the new pc I really do want to get all that stuff
sorted before actually like playing the game again because it could be brutal to play if you don't
have all your settings right All or Nothing on Border really why is this even an option
anyway even though I'm not much of a fortnight guy fortnite creative mode 2.0 on the unreal
5 engine looks insane I would anticipate that there's gonna be some really crazy stuff coming
out of that I saw some stuff about how people are looking to recreate the original fortnite
map there's some ridiculous stuff that can come out of fortnite creative too I mean there's been
talks about people making a Halo battle royale I saw some stuff about recreating verdansk in
fortnite so people could just play the original map I even saw a Twitter clip of Riley from Call
of Duty ghosts just in fortnite too I don't even really play fortnite but it just sounds insane I
could go on and on about fortnite creative but I'm not going to but I figured I'd mention it
anyway because the tools and the possibility for fortnite Creative 2 are just ridiculous
um
oh no we got split by the time I got the quad that was basically a quad throwing knife that was nuts
another thing that happened today that I haven't seen too many people talking about is the fact
that X Defiance which is a new FPS game that's being made by X Call of Duty devs I think what
I had seen when I read it online is that they're going to be inviting press to play the game and
this is a game that's been in development for quite a while so that could mean that it's gonna
have a release date soon also how many triples am I going to get that don't turn into quads like oh
my goodness oh we won I didn't even realize I was that close so with all this crazy gaming
news going on between Counter-Strike 2 fortnite creative 2 and X defiant potentially coming out
as well what is called Duty done well if we go back to the main menu here's the featured game
modes as you can see they got rid of 10v10 Mosh Pit hello darkness my old friend I've come to
talk to you again yeah basically the best thing that they've added to this game they took away
there's no shipment 24 7 there's no 10v10 Mosh Pit this game is great love Modern Warfare 2 and Wars
on two oh boy the game is killing it right now good job guys I mean I guess you can play one of
the chamber or All or Nothing Like individually but now you can't play gun game or infected they
got rid of party modes too this game is a mess I really want to do my best to not pile on too
much because I've seen so much stuff on Twitter I mean basically everyone is just digging into this
game and I don't feel like it's gonna help if I just keep talking [ __ ] everything bad about
this game that could be said has been said I mean all we can really hope for is that they
do have some better stuff plans and that things will get better I'm gonna be real with you guys
though I really don't think things will get better on this game in particular as a tip quickly goes
with Call of Duty at this point we're pretty much just gonna be waiting for the next game
to come out and hope that they don't mess it up it kind of feels like we're all just screaming
into the void at this point but the advice that a lot of people have given that they just simply
won't take is to make a free to play Call of Duty game that will last for like more than a
year five to ten years look at the bigger picture and try to make a game where you can start with a
decent foundation and then build it up from there over time that's exactly why the Counter-Strike
2 announcement and the fortnite creative 2 announcements are so huge whether you player
like either of these games you can't deny the fact that they're going to be doing some big things
meanwhile over here at Modern Warfare 2 in war zone 2 I mean [ __ ] dude if they can bring over
the Counter-Strike inventory into Counter-Strike two why can't we do that for cosmetics and Call
of Duty all of these games basically run on the same engine I'll give you the answer it's greed
oh dude I'm killing it I just had to jinx myself okay why won't they just bring your skins over
from one game to the next oh it's too hard we don't know how to that is what we call baloney
Call of Duty basically has always run on the same engine they modify it they upgrade it whatever I'm
pretty certain that they could easily bring your Cosmetics from one game to the next the reason
they don't do it is because money I think a prime example is the CDL skins right the CDL skin that
always comes to mind is the one from Cold War I feel like the one in Cold War basically looks
the same as the one in this game Modern Warfare 2 and you guys already know I'm mostly indifferent
about the pro scene so I didn't buy the CDL skin in Cold War I haven't bought any of the CDL skins
in this game but what kind of makes it even more stupid is the fact that the Skins at least in
my opinion basically look exactly the same so you're buying the same skin over and over again
now I guess you could make that argument for the clown skin and advanced warfare and the fact that
there were like five clown skins in Black Ops Cold War but at least they were different they
weren't the exact same skin there's so many bundles being made for Call of Duty and it's
clearly been such a big Focus that the Cosmetics are balanced to eventually be too similar to each
other from game to game instead of overworking the artists who make these bundles they could
just just have them go from one game to the next but they don't want to do that because there's so
much money that can be generated from selling them and I've kind of talked about this before
but I want to revisit the patents that Activision filed I think in like 2015. my PC has been doing
all kinds of weird stuff so I don't know if it's going to desktop to record properly I really do
hope it does I'm gonna try to pull it up if you Google Activision patent matchmaking the
very first result is the matchmaking system and method for multiplayer video games and as you can
clearly see here they have a micro transaction engine that's part of the matchmaking system if
you guys want to check it out and read it in depth I'll have a link to the patent in the
description of this video but essentially the way the matchmaking engine works for a lot of Call of
Duty games is that if you buy a lot of skins in Call of Duty you're considered a veteran player
and people who don't buy Cosmetics they don't buy the microtransactions they're basically considered
noobs they call them juniors in the patent so the way the matchmaking system works is that
if you're someone who buys a lot of skins they will actually try to actively put you in games
against people who don't buy microtransactions these could be players who are good but they
just don't want to buy the stuff or they could be complete Elite noobs who don't have anything
and they're just like new to the game or they're terrible which is why there's been conversations
around store-based matchmaking because if you buy skins there is that slight chance that you
might be put against more noobs in multiplayer and this is exactly why people are saying that
skill based matchmaking is so manipulative and the way it works in Modern Warfare 2 because they're
actively trying to get people who don't normally buy microtransactions to buy the Skins I'm not
going to sugarcoat it it's pretty [ __ ] up I don't like what they're doing and this is exactly
why I've been advocating for them to just go back to normal matchmaking because the more you look
into it the more you're gonna get disappointed and what sucks about it even more is that I'm
still playing and enjoying the game for what it is I know deep down that this game can get better but
I just don't know if they're going to push it in the right direction also dude this game has
been going on forever I'm still the top in here I mean I'm gonna win by default you guys can keep
leaving all you want we got a 1v1 situation oh we got him oh you heard him he heard him
oh he got him dude where we are my boy I'm dead what the frick you're the last one left
but there's no one else here there's nobody else here yeah [ __ ] okay how do I kill myself
you could try to go out of the map oh yeah sure it's already over GG dude see when game chat's
actually chill I mean that's a great reason to still be playing card at the end of the day Call
of Duty is still massively popular it's still going to outsell basically everyone which is
probably why we're not seeing some of those more significant changes I guess I either can't help
myself and I have to keep playing this game or I just love the community too much love the roots
and the origins of the series and I want to see it actually improve and get better but with that
being said Thank you guys very much for watching I hope you guys enjoyed watching me talk about
Counter-Strike 2 as well as fortnite creative 2 x defiant and the sad state of Modern Warfare 2 in
war zone 2. if you guys did enjoy this video and you want to see Counter-Strike 2 gameplay as soon
as I can get my hands on it make sure to drop a like I'll see you guys later.com [Music] that's
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