Despite the many rumors and reports about Valve's Source 2 engine being scrapped, word has come out that the engine is not only still being developed, but could also be coming to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Counter Strike:GO.
CS:GO has been running on what was, at the time, the latest version of the Source engine since it launched in 2012. Since then, the game has had years of support from Valve in the way of balance updates, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:bug fixes, and major content drops in the form of operations. The game went free to play in 2018, further expanding its impressive player base and extending the game's already 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:extensive lifespan.
While it was originally announced at the Hello CS presentation hosted in China that CS:GO would be ported to a new Source 2 engine in 2017, that never became a reality. Since then, more and more evidence mounted that the entire Source 2 engine had been cancelled until Tyler McVickers from🌃 Valve News Network stated that it is "very possible" the engine launches by the end of 2021. Previously VNN had reported💃 the opposite, claiming that work on the engine had been stopped due to the overwhelming amount of community content that would need to be ported over.
The official maps, weapons, and skins would likely be a simple task to port to a new eꦅngine, however it is all the community made content that complicated the task. At the current time McVickers says "the core porting job" from Source to Source 2 is "pretty much done, but it's the roll-out that matters." Later on he suggests that betas and public tests would need to be held for possibly over a year in order to make su🦂re everything functions correctly.
Fans of Valve and their projects have come to be fairly skeptical when it comes to the company offering up timelines on their projects. W𓆏hile it seems fair to give a lot of wiggle room for porting a game to an entirely new engine, the fact that we've been hearing about it happening for 3 years now, only to be told it's still over a year off, doesn't instill much confidence in seeing this be the time frame they actually sܫtick to.
The change to Source 2 wouldn't even be a major change for casual players either, with McVickers stating it will be "95%" the same and be more of an upgrade for people who utilize the map-making and other community and creation tools. If you were hoping the jump to a new engine would be a major shakeup to CS:GO, then you're probably better off waiting for an entirely new Counter Strike to be announced.
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