The next generation of the popular multiplayer shooter is out and immediately fans around the world are gambling like crazy.

Counter-Strike 2 has been released! This fact alone is enough for an announcement, because from now on all shooter fans can finally gamble the latest part of the worldwide popular multiplayer phenomenon. But: We also have numbers and first user opinions ready for you.

You can see that the info package is thicker than the first sentence would have you believe. Let’s take a look together at what’s going on in the gaming world on this memorable day. Oh, and by the way, a patch is already available – you can find the changelog on page 2 of this article!

Let’s start with the official welcome from Valve:

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– CS2 (@CounterStrike) September 27, 2023

Already a real hit on Steam

Counter-Strike 2 is doing well with fans. And by good we mean extremely good. And extremely good is to be understood as phenomenal. On Steam, the shooter already ranks at (rank 2 of the most played games) ever – a milestone that was admittedly already reached a few months ago during the closed beta.

But even at the time of this writing, almost 1,100,000 fans are still playing Counter-Strike 2. In the past 24 hours, i.e. in the period around the release, the game even scratched the 1.3 million mark again. You can find the impressive numbers at (SteamDB).

What do the fans say?

Many user reviews on Steam speak a positive language. The technical component of the shooter is often praised, especially the tick rate seems to be a big improvement to the retired CS:GO. The user D1gg3rX finds for example (only praising words) for the new, old shooter.

Tickrate? In simple terms: indicates how often per second the client compares its data with the server. So the higher the value, the better.

By the way, the official achievements for Counter-Strike 2 caused confusion and some amusement shortly after the launch – because many fans are simply still missing them, which means that they have played through CS2 to 100 percent…within a very short time?

Just unlocked CS2 steam achievement “A New Beginning” (“This is Counter-Strike, too.”) after playing a game of DM
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A look at (some Steam reviews) however, it also quickly becomes clear that one element of Counter-Strike 2 could still be a topic of conversation in the future, namely the lootboxes, in this case called weapon boxes . However, this topic is also present in other F2P shooters, so it is not a novelty in the genre.

Finally, a little laugh: the popular messaging service Discord also gets into the lively CS2 launch party (with a real retro snapshot)!

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– Discord (@discord) September 27, 2023

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Have you played Counter-Strike 2 yet? Are you one of the 1.1 million people currently playing it? If so, why are you reading articles here on GameStar.de, do you have that much skill? Impressive! Well, while you’re here, please write us your opinion about CS2 in the comments, we’re curious!

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