CS2 feels like a Work in Progress, but that’s okay

Since the earliest days of esports in the region, Counter-Strike has been one of the most popular games to play, together with perhaps Dota 2 and later, League of Legends and FIFA (EA FC). But since the early days of CS, plenty has changed in the game and its latest iteration, CS2, is still not as polished as many hoped. Still, that is perfectly fine (for the most part), since it’s just a case of history repeating itself.

It’s also perfectly fine to apply for the CS2 Weekly tournaments in the A1 Adria League. 

It’s interesting – almost every Counter-Strike started out broken. In the early days of CS:GO, players said that recoil was random, hitboxes did not feel right, and more. After a decade, the game was fixed and now we can’t even remember what was wrong at start. We could go so far as to say that every real Counter-Strike game needs to be messed up in some way in order to be good later.

Despite Valve’s (medium) effort to fix the issues that CS2 has right now, the game is still pretty rough around the edges when compared to CS:GO. For example, players are having trouble with the overal “feel” of the game, despite it looking almost the same as CS:GO, and Reddit and other social media websites are full with critics saying that the movement is worse, the servers are terrible and the anticheat is non-existent. FACEIT does help with this, but this is a third-party fix for some of the things related to competing. 

There is hope

Still, a lot is good with CS2, and some of these things are taken for granted. For example, the new engine provides much better graphics and overall feel, and will continue to work well for years, allowing Valve to upgrade the game visually for years. CS:GO did not look bad at all in its last days for a game that was a decade old, and we feel like the new engine will do the same. Apart from that, Valve does work on the game, and small updates and fixes are always coming. The issue is that some of the things that the community hates are very big parts of the game, and can not be sorted by small fixes easily. But, as with any CS, there is time.

For the A1 Adria League, CS is one of the staples, and a game that we all personally enjoy playing and watching. It has provided us with some of the league’s best and most dramatic moments, and despite it being a bit rough around the edges, we still love CS2 (and it is not because we have no other options.)

The Weekly tournaments in CS2 are starting soon, so make sure you apply through the landing page of the game and try your luck against the best in the region.