Source 2 Finally Coming to CS:GO? New Clues
More rumors have surfaced regarding the introduction of the Source 2 engine to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Clues can be found in the new Dota 2 update.
- The new update for DOTA 2 mentions CS:GO;
- There are many indications that this is related to moving the game to the Source 2 engine. This is an event long awaited by the fans;
- The discovery was made by Twitter user Gabe Follower, who is known for rummaging through game codes.
There has been speculation for quite some time about when Counter-Strike: Global Offensive will migrate to a better graphics engine - Source 2. Recall that currently CS:GO runs on the dated first version of the engine, which dates back to 2004. A year ago, work on the implementation of Source 2 was supposed to have been discontinued, but recent indications suggest that the switch may be happening after all.
The first signal came from Gabe Follower, a user known for digging into game codes, who shared his revelations on Twitter. His finding is a reference to CS:GO in the libengine2 library associated with the new version of Source, which appeared in the latest update to DOTA 2.
Mention of CS:GO, source: Twitter - Gabe Follower
Of course, we don't have any details and this is just circumstantial evidence. However, this information is certainly something interesting and gives fans of Counter-Strike hope that they can look forward to a nicer look for their favorite FPS. Let's not forget that many of the confirmed leaks were first found in source code of games.
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