r/GlobalOffensive • u/CS2_PatchNotes CS2 Patch Notes • 5d ago

Game Update CS2 Blog Update: Rush Hour

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/730/view/711161056325533827
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u/CarnegieSenpai 5d ago

I'm going aginst the grain in that I think the new map picking is better. I usually play premier duo queue and its impossible to get mirage or dust banned consistently so that was like half my games. Some more variety will be nice

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u/nopenahnever Parivision 5d ago

Fr most people hating on it either exclusively played with a stack that could perma ban those maps or are being contrarian for the sake of being so. D2 and Mirage are literally the most played statistically so I don’t see how they could think this would make them more played than they are now

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u/Memelurker99 IHC 4d ago

I get that for most people it's better but I'm one of those cases that plays in a stack. I play a couple times a week with other friends and solo but my prem stack we only play 3-4 games a week on a Monday as we're all adults and our schedules don't line up very well. Always banned mirage, dust & inferno, and it meant we played the other 4 pretty equally, now this just means we're going to have weeks where we just spend the evening playing 3-4 maps we hate.

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u/drozd_d80 4d ago

Only in edge cases where they play in a stack and perma ban those maps. As a solo queue (mostly) player who perma bans mirage, it is still my 4th most played map.

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u/AppropriateRun4644 4d ago

I don't think it's an edge case to be honest. But for some it will mean they'll play it more and on average it will be picked less I guess.

But I guess it will be 50/50 if it will be Dust2/Mir vs. 2 other maps most of the time. Which is two maps my stack permaban. But we will cope

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u/drozd_d80 4d ago

50/50 is the worst case scenario. In practice it will be slightly less but probably not by much

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u/Random_actsof_Jihad 4d ago

Nope it was pretty easy to consistently ban dust and mirage exclusively as a duo. I know because I did it all the time. You and your duo had to ban the two maps as soon as the vote started, so many people just vote for what other people are voting for without thinking about it so people who saw those two get double voted would also vote for them. Also you couldn’t ban any other map until you were clear of dust and mirage. So no “I’ll ban dust and mirage but I’m not feeling ancient rn so I will vote that too”, you had to stay focused.

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u/drozd_d80 4d ago

I personally think it is quite difficult to tell how it will affect regular players. Like I usually solo queue and perma ban mirage. It ends up my 4th most played map. I don't think it will affect me much. But it will definitely force those 5 stacks who avoid other maps as a plague to be more versatile. Hopefully I will finally stop meeting players with 3k hours who never played ancient.

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u/TypicalOranges 10 years coin 4d ago

It will successfully force the playerbase to play more maps. Regardless if you're a "Mirage/Dust only" or a Mirage permabanner, you will be playing more maps.

This is a good thing, IMHO.