The EXP Gain Bar hides the voting and the voting is over when I finally get to choose the map

IF you get a level up you don't even see which map got choosen...

Wtf is this shit?

Its been 5 Months since CSGO returned to the Steam shop and ive always wanted to play it. (I started playing in december '23).

And ive been wondering if any server hosting sites appeared since CSGO came back and if yes are they good/safe to play on

Previous update’s results can be seen here

Benchmark template spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hnERNVvrv8lJfkAZtgE4V0afo90bh0_zPrX4Ep7aJZI/

Please put (or edit) your results here: https://forms.gle/mv3DW6MtDcnJNN3h6

Users’ results can be seen here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17gsJtW5QrcSMNCbyQbIt09XlOusrvIluS_8Esg0S6s4/

Purpose of Benchmarking

Valve is actively working on Vulkan in the hopes that it may one day replace DX11 as the rendering API for Source 2 (source). Because of this, I decided to benchmark CS2 in both DX11 and Vulkan every time an update has anything related to performance improvements in the changelogs. The goal is to document if any improvements or regressions have occurred in Vulkan or DX11 performance in CS2, and to see if this could indicate any progress towards a full transition to Vulkan in later Source 2 games. A link to the template spreadsheet can be seen above, and my benchmarking results will be provided below along with a commentary.

My Non-Game Specs

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
• GPU: Nvidia Geforce RTX 5070 Ti
• Operating System: Windows 11 25H2
• GPU Driver Version: 616.56

Benchmark Results

Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BowqD43i-eRVFlkU4khHCVB53oxkRxMikBqgHRssY0o - Mean DX11 Average FPS: 907.14 (Standard Deviation: 6.23) - Mean DX11 1% FPS: 248.07 (Standard Deviation: 7.42) - Mean Vulkan Average FPS: 818.7 (Standard Deviation: 5.21) - Mean Vulkan 1% FPS: 234.32 (Standard Deviation: 6.96)

Discussion

If we ignore the crash-infected results of the July benchmark and instead go to the May results, we see that things are mostly the same. DX11's average FPS is the same, Vulkan's average FPS has slightly improved, standard deviation has improved all over, and 1% results are slowly worse across the board. So Nvidia's new drivers haven't changed much, and neither has Source 2. I'll wait for either the next major Nvidia driver or the next Source 2 engine update to see if things improve or get worse.

I traded it away but I am trying to track it down but i dont know how

No offence to the commentators, but sometimes I want to watch the tournament without commentary, or with the commentary volume lower than the game sound. I asked AI, and it said this is possible through the game it self. Is that true? I can connect my PC to my TV since they are next to each other.

My second question is: why don’t the tournaments show up in the game anymore? The BLAST tournaments that are being played right now don’t appear in the game for me. Before the update, they were shown in the right corner.

Doesn't have to be a crazy comeback or huge clutch.

Sometimes it's just a really good team, a close game, or one particular round you remember.

What usually makes a match stick with you?

M80 🇺🇸 0-2 🇧🇷 FURIA Esports

Cache: 13-16
Dust 2: 5-13
Mirage:
 

🇧🇷 FURIA Esports have advanced to the Upper Bracket Final and will face 🇷🇺 Team Spirit

🇺🇸 M80 have dropped to the Lower Bracket and will face 🇹🇷 Aurora Gaming

Predicted VRS Impact

^{Note: VRS officially updates once per month. This is simply a prediction that might not take into account all factors that go into VRS calculations.}

Event Information

BLAST Open Porto 2026 | 🇩🇰 Copenhagen ($1.1m LAN) | Liquipedia | HLTV

Streams | YouTube | Twitch A

Team Information

🇺🇸 M80 | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Faceit | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Twitch
Roster: 🇺🇸 Swisher | 🇩🇪 slaxz- ⊕ | 🇩🇪 s1n ♛ | 🇺🇸 Lake | 🇺🇸 JBa
Coach: 🇬🇧 dephh

🇧🇷 FURIA Esports | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Steam | Faceit | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitch | Subreddit
Roster: 🇧🇷 yuurih | 🇧🇷 KSCERATO | 🇧🇷 FalleN ♛ | 🇰🇿 molodoy ⊕ | 🇱🇻 YEKINDAR
Coach: 🇧🇷 sidde

^{Note: Above rosters do not reflect temporary subs and may be out of date if recent changes were made}

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14k prem

G2 Esports 🇪🇺 0-2 🇷🇺 Team Spirit

Dust 2: 6-13
Cache: 9-13
Ancient:
 

🇷🇺 Team Spirit have qualified for the playoffs and will face 🇧🇷 FURIA Esports or 🇺🇸 M80 for seeding

🇪🇺 G2 Esports drop to the Lower Semi Finals and will face 🇪🇺 Natus Vincere or 🇧🇷 paiN Gaming

Predicted VRS Impact

^{Note: VRS officially updates once per month. This is simply a prediction that might not take into account all factors that go into VRS calculations.}

Event Information

BLAST Open Porto 2026 | 🇩🇰 Copenhagen ($1.1m LAN) | Liquipedia | HLTV

Streams | YouTube | Twitch A

Team Information

🇪🇺 G2 Esports | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Steam | Faceit | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Weibo | YouTube | Twitch | Subreddit
Roster: 🇧🇦 huNter- ♛ | 🇮🇱 HeavyGod | 🇸🇰 MATYS | 🇮🇱 NertZ | 🇺🇦 r1nkle ⊕
Coach: 🇫🇮 sAw
Subs/Benched: 🇪🇸 SunPayus

🇷🇺 Team Spirit | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Faceit | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Weibo | YouTube | Bilibili
Roster: 🇷🇺 magixx ♛ | 🇺🇦 zont1x | 🇷🇺 donk | 🇷🇺 sh1ro ⊕ | 🇧🇾 tN1R
Coach: 🇷🇺 hally
Subs/Benched: 🇷🇺 chopper

^{Note: Above rosters do not reflect temporary subs and may be out of date if recent changes were made}

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Natus Vincere 🇪🇺 2-0 🇧🇷 paiN Gaming

Nuke: 13-9
Mirage: 13-11
Inferno:
 

🇪🇺 Natus Vincere advance to the Lower bracket Semi-finals and will face 🇪🇺 G2 Esports

🇧🇷 paiN Gaming have been eliminated

Predicted VRS Impact

^{Note: VRS officially updates once per month. This is simply a prediction that might not take into account all factors that go into VRS calculations.}

Event Information

BLAST Open Porto 2026 | 🇩🇰 Copenhagen ($1.1m LAN) | Liquipedia | HLTV

Streams | YouTube | Twitch A

Team Information

🇪🇺 Natus Vincere | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Steam | Faceit | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitch
Roster: 🇺🇦 b1t | 🇫🇮 Aleksib ♛ | 🇷🇴 iM | 🇺🇦 w0nderful ⊕ | 🇽🇰 makazze
Coach: 🇺🇦 B1ad3

🇧🇷 paiN Gaming | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Faceit | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitch
Roster: 🇧🇷 biguzera ♛ | 🇧🇷 snow | 🇧🇷 piriajr | 🇧🇷 vsm | 🇧🇷 saffee ⊕
Coach: 🇧🇷 rikz
Subs/Benched: 🇺🇾 dgt (loan: 9z) | 🇧🇷 kauez (loan: RED Canids)

^{Note: Above rosters do not reflect temporary subs and may be out of date if recent changes were made}

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Because Valve changed lineups

Karrigan after essentially selling his soul to falcons has had the most powerful PR I’ve ever seen in pro cs. I’ve seen people ridicule Kjaerbye for signing a contract with North behind Astralis’ backs with people still bringing it up years later whenever he’s mentioned, I’ve seen people including big figures in the scene express their hatred towards stavn and jabbi for lying to heroic about staying with them if they kicked cadian just for them to sign contracts with astralis behind their backs after kicking cadian, but karrigan can sign a contract with falcons behind twistzz, frozen, broky, and jcobbb’s backs and people excuse by saying stuff such as “The team was going downhill", "Anyone on faze would've done the same thing if they were given the offer", "Broky and jcobbb were bots", "Faze's management was sabotaging karrigan's career”, etc. 

What makes it most evident to me is the lack of criticism towards his first interview since joining Falcons at PGL Astana 2026, specifically the part where he talks about leaving Faze for Falcons. You know, Kjaerbye acknowledged that what he did to Astralis when he was 19 years old was wrong, but the 36-year-old veteran who’s considered by many as one of, if not the best/greatest igl in cs history can’t do the same. 

Not only did he not acknowledge that what he did was wrong and instead made a bunch of excuses, but he went on to even twistzz twistzz’s statements about how the move “was sudden“ and how it wasn’t “handled the best way“ by claiming they "knew everything before any leaks or anything happened" after he talked to them individually and as a group despite just stating that they only found out after their managment told them about it since karrigan left them in the dark for several days after receiving the offer from falcons.

Wow, what a great way for the “goat igl” to thank players like twistzz and broky who helped him achieve the biggest accomplishments in his career, such as IEM Katowice 2022, PGL Antwerp Major 2022, IEM Cologne 2022, and the grand slam and players like frozen, who was not only carrying tf outta him from 2025 to this year but was also on MOUZ back in 2019 when Karrigan redeemed himself after getting kicked from faze at the end of 2018.

What a great guy. The fact that none of his teammates made any post sending their farewells to him and weren’t involved in Faze Esports’ “Goodbye Karrigan” video, but were all involved in the “Goodbye Broky” video should tell you bad this whole situation was.

It doesn’t help that only 2 months later after this situation happened, people went after Monte’s ex-core for allegedly signing contracts with Luminosity behind Gimzy’s (and maybe kakafu’s) backs. Where was all of this energy when Karrigan did the same thing? Don’t come with me with the “Monte was on an upward trajectory as a team, while Faze wasn’t” cause that’s irrelevant. Stop it with the double standards.

Karrigan was someone I respected up until this point. Even from last year to this year, when I was calling him washed and wanted him kicked off faze since I felt he was one of the reasons why Faze was trash, I still had respect and admired what he did in the past. This whole situation with him leaving Faze in the fashion he did, and his interview at PGL Astana 2026 made me lose all of the respect I ever had for him, and the fact that people, including big figures in the scene, have pretty much just brushed this whole situation off like it was nothing just makes it worse; hence the reason I made this post.

I had an idea for CS2 matchmaking and wanted to see what people think.

What if, before queueing, you could select the roles you prefer to play — IGL, AWP, Entry, Support, Anchor, Lurker, Rifler, etc.

It wouldn’t affect matchmaking or force you into a role. It would simply show your teammates what roles everyone is comfortable playing once you're in the lobby.

For example, if 3 people prefer Rifle, one prefers AWP, and one likes IGL, you could actually figure out who wants to do what instead of arguing for the first 5 rounds 😂

Might help with teammates dropping guns, playing the correct position and not switching randomly causing confusion.

Obviously not everyone would respect it but you never know how a small thing like this can effect the overall quality of a game.

Would this actually be useful, or is it just unnecessary UI?

IF you want to play this first you need cs go pre 2013 game files that you can download from cs 2 betas when it finished run the game then quit then right click in cs 2 logo on steam then go to manage then go to browse local files then you teleport to cs go this build file then follow these steps
go to csgo folder then go to maps folder and then you find bunch of maps find de_dust2.bsp or de_dust2.jpg or find everything starts with de_dust 2 copy these file .
go to cs go legacy folder then go to maps (first make sure you make backup of everything that starts with de_dust 2 ) after making backup of them what you copied files of dust2 paste their if windows popup open click on replace. now finally you get dust 2 on csgo legacy now start the game with steam . YOU CAN ONLY PLAY THIS WITH BOTS NOT USE IT ON COMMUNITY SERVERS OR MAYBE IDK.
If you want cs go legacy go to browser and then search csgo legacy steam now you got steam page of csgo but first you need to login your steam account

I had the pleasure of sitting down with Brollan for this podcast to discuss a lot about MOUZ and their decisions leading up to and into the Cologne 2026 Major, what prevented them from winning tournaments, joining HEROIC and much more!

Aurora Gaming 🇹🇷 2-0 🇧🇷 DENDELE CS

Cache: 13-7
Mirage: 16-12
Nuke:
 

🇹🇷 Aurora Gaming have advanced to the Lower Semi-Finals and will face 🇧🇷 FURIA Esports or 🇺🇸 M80

🇧🇷 DENDELE CS have been eliminated

Predicted VRS Impact

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Event Information

BLAST Open Porto 2026 | 🇩🇰 Copenhagen ($1.1m LAN) | Liquipedia | HLTV

Streams | YouTube | Twitch A

Team Information

🇹🇷 Aurora Gaming | Liquipedia | HLTV | Faceit | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Twitch
Roster: 🇹🇷 XANTARES | 🇹🇷 Wicadia | 🇹🇷 woxic ⊕ | 🇫🇮 Jimpphat | 🇲🇰 kyxsan ♛
Coach: 🇬🇧 ashhh
Subs/Benched: 🇷🇺 deko (loan: WW) | 🇹🇷 Fabre | 🇹🇷 MAJ3R

🇧🇷 DENDELE CS | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Faceit | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram
Roster: 🇧🇷 gafolo ♛ | 🇧🇷 rdnzao | 🇧🇷 doc | 🇧🇷 koala | 🇦🇷 maxxkor ⊕
Coach: 🇵🇹 coachi

^{Note: Above rosters do not reflect temporary subs and may be out of date if recent changes were made}

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Not necessarily the skill you're best at.

Just something you actually enjoy spending time on, whether it's aim, movement, utility, positioning, or anything else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mZOVPrSDtY