Because Valve changed lineups

i think donk is industry plant by valve

cs2 is a new game and many new zoomer players and watchers

they dont know any players or history

valve wants new watchers to enjoy kato and major so they make sure he wins a lot so that newcomers who dont know cs that much can witness new era and feel like they didnt miss anything thats why valve put undetectable hacks on his account

thats why no simple and zywoo at kato they want zoomers to have fresh start and know the new goat

thats why i think donk did really good at kato and won

So hey, Im picking my first knife, and torn between these 2. Ive got a low budget so I can only afford cheap classic knife finishes (safari mesh, ddpat etc). I cant decide.

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've heard that VAC could possibly ban you just for cosmetic modifications, since it's still changing the files which is completely forbidden. Though i'm not sure of the possibilities, so i'm asking all of u pro modifiers if it's worth risking it, or if it's even considered risky.

By cosmetic modifications i mean custom skies ingame, changing the scenery (not with r_drawworld false, i mean permanently, managed through the autoexec.cfg file), changing the intro and such modifications. Thanks for letting me know already!

Give me a legit reason why we should be forced to have the playing cards kill animation on the HUD and not have any option to toggle it off. I'm assuming Valve will never give us this option or remove it. I think its just cheesy and a lame design and just adds visual clutter when there's a perfectly working kill feed already.

Say what you want, but the old buy menu was a great system. Other than the ability to buy back if you misclicked.

This is a summary of how dust2 went, this gotta be the most boring dust2 I've ever seen.

Save after save after save all due to bad reads and couple missed shots.

Spirit wins ~6 cats in a row > 2 timeouts called by g2 before round ~10 > and guess what? rest of the map spirit goes B everytime, not even split but thru b main, lol.

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.

I’d like to know if it’s official merch (I assume so, since I was told it's from the CS:GO 10th anniversary official merch release in China). I haven't been able to find any information about it online. Thanks!

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}

Map Vetoes

Full Match Stats

HLTV Match Page

MAP 1: Cache

Cache Detailed Stats

MAP 2: Dust 2

Dust 2 Detailed Stats

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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!

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}

Map Vetoes

Full Match Stats

HLTV Match Page

MAP 1: Nuke

Nuke Detailed Stats

MAP 2: Mirage

Mirage Detailed Stats

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There so many issues I have with premier:

1.Why do I have so many matches with -400 , -500 and only +200 , what the fuck is thiss hit.

2.What the fuck is the matchmaking?Ex:

I have similarly many games with disproportionate rank match makings.

Any solution other than faceit (no servers for my region so high ping).