Valve Adds Brand-New Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Map | |
Valve Adds Brand-New Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Map  There's a brand-new map for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive that appears to be based on Venice, Italy. Last year, there were rumors that Valve might be adding something to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive after dataminers found some references to "canals" in the game files. Fast forward to today, and Valve has announced just what that addition is: a brand-new map named "Canals." The official post on the CS:GO blog says that the map is based on "real-world environments" in a "historic Italian city." The counter-terrorist side is a large, open area, and the terrorist side is a crescent-shaped area with multiple route to take to each bomb site. Valve says of the bomb sites, "Site A is set in the open CT territory and rewards the use of smoke grenades as well as rifle skills, while site B is located in the interior where submachine guns and shotguns will prove most useful." Alongside this new map, there's also a new upgrade to the Phoenix Terrorist player model, as well a new case. The Spectrum Case will contain 17 weapon finishes designed by community members. The rare special items in these cases be the "second generation of knives in Chroma finishes." | |
It isn't de_dust, so the purists will hate it. | |
Dust or death. | |
de_dust2 - and that got its own playlist a while ago, so purists won't even care, they got dust2 24/7. | |
Valve worked on a game. Huh. | |
Every 1.6 oldie I play with hates Dust 2 with a passion. Its Nuke, Overpass, Cobblestone, Cache, Inferno and Mirage which gets the love in my experience. | |
The map is already "broken": | |
I wonder if this will mean, when cs_italy is eventually remade (assuming they'll ever get around to remaking any cs_ maps and aren't just planning to remove them from the game entirely), it'll be the first remake that's made mainly out of existing assets instead of all-new ones. | |