Another 5 Cool Things About Counter Strike 2 

Very family friendly. Thank you for wholesome content about international murder simulators 🙏

I was supposed to go to work in an hour but I thought 5 cool things about counter strike would be nice to learn in the time berfore then. I was immersed in the interesting points and eager to do some more research on them. I was hooked. I had 10 minutes left when I finished messing around with skyboxes but then... oh the horror... 3kliksphilip dropped the mask and unveiled his treacherous face. There were 3 more cool things! I rushed into the game testing out some one way smokes. 4 minutes left. I dug up my dictionary and learened the spelling for incendiary. 2 minutes left. I went back to the game testing out cl_crosshair_recoil 1 in CSGO and jumped into my car. I arrived 3 minutes late at work and I was fired on the spot. Since then my wife has left me, I have been kicked out of my home and my dog has been eaten by a bear. I am typing this comment from the library computer! I damn you 3kliksphilip! My foot would like to visit the shadows of your nether regions! How could you do this to me? Disliked and unsubscribed!!!

The legs in L4D2 were apparently removed because they conflicted with the way the Jockey was implemented, in case anyone is wondering why. The files for it were unfortunately lost, but seem to have been dug up anew or remade for CS2.

grenades ignoring skyboxes is going to be really interesting moving forwards, especially for maps like inferno. i wonder if they will have to alter the maps in the future to account for it.

The skybox is the most major one I see game changing, anyone can smoke anywhere at any time. It’s wild.

I think you'll appreaciate insurgency sandstorm's audio. It changes based on the surrounding and material as well as the size of the room.

Now let us wait for the family friendly version of this video.

Looking down and seeing legs is such an underrated visual feature in fps games and it is pretty disappointing how many modern games don't do it. It grounds you to the environment and increases the immersion substantially imo.

Modding is one of the things I miss from Counter-Strike, I know custom servers are still around, but it's just not the same anymore. The only reason I stopped playing Counter-Strike is because of how it veered into being predominantly esports focused and putting less emphasis on community servers. Valve pls fix

I loved the reverb effects in HL1 based games. Nowadays, there is so much tech like impulse responses and dynamic sound occlusion that can make sound design in games stand out. Glad they added a better system to CS2, even if it's not as lovely over the top as it used to be.

I remember my Gravis Ultrasound. Loved it. Was a great alternative to the mainstream SoundBlaster cards.

That grenade practice feature is incredible. Practicing nades was one of the most frustrating and weirdly difficult things about CSGO for me, that'll be a huge help.

Adding hl alyx leg movement would be awesome but it might be awkward when one of your legs are not on solid ground

I did not expect the UT99 throwback and it instantly brought back countless memories...

the way counter strike 2 does AO is like nothing ive ever seen before. im personally very enthusiastic about this effect

I'm really liking the return of some the old music tracks in your videos. It evokes a nostalgia and creates an energy that keeps me interested. Fantastic vid, Phil

A good example of ambient occlusion (in a real sense) is how you don’t exactly have shadows when it’s cloudy, but underneath your feet it is still dark. Same goes for cars.

When you were talking about Valve asking artists not to bake AO or other lighting information in their textures, that's basically the case with all proper PBR texture implementations. In a game with Spec Gloss PBR for example, black sections in the diffuse map indicate completely metal surfaces. You can see why you wouldn't bake AO into the diffuse map in that case.

The wide-legged pose is actually the standard taught in most militaries for how to stand when shooting, it gives you a large upper body range left to right while giving you a much more stable footing while also being easy to break into sprint from. It looks goofy in CS, but yeah, it is realistic.

Your synth music never gets old I love it :)

The new smokes use volumetric particles, I believe. I don't remember if that's the name, but it was first created for Alyx because traditional particle effects are only rendered in 2D and just face the player and it looks weird with the binocular vision in VR, so they created the new particle effect system that's rendered in 3d and changes based on viewing angle because it's an actual 3d object.

Thank you Philip

I teared up a little at the final bit of ut99, it was really amazing booting up a practice match with bots and doing all kind crazy stuff with modifiers, very nostalgic

0:24 The footage you are using is NOT Aureal A3D's sound in action. It is the Aureal A3D Rooms demo on Windows 7 being emulated with OpenAL Soft's HRTF through the DSOAL wrapper. There aren't even any echoes in the footage, as A3D's advanced "wavetraced" reverb cannot be emulated. You should have used PhilsComputerLab's recording instead, or Hiradur's recording from the Internet Archive.

So apparantly the reason the legs vanished is down to the Jocky and how thd players upper and lower halves are independently animated. I suppose something broke animation-wise when the jocky takes control and the easiest fix was a double amputation. Also! Having recoil on the weapon instead of the screen is so much nicer.

Using Half-Life w/ ray trace mod was a great choice of GoldSrc footage to use, and yes I'm enjoying the heck out of it. Also thanks for showing us you can't actually shoot yourself in the foot in CS2.

1999: EAX releases, bringing all sorts of cool audio effects and positional audio 2023: oh wow, gunshots are different inside

very nice video again as always what i always wanted to do is play an aim map or something while I'm in the lobby searching for a game, not necessarily playing with the lobby but just having something to do while waiting, not having to leave my warmup to join a lobby

Loved watching this video with my whole family. Please keep uploading such WHOLESOME videos philip

3:18 Philip really leaned in close when he said NETHER REGIONS

Hi Phillip! I wanna mention that I used your music kit ever since it was released and I love it. Thanks for venturing into music and giving that to us.

Philip is the only person that can keep me genuinely interested and enthralled with the behind-the-scenes mechanics of a game that I absolutely hate playing.

7:21 Two very important spots like this are on Overpass that allowed me to get countless kills, the path from water to A because your shadow is cast right into the site before entering and the stairs below CT spawn tell you if theres a CT standing above them at the edge of the spawn on top of them when you're coming out of the tunnel below

I'd like the grenade cam to be a permeant always on thing, like the follow crosshair option is now. They could have the smoke preview window only render the map and not display players so you can't use it to obviously cheat, just strictly perform throws. I think it would greatly encourage everyone to use them better and more often and make it easier to jump into new maps, not having to learn setups to take sites beforehand.

I'm also a person who doesn't play normal csgo modes a lot and just experiments within it, and that's why I was looking for a channel that would give me that kind of content (since most of it was competitive videos or open boxes) Until I found this channel by chance, because I don't speak English. And when I saw that their videos are not subtitled with the RU-vid system, I started watching most of them. Thank you very much for giving us this content.

Oh my GOD I've been looking for 'Aureal 3D' for years, I 'played' it as a kid but had no idea what it was. Cheers m8!

Kliks, the leg movement system in Alyx was used in CS2 because it relies on the AI already knowing ahead of time where it wants to go. That, and it also does things to add a feeling of momentum to the movement. The same system can't be used in CS2, because the way player movement works would have to be changed to be more realistic, and the game doesn't know where you want to go and how you will go there until you do it

allegedly left 4 dead 2 removed the legs so they could get like 4 or 5 more zombies spawned in at once

I think my favourite part about this new years of Phillip is his cat. I love his cat. Thank you Phillips cat. Keep up the great acting, you'll be a star in no time.

6:24 Thanks for mentioning this, I never had any idea that this is why hla looked like that

Was just watching old 3kliks vids, thank you Phillip!

the follow recoil option reminds me of the counter strike source beta in 2008-2010 ish, you had a yellow square box around your crosshair that followed the recoil. I really loved it, it's nice to see this again!

Unreal tournament was THE FRIKIN BEST, thanks for giving me a nostalgia trip at the end of the video, none of my friends know the game so its nice to see you give it some credit for being such a good game. great video as always Mr. Philip

Very intuitive video with great explanation! Well done.

6:32 that's because the NPCs movement is known upfront, while the player movement is unpredictable. You could add slower deceleration from the players current movement speed and direction but that would make the movement feel more sluggish.

Ambient occlusion is amazing. It makes the contrast of games so much better and so much more indepth.

What I just noticed when you talked about the commands and stuff is that I am now really interested if they changed the prev. game records and therefore the player ui. This was a pain in CS:GO as someone who used it just from time to time but could be so easily improved. Awesome video as always mate.

Such a good video, these are a joy to listen to, thank you for going into detail on everything, it's like listening to a friend tell you about their niche interests, doing the parasocial thing very well 🥰👍

I like how everyone was like : "uhh this sounds are so wierd i dont like it " but Philip is realy enjoying them

Teardown also has amazing environment-tailored reverb sound!

The sound bit, great! I love it!

The game looks fresh with the brighter global illumination and new vfx, thanks 3kliksphilip! I love your channel and how your winning style (music etc) is still on brand!

*Why is nobody mentioning that CT and T have different color smokes??????* huge detail, huge tactical change...

The game being brighter must be a gameplay change, not a technical change. They could have made CS2 look a lot prettier by giving environments a larger spectrum of the darkest dark and lightest lights, like a real summer day. A huge difference for me when I tried CS:GO again after playing valorant for some time was the fact that the former does not have player outlines while the latter does. Unless you have an exact picture in your mind of how the sight line should look without any players, it's harder to spot stationary enemies while you peek a corner. This was a problem for me especially on Ancient. I think this is one of the reasons valorant can have the same weapons for both sides while in CS the defenders have to be nerfed. Valve can't add outlines to CS because it would clash with the game's style, and making the map distinctly brighter is a nice workaround. The player models are much darker than any objects inside dust2.

I can finally bring my entire extended joint double decker family pack v.6.0.12.3 burger buffet family to watch this video together with me. What a joy.

I'm so happy about the whole sound update. I used to rely mainly on my sense of hearing. Damn! Locating enemies by sound and following them with the crosshair through the walls like there's nothing happening was so easy back then even with the cheap panasonic stereo headphones!

Would be cool if they added night maps in cs2 and night vision devices, sure not competitive, but cool.

I can't explain to you the nostalgia I got hit with when you opened UT99 in the end. My first fps ever. What was the mutator to get that red shock rifle again? The one that instantly blew up anyone you hit?

So glad Philip made graphics comparisons not only to other versions of cs, but to real life as well.

6:36 the reason for this "awkward wide legged pose" is because that's how you're supposed to stand when you shoot a gun. if your feet were closer together it would be harder to control recoil. cs is a pretty tactical game so it kind of makes sense that characters are always maintaining good shooting posture when standing still.

Bomb radius and damage calculator reminded me of that tool i made, i wonder how much I'd have to change for it to work with source 2 though, since I have no beta access. And having it in-game would greatly improve usability by not requiring downloads or anything

Holy shit, is the moving crosshair just like a regular feature that you can use whenever? That's actually amazing and addresses one of the parts of the game that I disliked the most

unreal tournament was the shit! awesome video as always, but that brought back some memories with the unreal tournament at the end! haha x

Oh dude... I LOVE the Unreal Tournament OST, that menu song is really good. That's a badass game.

I find the follow recoil option for the crosshair really interesting. I could never get into Counter Strike as the seperation of crosshair and actual aimpoint annoyed me beyond belief.

Best Part of the Video: 5:12

I’m glad the quirky 90 sound is coming back it’s one of those things I liked in the older games I’ve played

Always a treat when Philip uploads

''hl1 was correct'' i wish more devs would admit this. Shame u didnt mention the other source game that had a visible body, dark messiah of might and magic.

The wall directly on my left is of almost the same colour as Philip's. How thoughtful, Mr. Dyer.

Trespasser had bodies looking down back then already! ❤🎉 Love your content! Thank you!

If I recall correctly, one of the reasons Alyx can do such good walk animations is because an entire path segment is precalculated, allowing predictive steps to be taken. The system can begin to shift in anticipation of a sharp corner that exists on its path, which is a very convincing and natural behavior. A player doesn't have a preset path they're trying to follow, so the rig is completely reactive. The system doesn't know where I'm headed. Limited predictions can be made but they generally won't look nearly as good as animations that consider an entire precalculated path. The classic example is sprinting in a wide graceful arc, then taking a hard strafe to the side and resuming sprinting in a wide arc. If this path is known in advance, you get what a football player might do - gently turn their weight into the arc, and as they approach the hard strafe start pulling back. But the animation system responding to a player must treat every segment of that wide sprinting arc as a place where a sudden strafe might occur and thus always be somewhat pulled back in case it happens. Great video! You have excellent structure, delivery, and editing.

I really liked the part with the little bunnies, thank you for producing so much family and advertiser friendly content

In the 90s, the best audio to be had was A3D which crapped all over Creative's janky EAX. The only thing EAX does is add different reverb. A3D on the other hand did audio wavefront simulation that made sound actually adapt to the shape of the environment, and it was leagues better. Then Creative bought out Aureal and killed off A3D instead of continuing to bring it to market due to its superiority. It sounds like game audio is finally coming back around on its own and adding its own awesome post processing to bring us the sort of aural experience that we already had 25 years ago.

It's only now occurred to me that audio physics had dropped in quality as other aspects increased in quality, and only now am I realizing how much I've needed this.

Thanks for the family friendly version, my 2 yo sister can finaly watch cs go safely

The ut99 reference at the end 👍

Unreal tournament was legit so fun, those capture the flag maps where you could get the guided rpg? So much fun.

Really excited to dive into more of Source 2's functionality as a Source engine modder _ambient occlusion_

As a 3d artist, you explained everything on point. Thanks Philip! that's one of the main differences of val graphics. everything is baked there.

L4D came right to my mind when you said about the visible legs

You managed to make me obsessed with *Ambient Occlusion*

It's good to see environmental audio getting a comeback. I think audio took a hit and regressed when Windows dropped support for hardware audio extensions.

A lot of games handle gunshots by having the gunshot sounds be isolated (like it's basically a quick "BMPH!"), and then having separate tail audio sounds (like indoor or outdoor) that get played alongside the gunshot. Seems to get the job done pretty well.

6:20 "It's an improvement over the system in L4D2" You did a goof

i must say that unreal tournament 99 soundtrack hit me hard so nostalgic 😢

6:27 holy crap that leg movement makes such a difference to realistic animation didnt realise up until now

Awesome! Ambient occlusion

Wholesome! Gonna show my little baby nephew

That dynamic moving crosshair is awesome

Man, that unrel tournament bit... That takes me back. So sad Epic erase it from their history :

I remember way back in the CSGO beta, being able to see your own shadow was one of the most common requests. I almost can't believe it took them this long.

Philip: "This video is for all ages" Also Philip: seductively says "nether regions"

I love seeing you posted.

The lighting on Inferno B site is beautiful, it got a greenish tint to it because of the green tarp above

I still find it crazy that we live in the same city. I first realized when you took a photo of yourself in front of the University in one of your videos. It was weird seeing the building my boyfriend works in just behind you :P

I'm glad you're thinking of the children. 5 year olds love Counter Strike.

Great CS2 video 👍❤💯🔔

Wow, it will be so exciting to see competitive CS2, especially with all the new ways to throw nades

This reminds me of my first time finding out about ambient occulusion and other types of lightning in source games, i didnt see real life the same way for a month.