CS2 vs CSGO Map Comparison 

Can't help but agree about the all maps being sunny part. The different weather in some of the maps is a huge factor for atmosphere.

Is it just me, or does Office looks better in CSGO? The gloomy overcast really was a defining feature of it

Oh i haven't liked the sun change on Office, it had kinda of a gritty urban feel, now its just yet another Dust2 sunny day

Fun fact: In the CS2 version of Baggage, the labels for the conveyor belts now correctly read "FLIEẞBAND", where in CS:GO it is "FLIESSBAND". The German-language ligature ß, the so-called "sharp s", has not had an uppercase variant until 2008 and wasn't officially adopted until 2017. In all-caps writing, as is the case in this map, you had to use "SS" instead.

The new maps look less artistic somehow. Even though it will be better for gameplay it feels like the maps lost most of their charm. Or rather it's just nostalgia for the older ones.

Am I the only one who feels like the "better lit" versions in cs2 just make it so much more bland removing almost all contrast and richness of color? 1:36 as an example

I'm still mad that Assault and Dust were removed. Assault was so fun when you wanted a casual experience on competitive matchmaking such a fun map.

The fact you went frame by frame for the office comparison to ensure the flag was in the same animation frame is just a testament to your dedication to detail. thanks

Looking at the old 2012 maps (Shoots and Lake and Bank) gives me a warm feeling. The maps made back then have a Left 4 Dead 2 vibe to them where even the sunny maps have this energy vibrating from them which I always liked, coupled with the photorealistic textures of the player models I find it unique, I'll miss it.

i love cs2 for the most part but im really, really hoping that lake and office wont look like this in the full release. the brighter lighting just looks kind of ugly to me, and kind of ruins the original vibe of the map. office definitely needs a remake, but the weather shouldnt change. lake is just not great looking but, judging by the water, most likely is just unfinished. most of the remakes are great, but there are definitely a lot of things that look different for the sake of being different.

What an amazing video man. You truly are a vital pilar to the cs community. I would be happy if you made a part 2.

congrats on 1mil, much deserved after years of being the goat of CS:GO patch notes

this is definitely a map comparison

Can’t wait to see how they remaster 2fort for new CSGO, it was my favourite map back in the day, even if never made it into comp rotation, and I’d love to see it with source 2 lighting

Philip, you’re such a lifesaver for me, I hardly see any news about cs2, and all your hard work recently is very appreciated.

As someone who likes overcast weather, I can't help but feel the atmosphere and uniqueness of some maps such as cs_office is lost. Every map has it's vibe so to say. My favorite map from cs.1.6 was de_survivor, really cool map.

3:35 that Tetris line just made me realize how young games as we know it really are and how far theve came in a short amount of time

i love office, im so thankful they barely touched it. but i really hope they bring back the overcast and snow, thats part of what made it so special to me

cs_office is gonna be interesting with the new smokes. Since the current meta is to smoke off entrances and wait until the last minute of the match for the cts to push.

I kinda liked how shortdust kept the old style of dust, even though it is objectively worse I liked how it differentiated the 2 maps

I might have a guess as to what's going on with the aerial at 2:50 Source 1 does not apply Anti Aliasing to $alphatest cutout materials. Maybe they fixed this in source 2? So what you are seeing in the screenshot it just $alphatest cutout material but with AA applied to it. (4k with 8xAA means the AA buffer is 17280x30720. Pretty huge.) Ben Golus has a fantastic article on the topic called "Anti-aliased Alpha Test: The Esoteric Alpha To Coverage"

me and my brothers used to watch you a lot together, i wasn't old enough to have a PC back then but i liked watching them play and watch you, i'm 20 this year and your voice still hasn't changed, your one of the csgo channels i actually enjoy watching

5:11 have to say i really like this bit of music, it always fits so well with your videos and it's beautiful little details going on behind the melody.

What I'm really disappointed about is that in the name of multiplayer competitiveness/visibility, Valve totally butchered map's baked indirect shadows(AO), making everything feels like floating in the air. Half-life Alyx showed us that Source 2's GI solution is perfectly fine dealing with these large scale indirect shadows, it's a shame of seeing it got tuned way down to barely existing in CS2.

The shiny floors really give away the lack of ssr or RT. Ssr might look messy without TAA (which would be a bad fit for cs anyway) and RT would allow players with good pc's to see round corners which can't happen. It would be nice if valve used planar reflections more freely for areas with large flat floors though

Source 1: everything is blue-greyish Source 2: everything is bright

Please cover more of the images we've been given. I can't get enough of these analysis.

please never ever change your style. your voice nerding about cs with your dads music in the background gives me strangely nostalgic and cozy feelings, super strange but I love it

@7:45 That's not blue and orange! It's blue and yellow! Simple test: does it look more like the color of a banana, or an orange? Granted, there's a little rust on there that adds a little reddish/brown but it's definitely lellow, as the small children say. I can't imagine what *yellow* must look like to you!

Most of the maps have completely lost their charm, and I while I understand improving lighting for gameplay, it's gone too far in some cases (Lake, Office, Shoots). I'm hoping this is a result of the game still being in a beta phase, with general art and atmosphere improvements coming later. Some CS:GO maps look considerably better than their Source 2 counterpart, which absolutely shouldn't be happening imho. Awesome map overview, Phillip.

Congrats on a mill! I genuinely would not gib two craps if you just talked about differences between the old and c2 maps. Thanks you king.

I love juicy and nitpicky comparisons. Can’t wait for your future CS2 vids.

Ancient bein the last map added is crazy to me bc it feels like it’s been there for forever

Could it be possible that some of these maps, like Office for example, might still be getting further changes? Cause in the reveal video they showed what looked like a completely remade inferno, but then the image of inferno going around along with these other ones just looks like a direct port, implying that maybe it's still subject to change. Of course it could alternatively just be that different parts of Inferno will get more changes than others, so we'll see, but it's exciting to think maybe some of the ones that just look like they're directly ported could maybe change more in the future.

Very interesting analysis, definitely interested in another one of these !

This was loads of fun, didn't release they were going to be changing so many maps. Keep it up!

5:48 i dont think that it was a mistake, in Mirage during the trailer it's noticeable too that the crates now have a smooth low resolution texture... maybe they forgot to add the Detail Textures

I’d love to hear more!!! What are your thoughts on the less gritty and more vibrant art style for cs2, especially on maps like overpass?

Philip when you said 'if you are interested in this kind of content' I wanted to reach through the screen and grab you by your collar! 😂 this is exactly the content I love you to do and it seems like you like it too so - yes - please more of this! 💪🏼

As you posted this I was watching a video by a guy called 2KliksPhilip about making Valve's maps editable, was good.

CS:S office brings back so many fun memories, it wasn't even remotely balanced but I loved the tension of that map, checking every corner for lurking threats as you crept closer and closer to that hostage room.

Philip changes our life, our perspective, the way we feel about Counter Stirik. His knowledge only empowers us to keep playing and pushing, even if its B. Thank you God

I couldn't believe that picture of the Shoots rework when I first saw it, didn't even recognise it. Can't wait to see more maps added to the beta

WOW! you are making so much videos apreciate your effort!

Thanks for the comparisons. Is it just me, or does the CS:GO version of office look much, much better? The CS2 version just looks sloppy and washed out.

Please do more of this I really wanna see your thoughts on Nuke and Inferno, they seemed to have changed a lot! Or at least Inferno has

If not for you, we would only have loud and click(sphilip)bait videos about CS2. Thanks for your work, I'd love to see more map comparisons

Banger video phill, do another!

Real question is, do we still have the anarchists in CS2 as they have basically ONLY ever been used for Office in terms of official maps for CS:GO

I recently had a job interview and I was very nervous, even after the interview. Man, your videos totally bright my day haha, can't wait to see what Valve's gonna do next! Hope you can do a full map comparison when CS2 gets officially released!

Dang, just going crazy with the vids lately! :D

this is what I’m excited for phillip to discuss when CS2 came out coz when I saw overpass on the trailer, I thought nothing has changed but when I compared it when I was playing, a lot has been different.

Are we sure every screenshot is really showing the version of the map we will be getting at the release of CS2? There are also screenshots of the current Inferno ported to CS2 and it looks the same as in CSGO, but a new and reworked version was hinted at in the CS2 trailers (hidden in the Italy footage). So maybe they have been working on reworks of older maps like Office as well and the screenshots are just left overs in the gamefiles from older CS2 versions?

philip really called the yellow color scheme orange in baggage

I appreciate these kind of videos, thank you!!

At 6:10 this is the new vis3(if I remember correctly) they were adding to s2, this was mentioned in the game s&box's development blog using s2 (in case anyone was curious as to how it's working)

Please keep campaigning for an Office remake. I love Office so much!

Hopefully they’re just bad screenshots and the worse textures weren’t a design choice. Also I agree the lighting is a little more boring now.

you should cover more of the images we've been given, this video had me enthralled

cannot give phil enough

I watched the whole video Philip great work!

They done ruined Shoots, Lake and Office bro aint no way

I admire the time u spend making these videos with all these details

Philip on the youtube grind, respect man.

fill me with more cs2 while I wait ❤

that's not orange, that's yellow!

Your eye for details make me believe that you’re on the spectrum and i love it😂

3:30 Facepunch made their own Office remake in S&box and it looks amazing

I'm really interested how the achievements transfer to cs2. Will they be revamped? Or will they be just even more unachievable without some serious file switching?

As a Lake main I can tell you that the new lake lukes beuatiful. The dark corners in basement are brightened up and you can see through the windows much easier from the outside.

Most of the maps would look better with a straight port of the new lighting systems but they need to figure out how to align this with the mood of a given map more specifically

Love the quality content! Gj!

Honestly the S2 lighting of Office outdoors looks much worse than the old CS:GO engine. Looks too...stock-UE4 like. And Baggage looks straight out of Half-Life: Alyx (though you certainly won't see me complaining).

7:38 that's yellow not orange tho....

3:45 you know when this song starts playing the video instantly gets better

I would definitely like to see more of this

7:45 ... that's Yellow, not Orange

Oof, Canals got a big downgrade. Sad since it was such a good looking map.

The cable going straight into the building is a real and intentional thing. Quite a few houses near where I live have that, and its for power

its amazing how you matched the map screenshot at a pixel level

Honestly the majority of them look worse. What were valve thinking, actual mappers will be able to make some great looking stuff though

Ooough, wow. A lot of the CS2 maps are just not looking good with this cookie cutter, over brightened look Valve is slapping everywhere... I'm not one for dark and gritty, but man, the more solemn look of CSGO just looks better. I really hope they broaden the weather/time of day on maps, cause a lot of these just look HORRID.

I am surprised you didn't cover the spawn area from baggage. It looked super real to me and i had to pause the video during my reaction just to take it all in.

Gotta agree with your take on lake, I want the light to be more orange-y/yelllowish like the old one, kinda like dusk or dawn sunlight

Where is Cobble? Is it safe, is it alright?

Bring back Rialto!!!

Yes, please, do all the videos!

I hope Valve watches this because you had some very very good points about the lighting being all the same etc

baggage is yellow and blue, not orange and blue.

They really overdid it by making everything really sunny and bright, I get its for "visibility" but I've never seen visibility as problem in any of the maps shown and it really sacrifices the atmosphere in them especially with lake and office And it really makes the textures look washed out and flat

In the CS2 trailers (iirc the one about porting the maps) there is a shot of ancient t-spawn if anyone is desperate to know if the water in motion looks like.

Fun Fact: The Lake map is actually a flip on Left 4 Dead's Death Toll Map 5 (The Boathouse). Plenty of maps in CSGO are flips on L4D1/2 maps!

This is probably going to be controversial but I can't be the only one who HATES the new artstyle? We don't need another valorant, fortnite, overwatch and so on. Why upgrade the engine if you are going to ruin it with a cartoon artstyle? Already hated it when cs go started to go in this direction with the character models. And it's not the only thing I'm taking issue with. Everything looks like I set the brightness to max and beyond. There is no contrast between anything. Everything just looks grey and washed out. There has to be a limit on how far you are willing to go for visibility and this is far beyond that point. Might as well just make every texture black or white and the character models whatever is the opposite of the previous choice with disabled shadows and low poly models at this point to go the full way. I really don't understand why every modern somewhat popular shooter has to go the cartoon route nowadays and I'm sick and tired of that.

Why did they think this color scheme and lighting looked good? Seems so "artificial" now, not sure how else to describe it.

I am really looking forward to the Community maps thought, it is really exciting for me

The wood downgrade at 5:48 is a little worrying. It does seem like they are making the game look less photorealistic and more cartoony.

WOAH 2 videos? Very nice :)

WOah dude this is absolutely radical!!

Good video Philip, thank you and good night

It would be great to see more map screenshot comparisons, but I think it's more important for you to release the quality comparison one first