Hi, i wanted to put out my thoughts about how could CS2 potentially surpass CSGO in regards to gameplay experience and accessibility, While also trying not to wonder off to ideas that could most likely not align with what the developers want for the game. if you think i've missed something that could make the game better, let me know in the comments 🙂

Fixes:

• Fix third person finishing defuse animation: In CSGO when the CT was ending the defuse you could slowly see that in the last remaining second an animation would play that the CT would slowly go to grab the gun with both hands indicating that he is very close to defusing the bomb, this was such an important visual cue for me but in CS2 this animation is nowhere to be seen. https://youtu.be/RAJEx4N6oeU?si=ndMCn7TcyRNxRG4E
• Fix Movement affecting crosshair on sloped surfaces https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/1f4snmr/almost_a_year_after_cs2_release_valve_still_didnt/
• Fix Unreliable jump heights https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/1f8w5so/yesber_getting_on_top_of_tall_boxes_is_still/
• Recoil cooldown tied to Tickrate instead of interpolated https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/1ewlyu0/one_year_reminder_recoil_cooldown_is_still_tied/
• Make bullet tracers accurate
• Optimize water, and smoke grenades.

Changes:

• Premier ELO adjustments: It cant be that top 1% is pink which is the third highest rank category in the premier system and theres only one up to 10 golds which most likely are gold because it can only be achieved by cheating i believe this is why people encounter cheaters more often in CS2 rather than in GO because there's a far less grind to reach the 1% as opposed to CSGO. I think valve is more to blame here and could be the reason why people perceive that there's more people cheating than it actually is.
• Give Premier some rank personality: Its way too hard to care about what elo you are on premier because they lack any type of personality which CSGO did flawlessly with an even worse matchmaking system. People are more enganged with a badge that encapsulates a skill level than an over inflated 4-5 digit number, it feels more like im leveling up my exp rather than a rank lol. If valve could re add the old badges (Silver, Nova, GE, etc…) and in between the grind to lvl up to the next rank color make it so as in intervals of 1k points you rank up in that skill category (Example Nova 1 to Nova 2 and so on) that would not only make the grind more rewarding but also have a clearear understanding of the skill disparity in between ranks.
• Replace Competitive to a Normal playlist: it honestly doesnt make sense to have two separate rank systems if you are playing basically the same gamemode as the other rank system its not like it changes the rules or theres other conditions to win its the same gamemode only that one has OT and the other doesnt. This will help giving the newer people in the game less pressure to queue and get accustomed to the 5v5 gamemode before diping their foot towards Premier and consecuentially make premier more competitive because now there's only one competitive gamemode for 5v5.
• Make new shooting sounds! If any dev reads this i would like you to know that i love the new firing sounds you gave to the glock, famas and m249, sound really good! this would honestly gives such a fresh new paint coat to the game and make the game more enjoyable to play. I feel like some guns sounds dont sound as good as they could be and i would really like to see more new sounds.
• Desubtick jump: this should be an easy change that makes bhoping much better and more reliable.
• Nerf Galil, Buff Famas: One of the main reasons why i believe that CS2 is much more favorable to the T's in the MR12 space is because of these guns right here, Because rounds are fewer and losing a round is much more impactful because you have less room to rebuild the economy this types of guns are so important right now in the meta and one is super efficent while the other one is unreliable ill even dare to say that the galil is op, let me elaborate.

1. Galil cost's 1800 this being super cheap and easy to obtain even in tight situations and still have some util to spare. This gun has 35 bullets in a mag, being the highest out of any rifle in the game.
2. Has 666 rpm this is the same rpm as the M4A4
3. Has a better Recoil cooldown than the M4A1 and M4a4
4. Same TTK as M4A4 and better TTK long range than M4A1-S
5. Recoil is as tight as the M4A1
6. Has 77.50% Armor Penetration this is the same as the AK

Really this gun is super busted for what it costs. if you go with only galil's vs M4A4/1's you have EQUAL playing grounds against the CT's and you dont lose much if you die. In comparison to the CT's Famas which is the worst rifle in the game by a longshot and costs 250 more than the galil it has no redeeming stats against the galil and because of this disparity in weapon effectiveness most CT's have to rely on the safer option which is the MP9 leaving the CT's without the long range effectiveness and relaying on close quarters combat to make the most out of the gun.

What i propose:

1. Swap Galil crouching and standing inacurracy with the famas
2. Nerf Galil's recoil make it more in tune with the ak's just a tad bit less than the ak
3. Nerf recoil cooldown to be worse than both M4's
4. Reduce armor penetration to match Both M4's (70%)
5. Increase Famas mag size to 30
6. Reduce Famas Price to 1950

• Adjust blood for clearer visual hit confirmation: This has been bothering me since launch i cannot precisely tell how many shots landed on the enemy's body and i have to come up with a random damage number i think ive given to the enemy. In CSGO the visual hit confirmation of the enemy's blood splatter was so good i could instantly tell how many shots landed on my opponents and give accurate info on how many shots landed on my opponents. Valve pls adjust.
• Valve Deathmatch Servers: Reduce Spawn protection from 10 seconds to 3 seconds. Bullets refunded after a kill.
• Adjust movement animations and make them a bit stiffer

Additions:

• Reintroduce the remaining maps: Cobblestone, Train, Tuscan, Lake and shortdust (Cache is a fmpone map so i dont include it on the list)
• Introduce a new Viewmodel menu in the game settings: This is the last important aspect of the game that is behind console commands only.
• Re add characters Factions to the maps, it expresses more personality and uniqueness to the maps.
• Add an animation when defusing the bomb: With CS2 introducing legs, nade inspections and a rechargable zeus i dont see why we cant have a defuse animation.
• Reintroduce Danger Zone
• Introduce a Water Detail Setting: This could help a lot with the optimization on some maps.
• Re add clan tags

Conclusion:

I believe most of the things i mentioned will be addressed in the future but its up to valve to decide how soon they want to address it, i also added some subjective opinions of features that i would like to be added or adressed in the future that could make the game feel more submersive than before. CS2 isnt far off to being equal to CSGO but in a game as CS inconsistencies such as crouch jump not being as reliable can make or break a match.