
With each passing day we grow closer to Rio 2020 and it seems less likely that Source 2 will be released before the Major. This leaves room for further speculation regarding Valve's timing with the release of Source 2.
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Many of the world's top professional teams are vying for one of the sixteen slots in the upcoming ESL One Rio Major 2020, which is slated for this November. There is only one issue with this concept.
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It seems logical that Valve would want to push out the Source 2 update quickly to further please their player base. We haven't seen such a level of care put into Counter-Strike for years. Perhaps the added competition from Valorant has played into the efficiency with which Valve have been updating CS:GO in the recent months.

The so-called "CS:GO Killer" has had early success with both casual and top-tier players, even drawing some of the lower-level professionals away from Counter-Strike and into Valorant. Some people have been quick to look towards Valorant, the recently-released title from Riot Games. For example, we can presume the same spray patterns will exist in Source 2, in the hopes of making the transition as seamless as possible. Valve will do everything they can to limit drastic changes to things like gunfights. Things like footsteps might take some getting used to for those of us who have become accustomed to the current sound of them. Perhaps most crucial aspect of the update is the potential for decreased latency in-game. Higher levels of graphic detail will be immediately noticeable. With the game eventually moving to Source 2, we can expect increase FPS in-game, as well as a number of other benefits. CS:GO doesn't require much to run well, at least compared to many other games nowadays, but some users with older systems still experience low framerate. The Source 2 engine will be the successor to the game's current engine. Unlike those games, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has been running on the original Source engine since its release in 2012. The Source 2 engine is already in place in a few other Valve games such as Dota 2 and Half-Life: Alyx. Perhaps, though, the wait is nearly over. The phrase "Source 2 is coming soon!" has been repeated amongst Counter-Strike players over the recent years thousands of times.

In fact, it's likely you've been hearing about it for over half a decade.
