Feels like there's no flavour to the game anymore since CS2 came out, lackluster updates or cashgrabs is the TLDR of all the "big" updates since CS2 released. The recommended specs is more like the minimal specs considering that every update so far has impacted the performance of the game negatively.

It's anything but beginner friendly, every skill level is extremely toxic unless you find a community to play with. It you're still going to play be prepared to be threatened, doxxed etc.

You can easily get addicted to spending a huge amount of money in skins and gambling.

Every big update lately has been towards skins which indirectly together with the pro-scene creates a toxic gambling atmosphere which also catere toward skins/gambling content creators with less than 100hrs in the game or less than 50 matches played. Those creators currently havr the biggest voices on social media if it's CS related.

Every big pro tournament and teams have illegal "legal" gambling sponsors which they are not shy about plastering everywhere.

If you're not playing on a 3rd party website i.e FaceIt you will play against cheaters 5/10 matches or even more at times, even worse is that these cheaters can play with obvious cheats for almost 6 months before getting banned.

Feels like there's no flavour to the game anymore since CS2 came out, lackluster updates or cashgrabs is the TLDR of all the "big" updates since CS2 released. The recommended specs is more like the minimal specs considering that every update so far has impacted the performance of the game negatively. It's anything but beginner friendly, every skill level is extremely toxic unless you find a community to play with. It you're still going to play be prepared to be threatened, doxxed etc. You can easily get addicted to spending a huge amount of money in skins and gambling. Every big update lately has been towards skins which indirectly together with the pro-scene creates a toxic gambling atmosphere which also catere toward skins/gambling content creators with less than 100hrs in the game or less than 50 matches played. Those creators currently havr the biggest voices on social media if it's CS related. Every big pro tournament and teams have illegal "legal" gambling sponsors which they are not shy about plastering everywhere. If you're not playing on a 3rd party website i.e FaceIt you will play against cheaters 5/10 matches or even more at times, even worse is that these cheaters can play with obvious cheats for almost 6 months before getting banned.