AWP RIP
I was once a regular Counter-Strike player, but that was almost twenty years ago.
What’s remarkable about Valve’s team shooter is how little its fundamentals have changed over those twenty years.
The AWP and M4A1?
Still pretty much how they were when I was first mishandling them in theHalf-Lifemod.
Which makes yesterday’sCounter-Strike: Global Offensiveupdate pretty remarkable.
And this wasn’t the smallest change.
The AWP is Counter-Strike’s (almost always) one-shot-kill sniper rifle.
It previously had 10 bullets per clip, and now it has 5.
They’ll have to actually reload now.
The M4A1-S is one of Counter-Strike’s most beloved assault rifles.
I expect some players feel similarly about CS:GO making the M4A1-S weaker over distances.
(Sorry, I updated to Windows 11 today.)
Finally, the update also changes the Active Duty map pool to add Anubis and remove Dust2.
In this case, it means Dust2 is unlikely to feature at the 2023 Paris Major.
Nowadays I’d need to find some Swedes in their 70s for that to work.
