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  • What is Valve Cooking for CS2? Big Leaks.

    What is Valve Cooking for CS2? Big Leaks.

    CS2 recently got a big update in the first week of October, where the developers announced two new charms and the first community featured charm collection, Missing Link community charm to the Armory.

    And a new grenade based charm collection called Dr.Boom Charms, which features one very unique charm Butane Buddy, it uses the liquid physics making it the first item in the game except Molotov to use those physics.



    Gallery Case, Graphic Collection and Character Craft stickers were removed from the Armory. And a few community maps were also added to the wingman and competitive.

    But what’s Valve’s next move? I will be sharing everything that Valve is working on for Counter-Strike 2 for future updates.



    Retake Mode

    Starting with Retake, a game mode that iis very famous in the community servers and it was officially released in CS:GO in as a part of the Operation Broken Fang.



    Now, there has been more leaks related to the Retake Mode that indicates that soon, it will be implemented in Counter-Strike 2 as well.


    Cobblestone Rework

    A map that’s loved by many, a map that features the infamous AWP | Dragon Lore and what not? It was removed from the Counter-Strike series on March 19, 2019.

    In the recent update 2 days ago, a new material file was added called cobblestone_001.mat, which proves that Valve is working on the cobblestone remake.

    I think the next map that will be added to the Premier or at least competitive after the November Major will be Cobblestone.

    Game Journal

    It’s been 4 years since the last operation was added to the game, Operation Riptide. And in those operations previously, a journal was used to track this operation mission’s completion.

    In the recent CS2 update, the Game Journal was mentioned in various game files, and the only thing that comes to mind after seeing those leaks is the Operation Journal.

    I think the Counter Strike 2 devs are working on a similar concept and we might see the Operation soon.

    Glove Charms / Pets

    Pets has been leaked in the CS2 game files for a year or more now and is something that does not match the overall game structure, still there are many new leaks related to them.

    Recently, a new material file was added called glove_keychain_generic.vmat in the files and it is linked to the file called glove keychain.

  • Everything you need to know about Genesis Uplink Terminal

    Everything you need to know about Genesis Uplink Terminal

    This Wednesday, Valve added a new type of case in Counter-Strike 2 and this was something we have never seen before ever in the history of Counter-Strike named Genesis which uses Uplink Terminals.

    Genesis Collection features 17 new community designed skins and these items can be accessed via Genesis Uplink Terminals, which are available as a weekly drop.

    AK-47 | The Oligarch from Genesis Collection

    Uplink Terminal is a new sort of container that you receive as a free weekly drop and once you unseal it, you will be able to choose to keep any one skin out of five to six randomly picked items shown to you in this terminal. Here’s a screenshot of Genesis Terminal:

    Once you click unseal, the laptop opens up and it shows you one skin randomly as mentioned before, now you have two options:

    • Click I’m in to purchase it
    • Skip to next

    Once you skip the first item, it shows up as another offer and you have the same options again.

    One thing to note is that once you skip an offer, you cannot buy that item. The only option you are left with is the current offer which expires with the terminal itself if no decision is made, which is in roughly 3 Days.

    And once you buy an item from this terminal, this is how it shows up. “Transaction Completed, Enjoy” and then the terminal closes itself and you have the item you paid for in your inventory.

    By adding this Uplink Terminal container, Valve was able to overcome the loot box ban in countries like Belgium, Netherlands and France as they mentioned in one of the release notes.

    While this is an interesting feature, many players are upset about the pricing Valve has decided to go with for the skins. For example, one of the players got an offer for StatTrak M4A4 | Full Throttle in Factory New condition for $1,587 US Dollars.

    The community reacted both ways and many are waiting for these collection items to get marketable so they get to know what price the players themselves place it rather than Valve’s absurd pricing.