A Counter-Strike 2 participant discovered that setting your shadows to excessive within the sport’s settings means that you can see the shadows of your opponents whereas indoors, which generally is a enormous tactical benefit for these within the know.
In a brief clip shared in a Nov. 14 Reddit thread, a shadow is seen even when the precise character mannequin of the opponent isn’t proven. In a sport the place sound is king, gamers usually push bomb websites whereas strolling to verify they aren’t heard. However having the ability to see enemy shadows like this will likely put a cease to these sneaky performs. The participant wasn’t capable of see the shadow with Medium/Low World Shadow High quality, nevertheless it was instantly seen with Excessive/Very Excessive.
Regardless of this being regarding, the identical choice was accessible in CS:GO. However, as one participant identified, it was solely doable whereas open air for some cause. The issue right here is that almost all aggressive gamers run their video games at low settings as this gives fewer distractions and extra body charges. Since this has been an ordinary for therefore lengthy, gamers may need missed out on these settings, and doubtlessly even misplaced video games.
With this discovering, CS2 gamers would possibly wish to flip this feature on instantly, or perhaps Valve ought to take motion and steadiness the sport. Gamers with higher PCs shouldn’t have any benefits like this. As one participant put it, it’s both everybody or no one.
