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Counter Strike 2 and More Games Coming to GeForce NOW

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Rush to the cloud - stream Counter Strike 2 on GeForce NOW for the highest frame rates. Members can play through the newest chapter of Valve's elite, competitive, first-person shooter from the cloud. It's all part of an action-packed GFN Thursday, with 22 more games joining the cloud gaming platform's library, including Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 - Turbocharged.

Counter Strike 2 is the long-awaited upgrade to one of the most recognizable competitive first-person shooters in the world. Building on the legacy of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, the latest iteration brings the action to Valve's long-anticipated Source 2 video game engine, promising enhanced graphical fidelity with a physically based rendering system for more realistic textures and materials, dynamic lighting, reflections and more. Smoke grenades are now dynamic volumetric objects that can interact with their surroundings by reacting to lighting and other environmental effects. And smoke particles work with the unified lighting system, allowing for more realistic light and color. Even better: GeForce NOW Ultimate members can take full advantage of NVIDIA Reflex for ultra-low-latency gameplay streaming from the cloud. Rush the objective with the squad on Counter Strike 2's remastered maps at up to 240 frames per second - a first for cloud gaming. Upgrade today for the Ultimate Counter-Strike experience.



There's more action around every turn of the GeForce NOW library. Put the pedal to the metal in Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 - Turbocharged, one of 22 newly supported games joining this week:
  • Wizard With a Gun (New release on Steam, Oct. 17)
  • Alaskan Road Truckers (New release on Steam, Oct. 18)
  • Hellboy: Web of Wyrd (New release on Steam, Oct. 18)
  • AirportSim (New release on Steam, Oct. 19)
  • Eternal Threads (New release on Epic Games Store, Oct. 19)
  • Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 - Turbocharged (New release on Steam, Oct. 19)
  • Laika Aged Through Blood (New release on Steam, Oct. 19)
  • Battle Chasers: Nightwar (Xbox, available on Microsoft Store)
  • Black Skylands (Xbox, available on Microsoft Store)
  • Blair Witch (Xbox, available on Microsoft Store)
  • Chicory: A Colorful Tale (Xbox and available on PC Game Pass)
  • Dead by Daylight (Xbox and available on PC Game Pass)
  • Dune: Spice Wars (Xbox and available on PC Game Pass)
  • Everspace 2 (Xbox and available on PC Game Pass)
  • EXAPUNKS (Xbox and available on PC Game Pass)
  • Gungrave G.O.R.E (Xbox and available on PC Game Pass)
  • Railway Empire 2 (Xbox and available on PC Game Pass)
  • Techtonica (Xbox and available on PC Game Pass)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (Xbox and available on PC Game Pass)
  • Torchlight III (Xbox and available on PC Game Pass)
  • Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy (Epic Games Store)
  • Vampire Survivors (Xbox, available on PC Game Pass)

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I could never imagine playing CS2 through a stream.
 
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Playing a competitive shooter from cloud... nah, I'd go for CS1.6 or Source if I'd need to play CS but don't have hardware to play CS2 smoothly.
 
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I can't see any semi-serious CS player using this considering how concerned they are about even single ms increases in latencies.
 
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I think this is just to inflate the number of games available on the service.
 
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Are they offering CS2 @ 240 FPS with some sort of frame generation? The game is clearly not resource intensive, but running a competitive game with "240 FPS" does not mean that the game is as responsive as running it locally in a PC. If the latency of the connection is bad, it is not going to be a good experience.
 
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So we can play a for free or some monthly subscription a free game by Valve.
Brilliant
 
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