Counter Strike 2 is surprisingly awful on Steam Deck right now

You’d have to be a masochist to actually play this on steam deck or with any controller.

Unless they have some sort of “steam deck only” matchmaking, but even then it’s just not made for controller.

Are competitive FPSs intended for handhelds?

The shaders should be compiled in advance, did the author skip the shader compilation when launching?

Fucking embarrassing for Valve, what the fuck is going on over there? This is like Nintendo launching a Mario game that doesn't boot.

Well there's a reason it's not a verified game. Valve is rightfully not targeting the steam deck for it because the gameplay experience wouldn't be good. If you want to still play it that's on you but I don't blame them for not supporting it. It shows that they are serious about cs this time, imo

I try finding out what the 2 is even about, and im seeing stuff like...improved smoke grenades, and ability to refund weapons?

What happened to the number 2 man, that used to be a big deal.

I would totally expect that because controller, but I hadn't considered the specs.

Can agree to this, I've tried to play but it plays at like 30fps and the controls are all messed up all the menu based stuff is gone it's actually awful.

I tried CS2 on my Deck after the update. I only tried against bots on Italy but found that given the hardware, it ran surprisingly OK. 40 FPS with default settings. Obviously the controls are not so great. I've read somewhere later that resetting Steam Input for this game to defaults is required but didn't know that at the time.

Btw I played with the Deck on a stand and my left hand on the controller part while my right hand held a Bluetooth mouse.

Is anyone else having issues with the game not allowing you to use any input except the left stick

It runs surprisingly well hooked up to a monitor using keyboard and mouse. It's not beautiful or high FPS z but it's playable. Only issue I am facing is that I don't see fog or fire unless I am standing inside. I can just see through it.