Counter-Strike 2 comes with Half-Life: Alyx’s most needlessly spectacular graphics quirk

It appears like Counter-Strike 2 comes with certainly one of our favorite graphical quirks from Half-Life: Alyx, specifically terribly reasonable liquids in bottles.

We have spoken earlier than about our love of reasonable liquids in Half-Life: Alyx. The characteristic was patched in after the game’s launch and instantly turned a fan favorite. I bear in mind considering on the time that it is the most realistically sloshy bottle I’ve ever laid my mortal eyes on. In a game, that’s.

In Alyx, it was all made attainable by a shader that cleverly makes a bottle seem as if it is each translucent and stuffed with liquid, however the back-end of the engine is not truly operating any form of liquid simulation to do it. Intelligent stuff. That was meant to take a number of the efficiency hit you would possibly count on out of one thing wanting like this, which might be surprisingly demanding if completed with real fluid dynamics.

Each Half-Life: Alyx and Counter-Strike 2 share the identical graphics engine: Source 2. And it appears like that is how this standard graphics quirk has made the leap from Alyx’s grubby booze bottles to molotov cocktails within the aggressive FPS. 

Check out it in motion within the brief video from the official CS2 web site.

Counter-Strike 2 will launch as a free improve to CS:GO this summer season, and within the meantime there is a restricted check ongoing right away.