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Counter-Strike 2 adds weapon refund, gets rid of awful buy wheel

Praise Gaben, CS:GO’s pizza wheel to buy weapons is gone

Marco Wutz

Counter-Strike 2 adds weapon refund, gets rid of awful buy wheel
Counter-Strike 2 adds weapon refund, gets rid of awful buy wheel /

Counter-Strike 2, which is set to replace Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and is currently being playtested, has unveiled a new feature coming to the tactical shooter: Players will be able to get refunds during the weapon buying phase at the beginning of a round, so any misclicks or quick changes to the plan for the upcoming round won’t be as tragic anymore.

Valve has revealed this feature in a very short clip on social media, which is just 20 seconds in length. Despite that, it contains another important piece of information that is very welcome to many players: CS2 gets rid of CS:GO’s weapon buy wheel. The developers had originally used this wheel design in CS:GO, because the tactical shooter was released for consoles as well, and the player base, which is predominantly on PC, never really warmed up to it.

CS2 replaces the buy wheel with a simple grid menu that allows players to see every option available to them, buy it all from there, and gives them an overview of what they currently have in their possession.

We can also spot the currently available weapon and equipment options for the CT side, which are as follows:

  • Equipment:
    • Kevlar Vest
    • Kevlar + Helmet
    • Zeus x27
    • Defuse Kit
  • Pistols:
    • USP-S
    • P250
    • Five-SeveN
    • Desert Eagle
    • Dual Berettas
  • Mid-Tier:
    • MP9
    • MP7
    • UMP-45
    • MP5-SD
    • XM104
  • Rifles:
    • M4A1-S
    • M4A4
    • AWP
    • AUG
    • SSG 08
  • Grenades:
    • Flashbang
    • Smoke Grenade
    • High Explosive Grenade
    • Incendiary Grenade
    • Decoy Grenade

It’s worth noting that the M4A1-S and M4A4 are both available and that the FAMAS seems to have made an exit.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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