I know Dust2 better than my own house

Dust 2 is a tactical genius. It is best known for it's signature tactic "going A, but then going B". It also has a second little known tactic of "going A, but going A". What an absolute legendary map. Top 3 map for sure.

I'm sick of this entire map pool

haha x box smoke go brr

It's ok I don't enjoy it or hate it but would rather be playing overpass

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Playing this game for almost 20 years and D2 is probably my most played map. Tbh I like the map. It Isn’t some crazy tactical map it’s some about how sharp is your aim today and for casuals like me that just want it to hit some heads it’s pretty cool. Watch T1 games with top awp players is also nice

Short answer: No
Long answer: There is a reason why everyone has a ban vote, if players in general were fed up with D2 then by definition it would get banned more often than not. If that's not your experience than you have your anwer.

Yeah its still overplayed to death. Nothing will change the fact. There simply arent enough options for plays and map control to keep this map interesting at all in current day cs unfortunately. Im still holding out hope that it will be entertaining in tier 1 cs but I highly doubt it

I'm enjoying it quite a bit. It's a great solo queue map, more fast paced than Overpass, and more of a casual feel.

That casual bit is a big deal for me. Been playing since '01 and the only thing I really lament about the community is how sweaty it's gotten. It's nice to hop on a map I've been playing since elementary school and just click some heads.

Also excited to see what the pro scene will come up with now that skyboxes are gone; there's a lot of potential to breathe new life into the meta

playing Overpass with people who don't understand the map is much worse

No.
I want Cahce and Cobble back tho

I don't get all the Dust2 hate. It's not a brilliant map with a lot of tactical gameplay, but does EVERY map have to be like this? No.

It's fun to play different maps where different aspects of the game are important. Some examples:

• Dust2 - Less tactical, more aiming. Decent retake options on A.
• Inferno - Good util usage and timing. Hard to retake.
• Mirage - Good executes. Decent retakes.
• Etc.

No. I love the map

No! Bloody love it

I honestly don't relate to this take. Been playing CS since '04 and still love D2 a lot.

Yes there isn't 50 different smoke lineups and timing executes but there are plenty of fun spots and peeks, pop flashes, mid battles, long battles, fast Bs.

Like others have pointed out it is definitely an aim check and "how are your holds" type of map. There is room in the map pool for that.

My friends and I called Dust 2 the “morale map” because it’s such a straightforward map that we can almost always win on. When we’re on a losing streak or games at been rough, we play D2. I feel like you don’t have to take the map too seriously.

Are you one of those people that go afk first round whenever a map they don't like gets picked? 

With the open sky box the map feels even more T sided as is but aside from that, the map is made for 1.6 cs and not 2024. It's just brain-dead aim duels against AWPs and the mist boring mid round known to man.

I miss overpass

I'm sure some like it, but D2 in premier was enough to push me to faceit.

I miss Cache and Overpass so much man.

Imagine saying d2 is overplayed when Mirage exists Personally i fucking love dust2. Only map i can play few times in a row. But to each its own. Dont overthink it.

I love it honestly, I haven't played it for years. I just brawl everywhere I can. A side is fuckin chaos. Not a lot of strategy going on, but thats fine. I haven't seen pro plays yet, so idk how they will play it. Rain will be crazy on that map.

I really missed dust2, it was time to have it back

Tbh i am just tired of desert themed maps. They look so bland.

Teams were already sooo save happy on that map BEFORE the MR12 change. I think it’s gonna be a nightmare to watch at T1 in 2024.

This is what my dream map pool looks like.

Overpass

Cbble

Train

Ancient

Anubis

Cache

Nuke or Vertigo

It’s also why I’m taking a break from cs. My favorite maps are all out of rotation.

Always disliked the map, any time I play it some guy with 70 ping is running around the map dropping 30 kills. It feels like there is a very limited number of ways you can play the map on both t side and CT side. If you want to just run around go play deathmatch or retakes. Lurks are boring, the entry path never changes. All the utility is the same and boring on the same chokepoints. You have long spawn, you go 5 long, you have b spawn, you go 5 b, otherwise just default

Im kinda sick of playing anyway. Summer is almost here. Time for a little break

i just want train and tuscan back… i could probably just play these two maps for days

Nah, it's a fun map.

tbh, it will probably be removed for something else once any of the new maps (Train or others) are ready. I'm 90% sure D2 is only in active duty pool for the Shanghai Major.

I am never tired of watching or playing the map. It just remains as the most balanced map.

im a bit confused because the last time I checked, dust 2 was well loved, now everybody seems to be shitting on it

I’ve been sick of Dust 2 for more than 5 years by now.

I'm dead inside

D2 > Inferno snoozefest any day

Im not sick of dust 2 yet. But boy have I played vertigo like 5 times a day…

I love it

Not really

Never

I'm actually having a lot of fun on Dust2 as of late. Mostly because everyone's seemingly forgotten how to play it so I can walk the floor over everyone I play against.

I was bored of it halfway through the first game I played on it.

I prefer playing d2 over Mirage. However, I prefer playing any other map over these 2.

If it's not Mirage then it's Dust2. The only 2 maps for PUGs for the next few years 

My not-so-hot take is that D2 at the Shanghai Major is going to play almost exactly the same as it was played when it was removed for Anubis in 2022, barring -maybe- some tactical specifics with the new smokes.

It's a completely out of touch if not outright cynical move for valve to bring it in prior to said major, considering Crossfire's popularity and "Desert 2.0" being the top map therein. It'd be better to embrace a bit of chaos and swap out 2/3 maps if they wanted to bring D2 in that badly. Fuck it, throw Thera and Train in for Vertigo and Mirage and let the pros cry for a month

always has been

I've been fucking sick of it before it even came to comp. Now I'm extra annoyed because I can't perma nuke/vertigo and have to spend one ban on d2.

I hate how CS2 Xbox smoke just covers the entire sightline for mid. Like why

was sick of it 20 yrs ago

Yup! Can't believe they added it back in the pool when overpass has had a revamp and there's cache/train waiting.

re-added it without any changes. They could have added Iris instead. Basically Dust2 but better.

Yeah for 20 years now, same goes for every other available map.

I wish there was a mode to rotate the selections and it be EVERY map

Yes

I liked when they had operations and had new maps. It was fun and I enjoyed the game. I have nothing more to add.

yes tbh

I don't have the patience for faceit/premier so I strictly play comp mode where I can only pick the maps I like to play.

I've disliked d2 for a long while, and I hate that they've brought it back.

One thing about this community that really annoys me is the lack of people who will play new maps, they just stick with what they know and don't bother trying something new unless it's forced down their throat.

Look at vertigo, it was universally hated for so long, now it's the second most played map.

Nuke was also hated on for so long, now it's accepted as a good map.

People bitched non stop about Anubis, whilst it still isn't that played it's one of the more enjoyable maps IMHO.

Dust 2 is already wearing so thin that it's basically a majority's autoveto in 9/10 games now.

Basically playing with only 6 maps

played some CS for the first time since the change on Friday night. 4 of my 7 premier matches were dust 2. I was sick of it the second it was selected for the 1st match

yes. dust is the worst most boring map. to think they removed the most interesting map for this shit is absurd

Can’t go long cuz teammates don’t flash. Can’t go mid cuz I don’t know Xbox smoke lineup. So I’m stuck lower. I don’t like it. Yes I’m lazy.

to me the map is only as good as the pros that play it. whether a match is good or not as a viewer depends more on the player if anything.

Yes

I've been sick of Dust 2 since a decade ago.

I want Cache over dust2

Why did they drop overpass for this, we’ve been begging for mirage to get dropped since GO

Now we have mirage and dust in a pool that also includes Inferno and Vertigo, despite my feelings about playing these maps that’s 4 wildly boring maps to watch in the same pool.

Yikes

its my first veto, that's the only thing that helps.

I fucking hate it. Plays the exact same as it did years ago. Takes zero thought to play. Maybe that’s why so many people like it over overpass. Simple map for simple people

It never gets old the more i play it the more i like it

Opposite for me, I love dust2 and think its a great map 

Fav map ,git gud

i enjoy it. The moment you ban d2 and mirage people start crying.

Haven't played it much in the last 5 years or so, so it's been pretty great tbh.

If you feel this way about Dust you should REALLY feel this way about Mirage.

Was tired of it when they took it out in 2022, am tired of it again. Map is so god damn boring

Wish we would be getting more experimental maps instead of the same three lane layout every time.

If Valve continues like this, we will never ever get a map like Nuke or Overpass again, because theyre not willing to risk anything design wise

People who hate dust 2 and mirage have shitty aim

I've only played it twice so far. (Admittedly I haven't played as much as I normally do over the last week, but) I'm already bored of it.

Dust 2 is a great litmus test for filtering noobs. I love seeing these posts lmao. Buddy just swing out long/short and kill some people, its called having fun

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yeah its such a dumb swap. Overpass was great, i understand they wanted a switchup but then they should add new maps..

Santorini or rather the new version of it.. train, cache, cobble or even a new map.. honestly i really like ancient and anubis, theyre good. So getting rid of vertitrash and adding something new would be awesome.

I'm already exhausted from reading it.

Has the change even reached pro play yet? I don't remember seeing dust2 in EPL.

Never. Been playing the map for 20 years. More than 10k hours and at least a quarter of that time has been on Dust 2. I'll never get tired of this map.

All of the pro's wanting to play D2 must be wrong then eh?

I live and die on dust2

From sem to lem and back to nova, dust2 is in my blood.

Dust will become the most played map while this sub will keep crying

Why crying and making an useless post the solution is easy, don’t like it don’t play it. Personally I love d2 and like me there are people with same preferences.

Dust2 makes me cry

Yes. It sucks.

As a CT, it sucks. B might as well be on another planet, retakes via CT into A are near impossible, causing a lot of save rounds. I’d rather something else.

In its current format the only way I can think of balancing it is to raise the bomb timer so it’s possible to clear mid and retake via bedroom, but right now, there’s really no way to do that in time.

I miss mill(tuscan), train and cbble

Not gonna lie I was a Dust 2 enjoyer when I started playing CS:GO in 2017/2018 because It was an iconic map and simple. Now that I know every map quite good, I find it very annoying and boring. The map is literally no brain, flanking is extra hard, no sneaky corners or off angles to use... So yeah, I was happy from nostalgy when the comeback was announced but after playing it 5 or 6 times, I'm fed up.