Valve’s latest CS2 update fixed a handful of bugs and made a dozen other modifications to the game. High-ranked players will undoubtedly be happy with the changes but the things they will love the most is the addition of Train to the game’s Competitive, Casual, and Deathmatch modes.
This change effectively means that Train is one step away from being reintroduced into the Active Duty map pool. There are several maps in there that are detested by much of the community and especially pro players.
Some don’t want to play Vertigo and consider it broken. Others think that Dust II is boring. Others look at Anubis as something out of a nightmare.
Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov, for instance, tends to avoid Vertigo in his FACEIT sessions. This is likely because his team, G2 Esports, always bans it. But it may also have to do with personal reasons.
Why The Addition Of Train To Competitive Is A Big Deal
The fact that Train can now be played in Competitive means that Valve wants to give the CS2 community the chance to play and test its features before it is officially reintroduced In the Active Duty map pool.
This version of Train is considerably different from the one we used to play some years ago. Because of the players’ level of expertise, when a map is changed there is always a risk that its new version is unbalanced or at least buggy.
Valve cannot possibly take the risk of making a modified map a part of the game’s esports scene without a period of at least a few months of testing. If everything goes well, there’s a good chance that we will see Train replacing one of the seven Active Duty maps before IEM Katowice 2025, which starts on January 29.
