With the hype around the Source 2 update in CSGO continually increasing over the past few months, fans of the competitive shooter are growing restless about the date of the arrival of the new engine to CSGO.
While we still don’t have a date on when will Source 2 be implemented in CSGO, former Valve dev Richard Geldreich has claimed that the engine has been in the works for over ten years.
Geldreich also expressed his dissatisfaction with the former Source 2 team that he was a part of through a series of Tweets dated November 25th.
According to him, the reason behind the repeated delays in the Source 2 release might be due to the team being “irredeemably and systemically toxic.” Geldreich further claimed that the team was the “most toxic group of developers” he had ever seen.
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“Looking back, I think part of the problem was the company’s digital distribution income had skyrocketed, and the guys there the longest were all vying for massive bonuses and stock,” Geldreich explained. “This resulted in an incredibly toxic work environment.”
The former Valve dev didn’t stop here. He also took a shot at the Source 2 engine itself, which according to him is “an almost total waste of time and energy.” He also claimed that the engine was “copying & pasting ideas from other engines.”
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Previously, VNN Tyler had explained how the Source 2 engine won’t be causing a massive difference in the gameplay itself. However, he also claimed that the upgrade might be a blessing for the map developers and other community content creators who’ll have a much easier time working with Source 2.
If Valve decides to ship Source 2 to CSGO in the near future, there’s a high chance that the engine will have an open beta phase at first to filter out any potential bugs. The same happened when the engine was introduced to Dota 2, another popular title by Valve.
