"Only a VPN should let you do that" You win this round, 3kliksphilip, for the funniest callback to the sponsor of the video

what's all this stuff about csgo i only come for the nord vpn ads

I would love to see destruction when C4 explodes

10:54 THIS AGED LIKE WINE

There should be spectator grade graphics settings for Tournaments and viewers. Framerate is not a problem for a Twitch stream. That'd be neat.

10:43 this man predicted cs2 smokes 3 years ago!

3:49 that caught me off guard, nice

"I don't expect real time smoke physics" Well, we're getting close

This feels like an old-school kliksphilip video. Especially the inro. I like it. Feels weird to say that, but I've been here for like 5 years so i can.

11:04 man oh man were you off on this one

I would want 1: A proper, modern PBR system. Where the guns have actual metalness, normal and ambient occlusion maps. Maybe even Parallax Occlusion maps, i think it would make sense for certain skins. 2: A modern Reflection System with Parallax corrected cubemaps and Screen Space Reflections overlayed on top. Imagine seeing a slight, real time Reflection in a shiny metal part of your weapon. 3: A modern Particle System. Smoke and Fire Grenades look incredible for 2004 standards. But this is 2020, they could also fix issues with visibility for grenades with them. You could also implement much better Bullet impact Particles.

9:37 Not gonna lie that transition was smooth af.

CS2 will have: Raytracing ❎ Destruction ❎ Vulkan ✅ New AA Options ✅ Upscaling ✅ Higher shadow quality ✅ Better Reflections ✅ Better Smoke Grenades ✅✅✅

The background music makes me consider the purpose of my existence.

He finally accepted a sponsor. Glad he did. He deserves the money.

This editing style is freaking vintage 3kliksphilip. Thank you for leaving in your outtakes, and for being yourself!

I'd really appreciate if valve would let us see our own shadow in first person.

10:44, plz fix the alpha sorting volve. Super easy to see players through smokes if you know what you're doing... It's been like that since CS:S and they've never fixed that. It also limit your creativity with sprites, glowing materials or just translucent stuff, refracting floors etc... it's so bad.

This video aged like fine wine

That ""bang" in RDR2 took me off guard and made me spill my beer. Instant like. I now smell like beer.

Just by the way, since you said you don't fully understand Vulkan/DX12 and how its potential to make games faster works: They work by allowing developers to make lower level calls directly to the GPU to push pixels and draw vertices. It requires more development time, but you get a LOT of control in return which allows developers to make rendering engines either specifically for the type of game they are making or for a series they are making. A good analogy would be if you wanted to order a burger you would have less control if you asked for a generic "cheeseburger" but it would be quicker to make and may not be the burger you wanted fully (current OpenGL/DirectX), but you would get more control over asking for individual toppings at the cost of slower development time and potentially more skill required (Vulkan/DX12). Also fun fact: To render a simple triangle in OpenGL is maybe 13 lines of code. In Vulkan its 800. Although lines of code is NOT a good way to measure most things, it does illustrate the difference in complexity. This part may not be true either, but it looks like developers have to specifically change how drawing works in different OS's while in OpenGL its all generalised so you wouldn't have to. I would post Github links to demonstrate the differences, but I don't want my comment to be sucked into the void of spammers for posting a link. Previous versions of OpenGL and DirectX have a more generalised approach for drawing, which quickens development time but doesn't allow big name developers to fully milk the FPS potential out a game - usually this would require specialised drivers for the GPU to enhance FPS. This is actually what Nvidia's "Game Ready" drivers do, Nvidia specifically writes code in the GPU driver to enhance FPS of big name games. The features of Vulkan/DX12 are going to primarily enhance FPS in games that use custom or unique drawing methods, such as heavy voxel games (potentially games like Teardown) and most AAA games (since they can hire people that specialise in graphics development to make hyper-efficient rendering engines). I would imagine games like ARMA would improve from this too as for they have a very niche requirement for rendering, being a very large world after all. There is a lot of misinformation surrounding what DirectX 12 and Vulkan are too by the general public. I see lots of people on Reddit believing that they are a magic bullet that will solve all FPS problems in a game - this cannot be less true. Although it may help with games that are very rendering heavy (ARMA, Teardown, Rainbow 6, any Flight Simulator, etc) it will probably not improve FPS substantially on games that don't have crazy rendering schemes, or if the developer isn't experienced could actually hurt FPS. They have the potential to get amazing FPS increases, but I personally don't think most non-AAA games will benefit from it. This is pretty much the meat and potatoes of how it works. Disclaimer: the analogies may not be 100% correct as for I am not a graphics man, but I am a random internet commentator so I must be correct and trustworthy, right?

5:24 The best thing I have heard today

3:26 *Change da world, my final message goodbye*

Yes, I would love to have all of these settings asap! **plays in 1024x768, bb, lowest settings**

Whenever you show a screenshot I try to guess which spot you're gonna zoom in on

MSAA can be added to transparent objects with "Alpha To Coverage" method, there is a good article in medium about it. That + msaa + shader upsamling would make a perfectly sharp image without noticeable aliasing.

When Phillip went: flbablplhlphl I felt that 😔

Frankly, i'd REALLY like better gun animations. Ones in CSGO right now are very robotic and unappealing. Not asking for Escape from Tarkov / Insurgency Sandstorm animation levels, but some improvement needs to be done for sure

I have been using Half-Life: Alyx's tools for a bit and I have some things to say about Source 2. 8:49 Source 2 has both light-mapped shadows and real-time ones (CSM). CSGO only uses CSM for the Sun's shadows, while Source 2 does the same thing as Counter-Strike: Source where the Sun's shadows are lightmapped. This allows them to "blur" like how you explained in the video, though they are completely static. Lightmaps are compiled at ridiculously high resolutions (16K on Valve's maps) though Source 2 has pretty decent compression so filesize isn't that much of an issue like in Source 1. On dynamic objects such as foliage and physics props, they are real-time though they can blend in perfectly with lightmapped shadows (something Source can't do with drop shadows on physics props like at 9:28). 10:05 This is something indeed present in Half-Life: Alyx! Instead of using env_cubemap, there's this thing called env_combined_light_probe_volume (I probably botched that name a bit) which includes a cubemap AND a light probe. Light probes are very similar to cubemaps as they are represented by spheres in most editors and are placed all over the map. However, instead of taking different screenshots and using them for reflections, they sort of gather the "ambient color" of that environment and apply indirect lighting to dynamic entities such as NPCs and physics props. You probably noticed the term "volume" in the name of the entity. When you place it in the editor, you can define the proportions of the volume of which the cubemap image will wrap around to make the parallax effect. It also makes it much easier to know which geometry of the map will use that cubemap!

looks like valve choose the smoke physics

10:48 they added that now in cs2 :D

0:47 Skip the Kripp

"[...] even if the cables for some reason don't. Bang. [...]" thanks. now i have to pause the video and regain composure from laughing uncontrollably you sneaky XD

0:47 to skip the ad

What I'd really love is a shift in terms of overal graphical style. I loved how CS:S was gritty and dirty and overall seemed more serious. And since it's launch, CS:GO looks like it's getting more and more cartoony. Most obvious thing to blame for this is color palette, but in fact, all of the maps look now more.. sterile? Everything is clean and colorful. Looks more like a children's playground rather than a place in which a game about Terrorists and Counter-Terrorists takes place.

damn 10:50 was probably the inspiration for smoke grenades in Counter Strike 2! They don't go through walls and fences and are simulated

5:29 Stupid Philip, you spelt "edges" as "edes". Valve, please fix.

according to Tyler from VNN and his sources, CS might be fully ported to source 2 in a not so distant future. A lot of strings of code related to CS were found in a recent Dota2 update. I'm hoping for: better light/shadows, refined textures, better sound engine and Vulkan support.

Graphics features I would like to see: Tessellation Volumetric lighting PCSS Subsurface scattering Real time Global Illumination (not raytrace, cube method). And various post processing like bloom. These kinds of thing would help really stylize source 2 as a whole.

09:57 I wasn't expecting that :D

3:10 you just reminded me of csgo's old inferno :( rip

finally getting source 2 would be a good start.

I think it would be nice to have the smoke know what spaces to occupy buy casting rays in a few different directions and then using some sort of volumetric fog effect to obscure objects. It would work much better and look much nicer than particle smokes.

Actually I think adding footprints to CS:GO would work really well with the game. Unlike more complete destruction it doesn't alter the balance of maps that much and I feel it would fit in with the pretty methodical way CS:GO is played, you're already very often trying to deduce where the enemy is so I feel this would add to that. It wouldn't change whether or not enemies could get the drop on you and the longer the match goes on the more footprints there'd be making it harder to make out any individual ones. I say this because it's already a feature in War Thunder, where tanks and other vehicles will leave track or tire prints behind and I often follow them myself to try and spot an enemy but it doesn't give either of us a huge advantage, the guy I'm following knows that they're leaving tracks so they can also be aware of someone following them. Planes will also leave contrails in some circumstances so you can also follow them to spot an enemy. I think this could honestly be a really fun addition to the game and it would fit in with how the game is already played.

9:56 bang

Yeah, this game will Never be ported to Source 2...

Philip, I'm just rewatching this video and I want to point out that cascade lighting has a very high quality mode where shadows are smoother the further away they are from the source. Black mesa with its latest lighting updates (which also added dynamic lighting) is able to use this option, along with godrays and all sorts of stuff.

You can do enemy reflections in your scope without raytracing. Used to play a game hat did that, don't remember which one.

3:09 real sad they haven't implemented this more in cs:go

Hey Philip, thanks for willing just about every one of these things into existence with CS2!

"Destruction" + "Bore a whole through a wall" Sounds like a good map idea *thanks for the inspiration

A major issue with TAA is the lack of depth it gives you. I absolutely avoid TAA any way I can because it makes it much harder to spot enemies unless I turn it up to an amount that almost cuts my fps in half. While it may be a smart method of AA, I will glady take 8xMSAA or 4xMSAA any day of the week.

"bang" was very satisfying, thank you.

5:30 "More AA Options" There might be a slight difference between what I associate AA with and what you associate it with... 😅

Look at how realistic these shadows are, and how they mimic reality and look good at the same ti- Bang.

The senior graphics guy from CDPR actually worked on some great graphic technologies like shaft-lights, thigh angles reflection and a few volumetric light effects. You should check his presentations

finally you're actually taking advantage of sponsors lmao, love the content, keep it up!

Why have better reflections or less pixelated gun skins. Just directly add freaking PBR. People already use this in combination with mapbase in sdk2013sp. CSGO's branch of source is outdated considering this xd

You can tell Philip had fun making this excellent video. Especially the intense shock (seriously it's the most surprised I've heard him) at CS:GO still using DirectX *95?!?!?* :P As for tech I'd like to see in CS:GO? Volumetric raymarched smoke/fire would be great at solving the clipping through walls behaviour, but that's already been suggested so I'm going to go with tessellated decals so that bullet shells and spent magazines can pile up without being simple particles that disappear too quickly.

why is the humor in this video surprisingly well done?

Hey Philip, thank you for giving us high quality content for free, i really like the way you explain stuff, i dont own CS:GO, nor a gaming PC, but you still make videos that keep me hooked. I know this is off topic, i guess it dosent hurt no one

I want the opposite of most of this. I want a smoothing mode. Like I would like to be able to just smooth all textures a lot. Like instead of Dust 2 walls having cracks and weird bricks jutting out with multiple colors making up the walls. i want it to just be a slightly textured flat wall. with no cuts and color distortions. The color thing is hard to describe. Look up Dust 2 site A. Look at a photo of goose and I can explain. At the bottom of goose wall there is a change from an off white to gray. I want the entire wall to just be white. or At least the blotches to be nearly the same white. I only hate this because detail for me is what makes it hard to see enemies. I see them as just noise like the background. I come from a huge Halo fan and the best visual aspect of Halo is the enemy is always bright blue or red. Never do they blend in.

Man vulkan just does wonders. Emulators for newer consoles wouldn't have been anywhere without vulkan.

You can kinda change the shadow resolution by changing max distance, a lower value will make it even sharper, but a bigger value will make it more blurry, the resolution stay the same but it's like making the texture scretch more. Despite it look like there is no good filter in it, it will be more pixelated.

"21 seconds ago" nice

bruh, my pc runs cs go in 80 frames with every setting on the lowest option and all the lunch options set

For the next Kliksphilip map defuse, it should feature destructible environments, but selected to think how it can change routes and having disadvantages on using them.

4:12 The inside of the "o" being a darker blue bothers me to infinity

So early, I came before the English subs

Didn't NordVPN get hacked recently? Bit iffy advertising a VPN company that skimps of security.

Hey, Philip, as a physicist I would like to correct you on the shadow sharpness: 08:48. _"Sharp shadows are cast by small light sources, but the sun is not small, it appears in the sky as a sizable circle"._ That is not exactly true. There are two things that contribute to the shadow sharpness: 1. How small the object is *in your field of view* let's say. And the sun is actually about 0.5 degrees in angular size, which makes it fairly a small thing (the idea is that even a bottle cap can appear as big as -your m- a mountain if it is close enough). 2. How *parallel the light rays* are. That's why you get a soft shadow from the diffuser cloth-covered lamps (the rays are chaotic). The sunlight, however, is extremely parallel due to the fact that the Earth is very small, and the sun is very big and far away, so the electromagnetic field of light rays is very uniform here. In fact, we get some amount of light diffusion in the atmosphere, but not in space, that is the reason you get extremely dark and sharp shadows in there (Interstellar, Gravity, -moon landing,- and other beloved pieces of art have all depicted this very good).

seems like the commentary and editing keeps getting better

MSAA is THE best method around After they deleted it from siege, replacing it with godawful txaa, I was forced to turn off AA completely, because the blur is maddening Ubisoft should all get guillotined for that and for their fascist censorship of chat

Kliksphilip would never sellout like this

I've never modded for CS:GO but I have put thousands of hours into creating mods through Source for GMOD, the only two I can see being difficult to solve here would be the smoke grenade wall bug and the AWP bug reasons listed: Smoke grenades in Source were doomed from the start, they're just randomly spread out particles in a set radius, to my knowledge there isn't a way to prevent the edges of the seemingly large smoke 'particles' from clipping through the wall unless the centre point of the particle clipped through. The AWP would be a pain in the ass to fix unless they made a inaccurate physics mesh for the rifle which would ruin other aspects of gameplay, the trade off probably isn't worth it. The only fix I could think of that might work better would be dropping the rifle from behind the attachment point, which would look a bit janky come to think of it. Suppose they could rewrite how the engine interprets these interactions but that's beyond my field, sounds like it would cause more issues that it's worth in the long run though!

- PBR - better culling, so we can have bigger open maps, this would not only benefit danger zone, but it would also get rid of the annoying "invisible walls" above buildings - going back to baked shadow maps, but making use of GPU's for baking them, there is no map with real dynamic lighting in csgo, so dynamic shadows are kind of pointless, the only place you need sort of dynamic shadows is on doors, and you can fake that by lerping between multiple baked shadow maps. better AA and vulkan support are two fantastic points.

Ahshit nordVPN. Ever since that fiasco, I personally have stopped using nordVPN.

9:35 *Laughs in Mirror's Edge*

11:36 Nice skin... and quote.

Fun fact; the current smoke from smoke grenade is still the same as the one built as "TestSmokeEffect" dispatched client effect from source 2013 mp

Hey philip, you forgot c4... the model is bad, the explosion particles and sounds are bad. Everything is wrong about the bomb

You AI Upscaled the presentation didn't you.

What would you do if I refused to consider these 10 new graphics improvements?

Graphic feature that i want in csgo. 3D Render resolution: determines the render percentage quality from base resolution. So you can play in technically lower resolution while the rest of them still HD. For example you can play in 540p but the HUD still rendered in 1080p. Semi-volumetric smoke thing: the smokes behave just like real life but with some tricks that doesnt cost alot of performance. Also more consistent sprite rendering so a sprite behind wont cover the sprites in front of them visually. Also I WANT SELF SHADOW BODY AND FIRST PERSON LEGS PLS VELVA

I just want to see my legs

"NordVPN stores no data logs" Let me just say that you're wrong there, bud..

Re shadows: I'd love do see my own shadow. On some corners it's telling opponents where you are and without seeing it yourself, you have no way of controlling this.

4:00 Did not know Wolfenstein young blood looked so smooth(movement). Very good job developers looks amazing to play.

0:47 skip ad. Thank me later

1. I want Raytracing to be added for content creation like what I do on my channel. It would be nice to have a caster/recording mode where CS:GO gets 2X render resolution, raytracing global illumination & reflections for streaming to audiences or recording in super high quality. 2. Yes. Though I want wallbanging to be more viable. 3. Vulkan delivers smoother and almost stutter-free gameplay/frame times. 3.5 realized your background music is a bit too loud. 4. MSAA is the best in my opinion. I don't like TAA, SMAA or FXAA. They are all horrible. Before starting with 4K, I want the textures to improve. GPU's have enough VRAM nowadays. 5. Yes the pixelation is horrible. As I said we need some kind of content creator mode which sets everything in ultra quality. I would like to see something like Rainbow six has. They have an in-game resolution renderer. So I can play in 4K but have the in-game resolution rendered in 1080p. Additionally I can stretch it to 4:3 without changing my actual aspect ratio. That's awesome. Oh and we need some more native vibrancy in CS:GO.

MSAA is the gold standard of AA (after super sampling, of course). Please don't wish for inferior AA options...

I want an actual destruction when the C4 explodes, Ambient Occlusion (Source can show SSAO in SFM), Depth of Field and Motion Blur but only in viewmodel (I want it with an intensity adjust option), Screen Space Reflections to complement the parallax corrected cubemaps (btw, we should get an option to render 1024x1024 cubemaps), and also SMAA.

There should be a command for destruction mechanics, increasing popularity in community servers. Maybe even a gamemode with these physics, kind of like how Flying Scoutsman messes around with gravity and accuracy settings. There should also be a setting for ray tracing, but only for offline or custom servers, would be pretty nice.

The awp can actually be dropped through thin walls in general, not just displacements. I remember testing it a while back and it worked up to something like 4 HU or even more. You just have to aim down and to the left a tiny bit. Edit: By thin walls i mean even World geometry. There's a spot on bottom alt-mid Inferno where I could drop the AWP into the void (and then the console would go absolutely ham bc it couldn't handle an object in the void)

I would like the option for LODs for fun maps. Huge surf areas and mini game rooms are a thing in csgo, and in those, whatever inaccuracies LODs might cause is negligible. Let the community dream bigger. Maybe some more pushed out shadow cascades too for similar reasons. Or bump mapped textures for that extra cool look.

Man I want that destruction spectacle for a modern FEAR Combat equivalent so much, that will totally fit :p

As I see it, if they wanted to overhaul the graphics of CS:GO they could port the game to Source 2 - which is not something I would have suggested had they not done it for DOTA 2. It would give them some latitude to revamp the graphics with proper PBR materials and more modern lighting, not to mention that most of the stuff you have been suggesting seems to be already supported.

On the topic of destruction, I would like to see more microdestruction and persistent damage. Being able to break through walls or totally shred cover would either absolutely destroy any semblance of balance in CS:GO's current maps, or just be a completely useless gimmick depending on implementation. However, I do think that any shooter can greatly increase their atmosphere with good use of microdestruction- implementing little bits of destruction on all the little things in the environment. As it stands right now, if you walk into a room where a gunfight took place in CS:GO, the only evidence you'd have of conflict is maybe a body, and if the fight happened only just recently, some blood splatters and painted-on bullet holes. I think it would be much more interesting if gunfights resulted in longer-lasting and more notable changes, such as a box being sprayed down resulting in the box's exterior being fragmented and splintered, with wood chips littering the floor. Doesn't matter much to have every client make sure every wood chip synced, or that every splinter pattern is consistent for every player, just send the data for the general distribution of debris and damage. Walking through Office's kitchen with bits of shattered tile crunching underfoot, or finding a body collapsed in a pile of destroyed pots in Mirage would, I think, be so much more interesting, and tell a much more engaging story to rotating players walking past the handiwork of their allies and opponents than the very simple implementation we have now. Who knows, perhaps an observant player with a detective's eye could actually glean some useful information when walking past a lost position? Either way, it hurts me to see so many developers sleep on microdestruction. I'm disappointed every time a game's environment is some flat, static, unflinching constant that our characters are locked inside, and it takes me out of the experience quite a bit every time I realize that, no matter what I do, Dust2 will always look and feel exactly the same. I feel like people act like destruction has to be this big, all-encompassing mechanic that's either worth over-committing to, or should be completely ignored. I was saddened with Battlefield 4 and beyond; Battlefield is a series that has had perhaps the most success creating a good name for environmental destruction and making people take it seriously, but more recent entries, barring one or two maps in each game, have almost no unscripted microdestruction. Kind of makes me resent Battlefield 4's "bigger is better" approach to focusing on scripted "levolutions." Have people forgotten the thrill of having bits of rock and dirt fly past your face when a machine gun peppers your position? Is the core gaming audience too young to remember spending time spawning hundreds of NPCs in GMod maps specifically made to be highly destructible, only to come back after supper once your computer stops screaming to explore and admire the strange, new, blasted and grim world that had been made purely from stray bullets and careless grenades? Or have people just decided to move on, thinking that destruction got as big as it could, and now it's time to throw it out the window for the next innovation? I can't say for sure, but I do hope that microdestruction makes a comeback, with the benefit of today's advances in hardware and implementation. As someone who enjoys waltzing through bombed and derelict ghost towns in Arma, and fondly remembers working with a team in Ace of Spades, becoming attached to our fortifications, and feeling sad, yet determined when they were destroyed, I will always welcome a world that is as adaptable as the characters in it; to make the world itself another player, always unique, and always with personality, who shows you a charred record of your triumphs and failures. I know there's no benefit to having fully destructible environments in a game like CS:GO, but I feel like even just a facade of true destruction, given enough love and care, can go a long way to giving the world its own personality- that of a new player who's always with you for the entire round.

ARMA 3 also has shadows that get blurry the farther away the object is! Its really nice!