Counter-Strike Streamer Shares Recreation Altering Smoke Trick

Common streamer fl0m has simply proven off a one-way smoke in Counter-Strike that beats the most recent updates by not solely blocking line of sight but additionally extinguishing molotovs

Counter-Strike 2’s launch caused sweeping modifications to the sport’s smoke mechanics, with Valve’s introduction of ‘Responsive Smokes’ requiring gamers to rethink their smoke technique. 

In CS2, smokes at the moment are programmed as three-dimensional objects, which suggests they dynamically fill out an space and are extra aware of mild, gunfire, and grenades – the latter two of which might even partially or fully dissolve smoke clouds. 

So nading smokes earlier than they ever absolutely bloom will get a slight a method impact and shield you from molly injury pic.twitter.com/wEifS6NTAD

— fl0m (@fl0mtv) April 4, 2023

Whereas the introduction of recent smokes mechanics in CS2 is aimed to eradicate sneaky one-way smokes, it seems there are nonetheless some methods to take some tactical smoke benefit, as professional participant and streamer fl0m demonstrated on his stream how the brand new mechanics can nonetheless be exploited.

The brand new one-way smoke trick is surprisingly easy to execute, as defined by the participant – you simply must throw a grenade right into a smoke that is about to unfold out, leading to a delicate one-way impact. In his demonstration, the participant showcases learn how to pull off the trick successfully at Mud 2’s An extended doorways.

me educating @6motm as effectively learn how to do it pic.twitter.com/gZ1YSTF3HL

— fl0m (@fl0mtv) April 4, 2023

Whereas demonstrating the one-way smoke method to fellow professional participant and streamer MOTM, the participant additionally unveiled that the smoke serves a twin function – along with offering glorious one-way protection, it might probably additionally shield gamers from incoming molotovs. 

The brand new responsive smoke mechanics are usually not normally able to extinguishing molotovs, however this new smoke trick removes all these limitations. 

As CS2 remains to be in beta, Valve is working to repair and optimize any points with the sport. It is unclear how the brand new smoke interactions will perform on the remainder of the maps.