CS2 map maker FMPONE stocks first look at unutilized Cache, and Vertigo higher depend its days

A shakeup to the tide energetic accountability map puddle is simply what Counter-Accident 2 avid gamers are looking ahead to, and some of the sport’s maximum completed map makers is having a look to oblige with a remodeled vintage.

Shawn “FMPONE” Snelling, a chief CS society map maker who was once some of the number one degree designers of the Cache remake in CS:GO, after all gave audience a primary have a look at the CS2 model of Cache in a Feb. 16 publish to X (previously Twitter). FMPONE confirmed off the map’s mid segment, and along with a hanging seeing overhaul, it additionally includes a vital design trade with the elimination of the CT-side mid window. FMPONE showed again in June that he was once running on a “head-to-toe remake” of Cache.

FMPONE seems to have changed the CT-side mid window with a smaller, higher-up hollow which may be worn for grenade throws. A number of contributors of the CS2 professional scene have already observable plenty and need the unutilized Cache to be added to the map puddle straight away; FaZe Extended family’s broky and ropz, the FACEIT platform, and several other others have even picked out Vertigo because the map to be binned off.

There are countless other replies to FMPONE’s teaser hoping for Cache to exchange a selected map within the energetic map puddle, however the biggest choice of replies seem to be concentrated on Vertigo. The multi-story map was once added to the energetic map puddle again in 2019, however it drew grievance from the society when it came around to CS2 just about unchanged. Mirage has additionally gained a batch of consideration, because it’s been within the map puddle for even longer with out a lot of a metamorphosis.

Again when the change to CS2 was once made, Vertigo was once already the least-played map a number of years in a row. Over the extreme few months of 2023, it maintained a reasonable pick out price amongst each professional suits and at the FACEIT platform however remainder unpopular because of its verticality and sequence.

We surely gained’t be getting any adjustments to the Lively Accountability puddle till nearest the PGL Copenhagen Main in March, however with Cache having a look extra in a position for CS2 by means of the past, we’d indubitably be eye adjustments to the puddle quickly.