Valve's upcoming Counter-Strike 2 limited beta has seen Dust 2 and Mirage come and go in competitive mode, the latest being another OG, Nuke. The main highlight of the new version: where did all the cars go?

In addition to testing the new version of Classic, Valve has also opened up the Casual Playlist (the CS2 version of Office is accessible in this mode) and tweaked the best-in-class audio to make it even better. The latest update adds distance effects to all positional sound sources, fixes several audio bugs, and adds a "unique audio occlusion layer to help with vertical sound positioning in Nuke."

Most important, however, is the addition of new animations. For the first time in Counter-Strike history, players can now inspect grenades. If you are not playing Counter-Strike, guns, knives, and gloves all have an in-game inspection button that allows avatars to hold the item at different angles to see how beautiful the paint job is.

What this grenade inspection animation means is that grenade skins will eventually be added to Counter-Strike. I am not sure what artistic things can be done with such a relatively small object, but, well, what do I know? In fact, since skins are and will be the lifeblood of CS:GO and CS2, finding new ways to skin existing parts of the game is a natural play. That said, the addition of this animation may be purely to swoon over the very impressive liquid animation in the Molotov cocktail.

The note also says that Valve has "improved the behavior of various weapons," but after looking at some of the weapons on hand, I'm not sure what those adjustments refer to. All of the animations I checked looked pretty much the same, and Valve has also changed it so that players cannot jump at the end of warmups. As someone who always jumped on the spot at the end of the warm-up, this seems a bit mean-spirited.

Limited testing of Counter-Strike 2 is currently underway alongside the regular CS:GO service, and the free-to-play sequel is scheduled to launch sometime this summer, carrying over everything from the previous game. Soon we will be able to view flash grenades from all angles.