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CS2 was not built from scratch, it's a large update to CSGO which simply brings in the source 2 engine plus some really interesting gameplay changes. That said in order to do this they dropped mac support entirely. People woke up from playing the game last night to find they now had a large update that removed the files from their system. I've also seen people report a lot of Linux issues but I'm playing it on Linux Minut just fine.
Preface: I am no game developer, but I am a software developer
This comment does not make sense to me. There is no "simply" bringing any game to any other engine. Doing this is a huge undertaking and I can't imagine not basically starting from scratch, saving the art assets and bits of pieces of the code (given it's written in the same language).
I am a game developer and can tell you that bringing a game from unreal 4 to unreal 5 is pretty straight forward, you can disable the new features like lumen and get the same result. Some moves are harder. Like unity to godot or unreal is a huge change but source to source 2 doesn't seem like a huge move. They didn't rewrite the entire engine for it. That said they did replace and rewrite a lot of things. The gameplay logic is generally still the same code.
I guess that makes sense. Thanks for the insight!
Source 2 is basically the same engine but with better physics and graphics afaik