Knowing how much damage you dealt to your enemy can be crucial as this information can be relayed to your team to help them strategize more effectively. However, with the release of CS2, players have found themselves wondering if they can still view their damage stats using console commands or if Valve has revamped this feature. Let’s find out!
Can You View Damage Dealt In Console In CS2?
At the time of writing this article, there are no commands to view your damage stats in CS2. This comes as a change from CS:GO, where players were able to use the con_filter_text damage and con_filter_enable 1 commands to view the damage dealt to the enemy players in the console.
The removal of these console commands has dismayed many players who used them frequently to keep track of the damage they incurred on their enemies while the round was still in progress. However, this feature hasn’t completely disappeared from CS, you just need to know where to look.
How To View Damage Stats In CS2?
The damage that you dealt to the enemy team is now visible underneath the player avatars on the top of the screen after the end of each round. The information is displayed in the form of small graphics that are divided into green and black halves.
The green part displays the damage you dealt to the enemy players, and the black section contains information on the damage dealt to you. For example, “85 in 1” in the green section means that you dealt 85 damage to the enemy players in 1 hit.
If you get a kill, the damage dealt is always 100, with just the number of hits it took to get the frag varying. Moreover, you can view the number of kills you and your teammates got by counting the number of skulls beneath your respective avatars. However, it’s important to note that this information is available only after the round has been completed.
This introduction of this new feature, however, has received a mixed reception from the CS community. Those in favor of this new feature state that viewing the damage dealt to enemy players should’ve never been as complicated as it was in CS:GO and that incorporating end-of-round damage statistics is a step in the right direction.
For players like me, whose console was always too cluttered to extract meaningful information, CS2’s move towards a more streamlined HUD for damage details is undoubtedly a welcome change. However, many players have pointed out that there’s now no way of knowing how much you pinged the enemy player before dying, leaving the rest of your team completely in the dark.
While it is hard to say whether Valve will reintroduce the console commands to view damage stats in CS2, it is possible that devs removed these commands to encourage players to rely on intuition while seeking a duel with an enemy pinged by their teammates.
Conclusion
While CS2 doesn’t allow players to view their damage stats in the console, it has introduced a much more user-friendly HUD to show damage dealt at the end of each round. Do you think this was the right decision by Valve, or should they bring back the console commands? We’re eager to hear your thoughts and insights in the comments below!