Sponsored: Enhance your CS2 experience with Runestone

DISCLAIMER: The following is a paid promotion of Runestone. Dust2 India is a free site to use and to keep it that way, partnerships like these play a pivotal role to help us keep going

Runestone equips tournament organizers, publishers, and event promoters with the real-time data and engagement tools they need to create deeper, more interactive fan experiences in various titles including Counter-Strike 2, amongst others. Through their live fan tools to real-time data, Runestone works towards making your gaming experience more interactive, more insightful, and more rewarding for everyone.

Here's a quick run-through of how to use Runestone and their key features available to make your gaming experience the best.

Key Selling Points

Immersive Engagement

• Moves beyond passive watching

• Viewers can actively engage with the match in real time

Total Control Over the Spectating Experience

• You are basically, at all times, the Ingame Director, you control the camera

• Choose any player to follow.

• 1st or 3rd person

• Freely place the camera anywhere on the map, great for watching choke points or tracking strategy.

• Free mode camera, you can get a birds eye view over the map and move around freely

• Click on the radar map to instantly navigate to that point on the map

• Toggle x-ray vision at will for strategic insight.

• Toggle grenade trajectories and timers on and off to study/observer team tactics.

• Missed a kill? No problem, Play, pause, rewind at will and jump back into the action with the click of a button.

• Jump +/-15s for a Live match

• Jump to previous rounds

• Freely scroll on timeline

• Then go back to Live by clicking the Live button

Access

Two modes: Live and Replay. Both can be spectated at https://runestone.gg/ghost (scroll down to Replay and Live/Upcoming)

• For Live mode, matches will be demoed from this event - The Proving Grounds #3:

• Preferred: the first match in the list is the visualization for - https://www.hltv.org/matches/2383607/tyloo-vs-astralis-fissure-playground-1

• Use the Map switcher to view all 4 maps played in that series

Commands:

Here are the commands on how to use:

1. SPACEBAR or click on mid-bottom label (Following/Possessed/Free Look) - cycles through player 1P, 3P, Free view.

2. In Free view you can use mouse + WASD + QE. Hold mouse right click and move mouse L-R or up-down to control camera angle and simultaneously use WASD on keyboard to control camera movement

3. Keys 1-10 or mouse wheel - cycles through players

4. Hold Mouse right-click + turn to rotate camera view (Free view + 3P)

5. Click on player name in the HUD to go to that player

6. Click on minimap for Free view, birds eye view over that map point

7. Key H hides entire HUD

8. Key X toggles x-ray vision on/off

9. Key G toggles grenade trajectory and timers on/off

Video player controls

What to watch out for/ cool features to use

● Switching player perspective (1P/3P)

• if there is a Clutch/ 1vX/ 1v1 situations

• Fake execute/Rotations/ Lurks

• Rush to bombsite a defend (say 1vX where T defends against multiple CTs trying to defuse and cover each other)

• AWPer perspective

• Opening kills/ duels/ trades

• 1P also good for players lining up their utility deployment with some fixed spot on the ground/ on the building

● Free mode camera/birds’ eye view:

• Free look/skybox view over a map area for utility usage birds eye view
  Grenade trajectories are on by default

• Switch to top-down map showing how CTs rotate

• Utility usage at round start/early phase

• Rotations

● Quick replay then jump back to Live

• Quick replay of a 1vX or 1v1 situations, a nice multi-kill, nice utility usage, etc.

• Quick replay then slow mode (0.5x) to see a rotation over 10s (can use the timeline in video player to scroll through)

• X-ray can be toggle off to understand player’s true vision

● Set plays based on various economy configurations

Head over to Runestone now to step into the game.