Is it just me, or do ESL CS2 streams often look much lower quality than the resolution they’re streamed at now?
I’ll set Twitch or YouTube to 1080p or 1440p and confirm it’s actually playing at that resolution, but the gameplay still looks closer to 480p–720p. Player models and textures look blurry, HUD does not look sharp and crosshair looks like a low quality JPG slapped on top of the gameplay.
The ESLCS YouTube highlights has the same issues but worse, even though they’re also labeled as 1440p. Compared to other esports broadcasts, or even some community CS streams, the image quality just doesn’t look as sharp as it used to. I am unsure of what the issue is, but they should fix it immediately. The video quality can be very distracting at times and take away from the matches.
Match from 8 months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQZmbCBsKUM
Match from today (WAY LOWER QUALITY): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gju8hqhCzQ