Hogwarts Strike

Classic Counter-Strike 2 bomb defusal on Dust II, where the buy menu also sells Hogwarts Legacy spells.

You play one side against bots, 5v5, first to 13 rounds. You get CS2's competitive rules: money, the buy menu, C4 plant and defuse, round timers and CS2's guns and grenades. Next to the rifles you can buy six spells from Hogwarts Legacy. Each spell works like it does in Hogwarts Legacy:

| Spell | Price | What it does | |---|---|---| | Levioso | $400 | Lifts the target helpless into the air for 3 seconds | | Expelliarmus | $500 | Knocks the weapon out of the target's hands | | Incendio | $800 | A short burst of flame that sets enemies alight | | Confringo | $1250 | A fiery bolt that sets the target alight | | Bombarda | $1600 | An explosive blast that hits everyone nearby | | Avada Kedavra | $3000 | Kills in one hit and recharges for 90 seconds |

Spells take the place of your rifle or pistol and recharge instead of using ammo. They lock on to the enemy nearest your crosshair, the way Hogwarts Legacy does. Bots buy and cast spells too.

It plays like your CS2. The first-person view uses CS2's own arms, your agent's gloves and sleeves and CS2's viewmodel animations for every weapon: draw, shoot, reload, inspect, knife slashes, grenade throws and the C4 plant, with their sounds at the moments CS2 plays them. Your sensitivity, key bindings, crosshair, viewmodel settings and video mode come from your own CS2 config. Recoil, spread, reload timing and deploy times come from CS2's weapon data: every gun has its fixed spray pattern, and the AWP has both zoom levels. The HUD, radar, kill feed, scoreboard and buy menu look like CS2 and use its own fonts and icons.

Both games are really in it. Nothing from either game is in the download. On the first start the mashup reads its content from your own installs:

• From Counter-Strike 2: Dust II with its callouts and radar, the guns and their stats, the first-person arms and animations, the agents, the sounds, the HUD icons and fonts, the bot names, the competitive rules and your own settings.
• From Hogwarts Legacy: the spells' damage, recharge times, names and descriptions in your language, plus their effects, sounds and icons, the student wand, the lock-on reticle and the HUD fonts.

Requirements: Windows, Counter-Strike 2 and Hogwarts Legacy installed, and about 3 GB of disk space for the first-start import, which takes a few minutes. It is single player against bots. Neither game is started or changed, so there is no VAC or account risk.

Controls: your CS2 key bindings. B opens the buy menu, F inspects, and you hold attack with the C4 to plant.

Fan project, not affiliated with Valve or Warner Bros. Games. Built with Godot, ValveResourceFormat, CUE4Parse, ooz and vgmstream. The credits and licenses are in the download.