I was going to post this in the what are you playing thread but it was getting too long.
I've been playing a fair bit of CS: GO over the last week. I stand by what I said about it being a bit faster than CS:S, but I'm definitely liking it. Matchmaking seems to work pretty well, the guns are starting to feel good now that I've gotten used to them a bit more, and the new levels are good while some of the older ones have some neat changes. Dust in particular plays a lot better than it did before as there's now a stairway leading from the underpass to the ledge above it on the CT side and a makeshift bridge linking that to the most direct path from the CT spawn. I'm probably not explaining that too well, but suffice it to say there's more than one good route to take on that map now.
There are some little things that irk me though. I didn't like the new crosshair (it obscures more of the screen than in CS:S), but luckily they had the classic one in there as an option. But the thing that really bothers me is the buy menu. It's been changed to a radial menu which actually makes selecting things with the mouse really quick and easy, but it's difficult to quickly figure out which number key to hit which is how I always used to navigate the buy menu. But that's something that should just be a minor quibble. There is a re-buy previous option so in theory you should only need to navigate the menu once, but if your money is too low it can lead to some less than optimal behaviour. For example, it prioritizes buying a primary weapon over anything else, and I'm not sure what the grenade priority is, but personally, if I'm low on money I prefer to grab my armour and a Desert Eagle and just pick up whatever else I can find. But I had months of practice using the Deagle extensively in CS:S so I'm more comfortable with it than most primary weapons.
But what really chafes me a bit is the lack of preset buy options. CS:S was updated a while back so you could save preset buy options and just quickly hit b for the buy menu then whatever key they were assigned to. You could save up to 4 presets for both teams which was awesome if you had different preferences for different maps, or even just one preference you wanted to buy instantly. I have absolutely no idea why, but that's not in this game, or at least not in the beta. Fingers crossed on an update.
Still though, for $15 it's a worthy update to the CS gameplay. So who else is getting this on the PC and wants to have some games together? I'm pretty sure it comes out officially tomorrow.