ABOUT Counter-Strike: GIobal Offensive

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) is an online first-person shooter based game currently in development by Valve Software and Hidden Path Entertainment, who also co-developed Counter-Strike: Source. It is the fourth game in the Counter-Strike franchise, excluding Counter-Strike: Neo and Counter-Strike: Online.

Like previous games in the series Global Offensive is an objective based multiplayer first person shooter. Each player joins either the Terrorist or Counter-Terrorist faction and attempts to complete objectives, or eliminate the enemy team, first. A lengthy public beta testing phase on the PC will precede Global Offensives's retail release. Planned to start in late 2011 the beta will last until Valve feels the community is satisfied with the state of the game. The game's retail release will occur when the beta testing phase has concluded. The beta will initially be restricted to around ten thousand people who received a key at events Valve attended to showcase Global Offensive. After issues such as client and server stability are addressed the beta will open up to progressively more and more people, until the beta becomes open for anybody to join and play.

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gameplay

2 December, 2011 - Hrga | 0 Comments

Here is a link of gameplay:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOvPBvMfWz4

Enjoy!

This is the best CS ever!

Full CS:GO Map List Revealed

1 December, 2011 - Hrga | 1 Comments

Some users over on the official Steam forums have been snooping through the Global Offensive closed beta files and stumbled across some interesting information: what appears to be the full launch map list for CS:GO!The beta’s maplist.txt file contains a list of all 16 maps, including four which have not been officially announced yet (in bold) and an additional training map:
cs_italy
cs_office
de_aztec
de_dust
de_dust2
de_inferno
de_nuke
de_shorttrain
ar_baggage
ar_shoots
de_bank
de_lake
de_safehouse
de_sugarcane
de_stmarc
de_train
training1

While we can only speculate at this point, it seems very likely this will be the final maplist for CS:GO’s launch sometime early next year. You may remember that back in August, some of the professional CS:S players who were invited to Valve to test CS:GO made reference to a CS:GO version of the classic defuse map de_train with only a single bomb site – it seems obvious that this is de_shorttrain from the list above.

The other previously unannounced maps revealed by this information are de_bank, de_lake, and de_safehouse and a bonus training map training1. Together with the four maps new to CS:GO announced a couple of months ago and the eight remade classic maps, this means we now know the names of all the launch maps for Global Offensive (as Valve previously announced there would be 16 maps at launch – 8 remakes and 8 new ones).

Another user found the following error messages about missing data for CS:GO which also point to some unknown map names:
Particles: Missing ‘particles/maps/cs_italy.pcf’
Particles: Missing ‘particles/maps/cs_office.pcf’
Particles: Missing ‘particles/maps/de_aztec.pcf’
Particles: Missing ‘particles/maps/de_bank.pcf’
Particles: Missing ‘particles/maps/de_house.pcf’
Particles: Missing ‘particles/maps/de_mill.pcf’
Particles: Missing ‘particles/maps/de_nuke.pcf’
Particles: Missing ‘particles/maps/de_shacks.pcf’
Particles: Missing ‘particles/maps/de_train.pcf’
Particles: Missing ‘particles/maps/gg_baggage.pcf’
Particles: Missing ‘particles/maps/gg_vietnam.pcf’

This information is likely apocryphal and doesn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know – it appears that the maps listed here are just previous working names for some of the same maps listed earlier. For example, de_mill is probably de_sugarcane, which takes place in a South American sugar mill. Similarly, de_vietnam is most likely de_shoots, which looks to be set in Southeast Asia:de_shoots appears to take place in Vietnam

Finally, de_house is almost certainly the same map as de_safehouse from the list above, and de_shacks is probably the working title for de_stmarc which takes place in an impoverished Haitian port town. So while we can assume this second bit of info doesn’t tell us anything new, it’s still interesting to see how the project has evolved, and now we know all sixteen map names!