The GoldSrc engine was not only an evolution of the Quake engine, but also the locomotive that led the entire video game industry into a new future since 1998!
But when everyone is heading towards the high-tech light of hopes for a better future, sometimes you want to put aside all your scientific work and labors and just play a fun game with your friends!

Perhaps it was an ordinary evening when Jess Cliff and Minh Le suddenly realized that the already existing games had too much fun, got carried away by the game process and did not allow for a quick “snack”. But we want to quickly play with friends and move on...

The Muse penetrates the soul in the night, and the whole world is left for later, and work begins on the creation that has already enchanted your mind!

And so Counter-Strike was born! And by mid-1999, the first of us could touch it and appreciate all its simplicity and beauty!
Everything happened so quickly that by November 8, 2000, Counter-Strike was released.

Archive of the website of this game
https://web.archive.org/web/20000816001005/http://www.counter-strike.net/haxornews/arc.html


Many in the world not only highly appreciated the game, but literally fell in love with it, like a young beautiful Lolita!
But for me, my love for this game began later...

Russian Team M19 won the World Cyber Games 2002 in Korea and showed the whole world that they are the best!
Seeing the TV report of my compatriots rejoicing in their victory laurels, I felt not only proud of them, but also inspired, which ignited the flame of love for eSports and Counter-Strike!

But in those years, in my city, the Internet was on special cards, and Internet fee was based on access time, and the price for such time of online games was high for me =(
But computer clubs were accessible, and inside them there was that same brotherhood of gamers, where there were no “strangers”, but only their brothers in arms!

So I played day after day and improved my CS skills!
But time passes, the world changes, and now the very moment comes when you get a higher-speed Internet, for which you can pay not for minutes and hours, but for kilobytes and megabytes!

So, since 2003, not only Counter-Strike 1.6 opened up for me, which was seriously different from the different versions of CS that I played in clubs, but along with it, the world of online games over the Internet opened up for me!

Then my first Steam appeared, and all the splendor of the online world, where without serious restrictions you could play with people from all over the world.



Perhaps my skills in playing in clubs played a role, or maybe something else, but almost immediately I was noticed on a random server and offered to join the team and clan!
It was that moment when you become part of the team and realize that the game is opening up to you from a different perspective!

The team is no longer you alone and your personal ambitions and desires for something, but mutual assistance, when you are ready to give your life for your brother in arms in order to win another round and get the coveted victory, and climb the mountain of skulls in clan wars!

But in my team, the captain did not strive to create any tactics and unique strategies, but simply moved his fingers faster and faster, and perhaps it was our common young age (after all, I was 13-14 years old then), or maybe something different... but after each defeat, looking at the recordings of the match, I realized that each time other teams were doing something new and new to rise to where we had never been.

Of course, I tried to talk to my friends, but sometimes people hear words but don’t think about their meaning….
Why exactly this word was, like a blade, used in the dialogue..
Also, not everyone wants to ask questions to try to find answers...

Perhaps, Valve had been trying to find answers to their questions for several days, and therefore, in October 2004, before the release of Half-Life 2 (which will appear in November), they decided to release Counter-Strike: Source, which, with the new Source engine, became the beginning not only something new for the entire world of video games, but also illuminated my path to eSports!

My summary of Counter-Strike 1.6
https://steamproxy.com/id/FoxLeks/recommended/10/

When CSS came out, I, of course, warmly embraced it and began to penetrate this new world of physics - possibilities!

But the heat of hope quickly cooled when I began to realize that there was not much of what was in CS 1.6 :(

This is a wonderful world, but somehow different... This feeling did not leave me until the release of Half-Life 2!
When I arrived at City 17 station, I suddenly realized that I had to say goodbye to CS 1.6 and step firmly into the future of humanity!

All New Year's holidays I played HL2 again and again, going through every millimeter of this world, where hope was already lost, and only a lucky mount in the hands of a physicist could break a new path to the light!

At the same time, I tried to “seduce” my teammates in CS 1.6 to step into the new world of CSS! But not everyone is ready for change quickly, and sometimes it takes time for us to get used to it and realize that the future has already arrived!

So I had to log into Counter-Strike: Source servers as a single player and try to find a clan for myself - a team.
The longer I searched, the more I realized that there was no team or clan where I could not only see the high tactical and strategic level of the games, but also with the team feel the taste of victory at my fingertips!

Warcraft III and other games began to attract me more and more, and eventually I left the CS world for a while to other gaming projects, where I also got my e-sports experience, yes, and just played literally 1000 other games!

First love is always tender and beautiful!
Likewise, our first eSports game will always torment our soul until we see something beyond the body of pleasure!

Flowers bloom in spring, but my love for CSS was rediscovered one spring evening in 2008.
When, having entered the game and just played a couple of rounds with friends, I suddenly heard an offer to create my own team and clan!
Why not ? - I thought!
After all, I’ve been looking for something for so long... but you can create your own best team!

Thus was born [t1D] Team1nDeed

What does it mean to be a Creator - a Captain - a Leader? ...

Even now, years later, it is difficult for me to answer this question.

When it all starts, there is a wildfire and a desire to play and win!
But when you start creating a team strategy, you understand that each of us is unique in our own way, and you need to make sure that everyone in battle feels that he is in his place, and knows clearly where to go in a given situation, what can theoretically happen, and you also need teamwork with each other, and from here - training and more training!

Every day after school, no matter how much homework was assigned, and what else needs to be done... you need to sit down at your computer and play game after game, sharpening the blade of battle tactics to a perfection that does not yet exist...

You may be tired or in a bad mood, but now you can't say no! You must, not for your own sake, but for the sake of the team, gather everyone and play clan wars in order not only to achieve some invisible heights, but simply to prove to yourself that you can do more! and feel that very taste of victory that intoxicates the mind after the bitterness of defeat and from here becomes even sweeter than the ambrosia of the gods!

When you are 14-18, and it seems to you that your studies may end, and you just need to be a little patient, another life will come...

Remember that everything is just beginning!

Back in my school years, I not only caught fire with a love for video games, but also began to penetrate deeply into the world of IT!
Step by step learning something new, and then doing various magical things in practice in the eyes of girls and all those who are far from the world of high technology. :)

Creating a server for clan wars is a complex process..... You can buy a ready-made solution - a server for games! or create your own server on hosting, where everything depends on the skill of your magical hands!

Website development can also be done using templates or ready-made options, or you can write your own code from scratch!

In any choice you make, you must be prepared not only for financial costs, but also for the fact that you must have a person in your clan who will work and work again on the technical side of developing the life of your clan and the entire community that surrounds it!

For me, all this work was like a good experience while studying and exploring, in addition to studying, the multifaceted world of IT!

Time flows inexorably, and days that turn into months, and then into years...

They show us that everything around us evolves, and we also grow and open up a new horizon of possibilities for ourselves!

During all the time of our games, as a team, we have not achieved highly significant heights in the world of e-sports and tournaments.
But each of us received that very spirit of a team eSports game!
We have truly become a team that lives as a single, well-oiled mechanism of the flywheel of war!

But life is not only a game, but also that same sacred process of gaining your knowledge in an educational institution, when science becomes your best friend for long sleepless nights, when even in your dreams you see formulas and theorems, and among the worlds that you saw in dreams, you are looking for answers to questions that have been tormenting our minds for 10,000 years!

So we all came to the same thought: we need to stop playing our games and completely immerse ourselves in educational and scientific processes!

You always need to say goodbye so that you can enjoy the meeting later!

Since 2010, a new economic system of virtual market relations has appeared, which naturally transformed into a new system of trade and the Steam trading platform, where there were not only TF2 items, but also items from other games, and even the games themselves as gifts.

Perhaps a high series of different events - sales, where each of them was like a jewel in the queen's crown! Or maybe due to the fact that parallel work was carried out inside Valve - development on Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Portal 2 and, of course, Dota 2!

On November 30, 2011, I received a Gift invite to beta testing of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive!

But beta testing of CS:GO and its release showed that Valve was lost in the world of video game development...

At that moment we were all waiting for a new part of CS, which would be a revolution not only as a new evolution of the Source engine, but also as a new game, which would also boldly show us new facets of the CS game series! Where the team is higher than your ego!

Instead, we got that same game that lost its uniqueness and became some kind of monster of a mixture of Call of Duty and Counter-Strike, where everyone wants to show their rating in matches so as not to feel inferior in real life, which is outside the window of each of us!

CS GO tournaments have turned into a gathering of people who show their big selves, but cannot show true team spirit and highly tactical team play!

At the same time, Valve were busy with their experiments with the Steam Machine and Steam Controller and other projects.....


When the income from game development becomes less than your fingernail, and the income from reselling other people's games through Steam becomes your main source of income! Moreover, the Community is always ready to create content - items, chests - cases - treasuries, and all that remains is to take everything, package it beautifully and sell it!

This is how the fire of love for video games dies, the fire of love for video games fades, and the muses fly away from you...

Over the entire 11 years of my life with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, I spent $522, while using the game only as a mechanism for trades, and the matches were so rare that I never even received a rank level!


My result in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive!

The Bird of Hope flies into the stuffy corridors of the Valve office!

We see update after update of Dota 2, where everything returns to the very roots of Dota 1 game balance.

We have been feeling the world through the Valve Index since 2019 and are plunging into another world of technology!

We get a new look at the world through the story of Half-Life: Alyx!

Taking gaming to a new level via the Steam Deck, where all your games can now be in your pocket......

I would like to believe that these are the same birds, something new that awaits us in the future... , and not the messengers of the Apocalypse that descended from Heaven to us...

Counter-Strike 2 gives us the understanding that the game has been completely redesigned both technically and in understanding the entire path that CS:GO had taken before.

Perhaps this is a radically new approach, or rather, a return to the roots of 1.6! This is due to the fact that games such as Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six are not only becoming more and more popular, but are literally showing us what Counter-Strike should have evolved into more than 10 years ago...

But time can’t be turned back, and now we can only look at CS2 with hope and understand that this is the closest possible version of CS to that night when Jess Cliff and Minh Le saw another World from the window, and they didn’t care about money and glory!
They simply opened their windows and heard the cries of joy of the victory of gamers that were heard in the night over that city that was already sleeping and waiting for a new day and a new RA in the sky!


Welcome to the Counter-Strike 2 Family!

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I also used the video excerpt of Closing of the 1980 Olympics and excerpt from
a 1975 Soviet animated film Hedgehog in the Fog.


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