Counter-strike: Global Offensive
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http://www.counterstrikego.com/ -- Rumour mill, hooo!
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/08/12/counter-strike-global-offensive-confirmed/
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/08/12/counter-strike-global-offensive-confirmed/
- Planned release in Q1 2012
- Matchmaking system
- Focus on 5v5 competitive play
- Both Defuse (de_) and Hostage (cs_) map types confirmed!
- eSports-oriented
- Competitive and Casual modes
- Ranked / ladder play for individuals and teams
- Dedicated servers
- Gameplay has elements similar to both CS:S and CS 1.6
- Classic maps (with both minor and major modifications) include: Dust2, Dust, Aztec, Inferno, Nuke, Train
- Molotov grenade: creates area of fire that slows players crossing through it
- Decoy grenade: emits fake weapon firing sounds to confuse enemies about your position
- Bullets penetrate some walls and objects like CS 1.6
- Many changes to weapons, as well as new weapons
- Classic gameplay: no ironsights
- Beta in September or October (Unconfirmed)
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Awesome news with this... odd bit tucked in.
I used to love getting owned over and over and over again for hours/days on end. But when you get that round with 5 kills and a defuse....its soooo worth it.
Focus on 5v5 is good but I did prefer the big 64 man servers with custom maps -=VIA=- was my favourite haunt.
Hope they add the illusive Frag kill, never got one but I did witness one once.
But you can play all new CS: Mario mods....
Stinger, what's an illusive Frag kill?
BUT...
What really can they add or update other than the visual fidelity of the game itself?
oops..sorry. Wrong term. I meant Flashbang kill.
I think if you throw a flashbang at someone and hit them with it. It does 1HP damage. So if the player has 1HP you kill them.
Matchmaking?
CS:S was a HUGE let down for me. I played CS 1.6 since beta .2. Damn near 9 years? of serious CS gaming. I was extremely upset with how CS:S felt.
EDIT: oh...did i make that Has big, and red, and bold...dunno how that happened :P
I jump on CS:S every once in a blue moon.. still dominate, still fun.
good so far... let's just hope it doesn't get too consolized what with the additional weapons, matchmaking, odd grenades etc. there really needs to be a new e-sports fps now that cod is primarily a console series and quake live, 1.6 and css are all dead.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/1800/
this is why i retain my skepticism.
I also don't want a shitty console port...
I'm super excited by this. Finally a new competitve fps! Q3 and cs 1.6 are the only two balanced games I can think that dominate the scene now. Fingers crossed they dont balls it up.
In my pants.
http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/08/25/counter-strike-global-offensive-video-preview?show=HD
I think the environments are fine, but the humans, and especially the hand/gun animation/placements is very 1990's and ugly... I guess thats so the competitive gamers don't complain about visual distractions? Still pretty unusual for the game not to have at least MW2 level graphics, considering how beautiful Portal 2 was.
Valve are making some unusual choices these days.
WOW. I had forgotten the existence of the gun game for the past decade. Oh man I miss it now.
As far as that preview video, I'm a bit disappointed with the graphics and animations. You'd think they would have gotten a bigger step up in quality, but I'm not seeing much. Half Life 2 felt more solid graphically than what I just saw and that is one old game.
I think I also would have liked to see a some new gameplay mechanics like going prone or climbing over obstacles a la brink, but I can understand why they're not changing much of anything what with the CS fanbase.
It's a buy for me in any case. I miss CS and would like a refresh.
and whine they will, because they will never have suffered as large an asskicking as they will in that situation... rape is an understatement.
CS:S I'll agree with, but 1.6 has more major international (and strongly sponsored) tournaments than basically any other competetive game. It isn't remotely dead.
In fact, it has the second largest prize purse behind Starcraft 2 at ESWC this year ...
http://www.eswc.com/public/files/press/eswc2011-pm-breakdown-2508_1.pdf
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Im kinda meh to GO at the moment, will just have to wait to try it myself, I hope it will be awesome though!
Nevermind. forgot use foolish usa date order. meh looks alright probably will buy it unless they try to charge full price
http://store.steampowered.com/video/1800?snr=1_41_4__42
looks sexy
Don't really understand the CS:S hate. Been playing CS 1.6 for a long time, but I do think CS:S is superior. The gameplay is a bit slower and sometimes not as clinically precise as 1.6, but its nonetheless a great online FPS.
And its far from dead. Loads of servers always full of people playing. Also CS:S has international championships going strong. Main WGC is CS 1.6, but loads of smaller ones do CS:S
The trailer is a bit cheesy, but still looking forward to it. TF2 though has been my main online FPS game for a while.
Also, I'd like to have sexual intercourse with the creator of the Dust maps. He's at Splash Damage I believe.
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Is it going to be free2play?
As much as I like CS I might not buy this, because if theres one thing the game requires it's a pristene internet connection, and I get a lag spike everytime I turn a corner.
Wow horribe Mapping! (Outdated level design, Poor Bsp placement, L4D prop assets(looks like))
Dust still feels like you are playing within a box, not in a world. ( but oh we added stair access to underpass!)
I'm a massive CS / CS:S fan but this looks like a very lazy attempt at a nice reboot.
Hoping this is all placeholder art, to boost hype.
Also CS community doesn't like changes, hence they're playing 12 year old game even now.
My thinking behind the game is as follows:
CS:S is getting on a bit now. It's been out since like 2004, and it's seen as an 'old' game now. It seems Valve are just re-vamping the graphics (albeit very slightly) and calling the game new again just to keep their player base. Correct me if I'm wrong!
Jesus Christ I hate the animations in that game and how choppy it looks and feels, even in slow mo, one second is there, in the other is performing a different animation and shifting the character. One of the biggest reasons I never got into CS1.6.