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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Developer(s) Valve Corporation

Hidden Path Entertainment Publisher(s) Valve Corporation Platform(s) Microsoft Windows

OS X

PlayStation 3 (PSN)

Xbox 360 (XBLA)

Linux

SteamOS Release date(s) August 21, 2012 Genre First-person shooter Mode(s) Multiplayer Rating(s) ESRB: M PEGI: 18

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) is a first-person shooter video game which is a part of the Counter-Strike series. It was announced to the public on August 12, 2011, and is developed by Valve Corporation and their partner, Hidden Path Entertainment. The game was later released on August 21, 2012 for the Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, and OS X and later Linux as a downloadable title.

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Gameplay

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive makes a few adjustments to the original gameplay formula of the Counter-Strike series. Compared to Counter-Strike: Source, weapon damage models were rebalanced. There is improved bullet penetration through some walls, materials, and objects. The Radio Commands for bots and players have been updated, among other changes.

Economy has been modified. Ammunition no longer needs to be purchased.

In addition to the graphical updates, the HUD, crosshair and buy menu VGUI has been updated.

The game features a Competitive Matchmaking system based on ELO ranks and Skill groups.

The game has support for dedicated servers on PC and Mac only.

Leaderboards were included in initial release, but were cut in the February 17, 2016 update.

The game allows cross-platform multiplayer play between Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. PlayStation 3 was previously said to be included, but later dropped.[1]

Tips and Hints are added to the map loading screen, while Fun facts were added to round-ends that describe interesting facts that happened in the round.

Weapons & Equipment

There are a total of 34 weapons in Global Offensive, 19 of which are exclusive to the game. Among those 19, 10 are replacements of old weapons, retaining their role but are modeled after new guns, and the other 9 are unique weapons with new roles and properties. Returning weapons also have many changes made to their general properties.

Knives

Pistols

SMGs

Rifles

Heavy

Grenades

Gear

Mission Gear

Danger Zone Weapons & Equipment

Game Modes

Global Offensive contains several multiplayer game modes.

In addition, Global Offensive offers Offline with Bots, which offers the same game modes with AI-controlled bots (with the exception of Danger Zone); and the Weapons Course, a single player map serving as a tutorial and a training mode.

Official Maps

At launch, Global Offensive had a total of 16 official maps: 8 updated classic maps, and 8 brand new maps for the Arsenal game mode. More maps were added to the game in later patches.

Maps added in post-release can only be accessed through the PC version of the game.

Bomb Defusal

Hostage Rescue

Wingman

Danger Zone

War Games

Arms Race

* Made available to arms race at a later date.

Demolition

Flying Scoutsman

Special Event

Halloween

Winter

Birthday

Control Point

Removed Official Maps

Bomb Defusal

Hostage Rescue

War Games

Demolition

Factions

Global Offensive features a mix of old and new factions, with a total of fourteen unique factions. Factions are no longer selectable at the start of a game. Instead, each map has its own specific T and CT factions. It is the second game in the series to do so, following Counter-Strike (Xbox).

Unlike previous Counter-Strike games, where all factions had the same quotes from the same voice actor, each faction now has its own quotes and voice actor.

All factions (aside from the SAS) have five different possible models, randomly chosen upon spawn.

Agent Factions

Cut Factions

Development

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive started off as an Xbox 360 port of Counter-Strike: Source by Hidden Path Entertainment. Seeing this as an opportunity to expand the franchise, Valve turned it into an entirely new game.[8]

Jess Cliffe confirmed the title "Global Offensive" on the official Steam forums on August 11, 2011,[9] while Valve later confirmed with its official announcement on August 12, 2011[10].

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive uses the latest version of the Source engine and is not built off of Counter-Strike: Source. After the success of the previous game, Valve wanted the newest game in the franchise to cater to both the casual and competitive community by including a matchmaking system as well as support for dedicated servers.

Valve announced the beta would begin in October, but after receiving feedback from professional players who had been invited to playtest earlier versions of the beta, Valve decided to delay the beta [11]. After addressing the majority of the issues the closed beta started on November 30, 2011 to a pool of around 10,000 select players. After almost a year of the closed beta, Valve opened the beta up starting August 14, 2012 to anyone who had pre-ordered the game.

As of yet, the console versions have not been updated and are extremely different when compared to their Steam counterpart. It is currently unknown whether or not Valve has plans for updating these versions.

Updates to the game after its release can be tracked at Valve's Product Updates channel.

Post-release

Valve is known for providing active support and continuous updates for its titles, andis no exception. Since the beta ended, Hidden Path Entertainment have stopped its share of the development and Valve has taken over and provided countless updates to the game for everything from bug fixes and gameplay adjustments to new official content like an inventory system, the In-game Store , the weapon finishes , and even added support for the Steam Workshop to allow custom content. Major content DLCs known as Operations are released once several months, each lasting over several seasons, bringing in new permanent content as well as seasonal content.

In the "Hello CS" presentation in China[12], it was announced that the game's engine would be ported to Source 2 in Summer 2017 along with the addition of a new UI called Panorama, and a special modified version of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive would be released in China, via Perfect World.

Since December 6, 2018, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has become completely free. However, in order to play at prime matches, you need to buy the game for 15$, or reach level 21. Players who bought the game before the update of December 6, 2018, received free prime status and in honor of this they were awarded a special medal named the Loyalty Badge.

Achievements

Achievements, also known as Awards in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, are retained from Counter-Strike: Source.

Achievements are given for completing milestones or notable actions, such as getting 1,000 kills with a particular weapon, or getting four headshots in one round. There are five categories of achievements, progression in the completion of achievements in each category will award the player with medals that can be seen on the leaderboard during matches. The list of achievements is found in the stats menu.

Technical Info

The console versions of the game run at native 720p resolution at a consistent 30fps.

PC and Xbox 360 versions are rendered in Direct3D, while the Mac OS X and Playstation 3 version is rendered in OpenGL.

The PlayStation 3 version supports the DualShock 3 controller, PlayStation Move or a USB keyboard/mouse, while the Xbox 360 version is limited to a controller.

Supports ATI X1000-series GPU.

Reception

Counter Strike: Global Offensive received "generally favorable" reviews on Metacritic getting a metascore of 83/100 on PC,[13] 80/100 on PS3,[14] and 79/100 on Xbox 360.[15]

Trivia

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was announced on August 12, 2011, 12 years (exactly 146 months or 4,444 days) after Counter-Strike was originally released as a modification (June 12, 1999).

was announced on August 12, 2011, 12 years (exactly 146 months or 4,444 days) after was originally released as a modification (June 12, 1999). Counter-Strike: Global Offensive did not arrive on the PAL version of PlayStation Store on the official release date, causing fans of the region to react with anger. Sony apologized for the delay and promised to solve the problem as soon as possible but failed to provide an explanation.

did not arrive on the PAL version of PlayStation Store on the official release date, causing fans of the region to react with anger. Sony apologized for the delay and promised to solve the problem as soon as possible but failed to provide an explanation. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is the only Counter-Strike game to be rated 18+ by PEGI.

is the only game to be rated 18+ by PEGI. In the CS:GO icon, a CT can be seen holding a SCAR-L, a weapon that isn't in the game.

Unlike the other games in the Counter-Strike series, the color of the Terrorist team in CS:GO seems to be a darker yellow with a bit of orange mixed into it, instead of red.

series, the color of the Terrorist team in CS:GO seems to be a darker yellow with a bit of orange mixed into it, instead of red. Despite the game having left the beta in August 21, 2012, the Steam Database Depots for CS:GO is still called "Counter-Strike Global Offensive Beta".

The in-game files include a language option for "Pirate". This language can be used by setting the -language launch option to Pirate . This includes changes such as the Counter-Terrorist team being referred to as the "British Navy" and the Terrorist team being referred to as the "Pirates".

launch option to . This includes changes such as the Counter-Terrorist team being referred to as the "British Navy" and the Terrorist team being referred to as the "Pirates". The original Steam App id in steam store was 1800 , but was later changed to 730 .

Videos

PAX 2011 Counter-Strike Global Offensive - Teaser Trailer (Multi) Counter-Strike Global Offensive Trailer CS GO - Making the Short "Arms Race Mode" Gameplay Video-0 PAX Prime - Counter Strike Global Offensive Multiplayer Gameplay

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