Counter-strike : Global Offensive

[Mr Ono]

Those who ordered the full game on PC got the beta a couple of says ago.

I am what you would call an old skool CS player having started playing when the orignal version was in it's beta form then and seeing it grow into the Source version most are familiar with.

Had a few games tonight after a year or two away from CS entirely and I have to say I love the new update. The graphics are still below average for this day and age but are certainly shinier and feel chunkier. Lots of updated textures and character models. The netcode seems solid still and the whole game is still CS as we know and love.

I suppose what I really enjoyed though were the updates of the old maps on there. Managed to play Train, Nuke and Aztec for the first time in ages as well as Dust 1&2 and Inferno.

Not much else to say. It's CS, it's bloody brilliant and tough for the newbie and I love it again.

[averybluemonkey]

What have they done to rework the older maps? Has there been any change to the gun handling (I was never keen on the new recoil model they added for Source and much prefered 1.6's)? Is there built in searching for AWP banned servers at all?

[speedlolita]

AWP is easily the most fun gun to use in CS.

[nonny]

When is this out officially?

I'm going to pick it up on 360. I actually never got into CS that much on PC but I played the Xbox version to the point where the game was actually stuck in the machine because my DVD drive was knackered and I didnt notice for a month.

[averybluemonkey]

AWP is easily the most fun gun to use in CS.

No way, it's blatantly overpowered! A shot in the foot or hand shouldn't equal a kill. The Scout required skill because you had to get headshots, same with the AK and M4, there's a reason there are so many servers that ban the AWP and auto-Sniper in the earlier games. Once you get the AWP it just becomes a game of House of the Dead.

[speedlolita]

Hardly, but if you say so. I used to play this properly and the AWP is by no means overpowered. Risk reward etc.

Just had a quick blast. Top 3 game modes remind me of Call of Duty which is horrible. Classic whatever it's called seems like the best balance. Not too fond of interface and stuff though.

[dataDave]

I'm noticing a ton of input lag when I activate triple buffering. There were no custom servers either, meaning I had to match with people from the US whilst on a ping of over 400.

Still beta though, innit.

I'd like to play on Office like the Fragmasters UK server.

[Adam]

// ignores dedicated servers with pings above this value.
mm_dedicated_search_maxping "65"

// usual rate commands
cl_cmdrate "128"
cl_updaterate "128"
rate "80000"

bung that in an autoexec.cfg, could sort your problems~

[dataDave]

Thank!

[Mr Ono]

I've literally spent one evening so far so can't say too much about it except it does feels more solid than SOurce, if that makes sense.

Anyway, due out officially on PC on 21st August so not long to go. THere are dedicated servers I think?? I certainly played on them unless I am being a numpty. Game browser was identical to the Source game so filters etc should be there.