2012 first-person shooter video game

2012 video game

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
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Developer(s)
  • Valve
  • Hidden Path Entertainment
Publisher(s) Valve
Composer(s) Mike Morasky
Series Counter-Strike
Engine Source
Platform(s)
  • Microsoft Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
  • PlayStation iii
  • Xbox 360
Release Baronial 21, 2012
Genre(s) First-person shooter
Fashion(south) Multiplayer

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive ( CS:Get ) is a multiplayer get-go-person shooter adult by Valve and Hidden Path Entertainment. Information technology is the quaternary game in the Counter-Strike serial. Adult for over ii years, Global Offensive was released for Windows, macOS, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 in August 2012, and for Linux in 2014. Valve still regularly updates the game, both with smaller balancing patches and larger content additions.

The game pits two teams, Terrorists and Counter-Terrorists, confronting each other in different objective-based game modes. The most common game modes involve the Terrorists planting a bomb while Counter-Terrorists attempt to stop them, or Counter-Terrorists attempting to rescue hostages that the Terrorists have captured. There are nine official game modes, all of which have distinct characteristics specific to that mode. The game also has matchmaking support that allows players to play on dedicated Valve servers, in addition to customs-hosted servers with custom maps and game modes. A battle-royale game-mode, "Danger Zone", was introduced in Dec 2018.

Global Offensive received positive reviews from critics on release, who praised the game for its gameplay and faithfulness to the Counter-Strike series, though it was criticized for some early features and the differences betwixt the console and PC versions. Since its release, it has fatigued in an estimated xi 1000000 players per calendar month, and remains one of the most played games on Valve's Steam platform. In December 2018, Valve transitioned the game to a free-to-play model, focusing on revenue from cosmetic items.

The game has an agile esports scene, continuing the history of international competitive play from previous games in the series. Teams compete in professional leagues and tournaments, and Global Offensive is now i of the largest global esports.

Gameplay

Global Offensive, like prior games in the Counter-Strike series, is an objective-based, multiplayer first-person shooter. Two opposing teams, the Terrorists and the Counter-Terrorists, compete in game modes to repeatedly consummate objectives, such every bit securing a location to plant or defuse a bomb and rescuing or capturing hostages.[1] [2] At the end of each short round, players are rewarded based on individual and team performance with in-game currency to spend on other weapons or utility in subsequent rounds.[iii] Winning rounds mostly rewards more than money than losing does, and completing map-based objectives, including killing enemies, gives additional cash bonuses.[ane] [4]

An in-progress friction match on Dust II, in which the thespian is using an AK-47

Global Offensive has nine official game modes: Competitive, Casual, Deathmatch, Arms Race, Sabotage, Wingman, Flying Scoutsman, Retakes and Danger Zone.[5] [6] [7] [8] Competitive fashion, the primary gameplay experience,[9] pits two teams of 5 players against each other in a best-of-30 friction match.[10] When playing Competitive, players have a skill rank based on a Glicko rating system and are paired with and against other players around the same ranking.[1] The Coincidental and Deathmatch modes are less serious than Competitive manner and exercise non register friendly fire. Both are primarily used as a practice tool.[11] [12] Artillery Race and Demolition, both based on mods for previous iterations in the serial, were added alongside eight new maps for the modes.[1] Arms Race is the Global Offensive variant of the "Gun Game" fashion in other games in the series.[1] Sabotage is another bomb defusal game fashion, with gun upgrades only given to players who killed an enemy in the previous round.[ane] Wingman is a ii-on-two bomb defusal game style taking place over xvi rounds. Like to Competitive, players are paired based on a dynamic skill ranking.[vii] The Flying Scoutsman mode equips players with but a SSG 08 (known in-game as the "Sentry") and a knife in a low-gravity map.[13] Retakes is a gamemode where 3 Terrorists will defend an already planted C4 against 4 Counter-Terrorists. Players will also exist able to choose a loadout card at the outset of each circular to retake (or defend) the bomb site.[eight] Danger Zone is a battle-royale mode in which upward to xviii players search for weapons, equipment, and coin in an attempt to be the last person or team remaining.[fourteen] [15] Valve as well included an offline exercise mode designed to assist new players larn how to use guns and grenades, called the Weapons Form.[16] Apart from the Weapons Course, all other game modes can be played online or offline with bots.[6]

There are five categories of purchasable weaponry: rifles, submachine guns, "heavy" weaponry (light auto guns and shotguns), pistols, and grenades.[17] Each gun in Global Offensive has a unique recoil design that can exist controlled, a gameplay feature the series has long been associated with.[18] [19] Global Offensive also introduced weapons and equipment not seen in previous installments, including tasers and an incendiary grenade.[20]

In-game matchmaking is supported for all online game modes and is managed through the Steam platform.[21] The game servers run Valve Anti-Crook to prevent cheating.[22] 1 form of matchmaking in Global Offensive to forbid cheating, Prime Matchmaking, hosts matches that tin can just be played with other users with the "Prime" status. This feature likewise results in more equal matches as at that place are fewer "smurfs" in these matches.[23] The PC version of Global Offensive also supports private dedicated servers that players may connect to through the customs server menu in-game. These servers may exist heavily modified and tin can drastically differ from the base game modes. There accept been many customs made mods for the game, one of the pop ones being "kz", a modern that makes players complete obstacle courses requiring advanced strafing and jumping techniques.[24]

Development and release

External video
video icon Counter-Strike: A Cursory History, a YouTube video published by Valve on January 23, 2017

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is the sequel to the popular offset-person shooter Counter-Strike: Source, adult by Valve. Global Offensive 'south development began when Hidden Path Entertainment attempted to port Counter-Strike: Source onto video game consoles.[1] [25] During its development, Valve saw the opportunity to turn the port into a full game and expand on the predecessor'south gameplay. Global Offensive began development in March 2010, and was revealed to the public on Baronial 12, 2011.[26] The closed beta started on November 30, 2011, and was initially restricted to around x chiliad people who received a key at events intended to showcase Global Offensive. Subsequently issues with client and server stability were addressed, the beta was opened upwardly to progressively more people,[27] and at E3 2012, Valve announced that Global Offensive would be released on Baronial 21, 2012, with the open beta starting roughly a month before that.[27] Before the public beta, Valve invited professional person Counter-Strike players to play-exam the game and give feedback.[28]

There were plans for cross-platform multiplayer play between Windows, Os Ten, Linux, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 players, but this was ultimately dropped so that the PC and Mac versions could exist actively updated.[29] On August 21, 2012, the game was publicly released on all platforms except Linux,[30] which would not be released until September 23, 2014.[31]

Since the initial release of Global Offensive, Valve has continued to update the game past introducing new maps and weapons, game modes, and weapon balancing changes.[32] Ane of the first major additions to the game postal service-release was the "Arms Deal" update. Released on Baronial thirteen, 2013, the update added cosmetic weapon finishes, or skins, to the game. These items are obtainable by a loot box machinery; players would receive cases that could exist unlocked using virtual keys, purchased through in-game microtransactions.[33] [25] Global Offensive has Steam Workshop support, allowing users to upload user-created content, such equally maps, weapon skins, and custom game-modes. Some popular user-created skins are added to the game and are obtainable from unboxing them in cases.[34] The creators of the skins are paid when their detail is added to a case.[35] These skins helped grade a virtual economic system in Global Offensive, leading to the creation of gambling, betting, and trading sites.[36] The improver of skins and the associated virtual economic system launched Global Offensive's role player count past the other games in the Counter-Strike series and is one of the near important updates in the game'due south history.[25] [37]

Events called "Operations" are held occasionally and tin be accessed through purchasable expansion packs in the class of "operation passes." These passes grant access to operation objectives which are spread over different game modes, such as Arms Race and Deathmatch,[38] or in operation-specific game modes, first seen in Functioning Hydra, released in May 2017.[39] Completing these challenges rewards the player with XP and the ability to upgrade the operation "coin." The maps in the operations are community made, meaning some of the acquirement made goes towards the map designers.[38] [40]

An update in October 2014 added "music kits", which supplant the default in-game music with music from soundtrack artists commissioned by Valve. If a thespian with a music kit equipped becomes the round's near valuable player, their music will play for others at the terminate of the round. There is a feature that allows kits to exist borrowed, and kits can be sold and exchanged through Steam's Community Market place.[41]

In 2016, the game saw 2 remakes of original Counter-Strike maps, likewise as the introduction of Prime matchmaking and additional items. Every bit a role of the Operation Wildfire promotion, Nuke was remade and re-released in February with the chief goals existence to residuum the map and brand it more aesthetically pleasing.[42] In Apr, Prime matchmaking was added to the game. To partake in this mode, the user had to have a verified telephone number continued to their account. Information technology was introduced in an endeavor to prevent legitimate players from playing with cheaters or high-skilled players playing on culling, lower ranked accounts, a do colloquially known as "smurfing".[23] Inferno, another original map, was re-released in October. Valve said they had iii reasons behind the remake: "to improve visibility; to brand information technology easier to move around in groups; and to tune it with histrion feedback."[43] Also in October, consumable items called graffiti were added to the game. These items replaced a characteristic nowadays in the previous iterations of the series chosen sprays. Previously, players could customize their sprays. Graffiti ideas tin can be uploaded to the Steam Workshop in the like manner as gun skins and players can buy and trade the existing graffiti in game.[44] One month later, glove skins were added.[45]

In September 2017, Valve Company worked with the publisher Perfect World to release Global Offensive in mainland china. Chinese citizens, with their identification verified, tin receive the game for free and earn Prime matchmaking status immediately.[46] The game is played through Perfect World's launcher and contains numerous exclusive changes to the game, including the censorship of skulls and other symbols.[47] [48] Some other changes were in the cosmetics in certain maps, for instance, the hammer and sickle on Enshroud and Train were removed.[49] In preparation for the release, multiple cities in Prc celebrated and heavily promoted its upcoming release.[47] [48] Users who played the game during its launch month received gratis promotional cosmetics.[49] [50] In compliance with Chinese police, Valve also had to disclose its loot box gambling odds.[51]

In Nov 2017, an update to the competitive matchmaking was announced. Called the "Trust Factor", it meant a player's "Trust Factor" would exist calculated through both in-game and Steam-wide deportment. Factors such as playtime on Global Offensive, times a user has been reported for cheating, playtime on other Steam games, and other behaviors hidden by Valve are taken into consideration when a user's "Trust Factor" is developed. This was done in an attempt to let the customs bond back together in matchmaking, every bit Prime matchmaking separated Prime number and non-Prime players from each other. Valve will not let users view their "Trust Factor" or reveal all of the factors deciding i'south "Trust".[52] [53] [54] In August 2018, an offline version of the game was released that allows the players to play offline with bots.[55] [56]

An update released on December 6, 2018, made the game fully free to play. Users who had purchased the game prior to this update were automatically updated to "Prime" status and given modes that can drop cosmetic items. In improver, the new version introduced a battle royale mode called "Danger Zone".[57]

In November 2019, Operation Shattered Web was released. It operated similarly to the previous operations and introduced new character models and a battle pass organisation.[58]

In Apr 2020, source lawmaking for 2018 versions of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Team Fortress 2 were leaked on the Net. This created fears that malicious users would take reward of the code to develop potential remote code execution software and attack game servers or players' ain computers. Several ongoing fan projects temporarily halted development in wake of this news until better confirmation of the affect of the leak could be adamant.[59] Valve confirmed the legitimacy of the code leaks, but stated they do not believe it impacts servers and clients running the latest official builds of either game.[sixty]

In Dec 2020, Operation Broken Fang was released accompanied with a cinematic trailer, the commencement official Counter-Strike: Global Offensive cinematic trailer in eight years since the official launch trailer.[61]

In May 2021, a subscription service called "CS:GO 360 Stats" was released for US$0.99 per month. It includes access to detailed match stats from official Competitive, Premier, and Wingman game modes and the Round Win Chance report introduced in Operation Broken Fang.[62] The update was met with a mixed response from players, with many pointing to free tertiary-party websites that provided similar stats.[63]

In September 2021, Performance Riptide was released, adding gameplay and matchmaking changes, new maps, and new cosmetic items.[64]

Gambling, third-party betting and money laundering

Following the introduction of the Arms Deal update in Baronial 2013, skins formed a virtual economy due to their rarity and other high-value factors that influenced their desirability. Due to this, the creation of a number of peel trading sites enabled past the Steamworks API were created. Some of these sites began to offer gambling functionality, allowing users to bet on the outcome of professional matches with skins. In June and July 2016, two formal lawsuits were filed confronting these gambling sites and Valve, stating that these encourage underage gambling and undisclosed promotion by some streamers. Valve in plough began to take steps to prevent these sites from using Steamworks for gambling purposes, and several of these sites ceased operating equally a result.[33] In July 2018, Valve disabled the opening of containers in Belgium and kingdom of the netherlands subsequently their loot boxes appeared to violate Dutch and Belgian gambling laws.[65]

In 2019, Valve made changes to Global Offensive'southward boodle box mechanics due to a realization that "nearly all" of the trading on loot box keys was done by criminal organizations as a method of money laundering. Valve released a statement, saying, "In the past, near primal trades we observed were between legitimate customers. However, worldwide fraud networks take recently shifted to using CS:GO keys to liquidate their gains. At this point, nearly all key purchases that end upwardly existence traded or sold on the market are believed to be fraud-sourced. As a result nosotros have decided that newly purchased keys will not be tradeable or marketable."[66] [67]

Professional competition

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championships
About recent flavor or competition:
PGL Major Stockholm 2021
Sport Esports
Founded 2013
No. of teams 16 teams (2013–2017)
24 teams (2018–present)
Venue(south) Various
Continents International
Most recent
champion(due south)		 Natus Vincere (ane title)
Most titles Astralis (iv titles)
Television set partner(s) Twitch, Steam.idiot box, YouTube, GOTV
Sponsor(s) Valve

Global Offensive has i of the near popular esport scenes in the world.[68] [69] [70] [71] The Global Offensive professional scene consists of leagues and tournaments hosted by 3rd-party organisations, and Valve-sponsored tournaments known as Major Championships. Majors are considered the most prestigious tournaments in Counter-Strike excursion and have amongst the largest prize pools; originally announced at US$250,000, the prize pools for Majors take risen to US$1,000,000 since MLG Columbus 2016.[72] Astralis is the most successful Global Offensive team of all time, with the core members of that squad winning 4 Majors together.

In 2014, the "first large match fixing scandal"[73] in the Global Offensive customs took identify, where squad iBuyPower purposefully lost a match confronting NetCodeGuides.com. The vii professional players that were involved in the scandal were permanently banned from all Majors by Valve, although some other organizers somewhen allowed the players to compete at their tournaments.[74] [75] [76]

Esports organizations Cloud9 and Dignitas, amidst others, appear plans in February 2020 to launch Flashpoint, a franchise-based league for Counter-Strike, countering concerns over the country of the electric current promotion/relegation leagues. The league was to be owned by the teams rather than a unmarried system, like to the Overwatch League.[77]

Media coverage

Equally the game and the scene grew in popularity, companies, including WME/IMG and Turner Broadcasting, began to televise Global Offensive professional games, with the first existence ELEAGUE Major 2017, held in the Fob Theatre and broadcast on Usa cable television set network TBS in 2016.[78] On August 22, 2018, Turner announced their farther programming of Global Offensive with ELEAGUE's Esports 101: CSGO and ELEAGUE CS:Become Premier 2018's docu-series on the TBS network.[79]

Reception

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive received generally positive reception from critics, co-ordinate to review aggregator Metacritic.[80] [82] [81] Since the game'due south release, Global Offensive has remained one of the most played and highest-grossing games on Steam.[87] [88] [89] [90] The game won the fan's choice "eSports Game of the Year" award at The Game Awards 2015.[91]

Reviewers praised Global Offensive 'due south faithfulness to the previous game, Counter-Strike: Source, with Allistair Pinsof of Destructoid rating the game very highly and maxim that Global Offensive is a "polished and better looking" version of the game.[one] GameSpot author Eric Neigher said in their review that this game stays true to its predecessors past calculation much content, merely tweaking small amounts and retaining their best features.[9] The reviewers at gamesTM wrote in their review that the game stood "as a glowing reminder that quality game design is rewarded in longevity and multifariousness."[92] They also connected onto congratulate Valve that they had not only updated the pop game, simply "had completely outclassed its contemporaries."[92] Martin Gaston of VideoGamer.com wrote that although he was as well old to truly relish the game, he believed that it was a "fine installment of one of the best games always made," and that some people will feel "what will become the definitive moments of their gaming lives."[19] Xav de Matos for Engadget wrote that for the price, "Global Offensive is a great extension to that legacy."[eleven] Mitch Dyer from IGN said that "Global Offensive is definitely a Counter-Strike sequel – it looks and feels familiar, with minor tweaks here and there to assist balance old issues and surprise longtime players."[20]

Some of the features in the early releases of the game were criticized past reviewers. GameSpy 's Mike Sharkey did not believe that the new content added was skilful or that at that place was much of it, and said that the Elo rating organisation seemed ineffective with many players of various skill levels all playing at once throughout the early days of release.[85] Evan Lahti from PC Gamer noted that the majority of new official maps in Global Offensive were only for Arms Race or Demolition game modes, while Classic maps were merely given "smart adjustments" to minor details.[86] Pinsof thought that in its release land, it would not be the last version of the game.[1] Paul Goodman said that for long-fourth dimension fans of the series, Global Offensive will start to show the game's historic period, expressing that he "couldn't assistance but feel that I had been at that place and done that a dozen times before."[93]

Although reviewers liked the console versions of the game, they believed there were obvious differences betwixt the PC and console versions. Neigher believed that due to playing with thumbsticks and shoulder buttons "y'all definitely won't be getting the ultimate CS:Become experience."[9] Ron Vorstermans for Gamer.nl said that the PC version is at that place to play at a higher competitive level, though he went on to say that the panel versions are not inferior because of the PC'due south superiority for competition.[94] Dyer wrote that the PlayStation 3 version was at an advantage to the Xbox version because of the power to connect a keyboard and mouse to the system. He connected on to say that the user-interface on both of the consoles was as good as the PC i.[20] Mark Langshaw of Digital Spy opined that although the game has support for the PlayStation Move, using it only makes the "already unforgiving game all the more challenging."[95]

The game was nominated for "Best Spectator Game" in IGN 's Best of 2017 Awards,[96] for "eSports Game of the Twelvemonth" at the 2017, 2018, and 2019 Gold Joystick Awards,[97] [98] [99] [100] for "Best eSports Game" at The Game Awards 2017, The Game Awards 2019 and The Game Awards 2020,[101] [102] [103] and for "Game, eSports" at the 17th Annual National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers Awards.[104] In 2018, the game was nominated for "Fan Favorite eSports Game" and "Fan Favorite eSports League Format" with the Majors at the Gamers' Pick Awards,[105] and for "eSports Title of the Year" at the Australian Games Awards.[106]

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