*** Official Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Thread ***

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What with the imminent release of the closed beta I thought it'd be a good idea to start my first *** Official *** thread.

There's a quick trailer here:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/1800

Some n00bs playing on console:

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/pax-2011-counter-strike-global/720475

The game looks to be cross platform on PC, Mac and PS3... and... you can play using KB/Mouse on PS3 too! which is a double bonus.

So, anyone got a spare beta key?

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[B@Th*nG]

better PC preview:

!

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[B@Th*nG]

Do we have a date for the closed beta? I managed to get my hands on a key but no info on when we can expect it yet.

There was an EU vs USA match over the weekend with some of the 1.6 stars but not seen much of the VOD yet. Really looking forward to it

Got a spare one?

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[B@Th*nG]

They've said that right from the first rumours of this game turning up, when Valve invited a substantial list of "pro" players to meetings at their offices in the States. Unfortunately, the majority of them were source players, so a lot of the 1.6 scene holds little hope for this when it does come out.

Personally I don't see the appeal of it. I loved 1.6, and I loved the (now old) source; but this seems that they just want a piece of the console pie and are trying to mimmick CoD in so many different ways...

they've said officially that they want to tie the two together, so hopefully they'll take the best of each and run with that.

I think it's fair to say that it's not going to be a masterpiece visually, but i don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. BF3 has highlighted one of the main problems with PC gaming and that's the necessity to upgrade, hopefully CS:GO will fall under that curve (which, given they have unfettered access to Steam's system specs database, shouldn't be hard) and allow an excellent, competitive PC game to be widespread again.

I'm hoping the addition of the consoles won't drag it down too far, from the looks of things there are efforts being made to ensure that there is a level of pro-ness to be selected which will cut the wheat from the chaff.

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[B@Th*nG]

i played it at eurogamer expo this year on the ps3 i found it easy really and ive hardly played any cs games before i played cs:cz for about 1 hour...

got a spare beta key?

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b@thang im trying to send you a pm but i cant find the option on this forum...

diddums100 at hotmail dot com you sir... ARE A LEGEND!

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What about me?

i asked in the first post

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[B@Th*nG]

many thanks GraveYard, top stuff! you win THIS:

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thanks for the massive **** picture, great fun speed scrolling past that at work pffft

don't browse forums at work then?

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[B@Th*nG]

just to add this:

"Details are slowly emerging on Counter-Strike Global Offensive’s closed beta, which is due to start on 30 November.... and it will initially consist of two maps: the ever-popular Dust, and, er, Dust2. “Can’t wait to see people getting to play the changes in Dust,” said csgo_dev’s Twitter feed."

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[B@Th*nG]

molotovs on stuff like cs_office are really useful enjoying this!

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playing this a bit more now, finding the smg's are pretty useless - pistols seem to be more effective.

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another thing too, the reload animations don't match the time it takes to actually reload the weapon. The number of times the animation has completed, and i go storming round the corner only to hit fire and nothing happen is really starting to get on my norks

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