Counter-Strike News

I like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, but I loved the original Counter-Strike. While CSGO is the prettier, more polished version of the same set of ideas, so many of the maps, so much of the feel that I loved, isn't present in the latest iteration.

The original Counter-Strike is still available to play, but its final update, 1.6, isn't the version I want either. I want beta 5.2, or thereabouts, from back before Valve bought the game and its rougher edges got sanded away.

That's me. But I'm here to ask you: what live service game would you like to see relaunch and preserve an older version of itself, as World Of Warcraft: Classic has? And what version would you want?

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20 years officially today, Counter-Strike 1.0 was officially released and it went on to change the way many of us played games online.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/11/its-hard-to-believe-but-counter-strike-has-turned-20-and-its-still-going-strong

• Fixed viewdemo command crashing for certain demo files
  
• Fixed ammo boxes visibly spawning when purchasing ammo
  
• Security fix to client disconnect handling
  
• Security fixes to console command handling
  
• Security fix to client/server communications
  
• Security fix to model loading
  
• Security fixes to BSP and WAD loading
  
• Setting _cl_autowepswitch to 2 will now enable auto weapon switching on pickup of a better weapon except when holding Primary or Secondary attack
  

• Fixed crash when playing back certain demos recorded on older server versions
  
• Fixed some resources not downloading properly through FastDL
  
• Fixed gl_texturemode and gl_ansio not updating properly when enabling/disabling Low video quality mode
  

• Prevent texgamma and lightgamma and brightness cvars from affecting lighting in multiplayer
  
• Added support for player avatars in scoreboard for lower display resolutions
  
• Added scoreboard cvar to show shortened, simple headers for columns: scoreboard_shortheaders, set to 0/1 to disable/enable
  
• Added scoreboard cvar to enable/disable showing avatars: scoreboard_showavatars, set to 0/1 to disable/enable
  
• Added new server cvar, mp_infinite_ammo, set to 0 to disable, 1 for infinite ammo in guns, 2 for infinite reload ammo
  

• Added money and health columns to scoreboard and player/server cvars to control their display
  
  • Player cvars are: scoreboard_showhealth and scoreboard_showmoney, can be set to 0/1 to disable/enable the column from showing
    
  • Server cvars are: mp_scoreboard_showhealth and mp_scoreboard_showmoney, they can be set to the following values:
    
    Value

    Description

    0

    Disable showing health/money altogether

    1

    Show Terrorist health/money to all teams

    2

    Show CT health/money to all teams

    3 (default)

    Show CT health/money to teammates only and Terrorist health/money to teammates only

    4

    Show health/money for all players to all other players

    5

    Show CT and T health/money to teammates and to spectators

• Fixed shotgun shell reload delay when holding +attack while magazine is empty
  
• Fixed non-translucent crosshair being slightly off-center
  
• Fixed UMP45 +attack being canceled when +attack2 is pressed
  

• Fixed setting monitor refresh rates through -freq when used with -nofbo
  
• Fixed unnecessary texture rescaling with NPOT textures
  
• Fixed slist command, will now show servers on the local network
  
• Fixed progress bar for individual files in resource download always showing at 100%
  
• Added auto-saving of several cvars (HL #2237)
  
• Fixed missing localizations in spectator UI
  
• Reordered columns in server browser to prevent game descriptions from being used to fake server player count
  
• Fixed sv_cheats being settable by players in a multiplayer game (sv_cheats is now controlled by the server)
  
• Security fixes to console commands
  
• Security fixes to resource loading