Counterstrike has been a prime target for exploitation by cheaters since its release, since then many different types of hacking has been created in the game. Some of them are:
Wallhacks, which allow the player to see through walls. These work by altering the display driver to display objects that are normally obscured.
Speedhacks, which give the player increased speed. These work by sending false synchronisation data to servers.
No recoil, which keeps the players gun shooting straight on the x axis without a kickback by removing gun physics. No spread is used to make a players gun shoot straight along the y axis.
Aimbots, which helps the player aim at enemies. These work by moving the player's view to anticipate an enemy's position.
ESP, which shows textual information about the enemy, such as, health, name, and distance, and also information about weapons lying around the map, which could be missed without the hack
Barrel hack, which shows a line that depicts where the enemy is looking
Anti-flash and anti-smoke, which remove the flash bang and smoke grenade effect.
Grenade Dodger, which moves player farther or closer to a grenade, depending on settings.
But Valve has implemented a cheat system called Valve Anti-Cheat(VAC) that will catch those hackers and their Steam accounts will be permanently banned from all VAC servers.
As this game can be played as a game, this game has taken the next step and has become a competitive game that people form teams to compete with each other around the world. As a result, every year there are many competitions such as GXL, CAPL, kode5 and WCG. And when there is a competition, there are rules to the game. But every competition has different sets of rules. So im going to talk on the rules of the latest competition which is GXL that has a online portion and a offline portion. The prize money for the game are
1st) SGD$4k 2nd)SGD$2k 3rd)SGD$1k 4th)SGD$500
Rules: - 1 map per match - Round time: 1min 45 secounds - Must have a team captain/team manager and 4 core players and can have up to 2 subs - Maps - de_dust2, de_nuke, de_train, de_inferno - Players are not allowed to modify the following commands: cl_bob 0.01, cl_bobcycle 0.8, r_drawviewmodel 1 - Each team is to submit screenshots and demos of every match - Only team captains are allowed to pause the match and it can only be done at the following two times which are 1) During freeze time in the begining of the round and 2) At the end of the round
So these are the rules that are to be taken note when playing this competition. Check for more in-depth rules here.
As Counterstrike is about killing your enemies, today i will be talking on the available weapons that you are able to buy in the game to kill your enemies. Firstly you will have a melee item, a knife that you will always carry and cannot drop it.
These guns have different fire-power and different speed and perhaps different way of using it in the game. The guns also come at different prices and are categorised in 6 different groups which are pistols, shotguns, sub-machine guns, rifles, sniper rifles and machine guns.
For pistols, there are 6 different pistols. Pistols are the basic item you get when you start a game. For Counter-Terrorist you get a USP.45ACP Tactical, while for Terrorist, you get a Glock 18C Select Fire. There are other types of pistols such as Desert Eagle .50 AE, P228, Dual 96G Elite Berettas (Terrorist Only), FiveseveN (Counter-Terrorist Only).
For shotguns, there are only 2 types of shotguns. These guns are underated in the game where very little people buys them. M3 Super 90 Entry and XM1014 (M4 Super 90).
Next are the sub-machine guns. They are more expensive than pistol and less expensive than the other category of the guns. They are good to buy when you are lack in money or saving to buy a more expensive/powerful gun. They are MP5-Navy, Steyr Tactical Machine Pistol (TMP) (Counter-Terrorists Only), P90 Personal Defense Weapon, MAC-10 (Terrorists only), Universal Machinenpistole (UMP).
For rifles, they are the best guns in the game and are used whenever you have money to buy them. They are IMI Galil (Terrorist Only), FAMAS (Counter-Terrorist Only), Avtomat Kalashnikov Model 47 (AK-47) (Terrorists Only), SG-552 Commando (Terrorists Only), M4A1 Carbine with Silencer (Counter-Terrorists Only), Steyr AUG A1 (Counter-Terrorists Only).
Next up are the sniper rifles, as the sniper words says, it is good for far range combat in the game. They are Scout, Arctic Warfare Magnum (AWP or AWM), G3/SG-1 Precision Sniper Rifle (Terrorist Only), SG-550 Sniper Rifle (Counter-Terrorist Only)
Lastly, is is the machine gun, and there is only 1 machine gun - M249 PARA Light Machine Gun. As its name says it can hold over 100 bullets and can shoot at a fast rate.
Next will be the equipments - Grenades, there are 3 different types of grenades that that are: 1) HE Grenade - Able to damage your enemies when you throw at them 2) Flash Grenade - Able to blind your enemies 3) Smoke Grenade - Creating a smoke which blurs your enemies screen but also your screen
You also have other equipment such as Vest (& Helmet), Tactical Shield IIIA (Counter-Terrorist Only), Defuser (Thigh Packs) (Counter-Terrorists Only), Night Vision Goggles, C4 Explosives (Terrorists Only), C4 Backpack (Terrorists Only).
For more information and pictures on the weapons and equipments you can go to www.csnation.net
Today i will be talking on the maps of the game. The game has many different maps where you can play. Each map will have a different terrain and different tactics can be carried out to win the game.
The game has 3 different types of maps: 1) Hostage rescue maps, where the counter-terrorist team's objective is to free four non-player characters that are present near the terrorist base. 2) Bomb defusal maps, where the terrorist team must try to plant explosives at specific sites in the map and protect it for a set amount of time while the counter-terrorists attempt to defuse it. Counter-terrorists can purchase a kit to cut the bomb defusal time in half. 3) Assassination maps, in which one member of the counter-terrorist team becomes a VIP, and must be protected from assassination until he reaches an escape zone. This game mode is also present in Counter-Strike: Source, although rarely played.
There are also other unofficial prefixes maps such as AWP, surfing, XC, AIM, KZ.
As for Professional tournaments, they only involve bomb defusal maps. And such maps are de_dust2, de_nuke, de_train and de_inferno.
I will start on this blog by talking about the overall gameplay of this game.
First of all the game can be played from 2 players all the way to 32 players with 16 on each team. This game is a first person shooter in which players choose to join the Counter-Terrorist or the Terrorist team. Each person then will choose a skin from 8 different skins on each side of the team. The rules of the game can be configured by the host of the game but by default the game will start with each person having $800, two sets of ammunition, a knife, and a pistol: a Heckler & Koch USP .45 Tactical for counter-terrorists, and a GLOCK 18 for terrorists.
When the game is start, there is a few seconds before the game begins where this is called the freeze time where players are unable to walk, shoot but they are able to buy their weapons. The team wins by when one team is eliminated, hostages successfully saved or the C4 bomb is successfully exploded depending on the map that is being played. When a player dies, they will become “ghosts” and they are unable to talk to live players, change their names but are able to able to watch the rest of the round from multiple selectable views.
