Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (2011) is the latest game of the Counter-Strike franchise, running on the Source engine. The game is available on PC, through Steam, as well as Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game contains the well known hostage and bomb scenarios and has several new game modes not included in its predecessors, including "Deathmatch", "Demolition" and "Arms Race". The Arms Race and Demolition game modes are based on the popular mod "Gungame".
Deathmatch is a game mode in which the player's goal is to place highest on the leaderboard by killing players on the enemy team with whatever weapon they wish to use. Weapons cost no money and only rifles and pistols may be bought. Players have a short invulnerability period to buy weapons before moving and respawning is allowed. In the end, the three players that got the most points are showcased under the "[Team Name] Wins" message.
Demolition is a fast paced mix of bomb planting and gun progression. There are no buy menus, you start with a rifle and if you get a kill that round – you get a progressively weaker weapon in the next round.
Arms Race game mode is a single extended round with instant respawn. All players start with the same weapon and get a new one each time they kill an enemy. The progression of unlocked weapons ends with the knife. The first player to get a kill with every weapon wins the match.
New weapons have also added: Molotov grenades which create a pool of fire in the ground, Decoy grenades which create fake weapon sounds and a taser melee weapon, the Zeus x27.
Technology-wise, a new method of lighting has been implemented, wherein outdoor lighting (which previously was handled by a light_environment entity and produced only static lighting) now casts harsh, directional shadow maps similar to env_projectedtexture. Details about the inner workings of this method have yet to be revealed.
In June 2018, the brand new Source 2 Panorama UI launched into beta. There are apparently more planned Source 2 Back-ported features to come soon.
On December 6, 2018, the game became free to play and introduced a new battle royale game mode called "Danger Zone".
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Features
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive introduces:
- Real-Time outdoor shadow mapping
- Similar to env_projectedtexture, used to render harsh, dynamic outdoor shadows
- Light-mapped Ambient Occlusion
- Used to create Ambient Occlusion on Brushes/Displacements
- Map Workshop
- Used to download custom maps from the workshop
- Phong shading on Brushes (added 29 April 2015)
- Allows for the addition of Phong highlights on brushes lit by environment light
- Anisotropic reflection emulation
- Used on cubemaps to emulate anisotropic reflections
- Normal Map blending
- Used to blend together multiple normal maps
Content
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (
csgo) - Counter-Strike: Global Offensive engine branch
Official maps
Counter-Strike has the following official maps included:
Arsenal: Arms Race scenario
- ar_baggage
- Added 30th March 2012 (Closed Beta)
- ar_shoots
- Added 30th March 2012 (Closed Beta)
- ar_monastery
- Added 1st October 2012
Arsenal: Demolition scenario
- de_bank
- Added 13th April 2012 (Closed Beta)
- de_lake
- Added 10th March 2012 (Closed Beta)
- de_safehouse
- Added 13th April 2012 (Closed Beta)
- de_shorttrain
- Added 13th April 2012 (Closed Beta)
- de_stmarc
- Added 16th March 2012 (Closed Beta)
- de_sugarcane
- Added 13th April 2012 (Closed Beta)
Hostage scenario
- cs_italy
- Remake from Counter-Strike. Added 30th November 2011 (Closed Beta)
- cs_italy_se
- To do: Add release date.
- cs_office
- Remake from Counter-Strike. Added 23th March 2012 (Closed Beta)
- cs_office_se
- To do: Add release date.
- cs_assault
- Remake from Counter-Strike. Added 7th February 2013
- cs_militia
- Remake from Counter-Strike. Added 21th March 2013
- cs_workout
- Added 25 April 2019
Bombing scenario
- de_aztec
- Remake from Counter-Strike. To do: Add release date.
- de_aztec_se
- Remake from Counter-Strike. To do: Add release date.
- de_dust
- Remake from Counter-Strike. Added 30th November 2011 (Closed Beta)
- de_dust_se
- Remake from Counter-Strike. To do: Add release date.
- de_dust2
- Remake from Counter-Strike. Added 30th November 2011 (Closed Beta)
- de_dust2_se
- Remake from Counter-Strike. Added 16th March 2012 (Closed Beta)
- de_inferno
- Remake from Counter-Strike. Added 15th February 2012 (Closed Beta)
- de_inferno_se
- Remake from Counter-Strike. Added 4th May 2012 (Closed Beta)
- de_nuke
- Remake from Counter-Strike. Added 15th February 2012 (Closed Beta)
- de_nuke_se
- Remake from Counter-Strike. Added 4th May 2012 (Closed Beta)
- de_train
- Remake from Counter-Strike. Added 15th February 2012 (Closed Beta)
- de_train_se
- Remake from Counter-Strike. To do: Add release date.
- de_vertigo
- Remake from Counter-Strike. Added 1st October 2012
- de_mirage
- Official Version of community map. Added 12th June 2013
- de_cbble
- Remake from Counter-Strike. Added 18th December 2013
- de_overpass
- Added 18th December 2013
- de_canals
- Added 15th March 2017
- de_ruby
- Added 25 April 2019
Danger Zone
- dz_blacksite
- Added 6th December 2018, with the Danger Zone update; currently unplayable in official matchmaking as of April 30 2019
- dz_sirocco
- Added 30th April 2019
See also
- CS:GO Level Creation
- CS:GO Dedicated Servers
- CS:GO Game State Integration
- CS:GO Pick'Em and Fantasy Games
- CS:GO Economy Items
- Wikipedia entry for CS:GO
Similar games
Other games of the Counter-Strike franchise:
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