The number of different strategies you can employ is so great that it’s probably close to infinite. It’s a lot like a hockey player and his stick: easy to learn but takes a lifetime to master.Īside from your physical dexterity, CS:GO will push your mental capabilities to the test. Because of how accurate the first few bullets are with most weapons, the connection between your hand movements and what happens on the screen is extreme. It’s not like in Battlefield where you can hide in a bush and kill people without getting seen. The simple graphics and clean textures make players easy to spot.
Even if that means that you’re likely to lose that round it also means you have more money left for future rounds and that’ll increase your chances of winning a round and swing the momentum your way. Sometimes you’re better off not buying anything at all. This system adds another layer of strategy to the game. At the same time you get bonus cash for consecutive losses. If you win a round you get more money for the next one. That money is just enough for you to get body armor, some grenades or a better pistol. It’s a round based game and in the first round you start with $800 and a basic pistol. What truly makes Counter-Strike: Global Offensive unique is the economic system. If you’re on the other side your objective is to prevent the terrorists from doing so. Your objective is to plant a bomb at one of two bomb sites and make sure the counter-terrorists can’t defuse it before it goes off 40 seconds later. Apart from that it’s just you and your teammates. You have a basic arsenal of weapons at your disposal. No silly magic, no heat seeking missiles, no nothing. For me that’s the core of what CS:GO is: it’s competition at its purest. You might wonder why I told you that story about our somewhat naïve attempt to qualify for the first Major tournament. Then we got to see the biggest upset in the game’s short history up to that point, as Fnatic won the title.
That’s part of the beauty of Counter-Strike: it never truly dies, even if it's come close at times. At that moment I knew that this wasn’t the end times. A few rounds into the game the crowd started to chant “Friberg! Friberg! Friberg!” after some great rounds from NiP’s Adam ‘friberg’ Friberg. The world’s best team NiP was going to play the underdogs, Fnatic. That weekend we watched the Major, and when it was time for the grand final you could really feel the hype. After yet another game we finished second to last in our group and our run in the tournament came to an abrupt end. 1-16 was the final score and our dream was crushed. However, that feeling wouldn’t last for long as that was the only round we won in that game. I hid inside the kitchen and managed to remain unseen until the lone counter-terrorist had passed by me.Ī second later I had drawn my knife, secured the round and humiliated him at the same time.
My teammates racked up a few quick kills and we found ourselves in a 5-versus-1 situation. We took control over mid and then pressured their defenses from two sides.
In the first round we decided to go for a B-split. This time the game was going to be played on Mirage, our strongest map at the time. We were going to face a British team that had travelled all the way to Sweden for this event. I went to his Steam profile and noticed that he averaged just under ten hours (!) per day.įast forward to the next game. After a couple of weeks I noticed that John had started to hit his shots, and that he understood the basics of teamplay and positioning. A nice guy, but he just couldn’t play the game. After a few nights I must admit that I was ready to give up. We had just learned that the bring your own computer tournament was going to serve as a qualifier for a main event that happened to be the first-ever CS:GO Major. If my memory serves me right it was about four months until the event when we started to practice. I had never been to a LAN of that size before so I accepted and we put together a team consisting of friends from the 1.6 days, as well as a friend named John that had never played CS before. After a few months of complaining about the details that separated CS:GO from 1.6 (why would they have firebombs in a Counter-Strike game, I cried) a friend of mine suggested that we attend the upcoming Dreamhack Winter event in Jönköping, Sweden.
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