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No word on dedicated servers for consoles yet? Will this be playable on ps3 at midnight?

I would assume it will be playable when the store updates around 5-6pm-ish EST time, but who knows.

 

[SkoomaSuckinSwit]

No word on dedicated servers for consoles yet?

G4 preview a few months ago said dedicated servers for all platforms.

http://www.g4tv.com/games/xbox-360/65695/counter-strike-global-offensive/articles/77548/counter-strike-global-offensive-hands-on-preview-new-modes-classic-gameplay-and-a-great-price/

With CS: GO, Valve's sure to impress new and old Counter-Strike fans alike. It's got nostalgic touches that'll make older fans of the series happy, better maps thanks to community support, a fresh, beautiful coat of paint, ELO matchmaking, dedicated servers for every platform, and at a price point of only $15 on all systems, just about anyone will be able to get in on the action.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is coming to PC, Mac, XBLA, and PSN on August 21, 2012.

 

[Ravensmash]

Have they mentioned anything regarding content update/patches on consoles?

 

[JonCha]

Bloody hell this is a tenner for the UK right now. How is this for a total Counter-Strike noob, and how would playing this with a controller on PC be?

 

[CoolS]

Bloody hell this is a tenner for the UK right now. How is this for a total Counter-Strike noob, and how would playing this with a controller on PC be?

I don't know if the matchmaking takes controllers into consideration on PC, but you'll probably be slaughteted by people witk kb/m.

 

[mxgt]

Bloody hell this is a tenner for the UK right now. How is this for a total Counter-Strike noob, and how would playing this with a controller on PC be?

I'm not going to sugar coat it, you're going to get dominated by KB/M players in a game like this.

 

[giancarlo123x]

Just preordered it on PS3. I'm ready.

 

[RoboPlato]

Are PS+ members still getting a free trial? I'm kind of broke so I figure I'd play the trial until the end of the week when I get paid.

 

[Revenant]

So will there be more to the stats page then there is in the beta? Perhaps seperate pages for defuse, hostages, etc.?

 

[spk]

That's how I'll be playing. And I'll own.

You will do no such thing hahaha

 

[giancarlo123x]

Are PS+ members still getting a free trial? I'm kind of broke so I figure I'd play the trial until the end of the week when I get paid.

What free trial?

 

[Deleted member 102362]

New patch out!

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Beta Update Released
Product Update - Valve
16:55
Release notes for 8/20 Update

Gameplay:
• Added the Weapons Course to the game.

UI:
• Voice notification can now show more players talking.
• Updated the freeze panel to no longer show the heath for your killer in competitive mode.
• Added an option in the menu to disable the game instructor messages.
• Update to the player info panel to no longer show achievement alerts.
• Update to the leaderboard screen to default to “Friends” filter.
• Added the “Total Games Played” leaderboard category.
• Updated the Play With Friends screen:
-- Made the chat window bigger so text is no longer cut off.
-- Adjusted the size of dimming when the focus changes between friends list and lobby list. It used to obscure the friends list and a little of the chat. Now it only obscures the friends list.

Bug Fixes:
• Updated the radio command panel so that the radio panel doesn't end up at the top of the screen during a mode that doesn't have a money panel.
• Set Classic Casual deadtalk to 0 to encourage fair play.
• Fixed the freeze panel dynamic positioning that would allow it to go too high.
• Fixed a missing text string displayed when player is not connected to Steam in leaderboards.
• Fixed a bug where the Mag7 could be bought by Ts via console commands.
• Fixed a bug where adding favorite server was not functional in the Community Server UI.
• Fixed a bug in the Play With Friends lobby where using left and right on keyboard or gamepad made the screen unresponsive.
• Fixed a bug in the Play With Friends lobby where typing in the Chat window would cause player names to flicker in the friends list.
• Fix for voice/chat/radio messages. Better unified the handling of voice and chat messages.
-- Chat messages now correctly use sv_allchat (instead of sv_alltalk), which should be more consistent with other source games.
-- Team-only communications now are not affected by sv_allchat/sv_alltalk, which means that private communications to one's team stay private, regardless of game mode.
-- Team-only communication is also not overridden by sv_full_alltalk, which allows teams to privately communicate strategy during warmup time and intermission.
-- Radio commands are considered team-only, so these should still be usable for tactics during games with sv_alltalk enabled (e.g. casual).
-- Spectators no longer hear team-only communications, except when sv_spec_hear is mode 2 (hear/see comms of the spectated teams).

Audio:
• Increased the audible range of the c4 plant and disarm sounds.
• Fixed audio randomly chirping/screeching on certain levels.

Matchmaking:
• Tuned lobby distance computations when performing matchmaking.
• Exposed a convar ("mm_csgo_community_search_players_min") for community quick match to look for community servers having at least specified number of human players already playing.

Community:
• Shipped zombie model to support the Zombie Mod

 

[zlatko]

G4 preview a few months ago said dedicated servers for all platforms.

http://www.g4tv.com/games/xbox-360/65695/counter-strike-global-offensive/articles/77548/counter-strike-global-offensive-hands-on-preview-new-modes-classic-gameplay-and-a-great-price/

If that IS true, then I may buy this for 360 after all. Dedi's on consoles = instant support from me.

 

[Mahonay]

I'm pretty damn excited to pick this up on XBL for the sole reason I can actually be competitive in Counter-Strike for once. Any time I venture into CS on PC it leads to my utter destruction. I got on that train far too late. I was never a big PC gamer growing up and tried to check it out later on. It wasn't pretty. I'm more attuned to console shooters in general.

 

[StuBurns]

Why are they patching the beta? Doesn't it end in a few hours?

 

[lastflowers]

If anyone wants to play, my steamid is lastflowers. http://steamcommunity.com/id/lastflowers

I'm going to try to be serious again in CS. Haven't played in like 5 years, but I miss it.

 

[CoolS]

Why are they patching the beta? Doesn't it end in a few hours?

Do you actually have to redownload the game?

 

[RoboPlato]

What free trial?

I heard that PS+ members will be able to automatically download a trial. I think it was on the PSBlog sometime last week. Not sure if it's in all territories though.

 

[SapientWolf]

Added the Weapons Course to the game

Interesting. What's this?

 

[Persona86]

Anyone gonna make a GAF server for us gafers to play together? That would be great

 

[Gav47]

Interesting. What's this?

Sounds like a weapon testing map, kinda like TF2's itemtest, just a guess though.

 

[antitrop]

Do you actually have to redownload the game?

I would assume so.

The Counter-Strike: Source Beta and actual Counter-Strike: Source are two separate downloads.

 

[Tomat]

That is just shitty practice, games usually come out on Tuesday so by MS policy let's delay Skyrim because it came out on a Friday!

Still showing up on the dashboard

I'm not seeing this anywhere on the dashboard.

Still hesitant about getting this on the 360 because of balance patches and the fact that its still Counter Strike on a console. I've got 1200 MSP but zero steam funbux.

 

[CoolS]

I would assume so.

The Counter-Strike: Source Beta and actual Counter-Strike: Source are two separate downloads.

Well it gave me the chance to run the weapons course once, so that was fun ^^

 

[StuBurns]

Do you actually have to redownload the game?

I'm guessing so. There's a separate listing for the game versus the beta on my Steam library.

 

[commissar]

I imagine the actual release will simply rename the beta.

I don't see why you'd need to re-download anything, considering how Valve MP games are works in progress.

 

[Tomat]

I imagine the actual release will simply rename the beta.

I don't see why you'd need to re-download anything, considering how Valve MP games are works in progress.

You'll probably have to redownload it. I have separate entries in my library for CS:S beta and TF2 beta.

 

[StuBurns]

I imagine the actual release will simply rename the beta.

I don't see why you'd need to re-download anything, considering how Valve MP games are works in progress.

Why would they do that? CS:S and TF2 both have separate Beta clients. Are they really going to rename the Beta, remove the second client from our libraries, then add another client labelled Beta?

 

[Igo]

I hated the default crosshair and changed it to this. I found the instructions on the Steam forums somewhere.

Dump this into the autoexec.cfg if you want your crosshairs to look the same --

Other useful commands I found on the steam forums --

I also copied and pasted the stuff in the highframes TF2 config found here - http://fakkelbrigade.eu/chris/configs/ - to my CS GO autoexec. It reduced some of the graphical fluff and makes the game cleaner and the models easier to see.

The crosshair and model commands won't load through my autoexec. No clue what's going on as the headphone commands and fps_max/showfps are working.

Most of the commands in that TF config don't exist in GO either. I just removed all of it as i'm too lazy to figure out which load and which are unknown to the game.

 

[Deleted member 102362]

Why would they do that? CS:S and TF2 both have separate Beta clients. Are they really going to rename the Beta, remove the second client from our libraries, then add another client labelled Beta?

Beta is the preload.

Weapons training course is exactly what it sounds like (it is not like itemtest at all.)

 

[commissar]

I get what you mean, but this is an updated, pre-release beta.
So I doubt there will be anything functionally different.

Seems wasteful to not just rollover the existing download

 

[soultron]

Anyone have a server up?

 

[StuBurns]

Beta is the preload.

Weapons training course is exactly what it sounds like (it is not like itemtest at all.)

So why do I have a separate client listing on my library?

 

[Ikuu]

I imagine the actual release will simply rename the beta.

I don't see why you'd need to re-download anything, considering how Valve MP games are works in progress.

Considering if you were in the beta and tried to buy the game it said you already owned it, I expect this to happen.

 

[I H8 Memes]

OT title should have been GO GO GO!

 

[Deleted member 102362]

So why do I have a separate client listing on my library?

I dunno. But a Valve employee said the beta is the preload.

 

[The Librarian]

I'll be picking this up for the 360.

First new game in months. I hope I like it. Should help me keep busy until Halo 4.

 

[mrklaw]

Are the pc requirements going to be low? Love counterstrike, probably the only game I've played a lot on LAN. But that was over ten years ago, I'll be rubbish now but still enjoy it

 

[StuBurns]

I dunno. But a Valve employee said the beta is the preload.

It sounds like it's just shared content like you often get with Source game downloads. I imagine we'll have the game listed twice, and the beta will remain the beta version, but they'll be aligned initially.

 

[Deleted member 102362]

It sounds like it's just shared content like you often get with Source game downloads. I imagine we'll have the game listed twice, and the beta will remain the beta version, but they'll be aligned initially.

Pretty sure the beta is saying goodbye tomorrow. Like, from your library.

 

[VE3TRO]

I noticed someone posted Xbox 360 videos of my gameplay from the first 4 maps.

Here is some more I did from the other maps and game modes. I also have uploading a quick look through the menus for those who want to see controller options and such for consoles. You can find that below plus the download size is 1.98 GB on Xbox Live.

Lastly I'm uploading a video which takes a look at Weapons Course since I got told you guys on PC don't have it yet. It might still say processing since I'm on sucky internet at the moment just give it a few hours.

Casual - Dust 2 - Inferno - Italy - Train
Arms Race - Shoots - Baggage
Deolition - Bank - Sugarcrane - St.Marc - Lake - Safehouse
Options & Controls
Weapons Course

 

[waypoetic]

I would assume it will be playable when the store updates around 5-6pm-ish EST time, but who knows.

Not if Grace Chen has anything to say about it!

Hope there'll be a demo/trial so a euro can atleast try it.

 

[StuBurns]

Pretty sure the beta is saying goodbye tomorrow. Like, from your library.

That'd surprise me.

I've never installed the CS:S or TF2 betas though, no idea what's even in there actually.

 

[Doc Lobster]

Politely sharing a relevant article: Why It's Fun: Counter-Strike.

 

[Liferebooted]

Are there only gonna be 2 maps in arms race in the full release? On beta I've been getting every map in Arms Race this week.

 

[Konosuke]

00:31 GMT, has the game unlocked for anyone? We dont have to wait for PST, right?

 

[Heavy's Sandvich]

I remember left 4 dead 2 was to unlock at midnight, ended up unlocking at 7 in the morning. I'd just recommend going to bed and playing tomorrow.

 

[x3sphere]

Not sure if this was previously revealed, but for all you trophy whores, the game has a platinum.

Full list here:

http://exophase.com/game/csgo-ps3/trophies/

 

[StuBurns]

Are there only gonna be 2 maps in arms race in the full release? On beta I've been getting every map in Arms Race this week.

I've only had the two in the beta so far.

 

[RoboPlato]

Are the console versions 30fps or 60?