Counter Strike Counter Strike Wiki FANDOM powered by WikiaThe best multiplayer game of 2. Game Revolution1This article is about the first game in the Counter Strike series. For the video game series, see Counter Strike series. Counter Strike also marketed as Half Life Counter Strike is a multiplayer first person shooter initially created by Minh Le and Jess Cliffe as a mod for Half Life. By the fifth beta, Valve Software started actively participating in the development and ultimately bought the rights to the game and offered the original developers jobs at the company which both of them accepted. After about a year in Beta stages, the first full release of the mod was published on November 9, 2. Read the blog, find events, get the latest facts, and participate in the forums online. North America shortly thereafter, on November 1. Since the creation of the franchise, various sequels and spinoffs have been created, such as Counter Strike Condition Zero, Counter Strike Source, and the latest in the series, Counter Strike Global Offensive. Development. Beta. The game started out as a Half Life modification on the Gold. Src engine. It went through numerous iterations and it grew in popularity to become one of the most popular first person shooters of all time. During the fifth beta Valve Software decided to get involved and eventually purchased the rights to the game. Retail release. On August 3. Counter Strike would be released as a retail product in addition to also being available as a mod for Half Life. The decision to turn the game into a retail product was made as it was felt that a retail release would make the game more accessible. Valve Software also wanted to see how the market would react to a multiplayer product that didnt require Half Life. Release models left vs. With the impending retail release, various legal issues had to be sorted out. One of these issues was the weapon names. They were changed to bogus names in order to avoid legal issues. Stickman Fighting Flash Games. In addition to simply purchasing the rights to the game, Valve Software also had to approach each level designer and artist to secure the rights to the maps and textures. Some textures were found to have dubious origins and they had to be remade or censored, which lead to some changes in maps for the retail release. While Minh Le had hoped that all maps would have been made part of the retail release,7 Valve opted to only include some of the maps in the retail release. For the maps that werent purchased by Valve, Minh Le decided to reimburse the authors out of his own pockets despite him having no obligation to do so. Naturally, the new version of the game would also feature new content. Three new weapons were modeled for the release by Minh Le. Also, all new player models were provided by Valve Software. Maverick Developments was also contracted to produce a training map for the retail version of the game. In October it was stated that the mod version of the game would be released as soon as the retail version had gone gold. On November 9, 2. The retail version appeared on store shelves in North America on November 1. Post release. Much like during the beta stages, various patches were released for the game after its full release. Since Valve was now involved, updates that needed substantial changes to the engine were also possible. Counter Strike 1.6 Bot' title='Counter Strike 1.6 Bot' />Download counter strike 1. CounterStrike Global Offensive CS GO The classic online shooter, updated for a new generation, and much more programs. Annimo disse. mto loco esses mapas do cS. Annimo disse. e sao daora o baixa o css fatal shot e muito loko eu. This included the introduction of a brand new spectator mode in Counter Strike 1. Counter Strike 1. Counter Strike 1. Counter Strike 1.6 Bot' title='Counter Strike 1.6 Bot' />On June 1. Counter Strike 1. Steam. Transfer to Steam. Counter Strike had already made an appearance on Steam during early closed beta testing of both Counter Strike 1. In March 2. 00. 2, this beta testing was also opened to the public. However the use of Steam at this point was strictly for beta testing purposes and there were no plans to make the actual game available via Steam yet. Valve had wanted to make the game available on Steam coinciding with the release of Counter Strike 1. Steam had to wait until Counter Strike 1. In October 2. 00. Counter Strike 1. Steam and that a beta test would precede the actual release. Public beta testing was initially to commence in mid November,1. December1. 9 until testing finally commenced on January 1. However, due to overwhelming demand further beta admissions were quickly suspended since the Steam servers ran out of bandwidth. Steam and thus the Counter Strike 1. February 1. 1, 2. Java Windows X64 Installer. The game would be updated numerous times during this beta test and Counter Strike 1. VGUI2 technology by Valve Software. The official bot that was being developed by Turtle Rock Studios for Counter Strike Condition Zero was also beta tested by the public in Counter Strike 1. June 5, 2. 00. 32. September 9, 2. 00. After over half a year of public beta testing, beta testing concluded on September 9, 2. The final release of Counter Strike 1. Steam network took longer than expected and the final version of Counter Strike 1. September 1. 2, 2. Steam client. 2. 72. Counter Strike 1. Since the release of Steam, various smaller patches have been released which have introduced fixes to bugsexploits or smaller balance changes. A Counter Strike 1. Counter Strike and Counter Strike Condition Zero,3. In game advertisement in Dust. In 2. 00. 7 an update was introduced that caused quite a lot of controversy even before its introduction in game advertisements. Despite the negative reaction by the community,3. Counter Strike was transferred over to the Steam. Pipe content delivery system. On January 2. 9, 2. Linux and Mac OS X and on February 1. Gameplay. The fast paced and team oriented gameplay of Counter Strike has stayed relatively the same throughout the years. In it, two teams, the Counter Terrorists and the Terrorists, fight to complete an objective or eliminate the opposing team. Although basic, it is considered one of the most revolutionary online games of all time. The original Counter Strike came exclusively with multiplayer, without computer controlled players. Over time, however, several server side modifications have added bots for in game use and bots were officially introduced in its later successors, Counter Strike Xbox and Counter Strike Condition Zero. Editions. When Counter Strike left beta stages and the first complete build was released, two different editions of the game were available mod and retail. After the game was transferred over to Steam, both of these editions were discontinued and only the Steam version is still supported. Since the release of the Steam version, the legacy editions mod and retail have been retroactively referred to as the the WON version based on the name of the matchmaking service used by those editions. Mod. This was essentially the edition that was the most direct continuation of the beta releases. The mod edition of the game could be downloaded from the official Counter Strike web site and required Half Life to be installed in order to be playable. Because this distribution was a mod just like the previous beta releases, this edition of the game kept the real weapon names. Also, this edition had exclusive maps that were not included in the retail edition as Valve Software had not bought the rights to all maps. The exclusive maps were Arabstreets, Dust. Estate, Foption, Highrise, Inferno, Nuke, Rotterdam, Tundra, Vegas and Vertigo. Some of these maps were removedintroduced in subsequent patches. When Counter Strike was transferred to Steam with version 1. Retail. Original retail release.