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What is Counter Strike: Global Offensive? Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is an online tactical and first-person shooter developed by Valve Corporation and Hidden Path Entertainment, who also maintained Counter-Strike: Source after its release.

Initial Release Date
August 21, 2012

Publisher
Valve Corporation

Platforms
PC, Micrsoft Windows, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360

Part of the Counter Strike game series

*This is based on the PC version of CS:GO, not everything may be accurate for other versions of the game*

Price: $14.99

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What's in the Topic?

Pictures
Game Modes
Competitive Ranks
Guns and Weapons
Maps
Tips and Tricks
CSGOLounge
Cases and Keys
Skins
Knives
Updates [As of 1/9/15]

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Pictures

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Game Modes

Competitive
Unlike casual mode, competitive mode always pits two teams of 5 against each other in a 30 round match. It is not possible to switch sides during the game except at the halftime. After the first 15 rounds, the game reaches halftime and the two teams will switch sides. The first team to score 16 points wins the game. If both teams score a total of 15 points by the end of the 30th round, the match will end in a tie. Games can also end prematurely if one team surrenders to the other. A vote to surrender must be unanimously agreed upon, and the vote is locked until a team member abandons the match.

Deathmatch
Prior to Global Offensive, several deathmatch mods were available, giving players the option to have a free-for-all deathmatch or team deathmatch elimination or point-based team deathmatch. Global Offensive's deathmatch mode, introduced on November 12, 2012, is a team deathmatch without any primary objectives, such as planting/defusing the bomb or rescuing hostages. Instead, players are required to eliminate enemies on the opposing team. After 10 minutes have elapsed, the round is over and the player with the most points will be displayed as the winner alongside 2nd and 3rd place.

Hostage Rescue

Hostage rescue is a game mode where the main objective for the Counter-Terrorists is to rescue the hostages. Terrorists must prevent them from doing so. Hostage rescue maps are prefixed with "cs". Generally, the hostages are placed near the Terrorist spawn. To rescue the hostages, the Counter-Terrorists must interact with them (by walking up to a hostage and pressing the use key) and lead them to the hostage rescue zone, usually located near the Counter-Terrorist spawn. The secondary objective, which also secures a victory for either team, is to eliminate all members of the opposing team. If the round time expires, the Terrorists win by default.

If all the surviving hostages have been rescued, and that number is at least half of the initial hostage count, the Counter-Terrorists will win, and each Counter-Terrorist is given a monetary reward. The game mode may effectively become a 'terrorist hunt' if all hostages are killed. Killing a hostage by either side usually incurs a large amount of stiff penalty in cash, and will sometimes garner a slaying, kick, or ban from the server.

When a Counter-Terrorist begins interacting with the hostages, they will be rewarded a small sum of cash. Upon successfully escorting a hostage to a rescue point, a much greater sum is awarded to the individual Counter-Terrorist.

Arms Race

The goal of Arms Race is to score a kill with the Gold Knife. Buy menus are unavailable and money will not be rewarded, weapons cannot be thrown away and will disappear as soon as their user dies. Instead, players spawn with the weapon on their current level and the knife, and will receive a different weapon ("level-up") when they score kills, the gold knife is the final weapon a player can receive. When a player receives the gold knife and made a kill with it, the player's team will win the game.

Players are able to respawn upon death and do not lose their current/previous weapon upon respawn. Upon respawn, the player will receive a short respawn protection time to prevent spawn camping.

Players can lose a weapon level if they are killed with a knife by a player who is not yet on the gold knife round, when they kill a teammate, or by killing themselves (usually, by falling).

There is no time limit for this scenario. Rounds may last one minute or even 10 minutes, depending on the amount of players and the map size.

It is possible to dominate enemies in this game mode and earn a "killing spree" when a player successfully eliminates 4 or more enemies. The message "[player name] is on a killing spree!!!!!!" is seen to all players when the player earns a killing spree.

As of November 11, 2014, a major overhaul to the Arms Race scenario was made. The weapon assortment is now randomized, although the Gold Knife retains its place as the last kill to win. However, the category of weapons are kept constant which is:

3 SMGs
4 Rifles
2 Shotguns
2 Sniper Riles
1 Machine Gun
4 Pistols

Furthermore, akin to some gun game mods, it is required to earn 2 kills per weapon (excluding the Gold Knife) to level up.

Casual

Much like previous games, casual mode allows a default maximum of 16 players per team on either bomb defusal or hostage rescue maps. Unlike previous games though, the game is limited to a maximum of 15 rounds. Although casual mode has no half time, players are free to switch sides during the game, provided there is room on the opposing team. The first team to score 8 points wins the game, with no possibility of a tie. Casual games can end prematurely if a change map vote succeeds, which will also cancel out any active mission points gained during the match.

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Competitive Ranks
*In order from lowest to highest*

Silver I
Silver II
Silver III
Silver IV
Silver Elite
Silver Elite Master
Gold Nova I
Gold Nova II
Gold Nova III
Gold Nova Master
Master Guardian I
Master Guardian II
Master Guardian Elite
Distinguished Master Guardian
Legendary Eagle
Legendary Eagle Master
Supreme Master First Class
The Global Elite

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Guns and Weapons

Weapon Color Code:
Terrorists(Ts) --- Counter-Terrorists(CTs) --- Both

Pistols
* Is the price the item costs in Competitive mode

Glock-18
P250
Desert Eagle
Dual Berettas
Tec-9
CZ75 Auto
P2000
USP/UPS-S
Five-Seven

Heavy

Nova *$1200
XM1014 *$3000
Sawed-Off *$1200
MAG-7 *$1800
Negev *$5700
M249 *$5750

Submachine Guns

MAC-10 *$1050
MP7 *$1700
UMP-45 *$1200
PP-Bizon *$1400
P90 *$2350
MP9 *$1250

Rifles

Galil AR *$2000
AK-47 *$2700
SSG 08 *$1700
SG 553 *$3000
AWP *$4750
G3SG1 *$5000
FAMAS *$2250
M4A4/M4A4-S *$3100
AUG *$3300
SCAR-20 *$5000

Grenades

Molotov Cocktail
Incendiary Grenade
High Explosive Grenade
Decoy Grenade
Flash Grenade
Smoke Grenade

Equipment

Kevlar Vest
Kevlar + Helmet
Zeus x27
C4
Defuse Kit
Rescue Kit

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Maps

Aztec
Dust
Dust 2
Cache
Cobblestone
Inferno
Mirage
Nuke
Overpass
Train
Vertigo
Assault
Italy
Militia
Office
Baggage
Lake
Monastery
Safehouse
Shoots
Bank
Shortdust
Shorttrain
St. Marc
Sugarcane

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Tips and Tricks

In this section I am going to just link in videos of Tips and Tricks, instead of talking about it.

Here's a video which will assist you on how to aim with AK-47 and M4A1-S. Aiming with AK-47 ain't easy, and it has a specific recoil pattern. So does m4a1-s, but however, it is more accurate;

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CSGOLounge

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The CSGO Lounge is a place where CSGO players hangout, trade, and bet on their favorite Pro Teams. Yes, I said bet.

You can use your own CSGO items to bet against pro teams, if you win. You could get a big payout with better skins than you bet. If you lose, you will not win anything and someone who won will get your skins.

You can also trade with other players, thousands of trades are done each and everyday from CSGO Lounge, and each time you refresh the page, you will most likely see 20+ more trades.

But, be cautious of scams.

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Cases and Keys

Cases are weapon cases that contain various different types of weapons. You could get a $0.12 skin, or if you are extremely, extremely lucky, you could walk away with a knife worth over $400+.

Opening cases is sort of like gambling, you have no idea what you are going to get. You know that you will get something, but more than likely, it will not be worth it.

Cases are only opened using Case/Container Keys. Unlike cases/containers, which can be earned in-game from item drops. Key can not. You have to either buy them from the market, from the CSGO home page, or from skins for them. (I recommend buying them from the CSGO Home Page, they are $2.50 which is less than they go for on the Steam Market, most of the time.

Opening cases can be very rewarding, but you could lose a lot of money doing so.

As I said before, cases can be earned for free, for just playing the game. But you must buy keys. And buying them is not cheap, one key only opens one case.

I found this website which is a Case Opening Simulator. I thought it was fair, and equal to opening real cases. It will show you what you can earn from opening the different types of cases, and it will tell you how many you've opened, how much you would have spent opening them for real. And the amount the winnings you got from the cases.

Here is a list of all the different cases available to open:

CS:GO Weapon Case
CS:GO Weapon Case 2
CS:GO Weapon Case 3
eSports 2013 Case
eSports 2013 Winter Case
eSports 2014 Summer Case
Huntsman Weapon Case
Operation Bravo Case
Operation Breakout Weapon Case
Operation Phoenix Weapon Case
Operation Vanguard Weapon Case
Winter Offensive Weapon Case
Chroma Case

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Skins

Skins can be bought from the market, traded for, opened in cases, or won from bets.

Some skins are more common than others, here is a scale for the skin rarity;

White - Consumer Grade (Worst)
Light Blue - Industrial Grade
Darker Blue - Mil Spec
Purple - Restricted
Pinkish Purple - Classified
Red - Covert
Yellow - Exceedingly Rare (Best)

Skins also have different conditions. If the skin is in good condition then you can see the skin will little to no scratches on it. If it has a lot of scratches, then it is less desirable, and looks worse.

Here are the different types of conditions, from worst to best;

Battle Scarred (BS) [Worst]
Well Worn (WW)
Field Tested (FT)
Minimal Wear (MW)
Factory New (FN) [Best]

StatTrak Technology

There are also more variations of different skins, that include a Stat Tracking technology, called; StatTrak. It's a counter on the side of your weapon, with a number. That number is the amount of kills that you have with that specific weapon.

Here's what a gun with StatTrak looks like:

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As you can see, on firearms, it is an electronic counter. On knives it is a number that appears to be sketched or scratched into the skin/knife.

StatTrak can also greatly raise the price of any gun/skin that it is 'attached' to.

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Knives

Now, as most of you probably know, you are able to get knives in Counter Strike: Global Offensive, other than your default knives.

The Knives you can buy/get are the following:

Gut Knife
Huntsman Knife
Butterfly Knife
Flip Knife
Karambit
Bayonet
M9 Bayonet

Knives can be very expensive. Your most expensive knives would probably be the Huntsman, Karambit, Butterly Knife, and M9 Bayonet. Your least expensive knives would be the Gut Knife and the Flip Knife. Even though these are the least expensive, does not mean they are cheap. A regular Gut Knife, with no skin can go for up to $50.

Now for the expensive ones...

The most expensive knife ever sold for ever $23,000.00, because it is the only one in existence. It was a StatTrak, Factory New, M9 Bayonet with the Crimson Web skin. The previous owner of this knife has remained anonymous to the world, but here is what the knife looked like;

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So, getting into the world of knives on CS:GO can be a very expensive ordeal, but. If you happen to get that special one of a kind knife, you could sell it for $23,000.00+ too.

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Updates

This section will focus entirely on the Updates of Counter Strike Global Offensive, and when the updates are released. If at any time, anything in this section is wrong, please let me know as soon as possible so I can fix it!

January 8th, 2015

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