Counter-Strike: Global Offensive announced

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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Valve has announced a new game in the Counter-Strike series, called Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

Set for release early 2012, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is being developed for PC, Mac, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360s and will apparently see digital-only distribution on all those platforms according to the press release.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive will feature new maps, characters and weapons, according to the press release. It will deliver updated versions of classic Counter-Strike content too, such as de_dust, as well as new features such as leaderboards and matchmaking.

Steam page: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Steam

Source: Valve announces Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

M Speechless

[Sam]

means HL2 EP3 is delayed till 2013 (or late 2012) nice

[vickybat]

Will it get a brand new engine?

[sygeek]

You sir, just made my day!

[topgear]

great news - after playing CS source a lot I think it's time for an update and they are releasing it in right time anyway

[sygeek]

Hands on With Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

[ico]

Originally Posted by vickybat

Will it get a brand new engine?

Nope it won't. Valve is more about content quality than graphics.

If it had a brand new engine, Valve's expected release date would have been 2015 or may be 2016. And that's without taking valve time into account.

Still Valve is many classes above any developer out there. They haven't made a single 'good' game yet.

[gameranand]

Originally Posted by ico

Nope it won't. Valve is more about content quality than graphics.

If it had a brand new engine, Valve's expected release date would have been 2015 or may be 2016. And that's without taking valve time into account.

Still Valve is many classes above any developer out there. They haven't made a single 'good' game yet.

True all there games are damn good.

Nice news anyways although I am not much interested but my CS friends would be happy about it.

[vickybat]

Originally Posted by ico

Nope it won't. Valve is more about content quality than graphics.

If it had a brand new engine, Valve's expected release date would have been 2015 or may be 2016. And that's without taking valve time into account.

Still Valve is many classes above any developer out there. They haven't made a single 'good' game yet.

Didn't get the bold part mate. I think the truth is in contradiction to your line. Afaik all of their games gained critical commercial success.

Yeah its gonna use the same source engine. I think valve will greatly update the graphics and physics as its also making way to consoles. Portal 2 had updated source engine and used a new version.

I am sure valve will play the same cards with this new counter strike. I've always liked the gun sounds in counterstrike including recoil physics. They're very well done and expecting the same in this one.

[ico]

gameranand understood it.

[doomgiver]

Originally Posted by vickybat

Didn't get the bold part mate. I think the truth is in contradiction to your line. Afaik all of their games gained critical commercial success.

Yeah its gonna use the same source engine. I think valve will greatly update the graphics and physics as its also making way to consoles. Portal 2 had updated source engine and used a new version.

I am sure valve will play the same cards with this new counter strike. I've always liked the gun sounds in counterstrike including recoil physics. They're very well done and expecting the same in this one.

i think he meant that all their games were awesome, and not just 'good'.

counterstrike on a console? no way.

what recoil physics?

[Liverpool_fan]

Originally Posted by Sam

means HL2 EP3 is delayed till 2013 (or late 2012) nice

True

[xtremevicky]

Waiting for It !

[vickybat]

Originally Posted by ico

gameranand understood it.

Haha , got you now. I took it a bit too seriously.

@ doomgiver

Yup, its coming to ps3 and xbox 360 as well. Check here.

Recoil physics is a code applied to game physics engine that takes care of gun recoils like in real world and ricocheting of bullets from walls.
I liked the implementation in counterstrike games and i hope they take it to the next level here.

[doomgiver]

i hated the ak 47 spray pattern. used to make a '7' shape in cs 1.6

[vickybat]

Sorry to bring up controversial topics but i couldn't help myself on this one.

CS:GO is Doomed to Fail on the Xbox 360, but Not the PS3

[topgear]

As long as it works perfectly on pc it's good enough for me

[ico]

Originally Posted by vickybat

Sorry to bring up controversial topics but i couldn't help myself on this one.

CS:GO is Doomed to Fail on the Xbox 360, but Not the PS3

That article is factually incorrect. We Steam users know Valve has a habit of publishing "unnecessary" small updates for their games everyday. That's the reason why it won't suit Xbox 360. One thing that article is doesn't mention about, CoD online games are fail on PS3 whereas not on Xbox 360. CoD Xbox 360 online community is much more competitive whereas the PS3 community is full of noobs online. That's a big fact. I can rather see CS:GO being a success on Xbox 360 because of lack of freebie noobs online. PS3 is a console for home theatre and off-line play whereas Xbox 360 is for online play.

[Liverpool_fan]

Valve better make this F2P. If TF2 (which I paid for) was made F2P, then so should be this.

[ico]

Originally Posted by Liverpool_fan

Valve better make this F2P. If TF2 (which I paid for) was made F2P, then so should be this.

well, I hate freebie players online. Most of them are noobs and spoil the game.

[Liverpool_fan]

Originally Posted by ico

well, I hate freebie players online. Most of them are noobs and spoil the game.

True, but I'll be angry if they don't F2P CS:GO when they made TF2 F2P. That would mean they took TF2 customers for granted. :/

[ico]

They'll be running with the flag and will not cap it...they'll have the Ubercharge ready but will not deploy it.

But I think it is going to cost for consoles. Even if CS:GO turns out to be F2P, it isn't going to be F2P for them, pretty sure about this.

[Liverpool_fan]

I mean only for Steam users obviously.

[vickybat]

Originally Posted by ico

That article is factually incorrect. We Steam users know Valve has a habit of publishing "unnecessary" small updates for their games everyday. That's the reason why it won't suit Xbox 360. One thing that article is doesn't mention about, CoD online games are fail on PS3 whereas not on Xbox 360. CoD Xbox 360 online community is much more competitive whereas the PS3 community is full of noobs online. That's a big fact. I can rather see CS:GO being a success on Xbox 360 because of lack of freebie noobs online. PS3 is a console for home theatre and off-line play whereas Xbox 360 is for online play.

Only time will tell.

Xbox 360 community also has noobs and i would call them "premium noobs".
Valve games are going to shine better on ps3 from now on imo. A total contradiction from what happened in the start of this generation.

We've seen that with portal 2 which supported cross-chat features between the ps3 and pc version.

[tejaslok]

saw it in steam news too xD

will be the my next fav game after bf3 !

[ico]

Originally Posted by vickybat

A total contradiction from what happened in the start of this generation.

We've seen that with portal 2 which supported cross-chat features between the ps3 and pc version.

Useful yes - you can catch up with your Steam mates, but certainly not a deal breaker. Microsoft doesn't allow such things on their console. Their own online chatting/social features in XBL are much better than the ones on PS3.

Note: You might have seen that Portal 2 supports cross-chat features between the PS3 and PC version but I don't know whether you have seen that PS3 still doesn't have cross-game chat whereas XBL does.

[JojoTheDragon]

Originally Posted by ico

That article is factually incorrect. We Steam users know Valve has a habit of publishing "unnecessary" small updates for their games everyday. That's the reason why it won't suit Xbox 360. One thing that article is doesn't mention about, CoD online games are fail on PS3 whereas not on Xbox 360. CoD Xbox 360 online community is much more competitive whereas the PS3 community is full of noobs online. That's a big fact. I can rather see CS:GO being a success on Xbox 360 because of lack of freebie noobs online. PS3 is a console for home theatre and off-line play whereas Xbox 360 is for online play.

You a PS3 gamer ?

[ico]

Originally Posted by JojoTheDragon

You a PS3 gamer ?

Online PC gamer through and through. I don't even bother with single player titles.

[JojoTheDragon]

Originally Posted by ico

Online PC gamer through and through. I don't even bother with single player titles.

Ok, then its obvious that you'll flame, hate, etc, etc, about whatever is say about PS3. Enjoy.

[vickybat]

Originally Posted by ico

Note: You might have seen that Portal 2 supports cross-chat features between the PS3 and PC version but I don't know whether you have seen that PS3 still doesn't have cross-game chat whereas XBL does.

Yes it doesn't have it yet thanks to several copyrights imposed by m!crosoft.
But with the advent of steam on the ps3 , it highly possible in the very near future.

But i found this and this.

I must say that, personally, Cross Game Chat is not a feature that interests me. If I’m playing a single player game like Uncharted, frankly, I don’t care to talk to anybody else, seeing how I will be focused on that game with its rich plot and dialogue. And if I’m playing Killzone 3 or SOCOM 4, for instance, you can bet that I definitely don’t care what my friend has to say when he is playing Gran Turismo 5, seeing how I’ll be focused on talking with my teammates. How about you? Is Cross Game Chat really that important of a feature for you or is it something that’s been hyped up too much?