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CS:GO Pre-Orders Expected Late July; Will Open Beta Closer to Launch

Post by Dan @ 09:52am 13/06/12 | 10 Comments

After announcing an August 21st release date and US$14.99 price-point for Counter-strike: Global Offensive during E3, a recent blog post by the CS:GO team confirms that they plan to open the gates for pre-orders around a month before launch and intend to open the game's beta-test up some time after that:

For pre-orders we hope to open it up about a month before release so roughly July 21st but that is a rough date we will firm up as we get closer. As for an open beta, where everyone can get a chance to try CS:GO, sometime between the pre-orders and release

For those currently enjoying the closed beta, the blog post also promises that some bigger updates to the game are on the way with a major audio update and more new characters on the way, and word that more closed-beta keys will also be rolling out.

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FraktuRe
Posted 11:27am 13/6/12

For those wondering, the gameplay is almost exactly the same as source, with prettier graphics. Although not everything has been updated, strangely.

The interface is largely simplified for the consoles, but everything is still there.

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d^
Posted 01:44pm 13/6/12

CS: Source is on sale for $6.80 on steam (ends June 20)

And yes, the game is like an updated source, I'm not sure if this will be the game to bring the communities together or if it will make its own entirely.

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thermite
Posted 02:04pm 13/6/12

I find it rather different to Source, I was shit at source, but awesome at GO. Maybe because there's less players.

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DeadlyDav0
Posted 02:33pm 13/6/12

Yeah, i like the 5v5. So much less waiting around for the round to end if you die early.

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Sc00bs
Posted 02:50pm 13/6/12

seems like its turning into a deathmatch style quick kill - respawn sort of COD game =( i hope there are some good servers going around that actually want to to be tactical instead of just running and killing =(

use to love 5v5 wars in cs, especially when u are the one that takes out half of the enemy team

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thermite
Posted 03:20pm 13/6/12

Yeah when you kill a group of 3, it's like.. "well.. i've done my bit.."

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