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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Available for Pre-Order

Post by trog @ 08:26am 08/08/12 | 32 Comments

Valve have announced that Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is now available on the Steam store for pre-order at a special price of USD$13.49 USD:

All players who pre-purchase on Steam receive a 10% discount and gain early access to the beta on August 14th.

CS: GO expands on the classic team-based action gameplay that Counter-Strike pioneered.Featuring an arsenal of over 45 weapons, loads of maps, new game modes, new visuals, leaderboards and over 165 Steam Achievements.

Because Valve are not total douchebags, this is the same price as our gaming brethren in the USA pay as well. Take note, publishers - one game, one price!

This discounted offer lasts until August 22nd. Valve PR also notes that Counter-Strike: Source is on sale (USD$6.80), along with the original (USD$3.40).

Buy now from SteamEU Only EUR€13.99!

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d^
Posted 09:14am 08/8/12

BUY IT NOW.

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thermite
Posted 10:13am 08/8/12

oh you can actually buy the old counter strike and condition zero on there too!?! I might have to get that because with CS:GO you get a bit sick of playing the same 4 maps all the time.

at least it's better than source, which seems to only have dust and office.

last edited by thermite at 10:13:59 08/Aug/12

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ravn0s
Posted 11:07am 08/8/12

there's more than 4 maps in cs:go.

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Mosfx
Posted 11:40am 08/8/12

thermite was being a smartass, there will only ever be 4 maps in rotation dust, dust2, dust3 and office

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thermite
Posted 12:01pm 08/8/12

some of my favourite maps: prodigy, militia, mansion/estate, assault, oilrig, siege, backalley, 747, cbble, vegas, vertigo

So I'm hoping they pull their finger out for the full release because there is no reason these maps should die off. Some of them like mansion and 747 will need some serious reimagining to bring them in line with the quality of a contemporary game.

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TiT
Posted 12:11pm 08/8/12

yeah i miss the VIP maps!

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glynd
Posted 12:15pm 08/8/12

I miss when it was full rotation, CS maps and DE map servers...but then again, some dickhead would start a vote for dust and it would change.
Nuke, Militia, Siege, Italy and Piranesi were my favourites. VIP were great as well.

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ravn0s
Posted 12:24pm 08/8/12

i loved those maps too thermite. i would love to see updated versions of storm, torn, havana, piranesi, survivor, docks, deep6, tundra, highrise and arabstreets.

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sleepy
Posted 12:49pm 08/8/12

Is this a full game?
Or do I need to reinstall my CS:S?

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thermite
Posted 12:51pm 08/8/12

You know what sucks about CS:GO, glynd, any dickhead can call a vote. They can vote on banning a player, changing maps, restarting, scrambling teams. And if it fails - they can call the vote again. Depending on the mix of people you have a lot of irritating things can happen. Sometimes someone will join a game, immediately call a vote to change the level to one that was just played, and then they'll quit and never actually play that level.
My first experience with CS:GO is that I joined my first game and was immediately voted off after 1 round. It really sours your experience. Then I couldn't join any game at all - I hadn't found the server browser yet, and the automatic game finder thing just kept trying to make me join the game I was banned from.
I've seen other people get voted off for no reason. I always vote against kicking players, there is always going to be some whinger that thinks some headshot was bs and wants to kick the player.
I've had experiences in the game where a full game was never played because people keep voting for new maps after a couple rounds.
Giving counter-strike players the power to decide stuff...hmm... I don't know what servers Valve employees play on, but they are obviously sheltered from the childishness of the general counter-strike community.

I'm always seeing in the media how well self-moderated communities like YouTube operate, but it's a load of bullshit. People play games and up-vote the retarded or offensive comments, and mark the legitimate comments as spam.

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d^
Posted 12:52pm 08/8/12

Full standalone game.

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copuis
Posted 12:58pm 08/8/12

shit, thermite is going to crack 10,000 posts soon,

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Rdizz
Posted 03:56pm 08/8/12

will this be playable on ubuntu?

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Sc00bs
Posted 03:57pm 08/8/12

bought that shit! what a bargain for $14

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Shaexen
Posted 06:39pm 08/8/12

bought that shit! what a bargain for $14

Damn straight.

I don't get all the hate from people about this, sure it might not be all you thought it could be but it's $15 ffs. That's like 3 beers.

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Whoop
Posted 06:49pm 08/8/12

I hated all that callvote shit in rocket arena 3, same map over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over on the "full map rotation" server. Piss off to the ra3map1 server if that's all you want to play.

Might nab cs:go in any case since it's cheap and I'm sure there will be some admins with brains who disable callvote.

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Sc00bs
Posted 06:51pm 08/8/12

yeah the votekick is rather annoying when ur rapping someone

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sleepy
Posted 07:08pm 08/8/12

never bought from steam but took the plunge.
it is in the 'library' now.
when do I D/L it or should I be doing this now.??

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HeardY
Posted 07:17pm 08/8/12

I've never paid for CS in the past (no I didn't pirate it) it was a mod at first and always was free. I feel dirty paying for CS.

hmmm

I'll probably buy it anyway

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Sc00bs
Posted 07:23pm 08/8/12

i dont mind in the slightest paying $14... if that means the money goes towards getting an updated source engine with new cs and tf

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Sc00bs
Posted 07:24pm 08/8/12

whats the go with no silencers either? is that gone now or they just havnt got it in the beta?

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FraktuRe
Posted 09:52pm 08/8/12

Yeah I always right click to put my silencers on and then I remember :(

I've also never paid for CS strangely enough, although I've had several legit copies over the years, it always just came with something else (orange box, gfx card, etc).

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d^
Posted 09:55pm 08/8/12

Silencers will be added in before full release, confirmed by Chet from Valve.

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ravn0s
Posted 10:04pm 08/8/12

Yeah I always right click to put my silencers on and then I remember :(

lol i've been doing the same.

Silencers will be added in before full release, confirmed by Chet from Valve.

for m4 and the ct pistol? what about other weapons?

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d^
Posted 10:07pm 08/8/12

No comments about other weapons yet.

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do0b
Posted 10:45pm 08/8/12

hopefully voting can be disabled server side

looking forward to owning nubs again

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Whoop
Posted 11:22pm 08/8/12

I've never paid for CS in the past (no I didn't pirate it) it was a mod at first and always was free. I feel dirty paying for CS.hmmmI'll probably buy it anyway

I also remember when garry's mod was free, and some weird tech demo that I figure became portals. You could shoot portals at walls & walk through but that was all there was to it, no actual goals other than to make others fall through into outer space I guess.

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FraktuRe
Posted 01:45am 09/8/12

^Narbacular Drop. It was a game some students did, and then valve hired them to create a full game of it (portal)

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AlphegA
Posted 01:34pm 09/8/12

I was hoping they'd make the gameplay like 1.3 :)

That's probably the most balanced CS. And I'm sure people will debate me for that.

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sleepy
Posted 04:44pm 14/8/12

Valve have announced that Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is now available on the Steam store for pre-order at a special price of USD$13.49 USD: Because Valve are not total douchebags, this is the same price as our gaming brethren in the USA pay as well. Take note, publishers - one game, one price!

This discounted offer lasts until August 22nd. Valve PR also notes that Counter-Strike: Source is on sale (USD$6.80), along with the original (USD$3.40).

I pre-ordered. When and how do I d/l or get access to the beta thingo?

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ravn0s
Posted 05:12pm 14/8/12

you will gain access tomorrow which will be the 14th in the USA.

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sleepy
Posted 05:24pm 14/8/12