{"id":14522,"date":"2011-10-07T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"counter-strike-global-offensive-more-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/14522-counter-strike-global-offensive-more-details","title":{"rendered":"Counter-Strike: Global Offensive – more details"},"content":{"rendered":"

Valve’s Chet Faliszek has revealed some interesting details about Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in an interview with The Reticule<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The multiplatform tactical multiplayer shooter has just gone into a closed-beta phase, and Valve expects to grow this over the next few months.<\/p>\n

Old school Counter-Strike players who aren’t interested in the new game will be pleased to know that Valve plans to continue supporting CS:Source and CS 1.6 with updates going forward.<\/p>\n

“But we don’t want to change those games, while here in CS:GO during the beta we are willing to [take] the feedback from the community and make something that may be different,” said Faliszek.<\/p>\n

Faliszek also confirmed that Counter-Strike: Global Offensive will get the same degree of mod support that previous Counter-Strike games have received.<\/p>\n

He also clarified some of the differences between casual and competitive modes, saying that casual mode is for players who “want to sit around and have all talk and not worry about the weapon choices you are making because you can have them all available,” or more simply, “it is more of a social way to play the game.”<\/p>\n

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The competitive mode will introduce the matchmaking system, which will pit you against similarly skilled players based on your previous performance.<\/p>\n

Top competitive Counter-Strike players are currently playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and according to Faliszek, the feedback has been pretty good.<\/p>\n

“All those guys, all the pros, we have a private forum to discuss just with them feedback and ideas. It is a bit esoteric right now because they aren’t playing the beta, once the beta gets growing, that kind of feedback we will see getting a lot stronger,” said Faliszek.<\/p>\n

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When asked if the game will be free-to-play, or if there will be any free modes, Faliszek said that Valve is currently working on the game itself, and has no solid plans for a revenue model.<\/p>\n

Faliszek also confirmed 8 new weapons, some of which will be throwable. Valve has also updated all the existing Counter-Strike weapons.<\/p>\n

Don’t expect CoD-style throwable knives though, because “it is going to be the same as it always has been in the sense, it is about you making those tactical choices.”<\/p>\n

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As for the beta rollout plan, Faliszek had this to say: “We are saying early October, what will happen is it will roll out first with keys people have got from this (Eurogamer Expo) show, and then the pros will be getting keys as well. Then it will start expanding out, we will give them out to sites to give them to their communities. We kind of want to roll it up and scale the beta, but by years’ end everyone will be able to be in the beta.”<\/p>\n

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