


Like with Counter-Strike 1.6, many of the best CS:GO players are centered around Europe, with Swedish teams like fnatic and Ninjas in Pyjamas being the most dominant at the game. But after receiving more than 60 updates to the game that featured major gameplay tweaks and new maps and features, the Counter-Strike community made their permanent transition to CS:GO. The initial hype died off fairly quickly, with many players returning to Counter-Strike 1.6 or Source where they were more comfortable. Each round is won by either completing the mission objective or eliminating the opposing force.įor the first year of its release, CS:GO was criticized for being what amounts to "Counter-Strike: Source with better visuals". Counter-Strike pits a team of counter-terrorists against a team of terrorists in a series of rounds. It is the fourth game in the main Counter-Strike franchise. (To opt-in, right-click on CS:GO in your Steam library, go to "Properties", go to the "Betas" tab and select Branch.Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (abbreviated as CS:GO) is a tactical first-person shooter developed by Valve Corporation and Hidden Path Entertainment, who also maintained Counter-Strike: Source after its release.

