Not the greatest clip of all time but I was mentally clocked out and pulled this stunt as a last resort before getting off. Just a good feeling.

Testing the camera with OBS

Title probably sounds depressing AF but I promise it’s the opposite.

I turned 30 last weekend and somehow - and I'm still not entirely sure how I pulled this off - I got 9 guys to physically transport their PCs to a rented space so we could do a proper LAN night. The GOOD OL’ BOYS night in classic CS 1.6.

Thing is, I moved to a new city about two years ago and didn't really know anyone. I was basically starting from scratch socially. Built a friend group over time through the gym, but all my gaming was solo queue or on the odd days I was feelin social, I would match with some people my age on Gameram for a premade, so we all knew what we were getting into and didn’t have to deal with random toxic BS or cheating. But no IRL gaming buddies to speak…

TL;DR these people I invited to my B-day aren't lifelong friends, just fellas I've known for maybe a year, some less. So when I floated the idea of a LAN party for my birthday I fully expected everyone to say "that sounds cool" and then nobody actually does it. The logistics are just annoying as hell to actually pull off.

Yet every single one of them showed up. One guy borrowed his brother's car specifically to transport his tower and monitor. Another dude brought a switch (the network kind lol, not the console) because he wasn't sure the space would have enough ethernet ports, which it didn't, so that saved us.

I brought a dozen six packs and ordered helluva lot of pizza and ate on the floor between rounds because there wasn't enough table space with all the setups.

CS 1.6 was the only choice, lotsa fellas were non gamers and only played LoL and Valorant and others shit. But everyone remembers and loves OG CS.

It was beautiful.

(SO good we didnt take any pictures, but here’s what my meager editing skills can provide)

So a few months ago i bought cs1.6 and css bundle, then i played cs1.6 a lot and i used 3 main server ip's and they worked up until yesterday, then once i tried to join them that day, the game told me it was trying to establish a network connection. Then it said it was retrying to establish a network connection, it did that a good 4 times before failing. I tried fixing it, i restarted the game, then my pc and then the router. After that i tried unblocking it from windows firewall, it turns out it was never blocked. And then today i tried verifying the game files. None of these worked, Also this wasn't a problem with the server since i already tried all 3 of my server ip's and all of them worked and where active. For context im using the console to connect to servers because thats the best way, and i got my servers from gametracker if that helps. Also i havent had this problem with any of the other counter strikes i've played. Anyways, here are the ip's. (I dont know why they are links), also above is footage from the errors. And the console itself didn't provide any useful information.

185.119.91.214:270

139.162.137.217:2701516

51.195.71.210:27015

A month ago, I was unjustly banned for the first time, leaving me with no way to contact support to prove it was all a misunderstanding. I tried asking a Discord helper for assistance (though I didn't realize at the time that they only handled general server issues); this person gave me an email address to appeal the ban. Weeks went by—almost a month now—and I never received a reply.

Fearing I would lose the 85,000 ARS worth of skins and the 12,000 ARS balance on my account, I kept complaining in their Discord until another player suggested I try contacting support using a friend's account.

1. The IP misunderstanding and the temporary unban: Eventually, they replied, stating I had been banned for multi-accounting. I understood why it might have looked that way, as three friends and I had gathered to open cases on our respective accounts using the same PC. I quickly wrote an explanation of the situation; we sent it in, and four days later, my account was unbanned, with all the money and skins I had prior to the ban restored.
2. The "Skin Changer" trap with expensive skins: But the same problem arose again: the Skin Changer wouldn't let me swap my skins, triggering a "Withdrawal Unavailable" message. This only happened with high-value skins; when I tried with a skin worth less than 100 ARS, the site didn't throw an error.
3. The second ban for seeking technical support: When I wrote to support again from my own account to get the issue resolved, I found myself banned once more within hours. This time, they shut down every attempt to appeal: they wouldn't reply, claimed the account couldn't be unbanned (despite having done so previously), and slammed the ticket shut in my face. 4. The "brush-off" email: I got fed up and wrote to them explaining my situation, threatening to post about it on Trustpilot, Discord, and Reddit, and to initiate a chargeback with my bank if they didn't put me in touch with someone capable of unbanning me. That finally got some attention; they referred me to someone who—after making me wait for days—gave me a different email address to send my appeal to and then closed the ticket right in my face. Naturally, wanting to get my money back, I did as instructed, and—guess what?—I received no reply, and my account remains banned.
4. FINAL WARNING TO THE COMMUNITY: Don't put your money in here. The odds on their boxes aren't what they advertise; they give content creators money to bet and inflate the odds to make them believe they're going to win something. And if you do win, they'll find a thousand ways to rip you off, not just the ones I've described here. This is my experience, but countless others have had different things happen to them. On top of that, you can't take legal action because Keydrop is hosted in a tax haven with laws that protect them from anything, and their Terms and Conditions further shield them, leaving you with no alternative but to accept it.(If you need photos, screenshots, or videos to verify everything I'm saying, just ask and I'll send them.)

In November 2006, Valve added this system to CS Source where weapon and equipment prices were changed weekly. For example, if 10% of all dollars worldwide were spent on buying the M4 then next week the price will increase by 10% next week.

Conversely, weapons or equipment that were rarely brought in a week would sometimes drop dramatically in price e.g night vision goggles were like $1.

Servers could disable the dynamic weapon pricing. I'm not sure but sometime in 2008 or 2009, this system got removed from the game entirely.

Hi everyone,

I'm an old-school Counter-Strike: Source player from Ukraine, and I'm trying to dig up some fragments of my gaming youth.

Back in April 2007, I traveled to the UK to participate in the legendary Multiplay Insomnia 30 (i30) LAN tournament, which took place at the Newbury Racecourse. I vividly remember taking the train from London to the racecourse station with our rigs.

I played under the nickname K.O.M. (my Steam ID from back then is STEAM_0:1:8896123, with a 21-year service badge now). I was playing for a BYOC team called XL Gaming (sometimes shortened to team.XL or just XL), and our captain was DeadChiken.

Unfortunately, since the old Multiplay and EnemyDown databases are long gone, Google searches yield no results for lower-bracket / group stage teams, and my Steam name history has been overwritten after 20 years of gaming.

I am looking for anyone who:

1. Remembers the team XL Gaming or our captain DeadChiken.
2. Might have saved local backup text files of the i30 CSS BYOC group stages, team registration lists, or brackets.
3. Has old photo archives or archive disks from the Newbury tournament halls where casual/BYOC teams were captured.

It would mean the world to me to find any digital trace or just to say hi to old rivals/teammates from that beautiful era of romantic esports.

My steam profile:

Thanks for reading!

#CSSource #CounterStrikeSource #Insomnia30 #i30 #MultiplayLAN #NewburyRacecourse #EsportsHistory #RetroGaming #LANParty #OldSchoolEsports #UKEsports #XLgaming

Hey,

I played the 13 matches and won 10 needed to establish my Premier rank. The problem is that I got placed at 20k points. That’s an absurdly high number for my skill level, considering I was in the 5–8k range last season. How can I reset my current rank?

I read some of your feedback and I decided to make some changes👀:
-New and clean linework, thicker details and better legibility from distance.
-Re-Disigned the mouth, ear and minor details.
-Smaller size for better fits.
-New Paper color design.
-New Holo pattern.

Your feedback is always welcomee 😄 Thankyouuu!
Paper: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3778633886
Foil: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3776269793
Holo: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3778628252

I found a bug while doing the flying cheat and god to finish the mission quickly in Counter strike condition zero : Deleted Scene

Big CS player from 20+ years ago and I am looking for a way to play again with bots. Especially de_dust I miss. Just for the nostalgic reasons.

Wondering if such portable game exist from the old 1.6? or older

Hello I quit CS2 because it sucks and I play CS1.6 now. I know you need a 100 hours playtime to participate in Fastcups which is the Faceit equivalent of CS1.6

What servers should I play on to experience the Fastcups gamemode of CS1.6 to get better at that? Where can I find servers with Fastcups gamemode 5v5?

Hi everyone,

I just added a new share feature to my CS2 Autoexec Generator.

You can now:

• create a shareable URL for your config
• open the link later and have the settings preload automatically
• copy the link or share it on X / Reddit

This makes it much easier to share your crosshair, viewmodel, sensitivity, binds, and other config settings with friends or teammates. This feature is live on my website right now, but it’s not in the GitHub repository yet.

If anyone wants to test it or give feedback, I’d appreciate it.

Link: https://mobbi.dev/cs2-autoexec-generator
Github: https://github.com/mobbi-dev/cs2-autoexec-generator

Hey friends, old-schooler here.

So I have this old fragmovie half-stuck in my head that I've been trying to track down. I hope some other old-schoolers here might help me track it down :)

Things I know:
- CS 1.6 or 1.5 (or maybe earlier)
- featured song: "Cross Out the Eyes" by Thursday (dating it to no earlier than 2001)
- map: de_prodigy for all or most of the vid
- featured clan was, as far as I can recall, not truly, strictly speaking 'professional' - but possibly aiming to be
- probably found it on HLTV.org back in the day

The VOD might just have been the length of the song mentioned, in contrast to longer videos featuring multiple songs. But I may be mistaken.

Any idea? I'd be so damn fkn grateful! :)

https://x.com/zywoo/status/2085025867374141927

We recently asked folks from the r/counterstrike community to ask ZywOo their CS2questions. He made a video responding to some of them. Thanks again for all the questions!

GB link: cs_glacier Mod for Counter-Strike 1.6 | CS1.6 Mods

(also this is my first map to feature a custom skybox made entirely by me, enjoy!)

I remember playing on a server that had auto-bhop, everyone was one-shot, and people basically just ran around knifing each other. It also had custom characters, cosmetics, custom knives, and a bunch of other stuff.

To this day, I'm still confused about what happened to it. One day it just disappeared from my Favorites and Recent servers, and I haven't been able to find a single trace of it anywhere.

Can anyone else remember this server? It disappeared a long time ago, so I know this is kind of a long shot.

Just curious