The Counter-Strike: Global Offensive cinematic is just under four minutes long. It's easy to forget how much time goes into making these short teaser videos, so Valve have released a behind-the-scenes montage showing mo-cap actors performing military manoeuvres on a mat in a warehouse, a full orchestra recording the backing track and tiny details being tweaked in the Source Filmmaker. The video editing tools Valve released recently really are the same as the ones they use in-house. I can't wait to see some of the community entries for this year's Saxxy Awards.

And here's the finished product. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has been out for a couple of days and has vaulted into Steam's top ten most played list behind three other Valve games, team Fortress 2, Dota 2, and, amusingly, Counter-Strike 1.6. To celebrate the long beta bloodbath that preceded this week's launch, the Counter-Strike team have posted an inforgraphic full of rather large figures. The maps in particular took a battering, of 1,949,433,676 shots fired, only 1,557,281,878 hit their target. Find out which map was most popular and discover beta testers' favourite guns below.

'Beta testers helped guide the development of CS:GO, but it might not be obvious how extensively they tested the game,' say Valve on the matter. 'As the chart below demonstrates, they really put CS:GO through its paces.

We’re grateful to all of you who spent countless hours covering every square inch of every map, testing recoil, tweaking movement, and considering the strategic impact of updates to the game.' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is out in just six hours, giving us the chance to jump into a buffed and polished rendition of a classic, which is nice. A beta patch arrived yesterday adding a zombie model that will be used in the Zombie mod, which will be playable with CS:GO later today. It also added a weapons course, which provides basic training in CS:GO's guns and gadgets. The patch also cleans up the UI a bit and fixes a few bugs. Check out the patch notes and the cinematic trailer Valve released at Gamescom last week below.

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Gameplay: • Added the Weapons Course to the game. UI: • Voice notification can now show more players talking. • Updated the freeze panel to no longer show the heath for your killer in competitive mode. • Added an option in the menu to disable the game instructor messages. • Update to the player info panel to no longer show achievement alerts.

• Update to the leaderboard screen to default to “Friends” filter. • Added the “Total Games Played” leaderboard category. • Updated the Play With Friends screen: -- Made the chat window bigger so text is no longer cut off. -- Adjusted the size of dimming when the focus changes between friends list and lobby list. Free Download Mohsen Chavoshi Gheire Mamoli here.

It used to obscure the friends list and a little of the chat. Now it only obscures the friends list. Bug Fixes: • Updated the radio command panel so that the radio panel doesn't end up at the top of the screen during a mode that doesn't have a money panel. • Set Classic Casual deadtalk to 0 to encourage fair play. • Fixed the freeze panel dynamic positioning that would allow it to go too high. • Fixed a missing text string displayed when player is not connected to Steam in leaderboards. • Fixed a bug where the Mag7 could be bought by Ts via console commands.

• Fixed a bug where adding favorite server was not functional in the Community Server UI. • Fixed a bug in the Play With Friends lobby where using left and right on keyboard or gamepad made the screen unresponsive. • Fixed a bug in the Play With Friends lobby where typing in the Chat window would cause player names to flicker in the friends list. • Fix for voice/chat/radio messages. Better unified the handling of voice and chat messages. -- Chat messages now correctly use sv_allchat (instead of sv_alltalk), which should be more consistent with other source games. -- Team-only communications now are not affected by sv_allchat/sv_alltalk, which means that private communications to one's team stay private, regardless of game mode.

-- Team-only communication is also not overridden by sv_full_alltalk, which allows teams to privately communicate strategy during warmup time and intermission. -- Radio commands are considered team-only, so these should still be usable for tactics during games with sv_alltalk enabled (e.g. -- Spectators no longer hear team-only communications, except when sv_spec_hear is mode 2 (hear/see comms of the spectated teams). Audio: • Increased the audible range of the c4 plant and disarm sounds. • Fixed audio randomly chirping/screeching on certain levels. Matchmaking: • Tuned lobby distance computations when performing matchmaking. • Exposed a convar ('mm_csgo_community_search_players_min') for community quick match to look for community servers having at least specified number of human players already playing.

Community: • Shipped zombie model to support the Zombie Mod. On the eve of Valve hitting go on Counter-Strike: GO, I thought it'd be useful to revisit why the once-mod continues to have its hooks in so many of us.

Just like true love or a really outstanding taco, explaining what makes Counter-Strike good can be inexplicably tough to put into words. 'It's, uh.tense? The guns feel nice.Teamwork?'

Read on for some notes on why I think Counter-Strike continues to be a classic. We'll have a CS:GO review up later this week. SHORT ROUNDS Prompts the player to iterate on tactics; creates context for winning streaks, losing streaks, ties, coming from behind to win. Death is a time-out to reflect on the next round, creates oscillation between tension (being judged/spectated by teammates) and relief (watching/judging your teammates). WEAPONS THAT 'HAVE A MIND OF THEIR OWN' Takes skill, time to understand + control weapon behavior. High-fidelity hitboxes—where you aim matters fundamentally. But alternately, firing recklessly (spraying) can produce lucky kills.

Uncertainty is fun (“Who’s going to win this shootout?”). EXCELLENT MAP DESIGN Fixed spawns; easy to orient yourself (complexity rarely goes beyond two or three routes), nameable landmarks (“double doors,” “bridge,” “back office,” “near spawn,” “at B”).

Constructive asymmetry; when sides swap, they also typically swap tactics sets/roles (cs_assault: Ts are well-protected defenders, CTs are sieging). Map design carefully tuned to account for player movement speed—equidistant chokepoints. CTs + Ts arrive at chokepoints if they both leave the spawn area with knives out.

(e.g.: On cs_office as CT, if I’m going to snipe, I have to sprint to the outdoor hallway to get eyes on main hall in order to give myself an opportunity to catch Ts moving from their spawn to garage). CS' levels generally have a totally pristine appearance: they generally don't bear any evidence of combat until the round actually begins. This 'blank slate' not only creates opportunities for the environment to convey valuable tactical information about what's happened (bullet holes, cracked windows, opened doors, broken grates, turned-over filing cabinets), but damaging the world itself can be inherently fun. PURCHASING SYSTEM Players can buy weapons and equipment at the start of a round. This is a system that suits competitive play and builds a metagame throughout a match, and it makes the decision to not spend/be conservative a cost/benefit decision (typical second round choice: save up and hope to loot a rifle from a dead player, or spend now and be better-armed).

MEANINGFUL COUNTER-TACTICS In most situations, snipers can be countered by smoke/flash grenade, flanking, synchronized teamwork, or planting the bomb. In some situations, rushing can be countered with good positioning, waiting and listening, and/or long-range weapons. CULTURE Dead players form an instantaneous graveyard chat room/peanut gallery/sideline. This shared social space with opponents creates an opportunity for rivalries or other relationships to form between players (clan recruitment, heckling, complimenting). Weapons have reputations or even stigmas; knifing or pistoling someone wielding an AWP might be seen as a David/Goliath scenario. Zany maps (de_rats, Mario Kart), sprays, and server mods that offset the seriousness, create opportunities for pranking.

Sound spatialization algorithms are not something the average gamer thinks about. It's a Carmackian phrase; I can already see your eyes beginning to gloss over from reading it. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, however, is making a big deal about its intention to provide unparalleled control in sound by opening up more audio tweaking options than the standard, 'How loud is the yelling compared to the shooting and the music?' They've even provided colorful charts and graphs to explain what this means. You may be looking at that and still be asking, 'But what does it mean?' The devs explain in their blog post that previous CS titles used a single surround sound preset, optimized for 5.1 speakers, and mixed it down to fit less snazzy audio set-ups. CS:GO, on the other hand, will have optimized presets for everything from stereo headphones all the way up to those big surround speaker rigs.

Plus, you'll get settings to tweak things like virtual speaker placement (if you wanted to, say, have your 'left' channel sound closer to true left instead of the default front-left.) CS:GO is currently pre-purchasable on Steam for $13.49 on Steam. This post details the pre-order plans and the huge patch going live on the 14th.

Is it possible for someone to hack your PC through CS: GO??? I was playing with a friend and a guy got mad at us. He then gained access to our lobby after the game despite not being on our friends list. My friend kicked him and started the game. While in the game, I lost control of my PC and (I'm guessing it was the same guy) was typing in chat on my PC. I quickly unplugged my Ethernet cable and turned off my PC, before turning it back on and running scans. I plugged my Ethernet cable back in once the scans had been completed - although they found nothing - and everything seemed fine.

After a while, he began typing to my friend again through steam chat this time (outside of the game). This got me even more worried and so I restored my PC to the nearest restore point before this incident. Everything appears to be fine now, but I'm still worried. What steps should I take to make sure everything is fine and to make sure this doesn't happen again? I have Avast running and Windows firewall, but they didn't pick up the intrusion.

Malwarebytes also came up with nothing. Is there anything else that can help? And how on earth did this guy even manage to do it!? Cons29 said: what do you mean by messy?first of all, it is not that easy to access ones local files. 2nd, you can check your steam game files for integrity Everything began to slow down, my mouse would be bouncing everywhere. I would click on one place and it would click on another. I would try to exit a program and it would move somewhere else.

I would type to my friend and it would type something else. I then left it on it's own and he was typing to my friend.

I restored my PC back to a few days and everything seems fine now. I also checked the file integrity of CS and a 4.8mb file was missing - not sure if there's a link. I'm just worried to even play CS again after this. I have no idea how he did it, but he did. He joined our lobby without being on either of our friends lists, and then he took control of my PC. Cons29 said: disconnect your pc from the web for now, see if this weird thing is still happening I think I know how he did it.

I logged into my router through my browser and found that my firewall settings were set to 'always allow' Inbound Services. If someone that knows about these things can reaffirm that this was how he got onto my PC (through my network), then please let me now so I can put my mind at ease now that it is set to 'always block'.

My routers log is now also showing 'user. Fabric Metro Area Rarlab here. alert kernel intrusion', so I assume that it is now blocking him from accessing my network.