The Maps are the locations of Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, Counter-Strike: Source, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Since the Counter-Strike series sees itself almost exclusively as a multiplayer game, the maps are structured like arenas and adapted to the respective game modes. In addition to the canonical maps officially released by Valve , there are a variety of non-canonical maps and fan remakes that don’t necessarily live up to these claims. There are currently 49 permanent cards in the series’ official canon.
development
Current maps from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive aim to be as balanced as possible and to concentrate on the essential content of the respective mode. The first cards from Counter-Strike had a greater variety of sizes and themes. However, experimental elements such as cameras, which players could use to monitor parts of maps, or darkened areas, which made night vision devices necessary, were gradually discarded because they harmed the dynamics of the game.
Many formerly official cards from the classic Counter-Strike have therefore been eliminated over the course of the series – regardless of their popularity – or have been revised in more recent parts before being re-released. A prominent example is the Thunder map , which was discarded during the beta phase of Counter-Strike and reworked in terms of gameplay in Global Offensive as a community map in Operations Payback and Phoenix and temporarily returned to the canon.
In Global Offensive , community maps were also included in the official canon for the first time. With Operation Payback, Valve released seven popular community maps from the Steam Workshop , which at times could also be played on official servers. [1] This concept was then modified and continued with the following time-limited events. The very popular map Cache from Operation Bravo was even made permanent in canon. Alongside Cache, Global Offensive also saw the official canon map Mirage , whose offshoots have been non-canon favorites among fans of the series since Counter-Strike .
card types
bomb scenario
Arguably the most popular mode in the series, Bomb Defusal mode features the most canonical maps . In it, the terrorists have to place a bomb and defend it until it explodes, or the anti -terrorist unit has to stop them or defuse the bomb. All of the mode’s official maps have exactly two bomb sites that both teams can access from different locations to allow for team rotations. Only the beta card Foption had three.
hostage scenario
Hostage Scenario (in English: “Hostage Rescue”; card abbreviation: “cs”) is probably the second best-known mode in the series. In it, the anti-terrorist unit has to free hostages in different positions, with which the terrorists have entrenched themselves, and bring them to a defined zone. The number of hostages varies from game to game. In Counter-Strike it is between three and four, in the two successors it is four and in Global Offensive it is now only two. [3] The number of hostages to be rescued and how they are rescued also differ.
destruction
Assassination (as) is a mode in which the anti-terrorist unit has to escort a so-called VIP to a certain spot, while the terrorists have to kill him. However, similar to Team Fortress , the Annihilation mode didn’t enjoy much popularity, appearing in Counter-Strike and Condition Zero , and was initially planned for Source but then scrapped entirely. The only canon in this mode is Oilrig .
arms race
The Arms Race mode (map abbreviation: “ar”) is based on a popular fan modification that was officially brought into the series with Global Offensive . The aim of the mode is to go through a given order of weapons and level up by getting kills. The last of these stages is the Gold Knife stage, where you have to kill an opponent with a knife to win. In Arms Races, you respawn immediately after you die, as there are no single rounds in a game.
destruction
Destruction (in English: “Demolition”; card abbreviation: “ar”) is a mixture of the bombing scenario and arms race. The mode’s maps are significantly smaller than the bomb scenario and have only one bomb site, but the goal of the mode is the same. As a reward for completing goals, however, players do not receive money, but new equipment.
card groups
List of all official maps
bomb scenario
- airstrip
- Aztec
- cache
- chateau
- cobblestone
- corruption
- dust
- Dust II
- fast line
- inferno
- miracle
- nuke
- overpass
- Piranesi
- port
- prodigy
- sienna
- stage
- Storm
- survivor
- tide
- torn
- trains
- truth
- vertigo
- Vostok
hostage scenario
- Assault
- back alley
- compound
- Downed
- Estate
- Havana
- Italy
- Miami *
- militia
- Office
- victories
- 747
destruction
- oil rig
arms race
- baggage
- Lake
- Monastery
- safe house
- shoots
- short dust
- St Marc
destruction
- Bank
- Lake
- safe house
- short dust
- short train
- St Marc
- sugarcane
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- * Exclusively in the Xbox version.
operation cards
bomb scenario
- Ali
- bazaar
- BlackGold
- Cache *
- Castle
- Chinatown
- facade
- favela
- Gwalior
- Library
- marquis
- Damn
- overgrown
- seaside
- ruins
- – Season
- zoo
hostage scenario
- Agency
- Back Alley **
- Downtown
- insertion
- motel
- museum
- rush
- victories **
- Thunderbolt **
- workout
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- * Was later adopted into canon
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- ** Remake of a map from canon
Discarded Cards
hostage scenario
- mansion
- Thunder
trivia
- The fact that the maps of the Hostage Scenario mode use the file abbreviation “cs”, although the original name of the mode is “Hostage Rescue”, is because the mode is the oldest in the series and the “cs” stands for the title “Counter-Strike”. . The Mansion map, for example, is the oldest map in the entire series and used the hostage scenario as its game mode.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is a multiplayer shooter computer game developed by Valve and Hidden Path Entertainment. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) is a sequel to the popular game Half-Life: Counter-Strike, which was released in 1999. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was released on August 21, 2012.
The popularity and audience of CS: GO are constantly growing.
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The game has a large number of weapon skins, they do not provide any additional advantage in the game, the price of which reaches several thousand dollars, and anyone can get them by playing the game or opening skins that also fall into the game. The finals of the major tournaments are broadcast on television, and bets on the outcome of the game are made by bookmakers, who talk about the further development and popularization of CS: GO.
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