CS:GO is breaking player records

How did Valve do it?

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But I thought Valorant killed it...

Quarantine.

Russia is on quarantine too

It's a good game and still has no competition.

I'm gonna be honest I only started playing it recently because I got desperate enough trying to get a Valorant code that I wanted to play the next closest thing

What's everyone doing in the 2007 build of SDK?
I know it's used to play vidya but I doubt theres THAT many people playing old ass source mods that still require it like The Hidden

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it's used to play csgo for free, check rinru

csgo has been free for 2 years

Gotta admit, I got back into this game pretty bigly these past few weeks. Really having fun again

because it's free

>All the chinese get banned from playing video games
>Somehow CS:GO is still maintaining numbers

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By being an FPS people enjoy playing.

>no frivolous shields or abilities, you just shoot people, you don't have to worry about some instant bullet deletion ability or a counter-terrorist throwing out a hadoken or something
>fast paced action and low TTK, doesn't take long for opposing teams to cross the map and begin engaging each other
>short term and long term investment, matches aren't very long but there's inertia to your gameplay with getting more money for victories to buy better equipment, or getting pity money for perpetual losses, or running eco rounds

CS outlived the arena shooter, it survived the Halo era, the COD era, the 6 months people gave a shit about hero shooters and is thriving in the battle royale period, and hasn't compromised on its original vision. When you get enough right the first time you don't need to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Chinese play Crossfire, not Counterstrike.

because people are stuck at home due to coronavirus

>you don't have to worry about some instant bullet deletion ability

it's call the AWP

FiveM uses it as a hook. That's most likely the culprit.

CSGO was only ever good for the 3 days where the R8 was king

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I mean like somebody just straight up nullifying your bullets like a shield. A really powerful gun like the AWP existing isn't an issue.

Every FPS nowadays uses some serious third party anti-cheats to ensure fair gameplay. CS:GO uses VAC the worst anti-cheat to ever be developed. I don't understand how can people play this shit when on average EVERY GAME will have 1 cheater in it.

Will it ever have a true competitor? Not one that relies on gimmicks like Valorant but an actual competitor to the formula.

Is img related still a meme?

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Is it just me or is this game full of hackers?

>non prime
full of spinbots, semi-rage, blatant cheaters
and some closet cheaters that really suck and hiding their cheats
>prime
full of legit cheaters, some even have thousands of real playtime on their accounts, no ban

>legit cheaters
wat

I got prime. Not sure why I have it think because I've had the game since 2013 or so.

when they did the F2P transition, they automatically gifted existing non-prime accounts prime status

good question. I fucking hate this game and its bullshit one shot mechanics

yes, "legit" cheaters
they use cheats to make it as if it's their skill

Not everyone who is better than you is a cheater, you just suck bro.

People are just playing CS:GO to practice up on Valorant. Once Valorant hits open beta, expect numbers to dwindle.

Not since the mp9 and MAC10 became viable.

Don't act like every game's playerbase hasn't spiked because of quarantine, even dead games like Dota spiked up.

What game is that?

based

Clickface 3, the more popular younger brother of Clickface 2: Source and Clickface 1.6