Is CS:GO Worth Playing?

The games below all have different stories behind their launches. Some were successful at the start, while others almost crashed and burned immediately. However, they all eventually went free-to-play, and it proved the right move for all of them. The term can have a stigma to it, but these games have proven it is not always a bad th

Overpass has a lot of twists and turns in its map design. Not many of its corridors and rooms can be camped well, though. If you are looking for a solid camping spot on the map, you'll want to position yourself on the corner of the street. It is next to the broken-down semi-truck near the A Bombs

Dust2, Dust II, or de_dust2 is a bomb defusal map with two bomb spots: A and B . The iconic map’ had a major rework back in October 2018, and it has seen some minor tweaks since then. Everyone who ever played CS:GO knows Dust2 well, but not many spend enough to time master

The developer regularly circulates content in and out, which itself is a controversial move and makes it hard for newcomers to get into Destiny 2 . Ultimately, however, going free-to-play was the right move and makes it easy for everyone to at least try out despite the mountain of cont

Gungnir is the name of Odin's mighty spear, and as such, the body of this skin paints the long sniper rifle's length with a complex patterned dark blue spear interwoven with frost-like gusts of wind. This skin's starting price puts it at the very least $7,300. That's if the condition is new. It has been seen to jump hundreds in price as more and more are purcha

Map knowledge is crucial and so is keeping calm and communicating with your team. Information coming from you must be accurate, specific, and fast. Therefore, you need to know all the callouts by he

Knowing how to Watch CS2 replays to use the environment can win you a round when it seems like all is lost. You can even the odds and clutch a 1v2 or 1v3 by picking fights one at a time. Dust2 has lots of boxes, doors and mini walls to help you with t

To make sure the numbers stayed steady, the 2011 MMORPG added a mode with a free-to-play option. A subscription is still available, but playing for free gives players most of the content and features already available with just a few limitati

Dust 2 is an iconic Counter-Strike: Global Offensive map. It is perhaps the most well-known map in the franchise and home to one of the game's most-camped locations. This would be the CT Start area, where the counter-terrorist team spa

These legacy maps have been split into three separate categories for players. "Touchstone" maps are classic CS maps that are mainly designed to act as a gateway between CS:GO and Counter-Strike 2 , only offering minor graphical improvements in the way of lighting. "Upgrade" maps take this a step further. These classic maps have been re-lit with Source 2 lighting and rendering, offering a much greater level of graphical quality via improved material quality and reflecti

For those who don't know, Rocket League is basically soccer played with RC cars . Like many multiplayer success stories, the game was first released as a free game for PS Plus Subscribers. Everybody else had to buy

Taking the high ground in CS:GO allows for better positioning and provides an advantage in firefights. One of the better high-up spots in the game is the Catwalk on Cache . You can climb a ladder to get there to keep your eyes on A Bombs

Fans were suspicious that Destiny 2 came out at all, considering the game has always been more of a service rather than a traditional FPS. After developer Bungie left Activision and became independent — before eventually being bought by Sony — they made Destiny 2 a free-to-play title. This meant that everybody's discs mean noth

This skin is practically something most players can only dream of. The Crimson Web skin for the Butterfly knife in a StatTrak Factory New condition can and has sold for upwards of around $16,000 . This rendition of the popular knife was released on July 1, 2014, and can be found by opening an Operation Breakout Weapon c

As the most popular weapon in the game, the AK-47 tends to receive a lot of love from the developers with the constant addition of skins for players to earn and choose from. The Wild Lotus skin just happens to be a newer addition to the collection, which was added on November 19, 2019, as part of the St. Marc collection. Since then, it's seen relative popularity on the mar

Make sure your calls are correct. This can’t be stressed enough. Don’t immediately call "All A" or "All B", if you see the majority of the enemy team in a specific position, but not all. If they’re not all there then they’re not all there. Your teammates may be killed by a "Lurker" player while rotating, acting on the wrong info they’ve got from

A longstanding point of contention within the Counter-Strike community regarded the tick rates that installments such as CS:GO operated off of on a server level. Tick rates are small intervals of time in which the server calculates what actions have been made by players, such as movement and shooting, which could at times produce some frustrating problems. On rare occasions, certain in-game actions could occur between the refresh rate of these ticks, meaning that certain actions would be unreflective of reality and players would miss or hit certain shots that they were not supposed to. This has led to a huge amount of discourse over the years, with missed shots often being blamed on tick r