The Counter-Strike Game Valve wants you to Forget
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Counter-Strike: Condition Zero is the CS game you probably forgot existed! Valve's major flop was a great game that was released at the wrong time. - Ігри
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There are no words to explain how much i love condition zero and cs source and go. I am not old or nostalgic either, i am 20 years old. The first time i played any cs game is csgo in 2016. Afterwards, in 2020 i played a lot of cs source, a lot and then i played so much cs 1.6 and explored condition zero along with its awesome singleplayer campaign. To this day i am still playing even the most dead valve games. They are all beautiful. I love them.
you can command bots with voice commands
5:38 you can use the command "bot_defer_to_human 0" to prevent the bots from waiting for you to defuse the bomb. They will defuse it on their own.
Doest that work for 1.6/cz?
I thought that command was only for Source and newer
@@BrunoHenrique-gi1wd yes it works in cz
If I'm remembering correctly, in the game setup options you can check a box that will make bots do this, without having to use the console.
@@cojiro9616 that's the method if you play in a local game. Tour of Duty is different.
@@Billy_Wyatt oh yeah u right
I m Indian and this was actually quite popular back in 2009-2010 in India. I have fond memories of playing condition zero. Actually this was my first counter strike ever
that's amazing, it's so much later than the release date, and CS:Source. I never realized it might not have been a flop in other regions, because I sure know it wasn't played in NA and EU, it was completely ignored.
This is true. This made it better since in India back then internet was not that great! So we enjoyed it playing offline a lot. And the whole recruit who u want n the randomness of bots really made it so gooood!!
I played it well, condition zero was quite popular here at that time. Probably because of single player because high speed internet were impossible to get.
@@TheWarOwl Yup, it was pretty popular every after CSGO Launched, up until the Arms Update.
We had dedicated Clan Server and Tournaments and Custom Servers like Superhero Mod, Zombie Base Build and it was insanely popular in this region.
@@TheWarOwl condition zero is popular cuz in india almost every cyber cafe has condition zero instead of 1.6 or source condition zero was my childhood
Condition Zero and deleted scenes were both a part of my early childhood when I was 9 or 10 years old, both will always have a special place in my heart
Counter strike condition zero is my favorite game. Still playing this game.
This was my introduction to counter-strike, still one of the best games I've played.
Fancy seeing you here😂
Your first ddos
It's funny because my older cousin gave me this game and it was my first CS game. I absolutely loved it, pretty much only played Iceworld exclusively along with a few other community servers. Man such good memories, it's funny because when I finally started playing CSGO, I learned howl little people thought of CZ lol.
there were still iceworld servers up and running!
I have 900 hours in condition zero wtf??
Same, my dad played this all the time so it was my first CS as well. Didn't even play CS:Source, only switched to CS:GO when it came out. Never realized how much people disliked CZ, especially since I didn't know 1.6 was a thing hahaha
Same, my man, this is my first cs, one of the first games I ever played, and I enjoyed it very much
Damn that probably felt bad 😅
Ben seems like the kind of guy who drops the bomb in site, to bait you while planting, with 5 seconds to go in the round...
Throughout my playthrough, Ben would jump in front of my shots and then yell at me for shooting him. Typical MM player.
Ben is one of the best bots in Cost 2.
I really felt everything you were saying in your concluding statements. I'm only 25, which isn't old, but it's old enough to have witnessed how multiplayer gaming progressed from fun, simple, social experiences where the main reward is getting to play the game with a community and being a part of the fun to games that are basically you finishing your shift at your job so you can come home and relax by playing your second job.
Now its just sweaty angry people or mutes 90% of the time in csgo and 100% everywhere else. Not to mention how horribly low gaming has fallen in terms of actually having fun, being able to mod games and play on community servers. Even Valve is going against us in that regard and other devs dont care. Some exceptions exist like Payday 2 where overkill encourages modding but it still has no community servers. Aside of maybe other old games that survived like minecraft or games where community strong armed itself with modding in spite of the awful devs/publishers its unheardoff. And it all makes me just sad..
25 aswell and right with you man, we are at the perfect age to have observed the downfall of "oldschool" multiplayer and the rise of the faceless/battlepass/i wanna be pro multiplayer. CSGO is still better than other games in that respect but not by much. If you want the previous decade's experience you need private servers with friends at this point
@@NextDoorGuy CSGO is absolutely awful to a new player, even to someone who does generally well elsewhere. The sweat is real, and I gave up playing CSGO aside from doing bot matches sometimes because then at least I have a chance to score a kill or two before dying.
Sure, CS 1.6 and CSCZ can be sweaty too, but I never felt that way before CSGO.
Im 30, been gaming since i was 7 or so. While i agree to some extent I also have to remind its about what games you decide to play. You can still have simple fun multiplayer in other games. Lately ive played Valheim with friends and 7 days to die on community servers. Had a blast
If you dont like gamepasses and sweaty competitive, dont play those games. There are more games than ever to choose from :P
As soon as you talked about the bots and buying them for your team I had a massive nostalgia trip. I was young and awful at the game, but that was so fun back then! Actually had no idea it released so close to CS Source.
i always picked maverick xD
@@siddhantgarg6899 Yes! Maverick is the best! Even tho he never listens to me...
@@siddhantgarg6899 Maverick and Tex has some mad skills
This was my first CS game. Prodigy map
My third actually, but Prodigy fire. And also... 747 ♥
Only good memories and the zombie mod was godlike
Yea prodigy was awesome there was also an ice map forget the name but was cool too.
@@Trainson52Gamer DE_SURVIVOR. Awwww God, the time I spent there
I'm glad CZ is finally getting the recognition it deserves
WarOwl showcased the whole single player campaign in 2015. Not the first time he's covering the game.
@@Billy_Wyatt 🤓🤓🤓
@@Billy_Wyatt that was deleted scenes not this
WHO ASKED YOU'RE 8 YEARS OLD
@@Billy_Wyatt Oh wow a whole 9 YEARS AGO 🙄
I actually prefer CZ for the singleplayer/bot support. I know I'm alone in this but I love the 'deleted scenes' campaign. And I love the SP missions.
CSZero bot campaign was quite fun... as long as you didn't need to kill an enemy using knife and shield or something, while playing against best enemy bots. But hmmm, maybe now I will flash/smoke to get knife kills, I was quite young back then. Still.. buying new team members was nice. Too bad sometimes you had to fight 5v9 or something, cos enemy team had no limit I remember.
Your not alone I am one that love playing against bot.
Campaign was cool. Glad I got to have an official CS story/mission-based game for once
The community servers were so awesome. My favourites were surf maps, warcraft mod, superhero mod and a 24/7 cs_assault server with all kind of variatons of the map, secret tunnels, more buildings, etc. The nostalgia man! Thanks
oh yes, the warcraft mod! I totally forgot about it. I loved it so much back then.
AFNation 24/7 assault was the assault server if i remember correctly
I loved one 24/7 assault server with rope addon for everyone. Every single player was like a Spiderman, and top fraggers were always guys who utilized this ability in most creative and skillfull way
Just played it for the first time last year because it was bundled with a bunch of other Valve games for a ridiculously low price. I tried most of them out and Condition Zero was probably one of the more memorable games just because, I mean it was counter strike with a story, that's pretty neat
That is pretty neat
I got the same pack for 6$ at the steam winter sale
By any chance was it the valve essentials pack that was on steam for 7 dollars? (I bought it last year and got a chance to experience some of the best games ever made)
Not ridiculously low price. It's reasonably priced. This game (CS CZ) is probably older than most of the youtube users here
@@Etendard1708 you're not wrong, but 22 games for 6.5 Dollars, good games at that, is pretty sweet, most games you can't even buy a good looking skin for 6.5 dollars though maybe that's an unfair comparison.
I used to play condition zero as a kid so much because I couldn't compete against real players in 1.6, so I played bots in cz instead. I had such a great time playing it. It's funny that I literally went back for a nostalgia trip today and you released a video about it hours later! What a nice little coincidence.
same
Not gonna lie, I replayed the CS:CZ missions a few years ago and I had a blast
This video took me way back.
I was in 6th grade in 2005. 4-5 boys in my class played "Counter Strike" together, they talked about this a lot, and I wanted to join the fun. The idea to play a game via the internet with other people, friends whom I know IRL even, was mind-blowing for me, as I only played single player games or splitscreen before - mostly on PS2.
So when I was with my mum at the electronic retailer one day, I saw this CD case that said "Counter Strike" (imagine, hardcopies were standard back then) and my mum bought it for me. Later I figured out that my classmates were playing Source, but I bought Condition Zero instead... quite a fail, but 12 year old me didn't know that there were different versions of this game called CS.
But then again Condition Zero was probably the better choice for me with it's "deleted scenes" campaign and offline with bots mode. We lived in a bit of a rural area at the time and only had a 56k modem. The connection was incredibly shitty, and it wasn't a flatrate either - every minute was billed via our telephone bill. This stuff all seems so weird from today's point of view - kind of hard to imagine that this wasn't even 20 years ago!
In the end, I never got to play CS online with my classmates. First time I played Source was on a LAN party in like 2008. In 2009 I started COD MW2 - the first online multiplayer game ever for me. I didn't really get into online CS before a friend introduced me to CSGO in 2015.
Thanks for evoking this childhood memory of mine, WarOwl! Looking forward to CS2 now!
This game feels so pure and nice. I'm sure the developer will go on to do many good things for gaming!
oh god what happened
Yeah i need to know
@@TwenOalley i remember someone doing a short documentary on its development. The main issue is that Valve doesn't know what to do with it so the project kept getting delayed and by the time it was released it was already too late, CS Source overshadows it
I don't want to forget this game. So many memories with me and my brother playing together. This and 1.6 are the cores of my most cherished childhood memories. Pure nostalgia, i still play it time to time, and the fact that you can still find some servers full of people after all these years proves that this game is a masterpiece
I remember getting CS1.6, and then getting CSS. none of the in-betweens, and i remember being blown away by how the bots would talk in-game.
Likewise!
theres something about the way condition zero looks that i really love. some of the CZ map remakes are stunning for goldsrc
I remember having Condition Zero as a kid from my brother and while he switched to source, i just remained on CZ for at least 2 more years, I even bought the « anthology version » with condition zero and deleted scenes when i lost the game accidentally and source was already out
My brother introduced me to CS through Condition Zero. I used to play these campaigns matches literally all the time after coming back from school. I even enjoyed playing with bots lol. Brings back so many good old memories. 😌
Oh man, sorry to hear that. I´m sure your brother is in a better place now. rip brah
Dude what are you talking about? He's alive! 😂
@@aaravdhaduk2253 lmao 😂 I like how he completely misunderstood what you said xD
My brother also introduced me to Condition Zero. I was 9 or 10 i think...27 now
I remember going to the EB games at the mall to pick up the box copy of Condition Zero on launch day as a little kid. Had countless hours of fun especially on community servers. Idc about the reputation cz has now, I'll always think it's great
This was my favorite CS, by far. The first one I bought and the reason my Steam is old as it is. Great memories
I played condition zero for years before I even knew about 1.6. I played competitively in CZ, making it all the way to Invite, without playing 1.6 or source. I didn't even realize how condition zero was viewed as until probably a decade later. Its kinda like the movie shallow hal when he thinks he is dating a super model but in reality hes with a fatty. ALL of my best memories in counter strike were all from CZ. I'm forever thankful for this game and the years and years of memories and friendships it brought me.
This was my first CS game. I've got too many fond memories of my brother playing Pool or Iceworld while I watched in awe. I came back to CSGO years and years later and I love it but its not the same vibe as CZ.
One of the servers I was an admin on 20 years ago apparently still exists in a small capacity. Condition Zero was my favorite version of Counter Strike. One of my favorite things was loading up awp_map on lan and spawning 30 bots with knifes and practicing headshots before you got swarmed.
I'm polish and i remember going to my parents friends dinner party just to hang out with their older son and play this game. We didn't have PC in our house back then. So many good memories. This is what for sure spiked my interest into a FPS genre. Now I have over 2k hs in CSGO and reached DMG highest.
The bots get really good as you keep on clearing the stages and are finally able to pick the good bots. I remember playing this game a lot. I was actually introduced to this version of the counter strike first before the 1.6. Probably because there weren't many plalyable servers in India back in the day so people took comfort in playing campaign.
I would REALLLLY like a single player campaign like deleted scenes for CSGO. I love the game mechanics and the way the weapons work and I bet Valve could make some great levels with everything they've learned from Half Life.
thats kind of what the operations are
Operation maps aka coop strike, did you play those? Because they have been pretty common since 2014.
That will be named Operation Condition Zero
@@Billy_Wyatt Where can I play them?
@@dougler500 Search them up on the workshop, they are tagged as coop strike
Single player mode missions were extremely valuable for those who didn't play online. I was one of them, and that definitely helped kept my shooting game skills somewhat. The expert ridiculous missions were really weird to play, and hiring better bots were always better than hiring more, so long as you carried as the player. And, always buy the kit
I have really fond memories with CS:CZ as I didn't have any shooters at the time and it came bundled with my Sapphire Radeon card at the time. I never got to play it online as for some reason I could never get Steam to function, however I enjoyed the single player missions extremely fun, beating them over and over. Thanks for covering CZ and reminding us of the true gem it was, maybe there'll be a resurgence in some good ol' MP gaming.
Actually was the first CS I played. We had it downloaded on the school computers and would do LAN games during study hall or lunch, good times
brother I'm from India and the nostalgia which i get after looking at this game is just omg i can't express it in my words . i was 11 back then when me and my sister back then she was 15 we both loved to play counter strike zero condition .
the only name i remember to this date is maverick who always was a great bot to use but sometimes he would die
back then i had only completed around 3 to 4 map in expert mode i guess i was on the house map i couldn't complete it so i have alot of memories with this game i can't describe it in my words
Same. I would also spectate maverick after I die because of his risky playing style.
I will never want to forget this game.
It's my first ever played Counter-Strike game, so many memories with my big cousin.
Love this game very much.
Your series on deleted scenes is one of my favourite things on UA-cam! I’m definitely buying this now thanks :)
This was my first CS game, I used to play it all the time as a kid - I would pretend the AI were my friends and I would always assign personalities to them. I was lonely :(
Lmao as an only child I did this too with CS bots
This game was my first ever counter-strike game the memories are insane :)
My first ever Counter strike game was condition zero. My brother introduced me to this and I played this on his computer all evening during summer. It’s really nostalgic looking back. Now I’m an MG on CSGO and I love this game with all my heart
Wow, you are rolling out banger videos more frequent than ever, I can't keep up
I am absolutely certain that the loss of dedicated servers and the imposition of matchmaking is what has sucked the soul from multiplayer gaming. Casual fun without any pressure and while chatting with a bunch of people you get to know, and occasionally triggering some bonkers mod scripts, is what made early multiplayer shooters great. I need to try this.
FCK VALVE
You are 1000% correct. The example I give is to compare BF2 or BF2142 to Battlefield 3. That's the moment where the magic died for me personally, dedicated servers gone, admin mods gone, browser based server list? So much of what we loved gone. Heartless in comparison. And it's not just that series
My brother and I literally spent our entire childhoods playing this game. We only had one machine and we'd keep fighting to play extra turns. Sometimes I'd control the movement and let him control the mouse 😂 good times.
I used to invite my freinds over and we legit did the same thing, me on keyboards, one guy on mouse. Good times man
Thanks for making a video on Condition Zero. I still play it from time to time and I recognized a couple of the players you played with lol.
im 43 now ..been playing cs condition zero for around 20 yrs ..playing csgo for 4 years ...ive been always longing for such video from you owl ...thank you ...cscz was the top online game in sweden for years and years ..due to its public servers and comunity ..i would never forget the sensation we had on cscz .
It was my first CS. I spent around 500 hours on this game as a kid.
That comparison to making contact with an undiscovered tribe was absolutely on point. It was a pure vessel of gaming enjoyment. Most modern comparisons are so degenerate, sweaty, and toxic these days...
I did actually try to describe Condition Zero to a friend of mine the other day. I told him about the Swedish CZ-community. All the clans, all the community servers with [SWE] in their name, the basic homepages every clan used to let people apply for a try out in the forums, other clans to apply for a pcw and their past results against other Swedish clans. I want to remember there was actually some sort of unofficial leauge system aswell. Oh man, the Swedish community in CZ was wonderful. You got to know a lot of people, everyone sort of knew each other or just recognized one and other because of the community servers. No mean to brag, but when I started to be recognized on these servers and clans reached out to me about being a member I was such a proud 14-15 year old. It was such good vibes and wonderful people of all ages.
3:17 meanwhile tf2 after 6 years with no updates: AHHHHH WHY THERES NO UPDATE
man the nostalgia hits hard, this was my first cs game, even before 1.6. kenny was the goat with his shotgun fr
Edit: I'm Indian btw
Oh yes, Kenny and his bloody one-pump shotgun 😂
Maverick dude. Maverick. Greatest wild card
As unbelieveble as it can be, I prefer CZ over 1.6 , althought today I only play GO.
I remember playing the hecc out of the single player mode when I was a child, internet was a mystery so playing online was out of the question, thank you for making such neat videos all the time they're always lovely to watch
This was one of my childhood games. The bots were actually pretty fun to play with. I finished the game all on expert, and it was quite a fun challenge. Back then, I only had access to dial-up internet so it wasn't easy to play online.
This made my evening. The nostalgia is real, I did play CZ back when it came out. But we all quickly went back to 1.6
The modded servers with levels and weird magic skills where the best. I also remember being banned randomly just for being good, and the servers where people knew each other just by their nick and voice. Gaming really was something else back then
I love Condition Zero, lmao.
The Xbox version of this actually was really fun at the time, and innovated with the buying wheel, which was later picked up by CSGO. It was very well thought out, great QOL thing for a controller and even a mouse in the future. You could use the triggers to buy primary/secondary ammo too.
amazing video, i didnt play CZ either, but i get so much of your references as I turned 40 not long ago and it was half life that got me into gaming, tfc that started me on my path to online shooters all of us on 200-250 ping on our 56k modems
when you talk about just enjoying the game.. i still game to this day, and even with my daughter we play valorant/overwatch or fortnite etc together (can't really get her into cs) but the whole thing has changed these days with the "ranked" stuff "full of tryhard sweaty nerds who will never be an esports player" god damn.. what a line its perfect
people still proclaim steam the greatest but forget that we all cried hard that we were going to lose our wonID's to get a steamID instead, gaming just felt simpler back then.. ranked was kept to having to join a team and play in some obscure wireplay or jolt league (or ukcsl/uktfcl), great video @TheWarOwl
Bro! Cmon! You are a normal gamer if you chose Hard and not a sweaty-try hard-no life gamer like me, who always chooses the highest possible difficulty in any game.
nah first playthrough hard, second playthrough hardest.
@@TheWarOwl It's not the same feeling when you choose hardest the 2nd time. You know most of enemy positions, effective strategies and what not. The fun is when you randomly open a door or come across a corner and get instantly melted with bullets. lol
If a game has "story" mode, that's my jam. Only one game is allowed to make me sweat.
You playing prodigy really brought back memories from *cough* 1.6 …. How awesome that map was … as_oilrig too 😢😢😢 and that western map whose name I can’t remember for the love of me… spent so many hours with it… that really was different times where you would just enjoy the game…
those community servers you played on remind me of a 1.6 server i used to play on like almost a decade ago called 'counterstrikedudes'. as a teen from back then, i had so much interesting and fun conversations and moments with people from the other side of the world. might check if the server is still alive today
Got this game at 10 yo in the "Counter-Strike 1 : Anthology" bundle (with CS 1.6) and I absolutely loved it, i quickly got into the community mods like deathrun, surf, etc... Today I am 23 and I still hop on CZ when I have time, by pure nostalgia ♥️
your deleted scenes series is epic
Played this on a computer cafe back then, the store owner had a mini tournament back then. It was purely an m249 match(because more bullets more chance of killing). When 1 guy got an awp, every kid in that tournament had an awp.
I love condition zero and deleted scenes. I'm pretty sure I got it with orange box or some other bundle in early 2010's and really digged the single player modes, even though my English wasn't that great back than (I think I started playing at like 5 or 6 grade, but only really started comprehending English at 9th grade) so I didn't understand much nor could I enjoy story, but I had a blast playing on different servers, but I always came back to one specific modded server with turrets and shit on which I spent a ton of time. I returned to it many times, even during and after experiencing GO, CZ is just that good, and I was able to understand and enjoy deleted scenes fully, and you bet I loved it. Haven't played in a few years, but happy to see videos first from anomaly, then some other CS youtubers and now you, WarOwl, who I've been watching all the old content for the last few months... probably actually half a year by now, it makes me happy seeing famous youtubers enjoying and having fun playing the game, CZ really deserves attention and love.
Oh CS CZ was my childhood! Anyone else remember playing hours on end on cs_assault? People would welcome you back to the server, some of the special server skins were mental, and the custom SFXs Mmmmoonnnsterrr Killllllllll... Was invited into my first clan at 13-14 just by gaming on their servers. You even had zombie special servers and other unique game modes like SURF, Scout n Knives, Gun Game. Might have to re-download and go surfing :D
I had forgotten how hard I grinded that campaign, I think the bots may have had some kind of cheat at the high difficulty like walls/aimbot especially for the last few maps.
Edit: dont forget the unique quirky maps such as 747 or prodigy
I remember we had a challenge going on and wanted to be rank 1 in the electronic sports league in any league (5on5 mr12, m15, eas 1 div, 3on3, 2on2, 3on3 fml) and we also had to play CSCZ for that. We managed to get rank 1 in EU and germany but that game was so bad. Barely anyone played it (we were like 17 teams while 1.6 had thousands) and the maps and models were very uncommon for 1.6 player.
Played lots of CS CZ during 2009 - 2010.
I remember a gungame server with custom loading music and I've been looking for that song ever since.
I was in the second grade and I saw my late uncle play this game on his pc. I loved the visual so much I got the setup in my pendrive and as soon as I went home I installed the game and started playing... I was just a kid in second grade so recruiting bots, heck even the concept of "bots" was so over my head. I remember I used to wander the lobbies and hallways of office and prodigy alone checking every corner while I was legitimately scared of finding somebody or getting killed... I still have a copy of this game in my laptop and whenever I'm done with the world I just load up the game and have a good killing spree with bots with different weapons. It's just so fun and pure and nostalgic to me
Will never forget CS:CZ because it's the first CS i got really into because a classmate played it almost everyday with his clan "Tafelrunde" and introduced me to the CS franchise. Some of you might remember maps like de_camelot, de_stargate_atlantis or fun_matrix_* that were made by uPd4t3d_data who's part of that clan as well. Unfortunately my classmate Dave_Danielson died of cancer a few years ago, so i always feel a bit of sorrow when seeing CSCZ pop up somewhere, RIP my man
Even the ads in this channel are top-notch! Great work WarOwl!
this brings me back to the first video you i saw of you were u played cs 1.6,dope video we want more of those brother
I love that Ricochet gameplay bomb drop in the middle there. So on point 😂😂
I will never forget my best childhood game
I have amazing memories of this game growing up. Most of them were from Zombie Mod. After a couple years I got enough money to buy a Visa prepaid credit card at my local gas station and bought Counter-Strike Source.
I then started playing all those amazing mods, Zombie Escape, Gun Game, Surf, Prison Escape, etc... Ahh the memories...
It's kinda hard to forget CSCZ when every 2 weeks there's a new "THE COUNTER STRIKE YOU FORGOT" video out.
definitely one of the best ad reads ive ever heard love to see your are back in my feed warowl
I remember trying to see what the multiplayer was like in CZ, getting on a server and suddenly playing a 5v5 mix game...11 years ago??
Good to see people not abandoning this!
I had a real similar experience when I installed Day of Defeat Source for the first time ever in 2020 and just played around in lobbies with 5-12 players.
4000h plus on this one and I still play it to this day. Only one Polish server left, but close to night Time, its full of players. My fav CS version.
Dude, mentioning the old style of play, getting off school and joining your local server... then the Starcraft music on top of that. You get me every time with the Terran theme. It's so weird I remember Counter Strike Condition Zero. Was this version on the console? I remember playing CS on my Xbox at some point too. Weird I've been around CS most my life if I think about it. I think CZ is where I fell in love with Iceworld. I feel like CZ might have existed in a very weird space where they wanted to make content for people who were scared of multiplayer or didn't have internet.
Nostalgic right now. Have played this game soooooo much. Will always be one of my favourite games.
In India Cs cz was very popular back in the days like 2010- 2016 something we friends or cousin used to play this game in own pc or gameCafe
Great memories ❣️
DUDEEEE cz was my first counter strike game and trust me it was JUST like you explained it. Cowboy map, cs siege, and getting destroyed by bot crusher. Great memories
I remeber playing CZ in 2004 a lot...not only because your internet connection was awful af, but also because the missions with bots were quite fun.
it was also a good amount of map knowledge and practice if you played against your friends at lan parties at the weekends :D
good ol' times
Oh my god I remember this game. As a Filipino, there are often LAN cafes any city you go to, even provinces, and me and my friends would go specifically just to play this game! The sudden rush of nostalgia when you showed your first gameplay on the dust2-like map, remember so many times of camping behind those double doors with a knife hahaha
Condition Zero was my first introduction to counter-strike and I played it until CS:GO released. Have so many memories playing dust2 24/7 and the many random gamemodes (Warcraft/Zombies/Jailbreak/and a mode similar to the source mod The Hidden). Bounced between this and 1.6.
I used to be so confused by the chunkiness of the grenades in this game XD it feels like throwing bricks
No literally your little ending rant / statement was perfect lol that is the exact state of games rn
that WAS a perfect closure! with the HEADSHOT sound fading off :O YOU GOT YOUR FIRST CLOSURE!
im pretty sure this was my first counter strike when i was about 6 or 7 years old. i'd ofc play the campaign but i'd also (idk how i knew how to do it at such a young age) set up a lobby of me vs like max enemy bots that weren't allowed to buy weapons, and just watch them chase me as i gun them down like pseudo zombies before zombie games were even a thing.
good times :')
This is what i needed. Coming home from a hard day at work and new WarOwl video is online! Always cheers me up
CZ is basically this "frankenstein" of ideas that were planned for the console version. That's why it has single-player focused elements. Like, Bot AI didn't exist officially on PC until CZ came out which I believe Turtle Rock Studios designed for "Xbox CS" and then eventually made its way to CZ for PC. (Bots were beta tested in 1.6 explicitly for the release of CZ)
Once you view CZ as a kind of "port" which had content intended for console, then it makes sense. I think CZ would've had lasting power too if CS:S wasn't just around the corner.
Ultimately for Valve, CZ was kinda a "cashgrab" before their Source stuff came out. It was just a mishmash of concepts by totally different dev teams that Valve just took everything they had made and through it into a new package and called it a day.
5:57 hits hard
I accidently stumbled on this game first out of all counter strike games. Surprisingly, the campaign mode works well as an introduction to 1.6/condition zero multiplayer weapons, objectives and mechanics.
In hindsight - I see the whole campaign as an extended tutorial for the coutner strike multiplayer experience, even non-cooperative teammates. There is a cooperation rating to all bot teammates you can pick in the campaign. You either sacrifice team cohesion for better skilled bots (smooya?) or pick bots that will listen to your commands but are okay compared to enemy bots
Literally the first CS game I played because it came with our new home PC.
Ngl, played so much of this as a teen, and Deleted Scenes.
Dude. I remember playing this. Killing enemies that are blinded by flashbang was so ruff.
I used this game to introduce Counter-Strike to my newbie friends because of that campaign! Once they got good enough they were allowed to play with the adults lol.
5:36 "sir, defuse the bomb!"😂
Even if I'm just 20 now, I can relate to the rant at the end. This is how I played Team Fortress 2 around 8-6 years ago. An orange server where I was one of the regulars and the other players indeed knew my name. I never got into "competitive gaming" like csgo. It actually kinda scares me and I don't think I'd enjoy it. Sweaty is a funny way to describe it, but it just fits and that says something.
I've never been into counter strike before, but recently I've been playing Source a lot, cause my leg is broken, and yeah I did play it as a kid with bots and I think it just looks and sounds crisp, but it's the server experience that makes me able to enjoy these aspects. I don't want to spend time learning strats and spray patterns. I don't need to have ranks to climb. Getting better feels a lot natural without those. I go to one server, everyone has $16000 every round bar the first, no awp, it's sometimes 5v5 and sometimes 20v20, nobody uses voice chat which I like, and it's just a chill experience, no stress. There are primarily old community made maps and they're just amazing and I love exploring them. I have about a hundred hours on css now so it's not really nostalgia I think, reality is some people would just benefit more from this kind of gaming which sadly only old forgotten games offer nowadays.
The way you described people getting on servers after work being in a community can still be seen in custom game modes in tf2 and csgo. Sadly it's hard to find these types of servers for vanilla.
I actually went through the whole sponsor part
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