With Warzone (Non-Steam version) culminating its dominance in the scene where we saw them promote their Community servers having featured a plethora of Extra mods and stable servers along with the most profiting fact that it didn’t require steam to run, unlike Global Offensive. Clan matches, being an actual legit thing where the players used to showcase how good they were all thanks to the PUB matches where we used to play on servers featuring 16 players on each side. Though CS:GO has topped the Steam Player count chart, a part of the player base still craves for the lost long golden moments from their 1.6 days where things were different from now which we get to experience in CS:GO and they haven’t took a step back from the Classic version of the same. Upon the release of Valve’s Counter-Strike:Global Offensive, the players didn’t seem to have much enjoyed the former title like they used to in CS 1.6.
WHEN DID COUNTER STRIKE 1.6 COME OUT MOD
As a mod of Half-Life, it was released in its beta Phase in June 1999 before being launched in a fully-fledged version.ĬS 1.6 has been among the most prestigious FPS titles where the community cherished the best days in their lives.
Starting out as a Half-Life modification on the Goldsource engine, Counter Strike 1.6 grew in popularity and became one of the most popular first-person shooters of all time.