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07th Dec 2016

21 things you’ll know if Counter-Strike was your life as a teenager

Everyone runs faster with a knife.

Rich Cooper

1. You were 1337, extremely 1337

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Image: NerdLifeMines

 

2. You were pwning n00bs on Counter-Strike before Call of Duty and Battlefield were even really a thing

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3. When CS: Source arrived, you marvelled at how different the game was

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4. And when CS: Condition Zero arrived, you marvelled at how underwhelming the game was

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Wow… it’s, like, the same. Now it’s all about CS:GO, and if I had the time and money to get back into PC gaming… I still probably wouldn’t play it.

 

5. Joining a clan was a big step up in your Counter-Strike career

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6. Getting your own server was huge too

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How much damn time did we all spend in the Steam server lobby? Too much.

 

7. Hackers could make the game incredibly frustrating – aimbots and wallhacks were the worst

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Anyone that was just too good got accused of being a hacker – even if it was genuine skill.

 

8. Until you learned how to hack yourself, then it was loads of fun

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Speedhacking all over the place – unstoppable!

 

9. No AWPs, you n00b

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Photo: GameBanana

 

10. Unless you were on an AWP map, in which case, AWP or die

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11. You’ll never forget the classic maps, like de_dust2

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12. Or cs_office

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13. And who could forget novelty maps like fy_pool_day?

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Photo: GameModding.net

 

14. Having your own custom tags let you show everyone how funny and cool you were

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Photo: Lukethegreat

Case in point.

 

15. Whether you killed the chickens or not spoke to your inner morality

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You definitely killed the chickens, though.

 

16. You thought this was the funniest video you’d ever seen

 

17. It’s true, though: everyone runs faster with a knife

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18. Totem stacks were a great way to dick about when you didn’t feel like killing each other

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Photo: meh.ro

Think of it as a clan bonding exercise.

 

19. Being the last person in your team alive was immense pressure, because you knew everyone else was watching you

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Phew…

 

20. There was nothing more satisfying than finding a bunch of unsuspecting fools that you could knife

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Photo: sgt_scarab1

 

21. And nothing more annoying than getting flashbanged and shot to pieces

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Photo: Game Design

 

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