> cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/21382218

Two new community (competitive) maps released for CS2 today, and one has callouts in the map itself. Created by FMPONE and MF_Kitten, we have Thera.

I decided to make a callouts map because it's the only way we will play for sure... although the new ranking system also helps, we won't be thrown in way over our heads when we play.

Thera looks to be a smaller map, but there are a fair number of upper and lower parts. However, since I used the in game minimap to make this map, the lower parts are darkened and not obvious. If anyone knows how to get the base layout map (much higher res, used to be shown in loading screens), please let me know. The map underneath the writing is terrible and I added contrast and denoised it a bunch just to make it useable.

As for the callouts, I changed a few parts. Here's the list of everything different (or could be different) about the in-map callouts:

• "B Balcony" is just an unnamed balcony next to B site (which, btw, is slightly underground, under the "B platform")
• I added "B" to "B platform", since "A platform" exists.
• I added "B" to "B ramp". For the same reason above, I thought "Ramp" and "A ramp" would be poor choices.
• I debated, but ultimately didn't add "B" to "Stairs". There is also "T stairs", which is underwhelming in comparison.
• Same as above, I did not add "A" to "Arch", even though "Mid arch" also exists on the map.
• I added "Bottom mid", as well as "T mid" to "Upper mid". "Upper Mid" is through the "Mid arch", which does make it a little disconnected from where I'd put "Upper mid".
• I added "Long A" to "Long hall". That's just what I'd call it.
• There are two callouts, "Upper catwalks" and "Lower catwalks", that are right above/below each other, so the callouts are just together on the map.
• I think "CT bar" should just be "Bar", since there is only one.

The major is upon us. Megathread to discuss the major. Opening stage is over, elimination is upon us:

Group elimination stage:

Advance to quarter finals:

• Cloud9
• Vitality
• Spirit
• Faze
• Eternal Fire
• Natus Vincere
• MOUZ
• G2

Eliminated:

• paiN
• Virtus.Pro
• Complexity
• ECSTATIC
• Imperial
• HEROIC
• TheMongolz
• FURIA

Group stage results.

Advanced to elimination stage

• Cloud9
• Heroic
• ECSTATIC
• paiN
• Eternal Fire
• FURIA
• Imperial
• TheMongolz

Eliminated in the opening stage:

• AMKAL
• KOI
• Lynn vision
• Apeks
• ENCE
• Legacy
• Gamerlegion
• SAW

Since the last patch without patchnotes a few days ago loading workshop maps has been broken for me, anybody else experiencing this or is this an issue with my install?

A bit late but I noticed it wasn't even posted here

Lets check out the new skins

Golds

Kukri Knife

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Available in the classic finishes of Fade / Slaughter / Crimson Web / Vanilla / Case Hardened / Stained / Blue Steel / Night Stripe / Forest DDPAT / Urban Masked / Boreal Forest / Scorched / Safari Mesh. sadly no new finishes

Reds

AWP | Chrome Cannon

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Awp Fade now out?

AK-47 | Inheritance

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Idk if I would want to inherit marble, a red low float ak skin on the other hand...

Pinks

M4A1-S | Black Lotus

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Already looked solid on the usp, now it's through the roof

Zeus x27 | Olympus

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Valve's creativity knows no bounds. At least Zeus are normal skins and not Rare Special Items

USP-S | Jawbreaker

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Would have also fit right into the Dreams& Nightmares Collection*

Purples

M4A4 | Etch Lord

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Glock-18 | Block-18

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Lego lawsuit in 3.2.1...

Five-SeveN | Hybrid

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simple n cool, though we already have a lot of pink/ purple Five SeveN skins

Sawed-Off | Analog Input

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MP7 | Just Smile

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Blues

MAC-10 | Light Box

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XM1014 | Irezumi

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SSG 08 | Dezastre

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UMP-45 | Motorized

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If Valve ever decides to give the Ump another go, I could see this becoming a classic low budget loadout skin

Tec-9 | Slag

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First badly welded gun in the game? Definitely looks unique.

Dual Berettas | Hideout

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Nova | Dark Sigil

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Kinda late with the post, but better late than never.

Day 1:

• G2 vs NiP -> G2 advance, NiP drop to losers bracket
• NaVi vs Compexity -> NaVi advance, Complexity drop to losers bracket
• Vitality vs OG -> Vitality advance, OG drop to losers bracket
• Astralis vs Falcons -> Astralis advance, Falcons drop to losers bracket

Day 2:

• NaVi vs G2 -> NaVi advance, G2 drop to losers bracket
• NiP vs Compexity -> NiP faces G2 in losers bracket, Complexity are sent to Spring Showdown
• Vitality vs Astralis -> Astralis advance, Vitality drop to losers bracket
• Falcons vs OG -> Falcons face Vitality in losers, OG are sent to Spring Showdown

Day 3:

• Faze vs Gamerlegion -> Gamerlegion advance, Faze drop to losers bracket
• Spirit vs Liquid -> Liquid advance, Spirit drop to losers bracket
• VP vs BIG -> VP advance, BIG drop to losers bracket
• C9 vs Heroic -> C9 advance, Heroic drop to losers bracket

Day 4:

• Gamerlegion vs Liquid -> Liquid advance, Gamerlegion drop to losers bracket
• Faze vs Spirit -> Faze faces Gamerlegion in losers bracket, Spirit are sent to Spring Showdown
• C9 vs VP -> VP advance, C9 drop to losers bracket
• BIG vs Heroic -> BIG faces C9 in losers, Heroic is sent to Spring Showdown

Day 5:

• Vitality vs Falcons -> Vitality face Astralis in group finals, Falcons are sent to Spring Showdown
• G2 vs NiP -> G2 face NaVi in group finals, NiP are sent to Spring Showdown
• Gamerlegion vs Faze -> Faze face Liquid in group finals, Gamerlegion is sent to Spring Showdown
• C9 vs BIG -> BIG face VP group finals, C9 is sent to Spring Showdown

Day 5:

• Vitality vs Falcons -> Vitality face Astralis in group finals, Falcons are sent to Spring Showdown
• G2 vs NiP -> G2 face NaVi in group finals, NiP are sent to Spring Showdown
• Gamerlegion vs Faze -> Faze face Liquid in group finals, Gamerlegion is sent to Spring Showdown
• C9 vs BIG -> BIG face VP group finals, C9 is sent to Spring Showdown

Finals:

• Astralis vs Vitality -> Vitality qualify for Spring finals, Astralis go to the deciders
• NaVi vs G2-> NaVi qualify for finals Spring finals, G2 go to the deciders
• Liquid vs Faze -> Faze qualify for finals Spring finals, Liquid face G2 in the deciders
• VP vs BIG -> VP qualify for the Spring finals, BIG face Astralis in the deciders

Deciders:

• Astralis vs BIG -> Astralis qualify for the Spring finals, BIG is sent to Spring Showdown
• Liquid vs G2 -> G2 qualify for the Spring final, Liquid is sent to Spring Showdown

The yearly HLTV top 20 players of 2023 is upon us: https://www.hltv.org/news/37845/top-20-players-of-2023-introduction

1. Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut
2. Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač
3. Robin "ropz" Kool
4. Ilya "⁠m0NESY⁠" Osipov
5. Lotan "⁠Spinx⁠" Giladi
6. Álvaro "SunPayus" García
7. Oleksandr "⁠s1mple"⁠ Kostyliev
8. Dmitry "sh1ro" Sokolov
9. Martin "stavn" Lund
10. Helvijs "⁠broky⁠" Saukants
11. Nicolai "device" Reedtz
12. David "frozen" Čerňanský
13. Nemanja "huNter-⁠" Kovač
14. Guy "NertZ" Iluz
15. Jakob "⁠jabbi⁠" Nygaard
16. Benjamin "blameF" Bremer
17. Emil "Magisk" Reif
18. Casper "cadiaN"⁠ Møller
19. Kaike "KSCERATO" Cerato
20. Russel ⁠"Twistzz"⁠ Van Dulken

Hello

This community has been rather inactive for a long time and probably partly because the community creator and former mod was never active. There's also no strong CS community on lemmy so I decided to step up and hopefully shape this community into a healthy CS community, because I love CS and I don't want to go Reddit for my CS fix.

Moving forward I will take a more active role in this community to post content for others to discuss. To focus the discussions I will start by creating megathreads for the bigger happenings in the community. For instance instead of having 20 posts about the HLTV top 20 players that will get little to no comments, I will create a HLTV top 20 megathread to get more a discussion going on.

At least that's the plan, please do stick around and help me (by posting, commenting and upvoting) help you get this community up and running.

I would like to take a mod position to try and get this community off the ground as @Osiris seems to be inactive.

Wanted to share this here since reddit is trash now :)

As you may have already seen most of Reddit has gone dark including r/GlobalOffensive. We, the mod team of r/GlobalOffensive have created this alternative Counter-Strike community here for people who want to continue discussing Counter-Strike, bypassing Reddit's shenanigans

As you may have already seen most of Reddit has gone dark including r/GlobalOffensive.

We, (the mod team of r/GlobalOffensive) have created this alternative Counter-Strike community here for people who want to continue discussing Counter-Strike, bypassing Reddit's shenanigans.

We can continue to operate here, and share more on our actions and developments with Reddit in the comming days.

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