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| Reload                  | R           |
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| Use                     | E           |
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| Walk                    | SHIFT       |
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| NV Goggles              | N           |
|-------------------------|-------------|
| Flashlight              | F           |
|-------------------------|-------------|
| Spray Logo              | T           |
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| Weapon #1               | 1           |
|-------------------------|-------------|
| Weapon #2               | 2           |
|-------------------------|-------------|
| Weapon #3               | 3           |
|-------------------------|-------------|
| Weapon #4               | 4           |
|-------------------------|-------------|
| Weapon #5               | 5           |
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| Last used Weapon        | Q           |
|-------------------------|-------------|
| Multiplayer Scores      | TAB         |
|-------------------------|-------------|
| Talk to everyone        | Y           |
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| Talk to Teammates       | U           |
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| Take Screen Shot        | F5          |
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|| 2.0 Game Basics
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| [2.1] Getting The Game & Setup
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Buying half-life is quite easy now, you can buy the platinum pack for about
50 bucks which has Counter-Strike, Day Of Defeat, Half-Life, Team Fortress
Classic, Opposing Force, Blue Shift (I think) and a bunch of others. Or you can buy just buy HL and download all the mods, which was good for me, or if you can't find it in stores, you can buy it over steam for 40 dollars US I think and you get all the Hl mods too. Personally I think just buying HL is good if you want it for the mods, but if you like the single player HL and want more, buying blue shift and Op For may also be good for you.

NOTE- The steam install guide is at section 1.3.5

After you install steam, you will want to create a steam account, and then you will want to install the 1st party mods and then if you want, 3rd party mods.

After that head to the settings menu and put the settings to your preferences. Now you're going to want to go to the server list to finally get playing, under filters check off the following- server not full, has users playing, and is not password protected, you can also configure your ping rang, 250 is good for me and I have DSL so for any 56kers out there, you will want to set it to less than 150 or 100. If you play in pass protected servers though, you won't want to check of is not password protected.

Location wont matter for broadband users but for any 56kers I suggest you set it to where you live. Anti-cheat is basically useless in my opinion, in my entire history of playing CS the anti-cheat has only ever caught ONE person when if I was admin, I would ban like half the server for hacking, but its your choice.

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| [2.2] Server Selection, Connecting & Map Types
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"The never ending job" as said by another HL MOD FAQ writer, finding a good server is always hard but in the end is very worth it. Ok so if you read my above 2 paragraphs you basically know how to set filters and which ones to set. Now you have to decide what kinds of server you want to play on, ones with lots of people, ones with a few people etc. Personally I think it is much more fun with lots of people like 20+ people in one server.

Ok so lets pretend I'm trying to find a good server to go on, first I would hit the player tab at the top of the server list which makes all the servers with lots of people go to the top. Just a little tip from a server picking vet, any server that only have 1 player slot are not joinable, don't try, because about 95% of all servers have a thing called 'reserved slots' where at least one slot is always left open for the admin or another VIP. So always go into servers with 2+ empty player slots, if you are playing with a group of people, make sure the server has one more slot than the number of people you want to play with, example- # of people= 3, # of slots on servers= 3 = bad # of people= 3, # of slots of server= 4 = good

There are 3 different Map types that are out of the box, many more maps can be Downloaded from a server or website (place any Dled maps in your
C-\program files\steam\steamapps\INSERT EMAIL HERE\counter-strike\cstrike \maps) The 3 default types are Bomb Planting/Defuse (DE_ maps) Hostage
Rescue (CS_ maps) and Assassin Maps (AS_ maps) I will give a brief explanation of each type of mission in the following paragraph.


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Bomb Planting/Defuse (DE_ maps)
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The CTs must defend a area where the bomb can be planted, called the 'bomb site' or 'b site' in most maps there are two bomb sites, labelled 'a' and 'b', most of the time there will be signs pointing to each bomb site. The
Terrorists however must carry and plant the bomb at the bomb site and then successfully defend it from the CTs. In the event that the bomb has been planted, the CTs can/must eliminate any remaining Terrorists and defuse the bomb, this is done much faster by buying a defuse kit (B,8,6).

If the bomb is planted, the time will also go away, in the previous version in the last 30 seconds in a game would be useless to a Terrorist with the bomb as the timer would run out making the CTs win even though the bomb had been planting, so to prevent CT camping when the bomb was planting the Devs removed the timer when the bomb had been planted so planting in the last 30 secs would still be useful.

Its good etiquette as a CT to attack the bomb site and defuse the bomb and for a Terrorist to defend the bomb site as long as possible.

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Hostage Rescue (CS_ maps)
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In these types of maps the CTs must go to where the hostages are being held, and then lead them to the safety zone marked by the ( R ) on the middle left hand side of your HUD. The terrorists however must defend attack from the CTs and guard and keep the hostages at their hiding place at all times,
Terrorists are not alerted when a hostage has been taken, only when they have been rescued. Killing or injuring the hostages will take away a lot of money from you so never hurt hosties.

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Assassin Maps (AS_ maps)
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The least played map type out there, as a CT you must keep the VIP alive and bring him to a certain point in the map. If you are a CT you can choose to be
a VIP through the team selection screen. The VIP CANNOT pick up any weapons and can only use his USP he spawns with. The terrorist must try and kill the
VIP, if they do they win the round, if they don't they lose.

NOTE- in any type of map, if all the people are killed on one team, the other will win, no matter the map type, the only exception is when a Terrorist plants the bomb and gets killed, the CTs will not win the round as the bomb is still there, you must defuse it by pressing [E] while standing above it.


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| [2.3] Team Selection, Spawning & Buying
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When you connect to a server you will be greeted with a MotD that states the rules, admins and others things you should know about the server, BE SURE TO
READ THE MOTD, ban could result if you don't.

After reading the MotD, press 'ok' and then selected your team, if you want to see the score first, hit TAB, if the scores are under the team selection menu and you don't mind losing a round, you can hit spec and then hit TAB to look at the scores and join the game next round. After you join a team chose a skin. If you are a Terrorist the best skin is the 1337 Krew because they have the smallest model, so you have more chance of surving then someone with another skin such as the Arctic Warfare. As For CTs pick the GIGN Skin because they have the smallest head model. I shouldn't have to tell you why this is important.

The first time you join a game, you will likely be made a spec until the round end, just be patient, chat it up and watch some people so you can get better. After the round ends you will dropped into a place called the 'spawn', this is were you will start each round and also where you can buy weapons and equipment.

Speaking of buying, it's one of the most important aspects of the game. This is the best way to get weapons and equipment; you can pick up weapons but not equipment (with the exception of the diffuser kit for the CTs on bomb maps).
To buy items hut the B key by default to open up a menu of things you can buy here is what it looks like-

1- Pistols
2- Shotguns
3- Sub-machine Guns
4- Rifles
5- Machine Guns
6- Prin. Ammo
7- Secondary ammo
8- Equipment
0- Exit

Details of what each section means is in section 3.0. These categories have sub-categories; these sub-categories are the actual weapons you buy, with the exception of #6 and #7, which have no sub-categories. Again for weapon info go to section 3.0. After you buy a weapon, be sure to buy ammo, Kelvar and a 'nade or two. Once you are finished buying pull out a knife or pistol and quickly get into position to attack, or defend, these are told for their individual maps in the map section of this FAQ.

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| [2.4] HUD, Money & Game Events
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The Heads up display (called HUD from now on) in everything on your screen that is not part of the environment, walls etc are part of the environment, your ammo meter however isn't.

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| Top of HUD, Left to Right
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RADAR- The green circle in the top left hand corner, the radar is very important for finding your teammates and it also can be used to find out if you teammates have advanced past a certain point, if they haven't you will be killed instantly by the other team, and if they have you can help you r team out. For example on Dust as a terrorist you can use the radar to find out if you teammates have rushed the tunnels yet or not, if they haven't but you don't because you have no radar you will be killed almost instantly. Here is a symbol list for the radar-

Red Dot- VIP for CTs on AS_ maps, and Bomb locations for Terrorists on DE_ maps

Purple Dot- Teammate

T shape- Teammate above you

Upside down T- Teammate below you

Yellow dot- Teammate speaking on Mic or someone who used the voice commands (example- 'go go go!')

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| Weapon/Equipment Selection Menu
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This is where you select your weapon/equipment, I strongly suggest typing this into your console "hud_fastswitch 1" without the "s, this will make it so you just press a number and it will pop the weapon out instead of pressing the number and clicking making weapon switching quick and deadly. Here is a list of what each number brings out-

1- Primary weapon, any weapon besides a pistol
2- Secondary weapon, a pistol