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"C:\program files\Halflife\cstrike.exe -console"

6.) Click Apply, close the window with Ok, and you're set. Your
console is now enabled the next time you start Counter Strike
using this desktop shortcut. Congratulations! Now you can meddle
around with all the console commands.

Be sure to make good use of your console, you can type a lot of things
there to improve your game. You can bring out the console by default
by pressing the tilde key (`) beside 1, above TAB. Then you can type
in commands. You can type multiple commands in one line by separating
them with a semi-colon. (i.e. -- "ADJUST_CROSSHAIR";"SENSITIVITY 5")

I will only include here the commands that will directly influence
your gameplay. If you want a complete list of commands, go find
another guide. What's here is strictly limited to the useful
commands that affect your game. I will add other commands in the
"Dirty Tricks" section, the ones which are quite unfair.
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5.a4a -- Sensitivity
Be sure to adjust your mouse sensitivity to your needs. Type:

SENSITIVITY "X"

Where X is a real number from 1-20. Twenty is very sensitive, and a short
tug of your mouse will give you a 180 degree spin. This is useful for
assaulters who need to see a wide area as fast as possible. Twenty,
though is for the really skilled who have perfect mouse control. A
setting of 10 or so is more than adequate for an assaulter, any greater
may entail aiming difficulty. For snipers, a value of 2 to 8 is good,
giving great control needed for precision. Some hardcore snipers use 1.
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5.a4b -- Crosshair
Some maps have textures whose colors blend with your green crosshair.
You can fix this and make aiming easier by changing the crosshair's
color. To do this, type

ADJUST_CROSSHAIR

at the console. This will cycle from the five different cursor colors:
light green, light red, light blue, cyan, and yellow. Be sure to select
the color that suits the map best. Even if no cursor fits the map
color, it still feels good to change the color to your favorite color.
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5.a4c -- Quick Weapon Switching
You need to use this command to achieve the "Quick Weapon Switch"
technique described earlier. When on, pressing your primary weapon
button will bring out your weapon immediately, without you needing
to press the fire button to select it from the weapon HUD.

To turn on, type:

HUD_FASTSWITCH "1"
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5.a4d -- Mouse Filter
Sometimes, you might notice that the movement while looking around
with your mouse is not very fluid. This can be very detrimental to
your aim, and is feared by snipers everywhere. More often than not,
this is due to the mouse filter being switched off. You can switch
it on in the config screen, but that takes too much time. Here's
how to do it with the console:

M_FILTER "1"
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5.a4e -- Binding Technique
Binding commands to a key is a trick which has carried over from the
Quake Engine. To bind a command to a key, type:

BIND "X" "COMMAND"

Where x is the key you want to bind the command to. For instance, to
bind the adjust_crosshair command to the letter c, type:

BIND "C" "ADJUST_CROSSHAIR"

There are applications to this command, but I will discuss them later
in the "dirty tricks" section. More mundane uses for this are easy
like using the console to change your name, or your controls. Refer
to other documents listing all the commands; I'm just enumerating all
the tricks that can improve your gameplay performance and killing skill.

The most powerful trick perhaps is the power to combine binds into a
powerful hotkey technique. By combining commands, you can bind two or
more commands into one key, for a variety of effects limited only by
your imagination. Simply separate the commands with a semi-colon:

BIND "X" "COMMAND1;COMMAND2"

The most obvious application of this is to power-up your buy menu
hotkeys. For instance, you could have a "quick ammo" button to buy
all the ammo you need in one stroke:

BIND "X" "BUYAMMO1;BUYAMMO1;BUYAMMO1;BUYAMMO2;BUYAMMO2;BUYAMMO2"

This would purchase three clips of primary and secondary ammo
each, at the bargain price of one keystroke!

To select a menu option, use the command "MENUSELECT X" where X
is the number on the menu you want. Menus are brought up by
certain commands like "BUY" (which brings up the basic buy
menu) and "BUYEQUIP" (which brings up the equipment menu).
For instance, to buy a full suit of kevlar by pressing X:

BIND "X" "BUYEQUIP; MENUSELECT 2"

To close a menu, use the command select option "SLOT10" preceded
by a couple of "WAIT" commands (to ensure the SLOT10 is read at
the right time)

BIND "X" "BUY; MENUSELECT 6; WAIT; WAIT; SLOT10"

You can also program a command to another command by using the
ALIAS command. For instance, this would call the ADJUST_CROSSHAIR
command whenever you type CHANGE.

ALIAS "CHANGE" "ADJUST_CROSSHAIR"

This is useful for making shortcuts to long, often-used commands
such as the one for closing menus. For instance:

ALIAS "CLOSE" "WAIT; WAIT; SLOT10"

Now you can use the command CLOSE to shut off a menu:

BIND "X" "BUY; MENUSELECT 6; CLOSE"

Learn how to use the console and the binding commands! Old DOS-boys
should have no problem picking this up, it's the impoverished Windows
generation that I'm worried about. Shame on you Bill Gates, for
teaching a whole generation of computer users to be ILLITERATE!
(or its equivalent in the computer world)

I'm not a real expert on this stuff, and I'm just giving you
the cursory information to get your started. For more in-depth
descriptions of this, see the links section.

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5.a4f -- On the Fly Config Switch
This is a useful technique to get you up and running as soon as
possible in a LAN environment. In the CS directory is a file called
CONFIG.CFG. This contains all your controls for CS, and is loaded
when you start the game. What you do is rename that file as another
file, say MOCHAN.CFG. This is now your very own personal config
file, with all your binds and controls!

Load this file from the console with the command:
EXEC MOCHAN.CFG

This will load all your controls and binds on the fly! Be sure to
edit it manually to add the more esoteric commands (i.e. - the
ones detailed in this section).

Aside from use in LAN shops, this trick is also useful at home, for
instance if you are sharing one computer with someone else, and you
use different controls. This way, you can swap controls on the fly
with a few key strokes!

Also, certain commands do not get saved in the default config file,
like the CL_XSPEED codes. Loading your custom config file with all
these commands makes life so much more convenient.

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5.a5 - Speed Buying Technique

"In the words of my idol Bruce Lee, to win, you must be fast."
-- That guy on the Discovery Channel

This is a technique which all serious CS players should master. Often, it
is this technique which really separates the newbies from the veterans. At
the start of each round, most inexperienced players fumble around the menu
screens, pressing the "Buy Equipment Button" and looking at the gun
selections. Then they "Buy Primary Ammo" and look over the "Buy Equipment"
menu. Unfortunately for the Newbie, they were playing in AS_FOREST and the
grizzled vet had already come over and shot him full of holes.

To avoid this, you have to be very fast in the buy menu screen. You should
at the very least be capable of buying everything in less than three seconds,
faster if possible. The best players waste 0 seconds buying what they need.

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| Decide what you will buy before the next round starts |
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This is CRUCIAL. Read the text in the box above over and over and over until
you have nightmares about it. I cannot stress the importance of this enough.
Many people have quick fingers to buy the goods they want in record time, but
may people hesitate at the start of the round because they do not know what
they will buy. The trick is to decide what you will buy before the next
round starts.

Do not waste time looking at the pretty pictures and stats of the
the different guns in the menu screen. That's why I included a weapons section
in this guide; so that you can read the important stuff now, and not later
while you're playing.

The easy way to decide is to stick to a preferred weapon. This is a good
idea for newbies, because to gain skill quickly, you have to specialize in
one weapon type. The drawback here is that sometimes you might not have
enough money to buy the weapon you want. Specializing in the Arctic, for
instance, takes a while because you need two rounds on average -- three if
you just won the last fight but lost the next two -- to buy one. Thus, an
advanced mastery of this technique requires you keep track of your finances.
Don't worry if you can't compute it all precisely, but you should be able
to estimate how much you will spend.

Now, some newbies like to hoard their money up to the maximum, $16000. This
is a no-no. What good is all that money if you're not going to use it?
Spend as you need; don't be afraid to buy that expensive Arctic if it will
turn the tide to your favor! The only time you should be hoarding is when
you're saving up to buy an expensive gun you need, like the Arctic.

To help you manage your budget, here's the money table (taken from
the CS manual which is in your CStrike directory)

Action: You Get: Your Team Gets:
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Kill a Hostage -$1500
'Use' a Hostage $150 $100
Kill Opponent $300
Kill Team Mate -$3300
*Terrorist Win by bombing $2750
*Win by Elimination Hostage map $2000 + Hostage Bonus
*Win by Elimination Bomb map $2500
*CTs Defuse Bomb $2750
*CTs Win by Rescuing Hostages $2000 + Hostage Bonus
HOSTAGE BONUSES:
Surviving Hostage Bonus $150 per hostage
Rescuing a Hostage $1000 $150
Hostages Rescued Bonus $250 per hostage
*Either Team Loses Round $1400

Either Team Loses 2 Rounds Straight $1400 + $500 per round
over 2 (to maximum $2900)

You should be able to get a good estimate of how much money you will
have in the next round using this table. Now, in most cases you will
not know the outcome of the battle, unless there is an overwhelming
reason for you to assume who will win (like the bomb is about to
explode with no CTs in sight, or a 1 on 5 situation). As such, to
properly estimate your balance in the next round, you must assume
you will be defeated, to ensure that you can purchase whatever you
had in mind.

"To prepare to defeat your opponent is to first prepare for
your own defeat."
-- The Ookina, Rurouni Kenshin

Of course you could get cocky and assume you will always win, but
such an optimistic view can tend to get you in budget trouble. The