A decent modification using the Half-Life engine, with a bad reputation due to its community. Mainly Consisting of cheaters, people who speak in 80% numbers (elite speak), and on the whole have Zero respect for other players.

This has made many Admins on servers paranoid, and take a "no trial" approach to cheat accusations and llamas and ban on sight. Which is unfair to those who are actually skillfull at the game and/or have done nothing wrong.

New players are usually put down by long-term players and are insulted with phrases like "n00b"

This has led to the belief that the entire CS community consists of teenagers, as no adult could be so immature.



If someone kills you in Counter-Strike they must be cheating...
by supernorn2000 September 9, 2003
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The best Half-Life modification these days. There are several gametypes: Bomb plant/defusion, Hostage rescue and Assassination. There also so-called 'funmaps' and 'funservers' on which you play with e.g. knifes.

1. Servers are usually flooded with 10-year-olds who pretend to be mature untill they talk through their microphone. At that time you will hear a voice from which you can't tell wether the kid is a boy or a girl.

2. Players that are skilled at the game are often called 'n00b' and 'h4x0r' by people who are not skilled at this game. The skilled people are often banned(because of 'hacking') because admins tend to be 10-year-olds and will believe everything their fellow 10-year-olds say.

3. The game contains the AWP weapon. People who are skilled at using this weapon are called 'n00b', 'h4x0r', 'camper', 'AWP fag', 'AWP whore', etc. The people(often 10-year-olds) who call these names are often not skilled at the game.

4. Most of the people who play Counter-Strike talk in the '1337 language'. Most of them can't spell 1 single English word either.

5. If you sit still for about 10 seconds you're a camper.

That is Counter-Strike
1. *kiddy voice through microphone*: I pwn you, nub h4x0r fag!!1!!11!1!!1`one!! I am maturez0r!!1

2. *10-year-old*: OMG WTFUX YOU FUCKING FAGGOT CAMPER HACKER FUCKER WHORE FAG NUB STUPID BITCH HACKER SLUT!
*Skilled player*: I do not hack. I am skilled at this game and I killed you.
*10-year-old admin*: OMGSES BANZORED! HAXOR!!1

3. *PlayerThatGotKilledByAWP*: OMG! You fucking AWP whore camper nub slut bitch faggot nerd. Get a fucking life you nub.

4. *1337talker*: i r s0 1337, b3c4us3 i r b3 t3h t4lkz0r 1337, i r pwn t3h j00, kthnxz0rs.
*Guy who can't spell*: omg00se wuthc uot fru t3h nmee ar0nud th crnur!!

5. *Stupid spectator(got killed)*: OMG HE'S A FUCKING CAMPER, HE'S BEEN SITTING FOR HOURS(10 seconds) NOW!!!
by Sapphire X December 29, 2005
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When you give your lover a facial, scream, "Boom! Head-shot!"

Often performed at random times on unsuspecting victims.
Susan left Jimmy because he kept giving her the counter strike during Wheel of Fortune.
by Dmitri B December 2, 2006
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Oddly enough, the only game I ever played that it really sucked to be good at. Due to the (supposedly) high incidence of cheating, if you can actually master the basic manouvers of the average first person shooter (weapon selection, map knowledge, accurate and selective shooting) NOBODY will play with you.
As soon as your K:D ratio goes over 3.5:1, expect to be banned from most Counter-Strike servers.
by confuzzled February 23, 2005
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1. An online game where a massing of 13/14 years olds congregate to show off whose voice is developing quicker.
2. Game where if someone has a positive score in a match, he is spammed with clan invites from the shitties of Leaders.
3. An exciting online game where Counter-Terrorists and Terrorists give fight to eachother with characters wielding AK-47s and an undeveloped voice.
4. Those where the lifeless hang out and accuse eachother of having an aimbot and threatening to turn their programs on. They often whine to admin about this, asking for boots.. and votebans which everyone disregards. When they finally get two kills without dying, then die first on their team.. they throw 13 year old hissy fits and ridicule everyone on their team for a his death.. which came from stepping over his own grenade.
<Start of Counter Strike Match>
Kid one: Alright team, let's move out!
Kid two: Roger. Watch out for Zerging.
Kid one: Will do-- :: dies ::
Kid two: You alright?
Kid one: Does it look like I'm all right, fucker? I just fucking died you dipshit! WTF.. That fucker is aimbotting so fucking bad.. and look no one is fucking planting the bomb.. omfg..I hate this fucking game! FUCKING HACKERS!!1 I'm going ot turn my aimbot on and own them.
Kid two: I saw you chuck a grenade and flash yourself. You killded yourself.. =\
Kid one: Fuck this server. It's full of hackers. <Disconnected from Server>
by Louiecaca August 16, 2006
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The simplest, therefore, the greatest of First Person Shooter games. Two teams, Counterterrorists and Terrorists, going at each other where the end result is that the opposing team is splattered across the map and your team is victorious.

Unlike most FPS's these days, there is still unlimited variety in what modes and maps you can play on CS. Unlike the media-hyped CoD, Halo, etc other series, there's more innovation and imagination in making and playing CS instead of just glitching and recording worthless kills (*Cough machinma Cough*).

No automatic knives once you get close enough, no dumb killstreak rewards that does the killing for you, no vehicles that run you over, no power armor. Just you, your weapon, and an instinctual gauge as to what is a successful shot.

Like ANY other game, you have to play it REPETITIVELY in order to be good.

CS is also a good example that Realism =/= Quality Gameplay

Contrary to new (raging) players belief, there are more 12 year olds and campers on the newer FPS's than there is on CS.

CS 1.6 have smaller killboxes than CS:S and therefore requires more skill
Person A: Look at my score in Black Ops, 300-16, I'm so good and I only had to use chopper gunner twice. Look at me knife, so pro

Person B sits Person A in front of Counter-strike 1.6 and directs Person A to play

Person A: OMG WTF, these KIDS are hacking, how the fuck is that possible, this is a gay game, where are the care packages? No sprint?!?

Person B: *smh*
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Person 1: I can't lan with you guys this weekend, little accident where an axe went through my comp.
Person 2: Counter Strike?
Person 1: Yeah.
by MegaSpy2000 February 18, 2003
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