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The bomb defusal scenario was the new big thing in Beta 4.0. This was possibly done to strengthen the team play spirit, but the change was gradually reverted in future releases due to received negative feedback. Beta 3 introduced a change which caused a lot of controversy, namely frags were removed from the scoreboard altogether. They mostly introduced new weapons, maps and factions. The two next releases ( Beta 2 and Beta 3) would be released about a month apart. According to Jess Cliffe, the release was well received by the community. The first beta was eventually released on Jfeaturing the hostage rescue scenario, an arsenal of 9 weapons, 4 maps and one player model for each side.
#Counter strike 1 mod
It has been suggested that the initial beta release was rushed as a result of this, likely to prevent people from getting a negative impression of the mod by playing the early leaked build. However, at least two maps were mentioned that didn't ever see the light of day (a factory and a bunker map ) which suggests that some maps were discarded based on the outcome of this contest.īefore the first beta had even been released, a pre-beta was leaked and started circulating around the web. It is not known how many maps were actually completed by the time maps were to be chosen for the initial beta, but it would seem there was quite a limited choice.
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The maps for the initial beta release of the game were to be chosen in a contest type of setting where the Counter-Strike Team picked the best maps out of all maps that had been submitted for the game. While the exact extent of this spree is not known, it has been suggested that Jess contacted pretty much everyone who had ever submitted a map to Radium (an old website for releasing custom Half-Life maps). Thus, Cliffe resorted to contacting various Half-Life mappers directly. Cliffe had posted several requests for mappers on the official website but the response had been quite meager. Preparing for the first releaseīy the time May came around, the most urgent problem the mod was facing was the lack of mappers. Despite the mod not yet being released, Minh's reputation from his previous work on Action Quake 2 lead to considerable interest regarding the mod and only a few weeks after the official website had been launched it would receive its 10,000th visitor.
#Counter strike 1 mods
When the Half-Life SDK was released on Apit finally became possible to create actual mods for the game and actual coding on the mod started later that month. Later that month, on March 24, the official Counter-Strike website was also launched. They eventually mutually agreed that Counter-Strike sounded the best, thus it became the name of the mod. Suggested names included Counterrorism, Counter-Strike, Strike Force, fRAG HEADS, Counter-Terror, Terrorist wars, Terror-Force, and Counter Force.
#Counter strike 1 tv
Le suggested names based on his favorite TV shows and movies. On Mathe mod would receive its name following an ICQ chat between Le and Cliffe. Cliffe was excited by the theme of the mod and offered to create a website for it, which is how he got involved with the mod. During an IRC chat, Le casually mentioned the fact that he was going to create his own mod. Minh Le knew Jess Cliffe from before as they had both been involved with Action Quake 2. In February, the first ever screenshots of what would become Counter-Strike were released coinciding with the first interview regarding the mod. As the Half-Life SDK had yet to be released, it was not possible to create actual mods at the time so Minh started out by creating new weapon and player models. Initial development started in January 1999. One of the first released Counter-Strike screenshots
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The fact that Half-Life was based on a realistic setting helped sell the idea that it would be the most suitable for his concept of a realistic mod pitting terrorists against counter-terrorists. As Le had already used the Quake and Quake 2 engines when working on previous mods, he felt that using the Half-Life engine was a logical progression. However, he felt that he wanted more control over development and thus decided to start development on his own mod. Minh Le has been previously involved with developing mods in the form of Navy SEALs for Quake and Action Quake 2. Development See also: Counter-Strike Beta patches Humble beginnings