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