Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

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I just picked the ones who did good last year.

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Cloud9? they got punted out after 2 games last time.

They scraped through the qualifiers this time too.

I really like them but they aren't on the same level as European teams.

Not so sure about Keyd Stars (KaBum), but it's nice to see a new team from outside Europe/NA competing at the top level

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Our very own FMPONE and Volcano talk Dust2 and CS:GO.

Good stuff, Volcanos comments on dust are spot on I think, the reason it is so popular is basically tied to the actual game itself, its not that its a perfect map as I hear people claim sometimes.

Ha! I've stood there many a time when catching up with friends at GDC

Good interview, I really enjoy listening to Volcano talk about cs:go, you can tell his experience as a professional player really pours over into his design decisions.

Also, F you shawn Nuke is my favorite map.

Haha love the 'Counter-strike is great yaaa' at the end.

Cool little interview! Looking sexy, guys.

Great interview guys.

The whole map choice system is to be overhauled imo. Also thank you Shawn about the words on Nuke, I hate it, hate it, hate it... and it almost always comes up the rare times I try to play! I wish it was... nuked.

Also, a question arising from your comment about Nuke: he has been doing consulting for Valve to suggest changes? Anyway dunno what i missed, but to me looks the same as it has been for the last decade?

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Also, a question arising from your comment about Nuke: he has been doing consulting for Valve to suggest changes? Anyway dunno what i missed, but to me looks the same as it has been for the last decade?

Read this.

tldr: basically Valve adopted a lot of changes Volcano made to Nuke.

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Great interview guys.

The whole map choice system is to be overhauled imo. Also thank you Shawn about the words on Nuke, I hate it, hate it, hate it... and it almost always comes up the rare times I try to play! I wish it was... nuked.

Also, a question arising from your comment about Nuke: he has been doing consulting for Valve to suggest changes? Anyway dunno what i missed, but to me looks the same as it has been for the last decade?

The changes came pretty early in CS:GO. And i can't even imagine playing it without these changes. The layout just looks so bad without these

Oh yeah, we talking about ancient history, thought there was something going on recently (like they redesigned Train).

These changes were definitely great, but I still hate the map.

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I went for these picks:

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I think you underestimate the eastern Europeans on LAN. But we will see.

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Oh yeah, we talking about ancient history, thought there was something going on recently (like they redesigned Train).

These changes were definitely great, but I still hate the map.

I feel the same. Really important changes, but not quite enough for me to like Nuke.

It's still like the second most popular map in the game though, to be fair.

Yes, I don't understand this popularity! Until Source I don't think it was ever like that? At that time in fun so many served were set on a dust2, dust, inferno, office, Italy and awp_india cycle.

We played many clan wars on prodigy, I'm surprised it hasn't been remade by anyone.

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We played many clan wars on prodigy, I'm surprised it hasn't been remade by anyone.

It has.

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It has.

I think its more of a port, rather than a remake or remaster. So i suppose its still open to those wanting to revive it and give it some fresh paint.

what about making new and unique maps instead of remaking? I'd rather not turn csgo mapping into a hollywood movie production.

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what about making new and unique maps instead of remaking? I'd rather not turn csgo mapping into a hollywood movie production.

Why not both? People work on new maps and releases them all the time.