Counter-Strike's Forgotten Features and Unused Items 

Some corrections and notes: After purchasing NIghtvision a message pops up saying the green can be adjusted in the console with -nvgadjust and +nvgadjust . I kind of regret intentionally leaving this info out. Also I know they are useful in zombiemode I've been there, but main game wise not at all. "This was a feature that was developed for cs" is quite the misleading and stupid line I admit. I didn't know it uses trigger_camera from HL but what I was trying to say is there aren't functioning cameras in HL to emphasize how unique they are for cs.

Buying night vision goggles and turning off the militia sewer lights to sneak through them is a core teenage memory.

You forgot that there existed some cars on custom servers like jbs

2:08 also the usp and the ump!

Bruh trigger_camera exists in half-life. It is used when gordon got captured and you see hgrunts dragging you half awake

The flashlight comes from half life but there was no real reason to remove the flashlight. Some maps like 747 and oilrig were pretty damn dark.

A lot of the early maps had dark spots everywhere so the flashlight and night vision weren’t all that gimmicky. That was long before everyone was playing on max brightness or with configs that lightened everything up.

Nightvision in 1.6 would allow you to negate flashbangs, that made them more useful than most people knew. If you had them on & got flashbanged you could take them off & the flashbang effects would leave you.

CS1.6 uses an ammo system based on caliber. So this means that the USP (.45 acp) shares ammo with the Mac-10 and the UMP, while the Glock (9mm) shares ammo with the MP5 and the TMP. And in some cases the Schmidt Scout (7.62) shares ammo with the AK47 and surprisingly even the autosnipers.

I kinda like the old cs radar... The fact that it didnt compleatly give out the position is pretty cool to me :) Also paper walls that are all wallbangable was pretty hard to pull off since you didnt have a drawn map op the radar :D

cs_mansion. Ancient ass map. Also has cameras for CT, albeit not very useful ones. Also. Has light switches. If you flip em and buy NVGs, you can get advantage over those who haven't bought them and is stuck using shitty gold source flashlight because some corners will be #000000 dark. Gimmicky? Yeah. But personally I prefer game with experimental gimmicks over one that's been reduced to extremely optimized no jank, no fun allowed competitive rinse repeat arena that also hosts a dress up your gun for real money minigame. Also. Trains and on-the-rail cars that you could drive yourself existed. A carry over from original half life.

I prefer the old CS 1.6 radar, it required knowledge of the map and some thinking, but, you could easily tell what was happening in the game after getting used to it.

Back in the first version of CS, night vision was extremely useful on the Mansion map, where Ts switched off all the lights and hid in the shadows.

CS was a mod, it was developed with the general design idea of "cool tactics shoot gaem" on the HL1 engine, which was basically quake. They just added stuff that was cool and tactical. The NVG's are a prime example of this. There were some maps which made them into a viable tool, CS_Mansion had a circuit breaker you could switch off, to kill all the lights in the house.

Well sometimes they call me hacker...cause i use "RADAR" and i see where my teammates died so yeah.. not useless at all

Ngl I love this, but there are just some parts that I don't agree, first, the radar, is got to be the best, as how it makes the game more competitive, completely not useless at all, and idk if you're trolling in the part about assault, but shouldn't it be pretty understandable why you can't use the cameras when you destroyed their source of communication?

Probably mentioned before, about the ammo system: Weapons with the same caliber share the same ammo pool (mostly) 9MM: Glock, Tmp, Mp5, Dualies .45 ACP: Usp, UMP 5.56: Galil, Famas, M4A1, Aug, SG552 and SG556, but strangely, not M249 7.62: AK47, G3SG1, Scout (7.62x54 and 7.62X39 share the same pool) 5.7: Five Seven and P90 12 Gauge: XM1014 and M3 Other weapons doesn't share ammo pool with any other.

6:49 thats not true, the camera entity has been in goldsrc since half life 1. one example of it being used is the usable monitors in Blue shift where you can see gordon and gina. pretty sure the "where are we taking this freeman guy" scene in hl1 is also using that entity.

I lots of these features are there for the realism factor alone. Like the flahslight... SWAT teams are gonna for sure either have flashlights attached to their guns or use nightvision. I also find the idea of nightvision goggles to be really cool in a dark map where you storm a building that has terrorists holding hostages in it.

i actually had some great experiences with nightvision. in 1.5 and 1.6 i mainly played assault and i always used it, because i could barely see anything on my shitty monitor otherwise. this translated into my source gameplay a few years later. i was so used to nightvision that i kept using it, even though i mainly played a dust2 only server every day. i was pretty good at the game back then, but immediately got a lot worse if i played without nightvision, so i always had it on and people started to notice when they spectated me. in the beginning they made fun of me, but after a couple weeks i became known as "the nightvision guy" on the server, and a few of the other regulars started to use it as well. it was like a funny insider meme in our community. somewhere down the line one of the other regulars created a clan and after a while most of us nightvision players were part of that clan and we spent more time together and became friends. now, 15 years later, i still have most of them in my friendslist and one of them even turned into one of my best friends in real life, because he only lived like 20 minutes away from me. great memories.

Literally I installed 1.6 after a decade of not playing it or more (weird that this came out) and the server browser showed me more than 5k servers. I was astonished. Joined to one, died a lot, uninstalled. Yup, nothing has changed.

using the shield doesnt actually make you full invulnerable. for some reason,you can shoot their legs and they get hurt. ofc this does make the trade where one shoots the least damage dealt while the ct could open their shield and do a headshot.

Map displays enemies as red dots or "T" and upside "T" It's very useful on cod-mod servers when you get class which can see enemies on radar.

Man I miss the old buy menu, it was so awkward that everyone was forced to remember which number is for which gun. Also that iconic kreck lreck sound you always here when everyone is buying for their ammo.

you forgot the "+duck" (when you press ctrl or your bind to crouch very quickly you do a little jump) i played a lot of pugs on 1.6 and it was very useful.

I remember binding the flashlight to the fire button. Such that when you fire the awp for example, instead of a gunshot u get the “silenced” click of the flashlight turning on.

If I'm not wrong u can use night vision against smoke grenade

I guess they added all these features cuz cs supposed to be realistic simulator of SWAT team clearing the area

I found the shield useful especially when there's two of us coming along

2:08 Its mainly because they use the same ammo so they share it

flashlights and night vision was because you could turn the lights off on some maps. It was super fun, thats something i wish we still had

The radar was useful when people used radio commands, as their icon would blink it was very helpful.

There used to be this really cool map back in 1.6 called cs_highsociety where you could kill the power to the building making it pitch black. It was a very cool use of night vision goggles. I wish custom maps servers were still a thing

Cameras would be totally op if people communicated well and played as a team

CS1.6's radar has few functions, but you need to use the radar and pay more attention to the position of your teammates at the same time. The radar function of CSGO is too powerful, and the enemy's position can be known through the radar. Basically, many players can realize tactics through the radar. Instead, it lost its original game nature.

There are also many items that didn't made it into the main game and only exist in CS CZ deleted scenes like : - M72 Law - Snake Camera - Breach Charge - Multiple weapon slots (you can grab multiple weapons in certain maps in CSCZ, and yes, it's a bug) - landmines - m60 - weld - etc

The night vision has some uses especially back in the day when CSO was still a thing. Zombie mode in some map are super dark like the milita, italy, heck even assault was dark. Most defendable spot on these map are dark and zb have red nightvision instead. But get this, night vision used to be an exclusive drop from the supply box along with ammo refill. But nexon patch that cuz the whole picking up supply thing and getting a nv is fking bs and now u just need to pick a supply box and u automaticly got night vision

Duke Nukem 3D also had functional security cameras back in 1996!

2:06 wow… who would’ve thought 3 guns that uses 9mm rounds use the same ammo????

CS 1.5 wins for me since they have real weapon names and have tougher bots compared to cs 1.6

Didnt know the T radar thing. So many rounds lost on nuke!

Я использовал ночное видение на карте с домом (вроде mansion), в котором можно было выключить свет. Я его выключал и кемперил в тёмных углах :) I used night vision on a map with a house (like mansion) in which it was possible to turn off the lights. I turned it off and camped in dark corners

CS 1.6 was a mod designed as fun and community centric. While the new CSGO is simply competitive centric.

LOL @Dezolance, Deagle with 2 clips was economically better than 3/max clips. same with an AK 2nd round. Also you need to realise the AWP costs around 125 per magazine so 30 bullets cost $250 It was huge difference in Economy for esports.

I don't think riot shield is used to storm a group of enemy alone though.

Tbh, buying ammo for that sound is worth it. Flashlight and nightvision are actually very good for community zombie mode because it's dark af.

3:08 the nightvision goggles exist because of maps like cs_estate. This is a hostage map set around a house. The house has light switches. This way: - Ts are less visible when they scope the yard through the windows, should they choose to turn off the lights in the room they're in - everyone inside the house is at a massive disadvantage if the corridor leading up to the 2 out of 3 hostages has the lights turned off, unless they bring nightvision goggles I'm playing on a server where this map is a community favorite, so it makes sense people buy them.

i'm not anavid cs player but i remember this and the shit patches you need to download: cs patch 1.0to 1.1 cs patch 1.1 to 1.2 cs patch 1.2 to 1.3 cs podbot ita like 7, 8 patches a torture for those used 56k dial up modem

6:40 good use of the radar is checking your sound cues. If you hear a movement close to you, you can check with the radar if it's your teammate who made it. If there are no teammates nearby, then you know your enemy made this sound.

Dude, cs 1.6 has some Zombie Servers and Nightvision is a cool feature.

0:36 i just realised thats a romanian server :))))))

The ballistic shield actually looks pretty useful for one sided fun maps like The Office.

The night vision goggles made sense in zombie mode back in the days of 1.6

The glock had the same ammo as the MP5 because it is chambered in 9mm, as also the berettas. The flashlight was inherited from the original Half Life game, since CS was a mod of HL. The same goes for the Nightvision. It was a default vision mode in the Half Life Opposing Force. The shield was added only from CS 1.6. In earlier versions it was not present.

How you can forgot about "func_vehicle" and all cool maps with bunch of cars that is made out of brushes?..

One thing a lot of people don't know even up to this day is that no matter if you're on a standing still state or crouched, your feet are still completely vulnerable to any shot when you're using the shield. On 1.6 that's harder to tell because of the large shield model, but on Condition Zero they made a model that makes that clear to see

hey dude you spelled forgotten wrong

This video will blow up, mark my words.

Are you Romanian , at the intro in that server They were speaking romanian, idk if you are or you copied the vid

the most annoying thing, when trying rescuing all hostages, and then failed because the hostage stuck.

cs 1.6 cs cz cs cz ds css - all of them are the best cs games ever, csgo not included.

One of maps have THE WORKING CARS Both sides have cars

In my opinion flashlight and nv is very usefull if you like vanilla color many people do this for casual or bot play, basically they want a real graphics the way valve did in the original half life 1, the developers of the mod counter strike has a capability to tweak the brightness and gamma to the max as default removing the flashlight.

night vision is usefull if u play with zombies or in dark areas :))

3:29 Counter Strike

cs1.6 best game in his prime the zombie mode is golden gold

Speaking of night vision My computer had some issues with brightness, so I always had to purchase night vision goggles irrespective of map, weather it was dust, italy, prodigy, etc So yeah, it helped me alot

01:32 on turkish keyboard, there are Ö and Ç letters. If you download cs 1.6 non-steam (so many turks playing) Ö is primary ammo buy Ç is secondary ammo buy

2:04 Depending on the Glock model, yeah the MP5 can share the same rounds as the Glock, both of them are a 9mm weapon system Also I say depending on the Glock model sonce the Glock 40 is 10mm or .40 cal. Honestly I'm not too sure

In one of the betas, they had a command you could enable as a spectator which would show the floating-camera "ghosts" of the other dead players, I think they used the orange and green-rimmed teleporter sprite from the HL single player campaign

Another thing that original had was that weapons used to stay on the ground after rounds, so you could actually leave from round start without a weapon and just find one. It was fun tbh. You could also farm weapons and leave the at spawn so other people could grab them.

Wait, new counter strike don't have night googles vision? Why? Joking apart, night vision was seen as top tech back in the 90's.

As a former highly competitive 1.6 player, the radar is anything but useless. To this day you cant see if a teammate is above or below you in CSGO/CS2, something 1.6 always had. You dont need a full 2D map of the actual map on the radar for it to work. As you play, you learn how to benefit from it

I remebmer people with no microphone have used flashlights to communicate with teammates. Like you could make signals with it as it had sound or point where to go/seat.

The old one is too classic and they are the best. CS GO dont have zombie games or death runs like CLassic had and that why I love it also remember Helm's Deep map. Absolute legend of a map. Also the kitchen where u tiny as mice and shooting around a kitchen, inside fridge. Those maps are super iconic and shall not forget the Simpson map.

Thanks to a friend's frugal nature, I never buy secondary ammo except for the pistol round. Even then it's only 12/60 for the USP and 20/100 for the Glock. IIRC he also used to only buy two mags for the rifles i.e. 30/60, but I never did that myself. Another case would be the Scout where one magazine was sufficient i.e. 10/30

It's 2005 Your up at 3 am. Playing a round of scoutzknivez while sitting in #Findringer on mIRRC. your fingers coated in cheesy dust as the blue light of the screen of 1.6 bathes your face. coL. Fr0d [a] is your favorite player. Pubmasters videos makes you laugh Life is good. Fuck I miss those times. Cal league. ESEA. team 3d. Team complexity. 1.6 cs videos. Take me back

Nightvision was used to test some dark/night maps, the first one was alley1 iirc. You can turn off the lights in cs_estate but since the wall textures are so bright, using nightvision will make you feel like you're being flashbanged.

2:05 usp and ump45 also uses same ammo.

I love the shield its cool also have Shield and Knife battle is kinda satisfying. Also I do like to use Night vision its a cool features and some maps can be a bit dark including the airplane 707 coz there its total black in some room just having night vision u can toggle on and off is just great to have. Also in the house with hostages u go through the pipes into the basement with a pool board is great to have one coz there can be pitch black.

I really loved the riot shield! My old highschool used to do 1.6 tournaments every year before christmas, and our class' team always trolled everyone with shield strats, especially me, i thought it was hilarious! For the record, it may be broken and bs, but i still think its funny to be a prick and use it

I think that the "no magazines/clips" thing is because you have to do that in real life (so it felt "realistic" at the time I guess?) Just a theory That doesn't explain why the gun has a full clip/magazine, but hey. I've tried lol

AWP, switch to grenade, no bang. Stacking through the skybox. Smoke grenades over nuke roof made no sense/ramp grenades Interp + low rates. Less noise crouching on ladders.

I played cs 1.6 religiously back when I was a kid. I NEVER KNEW CCTV CAMERAS WERE A THING!!!

With the radar I can hear footsteps and look at the direction in the radar to check if there's a friend there If there are no friends in that direction, it's an enemy This way you can detect enemies by their footsteps and be sure it's not a friend

5:40 oh dont say i never use the map like picture in picture, its my favourite! mosts myfriends asked me to view first person of enemy for them but i will asked picture in picture, it is the most cool thing for me, viewing myself with revealing enemies nearby is my way, and we all peek when we die in the game anyway just with different method so i chose pic in pic

you could defuse with flashlight & defuse bind, so when u press e it would turn the flashlight on and no other sound, pretty good tactic imo

hey with all these features like cameras at the end even if you said its useless i think its nice to have that feature as it might have some use to people who can use it, never say it useless, but i do agree to most people its useless coz they dont play it but it is not 100% ly useless and even if its useless to me i know its good just to have the feature, whats wrong with some decorations? if i dont use it well atleast it gives immersions that makes me feel oh this mission is for real, counter or terrorist arent really playing around, its a serious battle, everything seems so real like i was in a scene of hostage rescue or anything. i dont find anything wrong about that and if you dont like it just leave it be, no one asking you to bother with it haha

Nightvision is only unused because you Never Played Counter Strike in the golden era with 4:3 Monitors..

3:24 i dont know how about other Splinter Cell games, but atleast Chaos Theory has 3 modes, night vision, heat vision and one other electromagnetic or something, all having some use.

Why the stupid "T" symbols on the radar lmao. Just make it up-arror for above and down-arrow for below..

Someone upgrading cs 1.6 to csgo forgot the game is about hostage and bomb situation where you need more tactical approach. It's not another call of duty where you rush through entire map, die, respawn 2 sec later, rush again, die and again and again

All this talk about 1.6 it reminded me my fav mode when I play it doing my teens. The warcraft mode was my crack. Would play it in some server daily.

Bind your flashlight on backspace in 1.6 and hold the key, you'll end up turning on/off your flashlight rapidly annoying the whole server

The editing and the script of your videos are well done. Good job man!

Remove all weapons ammo thing in csgo , you picked the the dead enemy's gun and it has 10 bullets so only 10 should remain, no extra ammo left. Make it real

4:07 Knowing the games of the 90's, its because they couldnt figure out how to handle the taking off and putting on animation of the silencer, so they just disabled it, lmao

The whole idea of ammo purchase was why there WAS a bomb. and WHY there was a shield. and WHY people had knives.. and ect. ect. ect. I duno why they took that out. It would be like getting rid of food in runescape. thats what terrorists were. they sprayed around corners to get to the destination ect. i duno. thats one thing i wouldnt have wanted out. What the shield DID was take a swing around a corner and make someone waste all their ammo leaving them with a knife. and then you just shotgun them. It was legit fun that way. so yes theres no reason to have a shield anymore. the whole terror part was the bomb yes. but it was also OH NO i have to use my secondary pistol or my knife because i forgot to buy ammo last round. And a whole reason to upgrade a secondary weapon. as well. oh, and shields were good for helping guard a defuser. but, with free ammo it was worthless cuz you could just blow through one. so they dont use it. even tho opposite they say its overpowered. or something. (if you get flashed or whatever/bomb blows up..) ect. stuff they shouldn't have gotten rid of imo.

I think in Oil rig map u need night vision in some part as the dress of ct is black ,and other maps too .

3:20 you said metal gear solid and showed rising... Man i really want to give you the dislike, but im just going to write comment and like anyway.