The Counter Strike 1.6 Community Server Experience 

Dude, literally every server has the riot shield unbuyable

I would advise everyone that they should make their config and userconfig read-only before connecting to any community servers in 1.6.

Gladly down here in Argentina there's always at least a handful of servers with relatively vanilla experiences, some even obviously run by randoms just hosting the server on their PC whenver they feel like playing. It's always a nice for whenever I get the nostalgia urge to go back to the game

As a North American I've consistently visited the same few dedicated servers for several years now. No custom skins, advertisements or nefarious config edits. One of the perks to having choice with dedicated servers! And you're right there's been plenty of these weird pay to win servers for years now! Find the servers your rely on and stick by them.

man the only custom thing I remember from all the servers I played on as a kid was quake voice lines and "may the force be with you, always" when you were the last player left on your team

Since people are gonna ask here are some awesome vanilla servers with tons of people (not dust2 only) that deserve a shoutout Global Gaming Nis - 185.119.91.214:27015 Buxna Public - 185.119.91.213:27044 Der ScholssKeller- 92.204.40.98:27015 EXTRA CLASSIC - 62.122.213.44:27015 These servers are EU/Asian so sorry to any NA/SA folk.

There's something about older games that no modern game can reproduce. They are just magical.

I'm so glad somebody made a video about this, these servers are my childhood and are so dear to me, thank you!

You can disable models and sketchy downloads with cl_minmodels 1 cl_allowdownloads maps Or something along these lines. I don't remember the exact commands. But RCE is an actual problem, IDK why valve won't fix it.

a few years ago I played on zombie servers and they were without donations, but now it's just terrible. it is very difficult to find a server where the balance between zombies and people is equal and there are enough weapons for ordinary players. There was one cool server but now , i'll never find this good zombie server:(

Man, the first Server you described reminded me alot of Combat Arms 😂 What a throwback Great Video 👍

DeZolance, I'm so glad I stumbled upon your YT channel! Watching your 'funneh ahhh' videos is always so emotionally uplifting :D And your jokes are always spot on and not cringey. Ah, yep, and your way of speaking is really unique, awesome and silly (in the best way possible) - sometimes you talk like a cartoon character and I love it so much 😆

CS 1.6 community servers were awesome. I missed this in CSGO and I hope CS2 will bring this back. We need Warcraft, Superhero, KZ and other cool gamemodes to make a return... Bring back map creators and have community servers play some cool maps

playing cs 1.6 servers reminded me a lot of playing small to medium sized minceraft servers as a kid. Super hierarchical, p2w, and having a clear "in group" and "out-group"

It is pretty much it how you explained, I even wanted to make my own zombie mod server with pretty balanced features and even it started but died some months later because of boredom of not having players on it. I had pretty good plans on it but yeah, maybe I didn''t planned it out good as I thought.

dude I feel your pain... here in the US there are only like 10 or so active servers for 1.6 (CSCZ literally has more active servers here!) and there are basically no servers that are any good for GunGame or CSDM (which are my personal favorite CS gamemodes) all of them either have odd configurations (like in gungame some servers require like 5 kills per weapon, wtf? IMO gungame should require 2 kills per weapon at most, otherwise it takes way too long to level up and can make it quite frustrating and tedious, and CSDM always having the spawns set to the default ones from the map, WHY? there are literally DM oriented spawnpoints for all default maps included with the plugin, having CSDM without it's spawnpoints essentially ruins it making it nothing more than a gamemode where you rush and camp eachothers spawns over and over again, which very quickly gets repetitive and boring as hell!) or have plugins that can make things really unfair (like infinite jumping which on some maps allows you to go out of bounds and kill players from outside of the map! it also allows you to jump in midair which is quite broken, super fast movement with certain weapons, infinite ammo, etc.). and oh man I hate those servers that overwrite your weapon models with their really shitty ones that you can't disable, especially since I usually use custom skins in my game. your point about "pay to win" servers reminds me of a certain German CS:S server that is quite popular, they cram VIP ads in your face constantly, the text "VIP Players live longer!" is constantly on the top of your screen the entire time you play on the server, but that is nowhere near the worst part, first off the AWP and Autosnipers are VIP only, if you're not a VIP you can only use them like 3 times and then that's it, you gotta go VIP if you want to use them again, essentially it's like a NO AWP NO AUTO server (which are servers that I also despise) but instead of not being able to use them at all, they're locked behind a paywall, now that's already pretty stupid but believe it or not there is a VIP feature that is even dumber, when you are a VIP on that server, the Deagle has INFINITE AMMO, we all know how OP the Deagle is in CS:S, and making it have infinite ammo means that you can just spam the shit out of it and instantly kill almost everyone in your path, if that shit doesn't define "pay to win" then I don't know what does... anyway, enough of my ranting, I'm glad you made a video about this cuz nobody ever seems to talk about the state of community servers these days

Solution? Play on Condition Zero. Its less of but much better servers. I fancy one french server and its really fun and always on new fun maps. It being forgotten by cs community is a bigbenefit becuase only nice people play pretty much.

For avoiding editing config.cfg, there is cl_filterstuffcmd convar with idk why is disabled... Also yea, more then 1/2 servers on cs 1.6 is P2W and looks absolutely horrible...

You just sent me 15 years back with this video

These are basically your typical Asian Internet Cafe FPS games in a nutshell

your vids are awesome. also, balkan/ex-yu servers are generally vanilla, the most they change is having shortdust2/2x2 dust2 (basically only the A site)

Excellent video!!! You've described literary everything there is sketchy about 1.6 servers. One thing I would like to know is how does the Server list work, on both non-steam and steam, since some of the servers I think can't be found when launching cs from steam (like buxna public... or at least I didn't manage to find it). Also when installing non-steam 1.6 is the server list connected to the Gametracker site or what? How does the "boosting" work...

I had a glimpse of some Argentinian servers (since that's where I live) and honestly there really wasn't anything that bad. There were all the QoL mods you mentioned plus some skins and custom player models and I definitely see the issue with not knowing each player's team from the latter, especially if a significant portion of the players are using them, but at the end of the day I was going there for some casual fun. As long as the pay-to-win doesn't go far beyond custom player models it's tolerable to me, plus some custom player models and the attempts to recreate modern CS stuff was just funny and interesting to me as well. The people weren't too bad either, I found them similar to a casual CS2 lobby.

Selling a monthly admin subscription and some advertisement used to be the main income for upkeep back when I played

*cl_minmodels 1* to remove those goofy custom playermodels is a go I'm glad that my country (France) servers doesn't have all those silly plugins and custom models

let's gooo new vid i'm watching it rn

there's still plenty of good servers there, even in zombie mode "catalogue". I'm a mapper on one of those and I'm proud of our creation, it's a thin line to balance donate with gameplay overall but i think we managed it pretty good.

Back in the old days no such p2w models were implemented in zombie community, it was truly fun.

another gr8 vid ^_^

Just a quick question. Can you find a folder or something in game files with all crap game downloaded from those public servers so that you can clean your pc a bit? Actually, I would also like to know that for cs source csgo.

dude i cannot find a good zombie plague server anymore i feel they re all so unbalanced all humans can roam really easy and zombies are getting stun locked to a position from consecutive shooting. I would like to come back for a toxic house or an ice attack session. Do u recommend any zm servers?

When it comes to advertisments on the map or custom guns that advertise their server, my cs 1.6 loads the default texture over the custom texture, unless i turn it off in the config As for servers that rewrite your config i've registered my cs 1.6 in the firewall with the "mission" that if there is any kind of activity that's trying to rewrite any of my exsisting config, the firewall will alert me for "a virus trying to attack my pc"

Here in Australia, we have 1-2 servers that are active every once in a while, but are pretty much vanilla. Also 1-2 servers in SEA. And like 3 zombie survival servers.

theres currently a DZG RESPAWN server here in 1.6, its a deathmatch server with around 35 minutes on the clock, its filled with players with quick eyes and quick hands, im known there for a high kill but also a high death count, its pretty hard but real fun

This is why I only play at unreasonable of the night, it’s mostly vanilla servers populated by wholesome gentlemen, alcoholics, a woman, and that one guy who was on meth. Or some combination the 4

I remember the same experience in 2012. Nothing's changed.

Thank you for talking about that! I thought I'm the only one feel like that I just bought the game yesterday and all I want is classic normal servers without any mods (If someone tell me about normal servers like 5v5 or 10v10 with 8 rounds to win I 'll be thankful)

The beauty of CS 1.6 servers was mods like deathrun, hns, diablomods, codmods, zombie mods, pokemon mods. I spent thousands of hours on those back in my school days. And because of that vid i realized how much i miss that times.

Nice video! Do you have any list of trusty vanilla servers we can safely enter? Why not even create your own server and for your viewers even with a certain password

Finally someone spoke up in 20 years

I feel this video

CS 1.6 Servers Then: we are mostly vanila with a couple plug ins. CS 1.6 Servers Now: Pay $400 to be A Anima Girl who is parst of the british SAS. a

Exactly, someone finally made a video about the problem i have with most public servers in cs 1.6 Back then, i used to play on a lot of zombie plague servers, because i loved the concept of it in counter strike and they were much enjoyable but nowadays...? The Zombie plague mode sadly has been 'murdered' by such p2w conditions. I tried to join every ZM server i could and all of them contained very unfair features such as: insta-killing lasermines planted in a way they cannot be destroyed, tons of hp and armor aka tryder, jetpack and bazooka, weapons from cso, nitrogen galil and list goes on . . . This whole p2w situation has gotten out of hand and it makes me sad to see it affecting not just zm servers. (sometimes i wish i could make my OWN server) Once again, very sad to see my top favorite mode Zombie Plague fall off like that.

What are the maps on 0:50, 2:28, 2:46 and 8:02?

The entire point of having an array of community servers is to find the ones you're most comfortable with. I don't know how the situation is right now but back in those days you had plenty of good servers with little to no bloat to download (it's actually better as an admin for the popularity of the server to have players join you faster). Keep in mind there was always an option in the network settings that disabled download of visual garbage (has it's own issues like error signs on missing player skins but it saved my ass a bunch of times). Shitty servers for kids that did not care about vips or admin powers were popular, but that's literally the top of the iceberg. Joining them was a choice and most people chose elsewhere to find something that is actually good. Country banning is put in place to prevent people expecting to speak English on a server filled with Russians who don't know any other language and vise versa. And it also existed literally in every region. German only and French only servers to name a few.

2:05 bro i never ever came across this in all of my 1.3-1.6 gaming

Very interesting

Wow, i didn't know that lol, more complex than i thought.

Epicness

5:37 THIS IS SO REAL, I always hated running wargods anticheat, that shit always seemed sus, and when I looked into parts of it's source code, it turns out it collects information about files ALL OVER your pc! Not only collecting and leaking part of your IP and logging HWID (not so bad), but it also looks through your appdata, etc. Just overall super intrusive honestly, it's not even good at what it does. False positive results show up all the time, getting people falsely banned for cheating by incompetent admins who don't know how the anticheat scanning really works.

Crazy coincidence today I decided to open a fully vanilla server

back in the days I was playing on a community server and someone on the server just changed my config out of revenge, so that w,a,s,d and other keys were totally mixed up.

I remember there was one server that if you connect to, your cs installation would only connect to this server afterwards

I remember getting trojaned from joining a server XD

Aw man I remember when i was 10 i used to be a regular at this zombie server and some how convinced a dev to add something what was it i don’t remember but i had a lot of fun

Back in the 1.5 days we played a lot of Warcraft 3 servers. They were tons of fun ^_^

I remember playing cs 1.6 online around 2018? Up to 2021 or so mostly played death match in dust 2 was really fun and that india map with awps was fun too there was a game mode called CSGO simply CSGO ported in cs 1.6 with skins and all that it had a skin system but damn there was that one player who been played for 16 years who would annihilate your entire team

Thats why you are only supposed to join servers you know and not random servers with bots / fake players and weird names also console command "cl_minmodels" removes ALL skins and you only see default cs 1.6 models.

The GameBanana server is about as close to a 2003 non-WC3 and non-Superhero Mod community server as you can get. :) It is always empty though. :(

İ never had this problems interesting

CS:NZ : *laughs uncontrollably*

Some things of that list didn't happened in the servers I play in Brazil (or I didn't notice) and others i don't mind, like custom models or servers ads in maps. And not allowing people from others countries can be related to ping, no?

Stuff like this was literally the reason i would play CS: Condition Zero with bots to get my 1.6 fix as a kid. Goldsrc engine game servers with custom addons irritated me even as a kid.

The only way i can join a server is by console the history/favorite list doesn't work and i have to use gametracker everytime i open cs

Yea boyyyy!

This video is a reminder of just what a Hyperchromiryiadathon the GoldSrc engine can be. Yes, thats a word I just made up, like the aforementioned engine's flexibility.

Every time i join a server and the shield is not blocked, i immediately give them several reasons to be. Man i love using that thing

Are there any good zombie plague servers left?

please keep this LEGENDARY game alive 🙏

back then i cannot stop playing CS 1.6 on random servers with a lot of game modes even we can play soccer. Fun AF!! Now i think theres not much game modes available in community server for CSGO

This is the reason why I stopped play CS 1.6 community server. Those P2W players and the server host are equally bad. I rather play a server with a hacker rather than a server mostly consists of P2W. Reason? Hacker can be unbalanced but you rarely see them play community server. They do but mostly HvH. And if you want to join them (just chatting and spectating) they would love to talk with you (just say no if they offer for cheats). P2W are basically "monetized cheats" so they can be plenty more in a server (like in the video). They tend to be chill but most of them are quite toxic. Kicking, too much say "EZ" while using a gun that even baby can use. Basically a skill barrier. But you still can kill those pesky P2W player if you have enough skill to break their ego. I kniw this maybe sound like I don't like P2W and glorify hacker but i dont. I just wanted a balanced game where people can play and have fun without being too vanilla.

Dude i crave your videos, you could try to hop on wonky old games like multiplayer GTA shenanigans, the old hitman games heck even minecraft, lame suggestions i know lol just please keep making videos

Wow this reminds me of warface!!

So how you can clean up malware or trojan if you accidentally joined fake server?

there are still tens of servers with max players almost all day, same with source!

What about a video on CS Source community servers?

0:43 so many fun memoris 😢

i remember when i had a pirated version of cs 1.6 joined a server and my computer got infected lol, i think i got rid of the malware before it could do any harm

I love your duck

So there are fake servers that whatever you do you spawn as a T in dust2, but you can't do anything, and you get stuck with the server info section and the only way out is to Alt+F4 the game. Could this be one of these malware stuffs?

With experience of 17 years of playing CS 1.6 I can confirm everything in this video. Quick tip: Make your config.cfg file "Read only" to protect it from server editing it. Also, keep a copy of it somewhere, just in case.

The fact that i still have to wait for 69420 files of bitcoin miners and skin models to download at the speed of a decaying corpse is something that i always have to face... it's always infuriating

I'm starting a new server with new maps I've made. Just need to run the actual server computer again sometime lol

Regarding custom player skin models if you don't like it there's a console command in 1.6 cl_minmodels 1 which makes all players 1 default T or CT model

What servers would you even recommend?

why i join a sever have 30 people and when i get in it only 3

Not pink heart shiho from cso in the video cover😭😭😭

Those VIP concepts I think came from CROSSFIRE fps, and then it became common in cs 1.6, there is even a counter strike: Extreme which took a lot of inspiration from CROSSFIRE

Bro why i have 75 servers and why are rhe same how to change pls ??

CS with booba is a fantastic idea!

This Guy is the type of the kids that cries all day long in community servers because he can't get a kill

Maybe your source of anger should go towards CS Nexon Zombies?

Weird I played 1.6 couple months back and the server I found was pretty vanilla just added gore and amazing custom maps hostage and bomb. I think it's because of how I setup my search settings 😂

it didnt use to be like this im pretty sure back in the day was just skins and player models other vip things but no dmg boost, hp and such

the most vivid memory from community servers is downloading a file "zombie_poshelnaxuy.mdl", in russian it means "fu3k you".

1.6 server have this annoying issue where u cant strife ( cant use W and AD keys at the same time ) even when u type the command to do so

what is that map at 2:37? wild west? i faintly remember playing that a bit

Max Korzh AWP Jumpscare lmao

Alternate title: Bro discovers crappy CS mods 20 years into their reign

does anyone know a server that doesn't have these mods????