How to Play CS:GO in 2025

[@IronSnake98]

1:46 Nostalgia jumpscare

[@lefunnyN1]

i use the old music kit tho

[@Cats-TM]

Always nice to have my ears destroyed by that specific music.

[@manuel.7461]

Hit like a brick

[@sgas]

best bit, glad it was added

[@WangleLine]

I got so scared when the music started blasting lol

[@alexandermonks9892]

Step 1: reach 2025

[@TechnologicallyTechnical]

Already too hard

[@jonathonschott]

That's questionable at best at the current moment for me

[@LeventK]

You won't

[@David_Crayford]

Won't be long now.

[@creamsdestinedfuture]

idunno if i want too

[@aryan_rai]

"Nostalgia is awesome, though not as good as it used to be." --> Underrated Phrase

[@kipchickensout]

I only got it after reading it again here lol

[@V-i-X]

👍

[@KaptainKlutch123]

haha came to comment this. what a great line lmao

[@averesenso]

What did he mean by this?

[@goofybaII]

@averesenso joke about being nostalgic about nostalgia

[@johannmosin]

DepoSit noticed that a lot of CS:GO maps have actually disappeared from the workshop with no apparent reason. Maybe that's a good topic to bring to light, because a lot of CS:GO history and content are now unavailable for most users

[@MarphitimusBlackimus]

What's a CS:Go? I searched Steam and didn't see any such listing for any such Counter-Strike game by any such title. Is this another one of those Nexon spinoffs?

[@chickentf2-h5z]

what does cs mean? like ive seen it in every counter strike game but never knew what it meant

[@NubSwitch]

ah counter strike nexon…haven’t heard that name in a while

[@fitmotheyap]

​@@NubSwitch animified counter strike 😭, to this day I question if people actually paid money with some of the weapons I saw

[@lbo87]

@@chickentf2-h5z Cities Skylines 2

[@MiekuahProductions]

​​@@fitmotheyapkorean counter strike to be exact. The zombie modes are deadass p2w but there is a room where people play the og defuse mode with no weird weapons, just with anime models but their hitbox remains the same despite female models are visually slimmer.

[@FightingTable]

Does it still work in 2026?

[@Crediu]

dont know yet

[@Splarkszter]

Here in 2028 they killed CS:GO_legacy due to a remote_execution exploit. CS:CO from Zool still has not been released and he hasn't posted in months

[@FightingTable]

@@Splarkszter unfortunate

[@rouxgreasus]

I'll come back to reply to this in 2 years

[@FightingTable]

@@rouxgreasus don't forget

[@brokendoop]

Replacing CSGO with CS2 was a scummy and obnoxious move on Valves part, it should have had it's own steam page, reviews and workshop.

[@VADemon]

The fate of all live service games (Game as a Service), because it makes financial sense. At least on Steam there's an option for devs to provide old versions.

[@newshyne]

Maybe in the future there will be, we can only hope

[@owRekssjfjxjxuurrpqpqss]

Yep. It shows they weren’t confident that players would move to cs2 from csgo they forced them to. It’s the same shit blizzard did with Overwatch 2 and yet valve faced almost no pushback on it and they’re always seen as the good guys even when doing very similar practices to companies like Activision / Blizzard. Instead of providing a better product you can just make it much harder to play the older product and effectively kill its community, then gamers don’t have a choice but to play the newer game. Imagine if the original cs was replaced by cs source with no public store page to download cs 1.6. If cs2 is supposed to be a sequel to csgo it doesn’t make sense for them to basically erase csgo from peoples libraries and the store.

[@dunny]

​@@owRekssjfjxjxuurrpqpqss I've been making this point all over YT, Twitter and Reddit since last year and the amount of people who reply to me saying "that's just how digital games are", "it's not a big deal", "get over it", "CS2 is better anyway", "Valve didn't have a choice because of skins", etc, was honestly eye opening for how stupid the majority of this playerbase really are. Just because it's Valve and they're preceived to be the good guys of the gaming industry, they can literally get away with almost anything and people will still defend them.

[@tribes2archivist]

I also got downvoted to hell when I complained about this at launch on Reddit. I lost all faith in Valve.

[@HapiiSamii]

I actually wanted to play de_fenestration so badly but I am a newer fan of yours. I subscribed in the fall of 2023 so I thought I was never going to be able to play your maps.

[@fitmotheyap]

You missed out on the server he had running for a bit, it was a blast to play

[@matthiasvanbrussel5971]

Denial, the first stage of grief: I was so excited when CS2 was announced, after years of rumours counterstrike would finally come to source 2. When the new game came out I accepted that it would have some problems at launch so I gave it a fair chance. I even defended it against my more critical friends, saying Valve will keep updating it and it would be superior to CSGO in every way. Anger, the second stage of grief: After a while it became clear that the game just wasn't the same. Hitbox issues, moonwalking bug, hitreg issues, subtick issues,.. But even worse: it just didn't feel as crisp as CSGO felt. Movement felt 'sluggish'. I became frustrated while playing CS2, ragequitting more and more. Bargaining, the third stage of grief: I started to hope that sometime after release, they would make CSGO available again with a community server browser. No official matchmaking, but just a browser so real CSGO enthousiasts could still enjoy their favourite game. Valve did not make this happen, and thereby killed the most succesful version of their CS franchise without a second thought. Depression, the fourth stage of grief: During 2024, I stopped playing CS completely and sold my 1500 EUR inventory of skins. To this day I'm still sad that my favourite game is just gone, replaced by an inferior version, now with keychains for your guns for even more monetization. I moved on to other games but no game can scratch the itch like the competitive shooter CSGO could. I watch a new 3kliksphilip vid, wondering when or if stage five, acceptance, will finally come.

[@johanskanal1360]

This should be pinned

[@smpmuzpid]

I don't wanna glaze Valve, and I know "feels like" is subjective, but it's hard to take stuff like "CS2 movement feels sluggish" seriously when you consider that people have complained about the movement in whatever the latest counter strike is on every release that came after 1.6

[@philaoki]

cs2 made me return to 1.6

[@h4jk3rn]

@@philaoki Same, although, I never really left 1.6 in the first place, it's just that now I play it even more than what I did during CSGO.

[@GeedaarKhan]

glad i started cs in cs2 to avoid this

[@gigalegit]

CSGO maps seem to be getting delisted and deleted from CS2’s workshop (as of since ~month ago). CIS youtuber DepoSit made a couple of videos about that, but in short, it seems like old maps are not considered useful enough to have them, although, fortunately, all the maps were actually downloaded by him (and other people) at some point, and i think there is a way to download them. There should be more info on his channel.

[@baumarxl892]

That's incredibly sad. I hate that VALVE seemingly wants to kill CS:GO for good, while its successor is still not even at feature parity. Such a dumb thing to do.

[@Slimek]

This is not true. You just have to click on 'show incompatible items' when searching the workshop

[@vlad54rus-a]

​@@Slimek Nope, they became delisted completely, 'show incompatible items' doesn't show them anymore. DepoSit explains it in detail in his video.

[@HASL96]

@@Slimek Deposit recently made two videos, first one said that some maps were delisted (don't show up in search, but are available from direct link) and the second one said that maps are getting deleted altogether

[@skraxel]

​@@vlad54rus-a whats the point of watching if i dont understand russian

[@Zelmazam1]

I still want how to play csgo in 2010

[@VADemon]

Time travel forward in time to see CSGO beta released.

[@Tunahanbaran60]

You can do it İf you reply i will tell you how👍

[@sub2meelmo]

@@Tunahanbaran60 how

[@Qwx]

It's a shame, how they disappeared a game I payed money for.

[@carbonium1264]

philip are you ok ? realesing video without caboosing ?

[@IanPeon]

Philip: *"Nostalgia is awesome, though not as good as it used to be."* Me: *"Just wait 10 years, and all the crappy things you're seeing these days, you'll have to see all over again."*

[@Greenhourglass]

Absolutely ridiculous that they even made the server browser useless. CS:GO is now buried and harder to play than CS:S, CS:CZ and CS 1.6 which all came out almost a decade prior. One of the worst decisions Valve ever made

[@AlexBarbu]

CS2 is in the past old man. Embrace CS2: Episode 3.

[@cubekoss7547]

what is 3? never hear of it, is before 0?

[@MaxMustermann-yj1wz]

Best video about cs this year

[@tars1643]

Glad i had a cameo in this video phill

[@megamanlinkfan]

I was part of a community up until recently we had a cs:go server that we would play on a good amount. but valve made it harder and harder to keep it going so once enough maps were ported into cs2 our admin got a cs2 server playable.

[@gusmangamer]

Sadge

[@kieranhurst8543]

​@@gusmangamer2019 called, they want their joke back

[@Terrown]

Same here, although many players left and there is generally less interest in CS2 in our community - we still get daily internal matches on community maps - but not as many as in CSGO. Also i miss many maps, which arent ported yet

[@Spluub]

@@kieranhurst8543 so you replied with a reply from 2020?

[@megapussi]

@@kieranhurst8543 bruh you literally replied with a joke from the 70s

[@perfectlyroundcircle]

Nice of Valve to make this process so convenient and easy, so that people get to play &archive this legendary game without any issues at all. What I love most is how the server browser works now, and how fast you can get to the main menu without getting inconvenienced by any message at all.

[@kingeling]

Not true at all, they've disabled searching community servers through the server browser because they were too lazy to make a complex/shared game ID. It's not convenient whatsoever when you have to look for servers on a third party site. Downloading legacy csgo also redownloads some resources that can already be found in cs2's folders. 70+ gigabytes in total lmao

[@itchylol742]

As a TF2 player I don't have to worry because we'll never get TF3

[@ipaqmaster]

Requesting framed print of that paint.exe painting

[@germanzaza]

praying to god that this video makes legacy more popular

[@Sidneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees]

2:49 look how they masacered my boy

[@spoonerman]

HvH servers have always existed lol. HvH actually kind of died when cs2 hit cause it entirely fucked up the meta with broken exploits, after those were patched it still isnt as good as csgo hvh.

[@Sidneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees]

@ Im more talking about the difference between CSGO and CS2

[@Spluub]

@@spoonerman yep average hvh player.. dude who posted the comment isn't even talking about hvh.

[@nullcoreproject]

@@spoonerman newgen

[@sakan7882]

0:10 The prompter to artist pipeline is real.

[@moleman9504]

Sad we cant just play both like source and go was

[@MaxMustermann-yj1wz]

Nobody would play cs2 then 💩

[@Flip-Floptop]

@@MaxMustermann-yj1wz Because it's shit. I mean CSGO is shit as well but less shit.

[@love2rr]

Valve just care more about skins now sadly

[@Thatslifebro_]

If they launched CS2 as a seperate title then most People would not have switched because their inventories are in CS:GO and it's a proven reliable product. Creating CS2 as a forced upgrade to CS:GO means that the Skins stay with their owners in the new game and that they don't have to worry about significant playernumbers staying with the last entry.

[@dunny]

@@Thatslifebro_ Valve develop Steam, they could have made it so that even with CS2 as a separate app, it still hooks into 730 (CS:GO) for inventory management allowing both games to share inventories. The effort involved in that however doesn't make money so they took the easy way out and forcibly removed our purchase of CS:GO from us. Disgusting honestly when you consider the billions they made off CS:GO.

[@pixel690]

oh the file thing is actually very cool, didnt know that. thanks! :D

[@Mantulisme]

can't wait for cs3

[@David_Crayford]

Lovely. No showboating or bragging. Just wholesome good advice. Only thing I am missing are the achievements. I got about 80% and am a little sad I didn't get them all.

[@Patroiten]

Don't be. I got 100% and have nothing to show for it.

[@marfology]

"nostalgia's awesome, though not as good as it used to be" profound

[@johnathanmcdoe]

And then there's complete cryptids like me, who still run a CS:S server to play the best CS with a couple of similarly braindamaged individuals.

[@t4teapot]

LMAO same

[@ThiagavalThiagales]

You broke the 3rd rule of the time machine manual, dont tell people from the past something from the future!

[@FlightWish]

There's an alternate universe out there where CS2 launched with de_fenestration as a competitive map and Caboosing is the official menu theme.

[@kalyanoliveira3224]

we traveling to the future with this one

[@boiledcabbage5395]

this just made me miss CSGO even more.

[@Kyle07]

Thanks for the guide! Was playing yesterday CSGO because I wanted to play gungame (arms race) with bots due to instable internet connection. I saw then that I cannot launch workshop maps with the bots. It says then there are no dedicated servers available. Thx for all the server commands to launch a bot match on workshop maps! I bet this is the solution! My pc is to weak for CS2 and I revisit CSGO for the content as well. It doesn't make fun to play CS2 with very bad image quality. I play CS 1.6 more often since Half-Life's 25th anniversary update. I love the GoldSRC Engine now. Okay, I am going offtopic. :P

[@Settling_]

I can't believe we got "How to Play CS:GO in 2025" before "2025"

[@Aelfraed26]

2025? Bro is living in the future

[@nottucks]

Miss CSGO. Haven’t played cs2 for a couple months now. Used to be proud I played cs. Never selling my 3kliks kit, though :)

[@lordmanok9995]

CSGO Becoming a legacy version opens a much bigger door for custom game modding, because it doesn't gets much updated and nothing gets broken or edited in code each update. I look forward to this, we might get cooler custom games in the future. Maybe.

[@slek_cs]

Bro can't wait for a few days to upload this 😭

[@ZizinRacing]

thank god it's source and 1.6 I'm nostalgic about lol

[@TOX1Cparadise]

Bro is using a time machine to release this video

[@memepog588]

CSSO is a nearly identical remake of CSGO and it usually has a couple active servers.

[@Liokindy]

1:44 "But atleast you can now view the rest of your inventory... FFFTF- THUN-"

[@MaskMajor]

Cant wait for it to be 2025 so I can try!

[@dk_boyblue]

Can't wait to be able to do all these things 19 days later

[@Revektion]

csgo is just so much easier on the eyes, wish they wouldn't have just straight up axed it like they did

[@t3h51d3w1nd3r]

Me still playing 1.6 “welcome, you’ve no idea how crazy the game is going to get now valve have discontinued support”

[@penice_jorbler]

bro preordered the title

[@cheese_puff420]

thanks for the inventory trick

[@Thethewho]

The gold banner had me scared for a second

[@varsik289]

Great tutorial

[@SuiYo]

Opened a knife in csgo for the last time, thanks :)

[@Gato-1998]

speed painting pog

[@VarVarJeg]

The incompatible items thing is awesome, i found this out long ago and its a shame valve didnt specify

[@mossw4ste]

I just want my achievements back

[@sentonbeeblo170]

hopefully theyll one day put the game out without having to do this bs. im tired of editing files bro

[@Opalinus]

0:42 Nice to see the community Workshop is still broken, and favours NOT de_fenestration but shows Fenestration Game?! at first

[@TonyMadeira1804-2]

you have to set it to relevance

[@realmcafee]

im missing this csgo mod you presented to us. this map where you fight bots and unlock skills with this wheel of luck. even my wife asked for it and i had to explain her why its gone.

[@maisatanel]

vtmb bloodlines installed and favorited MY MAN

[@critical_thoughtt]

i miss csgo

[@tmzera]

1:57 Wouldn't the "cl_downloadfilter none (or "all" instead of "none", can't remember which one)" command fix the issue for most servers? (i mean, most that don't use custom maps, skins, sounds etc. With that command, the game won't download any of that)

[@ground-beef]

a lot of servers force you to use a downloadfilter other than none (prevents downloading sv files). what happens most often is a plugin will kick you telling you something like: cl_downloadfilter allowed values; 'mapsonly' 'nosounds' 'all' not all servers will do this though. I would suggest not playing it at all as RCE's will be discovered for legacy 2023 CS:GO as they were for legacy 2018 CS:GO. or play it on an old spare computer, it could probably run it

[@tmzera]

@ground-beef Makes sense, didn't know about that. Bummer that valve didn't separate csgo from cs2 in the library and kept with small stability updates for csgo (like in css), but understandable since cs2 its not a new game and there's the whole skins ecosystem into it.

[@varsik289]

In tf2 there is community mvm servers (that appear on the official tf2 blog btw) that has managed to bypass cl_downloadfilter mapsonly to download custom textures, icons etc... I know this becuase the console was saying it and becuase noticed the extra files on the download folder I suppose cl_downloadfilter ONLY controls downloads when you are on the loading screen and not when you are in the servers alredy, mesning that the server can still download icons, textures and whatever it needs to make it function... Correct me if wrong on that but otherwise I rly cant think how ppl did it But what I am saying is that in csgo it must be similar if in tf2 ppl have alredy bypassed that command... And then you have l4d2 who doesnt even have that command 😂

[@andrewhamel1]

Luckily, that dope ROGUE map still works, though it's hard to find the map if you don't know about that incompatible items checkbox.

[@aaroncook2996]

It's a shame they don't keep CS:GO around as a separate game. It should be easy and officially supported to play the older stuff with all its features.

[@gephyrro]

1:54 holy 1kliksphilip reference

[@kdee1428]

When cs2 was in beta i was thinking that valve will definitely make cs2 in a way so that we can still be able to play csgo maps (.bsp files), they cant just let go a decade of content from the workshop and to my surprise i was totally wrong :(

[@Eingefallen]

Finding out now that they didn't is crazy to me.

[@sarim_hk]

it's completely impossible and would look ugly af since particles and lighting systems are different in source 2, coming from someone who has ported many maps

[@varsik289]

​@@sarim_hk It is definetly possible, but Valve is lazy to make a solution for this

[@gabrielandy9272]

you still have cs go they did not remov it as said on the video, so nothing is lost

[@kingeling]

@@sarim_hk A simple solution would've just been to make separate map releases for each game.

[@digojez]

I miss de_fenestration, thanks for the guide

[@redblueek]

what about popflash for matchmaking?

[@deadlycopter_music]

is it possible to connect to connect to my friend directly? like the steam join game feature? or would vlan possibly work?

[@TheMasterStarr]

this video had a disturbing lack of caboosing

[@pr0k3y]

I recently tried to play cp_complex and I realised that the map's capture points are not working properly. From what I have read on your reddit posts and your video covering cp_complex, the capture point in the middle is only supposed to be captured after already capturing the two capture points in your territory, which isn't what is happening. This bug is also occuring on the template maps that you created to help mappers like us to make capture the point maps.

[@imgladnotu9527]

2:01 saying that some servers might be unscrumptious and might require you to download custom assets and sounds that may or may not be malicious, when he's joining a HvH server, even the server messages notifying about kills in the game chat are prefixed with "[HvH]"................

[@ground-beef]

your point...?

[@kieranhurst8543]

The joke Your head

[@varsik289]

But this is nothing new... It happened on l4d2 for decades, it happened on tf2 and even css and csgo There is a reason why most ppl want to avoid community servers unless rly necesary

[@LowEndPCGamer100]

id just also like to warn people, that all of these matchmaking clients and discord communities at least out currently are complete jokes. there is no need in putting your time into something so exclusive, youll have a better time with community servers until someone with a sense of decency builds a client. who knows, we may even get better mod support in the future as well (exciting for me because i want some actual decent ai to play with offline). valve has essentially given us our favorite game.

[@ashscott6068]

THIS is the problem with online games. Most just die because there are too many games. And old ones are forced to stay pretty much the same, and as much as they'd love to make a sequel, they can't really, because whatever magic allowed that game to survive, isn't guaranteed to port to a sequel. People don't like change, AND, people have spent a fortune on skins, so your new game hasto have the same weapons and weapon balance as the old game. Making it essentially the same game. And people are still going to want to play the old version

[@panipu]

Thanks Valve👍

[@callekun]

Where is Destruction Darius 2? :(

[@XanderNiles]

If only Valve didn't remove CSGO... They should've gone in the same way as CS Source and CS1.6, keeping it as a separate game but the old dilemma of splitting the playerbase is always brought up.

[@blackfoxx42]

The future is wild

[@0ghas0ogn]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

[@Spluub]

can't wait for everyone to join hvh servers.

[@pwn3d_07]

the only reason to still open this game is to grow the content farm and so does the video feel

[@LIXEREQ]

i still dont have any choice after choosing and downloading the beta, i dont have the default launch option selected

[@TonyMadeira1804-2]

you have go to in properties, general and launch options

[@LIXEREQ]

@@TonyMadeira1804-2 There is no launch options in general, it shows only when i enable Steam Proton. When i enable Proton, i can't play CS:GO or CS2 with multiplayer, because VAC blocks me.

[@LIXEREQ]

@@TonyMadeira1804-2 There isn't any launch option, it shows only after enabling Steam Proton which breaks VAC on both CS2 and CS:GO.

[@alexandermonks9892]

Nostalgia is awesome, though not as good as it used to be

[@maruftim]

he really said "gg nt" 😭 2:54

[@GoatChease]

thought's on coffeezilla tackling the cs gambling epidemic?

[@dexyydev]

NO, THE FLASHBACKS 😭😭 BRING DEFENESTRATION BACK PLEEEAASEEE 😔😔😔

[@miecraftandmoregames]

will try in 2025 thank you 3kliksphilip!

[@PotentialGrim]

But can I host a server and invite some friends for a 2v2, like we used to?

[@CBSnB2R]

I just want to play the operation coop maps again.

[@xtlm]

I just want pre/post/halftime voicechat back

[@toastedclubsandwich]

Saw the entire enemy team full of people spinning and suddenly I’m at home again ❤️

[@arthurgzzi]

Guess I'll just wait a few more days to play this then.......

[@UsernameDoesntCare]

og no where did my cs gooooo?

[@lewjn]

Step 1. Become the fart master Step 2. Profit

[@F1dg3t]

This is a pretty big ask, but would you consider porting fenestration to cs2?

[@SiaAlawieh]

3kliksphilip i love u man

[@SatrioW75]

Phillip, can you describe old models not released in CS2 please?

[@3kliksphilip]

Anything released in CS2's lifetime

[@SatrioW75]

Okay

[@markojarvinen1588]

There's literally a pop up when you open the legacy version that says that the support for the legacy version of CSGO will end in 2025.

[@dunny]

That pop up says "This is the legacy version of CS:GO. Support for it will end on January 1, 2024." Not 2025. You can still play it, it just means that Valve will not update it anymore.

[@markojarvinen1588]

@dunny Oh, my bad.

[@wombatZ]

I paid for CS:GO and got CS2... Heartbreaking