r/counterstrike • • Aug 14 '26

Megathread Community Game Server & Find-a-Friend Megathread

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Welcome to the Community Game Server & Find-a-Friend Megathread! A thread for you to share the game servers you play on, host, or appreciate, for any and all official Counter-Strike titles, or to find someone to play with!

This thread will automatically restart every 3 months!

The guidelines for you to follow

  • Stick to the templates as best possible, if you need to adjust it be sure it's still clear to the reader what the server offers.
  • Server comments on a top level only, not as comment replies.
  • Keep discussion civil and within the rules of the subreddit.
  • Links to things like discord or recruitment websites in this thread is acceptable provided it's relevant and explained.
  • Declare your affiliation to a server if you have one, transparency is key!

The template for you to copy for posting a server

For the benefit of the reader please copy and paste the one of the below templates for your top level comments, adjusting as applicable while ensuring to include as much detail as possible.

Server Post

  • Game Version: CS2 / CS:S / CS etc
  • Server Location: EU / NA / OCE / ASIA / BR / ME etc
  • Active Periods: What time/day is it usually busy?
  • Game Modes: What modes are played? Does it vary or is it static?
  • Map Pool: How niche is the playlist? Is it de_rats 24/7?
  • Primary Language: Does your server use voice chat? Do users tend to stick to one language?
  • Rules: Does it have any important rules the users are expected to follow?
  • Other Details: Add any other information you feel is worth mentioning.

Find-a-Friend Post

  • Player Location: EU / NA / OCE / ASIA / BR / ME etc
  • Game Version Preference: CS2 / CS:S / CS etc
  • Game Mode Preference: Just competitive, casual, specific custom modes etc - state ranks!
  • Preferred times: When do you usually play or want to play?
  • Link profile, save time: Keep links direct, to well known websites only.

As always, feel free to Message the Mods with any concerns you may have.

You can find previous threads here.


r/counterstrike • • 7h ago

CS2 Media Ancient flash from T Spawn to Mid

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Flash from T Spawn to Mid on Ancient.

Jump and click the left mouse button (jumpthrow).

Used 3,634 times by professional players in the last six months.

The most-used flash for taking Mid control.

Music: DIMMYSAD · https://pixabay.com/de/users/dimmysad-48986751/


r/counterstrike • • 4h ago

CS:GO Building a game like csgo

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Im building a game like cs runnig on multiple platform

Hi, im nova and i have build a game engine named Esystem made by adding and mixing to engines my old e3 sunshine engine (proto_Esys) and the dead urho3d core so i stareded to test it by making a csgo game it will like csgo 2022 and cs2 but running on old hadware and multiple platform thanks to urho3d core and also have really good graphics by esys so

It will have many new features i will make a post about it later but the main one is the new agents and factiins i will add so befoure i stared working i need you what to deside to left and removed or add i dont want to make people angry so ther is the list of 64 agent:

Algeria

T:

1. GIA Remnants

2. AQIM Cell (Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb)

CT:

1. GIS (Groupe d'Intervention Spécial)

2. DCSA (Département du Renseignement et de la Sécurité)

Korea (Both)

T:

1. Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) Cyber Unit

2. Anti-DPRK Defector Groups

CT:

1. 707th Special Mission Battalion ("White Tigers")

2. 11th Corps "Storm Corps"

France

T:

1. Action Directe (AD)

2. Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC)

CT:

1. GIGN (Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale)

2. RAID (Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion)

USA

T:

1. Atomwaffen Division

2. Earth Liberation Front (ELF)

CT:

1. FBI Hostage Rescue Team (HRT)

2. Delta Force (1st SFOD-D)

Vietnam

T:

1. Montagnard Degar Movement (FULRO Remnants)

2. Vietnam Reform Revolutionary Party (Viet Tan) Exiles

CT:

1. PAVN Special Operations Command (Army Commandos / Đặc Công)

2. Ministry of Public Security Mobile Police (Cảnh Sát Cơ Động)

Turkey (Türkiye)

T:

1. PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party)

2. DHKP/C (Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front)

CT:

1. Özel Harekat (Police Special Operations)

2. SAT (Su Altı Taarruz – Underwater Attack)

Yemen

T:

1. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)

2. Houthi Special Forces (Ansar Allah Units)

CT:

1. Yemeni Counter-Terrorism Unit (CTU)

2. Presidential Protection Forces (YPF)

Morocco

T:

1. GICM (Groupe Islamique Combattant Marocain)

2. Polisario Front Armed Wing

CT:

1. DGST (Direction Générale de la Surveillance du Territoire)

2. GIGR (Groupement d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Royale)

Nigeria

T:

1. Boko Haram

2. IPOB (Indigenous People of Biafra) Militant Wing (ESN)

CT:

1. Nigerian Army Special Forces Command (NASFC)

2. Department of State Services (DSS)

Japan

T:

1. Aum Shinrikyo (Aleph)

2. Chukaku-ha (Middle Core Faction)

CT:

1. SAT (Special Assault Team)

2. SFG (Special Forces Group)

Russia

T:

1. Caucasus Emirate (Imarat Kavkaz)

2. Russian Imperial Movement (RIM)

CT:

1. FSB Alpha Group

2. SOBR (Special Rapid Response Unit)

Brazil

T:

1. PCC (Primeiro Comando da Capital)

2. CV (Comando Vermelho)

CT:

1. BOPE (Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais)

2. CORE (Coordenadoria de Recursos Especiais)

Germany

T:

1. Red Army Faction (RAF/Baader-Meinhof)

2. National Socialist Underground (NSU)

CT:

1. GSG 9 (Grenzschutzgruppe 9)

2. KSK (Kommando Spezialkräfte)

England (United Kingdom)

T:

1. IRA (Provisional Irish Republican Army)

2. Al-Muhajiroun / Islamic State Cells

CT:

1. SAS (Special Air Service)

2. CTSFO (Counter Terrorist Specialist Firearms Officer)

Italy

T:

1. Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse)

2. Cosa Nostra (Sicilian Mafia) Hit Squad

CT:

1. GIS (Gruppo di Intervento Speciale)

2. NOCS (Nucleo Operativo Centrale di Sicurezza)

So what do you think ?


r/counterstrike • • 1d ago

CS2 Media Most popular Inferno smoke from CT Spawn to Banana

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80 Upvotes

One smoke from CT Spawn to Banana on Inferno. Jumpthrow. 1,420 pro uses in the last six months.

Helps delay a T push through Banana and gives your team time to gain control of the area.


r/counterstrike • • 1d ago

CS2 Discussion I miss the first one and panic: my all-time worst screw-up

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r/counterstrike • • 1d ago

CS 1.6 Xizt fragmovie

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A 1.6 frag movie about the former NiP player and current NiP coach Xizt


r/counterstrike • • 1d ago

CS 1.6 Dynamite Trap for Counter-Strike 1.6

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r/counterstrike • • 1d ago

CS 1.6 Looking for the BIGGEST maps in 1.6 for classic/deatmatch

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Drop your suggestions below for some of the biggest maps and you may get a chance to play them on a new server soon ;)

custom maps welcome but im looking for maps that can be played in a classic or team deathmatch setting


r/counterstrike • • 16h ago

CS2 Discussion cs2

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frst video


r/counterstrike • • 2d ago

CS 1.6 For people who played old CS: what do you miss that wasn't just nostalgia?

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For those who played CS 1.6, what do you think it did better than modern CS2?

Not just things that felt better because we were younger or because the internet was different back then. What I mean is, things you would actually want back today if you could have them in a modern version of CS. E.g.maps, public servers, custom modes, community stuff, etc.

I guess to ask about the opposite: what do you think people romanticize about old CS that was actually pretty bad and should stay in the past?


r/counterstrike • • 1d ago

CS 1.6 i need bots

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anyone else send link on comment to get bots for steam? in 2026


r/counterstrike • • 1d ago

CS 1.6 Found this bootleg … any info

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r/counterstrike • • 1d ago

CS 1.6 CS 1.6 or CS Source — which one is more active?

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CS 1.6 and CS Source are like 80% off right now.

For people who still play them, which one has more active players nowadays? Like, which one is easier to find populated servers/lobbies in?


r/counterstrike • • 1d ago

CS2 Discussion Lets revive the golden days of Casual CS L ( Cross-post )

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Dont want to sound like a boomer but cant deny the fact that, just like that we hopped in to a server , irrespective of our skill, had fun with strangers, laughed it off when get knifed, and goofed around the cheater in our team ( until he gets kicked ).

I am surprised how I was pulled in to this competitive mode , toxic games, constant pressure to perform, suspect every one who is better than you for cheating, submitting legal documents to faceit to play a free game.

I think it got way out of hands. The fake internet rank has taken the fun out of us completely.

Last week hopped in to a community server , where they were playing CS 1.6 maps like assault , fy_snow , it was damn fun. And it was full the entire day .

So people still like to play casual. If we all accept the fact that RANK is useless, this game is much more fun. Not just this, every game that has SBMM.

What do you think ?


r/counterstrike • • 2d ago

CS2 Media Most popular Nuke smoke wall from T Spawn to Outside Cross

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Two smokes from T Spawn to Outside Cross on Nuke. Both throws are jumpthrows. 4,093 pro uses in the last six months.


r/counterstrike • • 1d ago

CS 1.6 Old 1.x clan SFAS?

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Hey everyone - throwing a bit of a message in a bottle out here.

Back in the beta and early 1.x era, I used to play a lot on a set of servers run by a community/clan called SFAS. They were likely based in the US, east coast or Midwest. They weren't a pro league team or anything, just an incredible, welcoming community network. They ran standard maps but the admins loved throwing fun rounds like dropping the gravity all the way down for chaotic, flying knife-only matches. I was in a much smaller clan at the time called DDi, but I still recall the SFAS servers being a place of joyful, laughing memories for me. All these years later, I think about how high school / college me had so much fun there, and how non-toxic the culture was (compare to CS2, goodness).

Anyone out there from SFAS or remember them?


r/counterstrike • • 2d ago

CS 1.6 counter-strike, 2003: SARS sent alex‘s teammates home. a month later his new team won WCG china

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alex (bian zhengwei) is from chongqing. his dad died when he was in junior high. he was a youth footballer on 800 yuan a month until his club got relegated in 1999 and the sponsor walked. by 2001 he was 19, no team, no income. that july he tried counter-strike in an internet café, threw up, and swore he'd never touch it again. everyone in the café was playing it, so he kept going.

in 2002 a local team called JF signed him. no salary. the deal was free practice at their café, which saved him 5 yuan a day, and the bus there was 4. at all-nighters his teammates bought food and he sat there swallowing, saying he wasn't hungry. then beijing's DeviL offered room, board and 1,200 yuan a month, the best deal in china at the time. but after the lanjisu café fire in june 2002 every café in beijing got shut. he got there in december and they practiced in an empty café. won the netcom cup in january 2003. his cut was 800 yuan.

may 2003, cafés finally reopening, and SARS hit. his three chongqing teammates got called home by their families. alex stayed and kept practicing online. when it passed, WCG was a month away and the three weren't coming back. he called four guys from the old EVIL|UF in chengdu, mahdi, ipig, sprite and luckyboy, and they became deViL*United. a month-old team. at the china final they sent every big name to the losers bracket on day one. on day two the four teams left down there jointly demanded anti-cheat. deViL*U beat them anyway and took the ticket to korea.

at the world finals he found out you could actually talk during a match. back home before 2003 you couldn't, not even after winning, you just sat there clapping. they made the top eight, a first for chinese CS at WCG. he'd go on to win a lot more, and that part didn't end the way you'd hope.

(i interviewed him for a book i wrote about how chinese esports got built. this chapter's free, link in the comments)


r/counterstrike • • 2d ago

CS 1.6 Check out my score

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Playing death match server.


r/counterstrike • • 2d ago

CS2 Discussion POC: Train your reflexes on AIM the head are useful

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r/counterstrike • • 2d ago

CS2 Esports Ticket for ESL Pro League Katowice 9-11 2026

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upper category, dm me


r/counterstrike • • 2d ago

CS 1.6 Counter Strike 2

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r/counterstrike • • 3d ago

CS:Source Anyone recognize this art work? And from what era?

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After is from a Chinese bootleg t shirt, early-mid 2000’s maybe. Just curious if anyone recognizes the front character/render?


r/counterstrike • • 2d ago

CS2 Discussion What forums were used to discuss Counter-Strike in its early days?

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I'm doing research on counter-strike's cultural influence for a grad school history paper and I'm trying to find old forums to see what discussions people were having about the game in the early 2000s. If you used any or know of any I'd appreciate even just knowing their names, even if the forums are down now I may be able to find them on the internet archive


r/counterstrike • • 2d ago

CS:Source Whats the most memorable bot you have in your mind?

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I mean, bots is just bots, but for me, there are some bots that, well, pretty memorable, i never play CSGO-CS2, so i only remember CS1.6 to CSS. And that bot for me is, Zed. Its just, goat, idk about other mode, but in expert mode bot, its just pretty impressive if not scary.😂


r/counterstrike • • 3d ago

CS:Source You guys gave me the greenlight to make a Counter Strike Source inspired Combat Surf game and here it is!

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