Category: ✍️ CS 1.6 Experiences & Articles

It's 2025. Counter-Strike 2 exists with all its modern bells and whistles. Valorant has abilities and agents. Call of Duty has another installment with even more particle effects. Yet here I am, still firing up CS 1.6, still finding full servers at 3 AM...

Dust2. Just seeing those words brings back a flood of memories. The sound of AWP shots echoing through Long Doors. The panic of a B rush through tunnels. That perfect smoke into mid that took me three months to learn. I've played Dust2 thousands of time...

I remember watching CPL Winter 2001 on a grainy stream that buffered every 30 seconds. Ninjas in Pyjamas vs Team 3D. The chat was going insane. This was it - the moment Counter-Strike transformed from a college dorm mod into a legitimate competitive esp...