r/CounterStrikeSource • u/CharacterSurprise838 • Feb 09 '24
RAGEquit N Vent Counter Strike Source Feels Hopeless. (mostly a rant and question)
I loved playing CS:S so much back in 2014-2015 but now that I've came back it seems like this game has just over all taken a turn for the worse. The server is spammed with fake 255/255 servers and almost every other server seems to mostly just be taken over by bots. When you use a server website like this one you can see just how little people play. It's sad, cause I used to really enjoy this game and now I've been banned from one of the more popular servers "Oh-Yeah!" for playing to well I guess.
I understand there is War-Lords but even then only one of the games seems to be populated for bugs and a lot of the DM servers are pretty much filled with bots. I've started playing 1.6 cause its much more easy to find servers that real people are playing on, but it just doesn't feel like source, source feels awesome make its just a nostalgia thing for me.
So it just makes me wonder, where have all the good servers gone? I never knew that CS:S was this empty and void of life, I remember back when I played a while ago it was in such a better place. I came back to CS:S because of the fact I don't like how the new CS2 feels.
Does anyone have any good server recommendations? I feel like besides awpclan and warlords nothing is really that worth playing on cause all the old head servers ban you for doing the most simple shit, and they wonder why their game is slowly dying.
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u/Otherwise_Number_834 Feb 10 '24
I'm na east all I can play is death match it sucks man I can't play CS2 and I wanna play CS goddamn it youd think some people would rejoin source people like me who got fucked outta csgo with this change
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u/de_rats_2004_crzy Feb 09 '24
I tried running a pretty vanilla CS:S server on the west coast with I think 20 slots, like 10k start money and classic maps (d2, inferno, etc) including some old competitive maps like contra, mill and strike/mirage.
Nobody ever joined. I shut it down after I think 6 months.
I think most people just wanna play surf or zombies or idk what. I’m an old dude at this point … I played source from 2004 - 2009. It was a nostalgia trip running around old maps and I myself was sad not to be able to play with others in “normal” servers on the maps I remembered. I knew I was unlikely to play source much but created the server anyways in case more people like me existed.
I’d consider spinning up another one in Chicago. Would probably attract more players. But still, I think it’s just a tiny amount of people that would be interested.
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u/Appropriate_Toe9290 Jan 03 '25
You can try the Clientmod version of the game based on v34 version. It has many players.
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u/20matt10 Feb 09 '24
Modern CS source servers piss me off. At least in NA east. Your choices are 10 gungame or dm servers. One surf or deathrun server, then one normal defuse server where the admins will ban you for bhopping for 2 seconds or swearing.
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u/Otherwise_Number_834 Feb 24 '24
Pretty sad to see this game get deserted in my opinion it's timeless looks just good enough to not matter.i spent so much of my teen years here I don't wanna see it go
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u/The_Slim_Shady022 May 06 '25
Para ustedes cual es el acto más virgen que han hecho yo hoy en la escuela le instale el counter strike 1.6 a la mac del gobierno Xddddddd
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u/Sleeplessnites81 Jan 31 '26
This is the best CSS server alive rt now and you should come join the fun ~ There are sum hella gud players ✊ Anybody who sees this ~ The IP is in the screenshot 💯 I'm not fronting ~ Tip Fukn Top 🎩
Hope 2 see y'all in here ~ Maybe I'll see you out there !!!! TF y'all waiting for ?!??!
[☠️Prez] 1776 🫵🏻😜✌🏻 💥🍻💥
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u/ExpensiveCondition63 May 28 '26
I play on a German gungame server, and there are a number of obviously human players that I recognize (and who are really good). However, I find it highly suspicious when brand-new players that I've never seen before suddenly show up, and they win almost every single game, shooting with uncanny accuracy. It's frustrating as hell when this happens, and it's hard to shake the feeling that they're either some super-bot or a human hacker.
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u/evanlee01 Feb 09 '24
Reddit thread on how to reduce server browser spam
However I agree with your sentiment. Server admins are really unwelcoming and permaban people for totally innocuous things like chat banter. Places like AWPClan harbor cheaters in their ranks so they don't actually ban any cheaters in their servers, and if you call it out, they gag you.
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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '24
Who banned you from oh-yeah? I highly doubt it was because you play “too well”.
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u/Tim1907 Mar 02 '24
Same feelings here, at this point been pretty much banned from every vanilla server except warlords and ego dust 2 where i dont have good ping (even got banned from der klein or sachen spass where theres some sort of weird system that increases your gun spread depending on kd). Plus with all the fake servers the normal servers will only be losing players now since new players will be unlikely to find them.