A long-awaited Counter-Strike mod may have been quietly killed by Valve, and nobody knows what’s next
Classic Offensive, a long-running Counter-Strike community project with an ambitious goal of mixing the best of 1.6 with the innovations of Global Offensive, was finally about to see the light of day after eight years of development, but with the app retired from Steam after an automated review, it seems Valve is either unsupportive or uninterested in this project coming to light.
CS:CO went into “early access” in 2016 and first went through the Steam Greenlight process back in 2017, and its long and arduous development process was coming to a close late last year. Its design goal was to use a wider range of the Source tools available in games like Portal 2 to make a return to the core gameplay experience without a focus on matchmaking, skins and gambling, mixing elements of 1.6 and CS:GO to create something unique and more community-focused. The Counter-Strike mod, penned for a 2024 holiday season release, was ultimately pushed back to early 2025, and today, it seems to have hit a dead end after the app was retired from Steam with no comment from Valve, despite previous interactions.
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