CS:S BETA Announced

[CSN NewsBot]

Counter-Strike: Source will see its first BETA released in the coming months to Cybercafe partners and then to Counter-Strike: Condition Zero owners. CS: Source's BETA release continues the Counter-Strike tradition of public BETA tests. The first Counter-Strike had nearly a year and a half of BETA releases that practically changed the game from month to month (about Counter-Strike). CS 1.6 and Steam shared a nine month BETA session.



Valve's Doug Lombardi sent this to CS-Nation for release:

Starting later this summer, Valve will be conducting a limited-time beta of Counter-Strike: Source via Steam. The beta will first be open to subscribers of the Valve Cybercafé Program, and then extended to owners of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero. The next installment of the world's number 1 online action game, Counter-Strike: Source blends CS' intense teamplay with the advanced technology of Valve's Source engine. For more information, please visit www.steampowered.com.

CS-Nation was first informed of the existence of the BETA program late last night by CSN member nadomola, after he and top members of the South Korean CS community had caught wind of the story. Early and off-camera talk of the BETA program can be heard (barely) in the first of our recent GameMeca movie releases (after the 8 minute mark, mostly unintelligible).

[AceR]

Nice.

[HankPym]

Fantasmic news for the CS: CZ owners!

[itsMrHankey2u]

this is my reason to buy cz, kinda sad... paying for a free beta.. hope its good

[XTRMNTR]

To all of those who laughed at us who bought CZ...



Who's laughing now?

[HankPym]

itsMrHankey2u wrote..

this is my reason to buy cz, kinda sad... paying for a free beta.. hope its good

If that's the only reason you're buying CZ, that's more than just kinda sad.

[cookieman]

AHAHAHAAH yes yes YES YES!!!!!!!!! AHAHA w00t.. i cant wait... eat that you people who said "cz blows i would never ever buy it"... bitches

[SubNeoN]

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typical, now i've gota buy cz.. in order to get a "free" beta... BS... im sorry but for us loyalees of 1.6 i believe we should get it too... still i was looking to get cz but this is still highly unfair imho

not that it matters....

cz does blow, the only good thing i've seen is the arms... the custom weapons and models are far better than anything in cz, this is sucky i have to say.... still.. i'll be gettin hl2 pre-ordered and on my hdd b4 the server's know what's hit em bwahaha



lol think of all the extra web traffic this is gona kick up.. speaking of which does anyone know what percentage of web traffic and bandwidth the cs and cs:cz community accounts for?

[Zips]

YES! I love it that I own CZ!!



LOVE IT!



Rizzuh you just made me need my first change of pants! :P

[n8bowa]

Yay. Now a good reason to buy CZ

[hiroya]

lol they're making people want to buy cz, so gay

[Linux]

Hell yeah, this is what I been waiting for, Rock on Valve, thank you for getting us something new to play with :) No more complaing for me when I see this and I'm playing :)

[LexTalionis502]

I'm content with rarely playing cs 1.6

[nadomola]

I have a CS:CZ, too. But, well....my GeForce2gts would give me 5 fps for CS:S. Aheheheheheh. -_-)p

[Shuzer]

yay ayayayayayay! Once again, my CZ purchase that many people laughed at me for has paid off :)



VALVE = pwn