CS:GO Q&A with Chet Faliszek
By: Pus
Time: 2012-06-08 18:24
Game: Counter-Strike 1.6

Rod "Slasher" Breslau from GameSpot sat down with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive writer Chet Faliszek for a lengthy Q&A session at E3 2012 in Los Angeles.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Valve and Hidden Path Entertainment's new title, is targeted for release on August 21 and will be priced at $14,99 on both the PC and consoles.

Starting off the interview, Breslau questions Faliszek about the price, which is surprisingly low compared to regular releases these days, and the free-to-play model Valve will use in DotA 2.

"The beta is not polished," Faliszek later explains, talking about how the beta stage has been, also sharing some information on how Valve and Hidden Path Entertainment have been working.

Moreover, Faliszek adds that although August 21 is the release date, it is not "the end of development," it is just the date the game will be released. Valve and Hidden Path Entertainment will continue to work on the game into the future.

Going into details, Faliszek reveals there is a patch coming out that will make sound "better than ever." For how and more interesting details, watch the Q&A session below.

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Chet Faliszek? First time I see this name

Post edited 2012-06-08 18:26:00
2012-06-08 18:25:36
and 999999 times played his game :P
2012-06-08 18:27:25
+1
2012-06-08 18:48:15
Not everyone's a fan of HL2.
2012-06-08 20:33:25
? chet has been involved with cs for a long long time.
2012-06-08 21:07:35
Ah, so he's the guy who wrote the story for CS.
2012-06-08 21:17:49
When the guy introduced Chet, I swear I heard "Chet Ballsack".
2012-06-08 23:18:45
I heard not Faliszek but Faszika, like my nick :)))))
2012-06-08 23:23:38
Are you fucking kidding us?
2012-06-08 19:56:43
Of course if you're from Poland you know who's that guy, personally I don't
2012-06-08 20:33:42
I don't but still don't care so much

Post edited 2012-06-08 21:19:34
2012-06-08 21:19:21
I don't know him as well
2012-06-08 21:09:22
OK
2012-06-08 18:28:57
interesting
2012-06-08 18:29:05
what's interesting?You havent even watched the whole video and now comment here.
2012-06-08 18:41:35
.........................
that's an appropriate reaction when you just heard an interesting headline

And I doubt that you're trolling, since this community always seems to welcome these irrational accusations towards the early comments
2012-06-08 21:11:19
nice nickname
2012-06-08 21:29:38
Thanks!
2012-06-08 21:35:15
Can you summarise what's interesting please? CBA watch it.
2012-06-08 20:39:55
the only thing i understood from the title was "CS:GO" - and that's enough
2012-06-08 18:31:23
+1
2012-06-08 18:49:06
+1
2012-06-08 18:57:45
+1
2012-06-08 19:26:24
+1
2012-06-08 22:14:16
+1
2012-06-08 22:33:54
by: rmn^
#9
For xbox or ps3 , the game has bots?
2012-06-08 18:31:44
ofc
2012-06-08 18:36:47
by: rmn^
#14
I don`t understand your reply :(
2012-06-08 18:38:37
ofc=of course
2012-06-08 18:39:09
by: rmn^
#16
Yes, recently i understand before i replied you :E thx for answered
2012-06-08 18:40:17
So...
2012-06-08 18:36:13
This guy does interviews more than developing CS:GO.
2012-06-08 18:36:24
he's not a direct developer(coder) afaik

Post edited 2012-06-08 20:01:02
2012-06-08 20:00:49
why u wanna destroy 1.6 ......
2012-06-08 18:36:58
Because everything evolves, and 1.6 has too. If 1.6 stays the same, the game will die and players will find some other games.
2012-06-08 20:24:43
I wont find some other games, I will stick to 1.6.

Sorry to dissapoint.
2012-06-08 20:37:06
good luck playing with bots in 2050, since you wont find who to play with
2012-06-08 21:12:30
He can play with me :)
2012-06-08 21:18:19
he can play with me too (:
2012-06-08 21:35:44
me2 :) CS 1.6 WILL NOT DIE IF PEOPLE DONT STOP PLAY :D !
2012-06-08 21:38:14
CSP
2012-06-09 01:08:31
Interesting :)
2012-06-08 18:42:43
if i see this guy in the street,sure he will die!
2012-06-08 18:42:48
-10
2012-06-08 20:44:07
ofc they make a low price, this game gonna sell much to new beginners... its like a new call of duty for them
2012-06-08 18:44:50
+1
2012-06-08 18:59:11
+1
2012-06-08 22:15:02
who cares about shits ?
2012-06-08 18:49:17
+1
2012-06-08 18:59:07
oh that awesom..oh wait cs go ?
2012-06-08 18:50:10
by: ohai
#28
anyone want to summarize? not watching 20 minutes when a written list of changes would take <1 minute to read
2012-06-08 19:00:38
+1
Hate video interviews.
2012-06-08 20:38:22
by: Dare_Dev1L - HLTV.org
#91
They improved recoil and they claim it's "close" now. There will be a patch that will dramatically improve sound and that it will be "dead on". They will focus on CS:GO even after it's release, also they won't focus on other games such as CS2 and just fully focus on improving CS:GO.

.. and matchmaking and it's differences to RTS games, other than that just prices.
2012-06-09 11:10:04
by: ohai
#94
Very cool, thanks!
2012-06-09 17:14:07
Thanks, 'cause I almost fell asleep after 5 mins.
2012-06-10 07:45:15
cs gone
2012-06-08 19:01:13
August 21 is the release date, it is not "the end of development,"


Thank God.
2012-06-08 19:11:01
by: GKXx
#35
that's exactly my thoughts lol
2012-06-08 19:16:42
by: Dare_Dev1L - HLTV.org
#31
Good blog thanks :)
2012-06-08 19:13:20
I can't stand Interview with music in the background, I just feel like watching a TV shopping channel.

Post edited 2012-06-08 19:14:41
2012-06-08 19:14:20
i just wasted 19 minutes on pretty much same old shit...
2012-06-08 19:14:33
by: GKXx
#34
It's awesome that he explains everything, that he explains that the game was shit because it was suppose to be shit back when beta just came out. It's awesome that the game has evolved into a WAY better game than that it was back when the beta was released.

It's horrible that they're not adding russianjumping or proper bunnyjumping :(
2012-06-08 19:16:08
Yeah!
Cuz adding bugs would be awzum... right?
Should add spectator-bug and bugflashes too.
2012-06-08 19:40:15
The things he mentioned are existing tactical gameplay elements very important to the competitive scene. What you mentioned is game-breaking and stupid.
2012-06-08 21:25:05
No.

They were original bugs of CS.
2012-06-08 23:03:09
bugs or not buddy, they were what made the game competitive.
look at super smash bros. melee, and tell me how that competitive scene was SO HUGE? (because of the glitches and bugs, it made the game SO much harder to master, because you could now chain combos, perform tough movements and you could be offensive/defensive)

Don't know what I'm talking about? youtube "Ken ssbm" and watch, if you have played the game at a high level, you will really know how hard it is to BE THAT GOOD!
2012-06-09 05:23:33
However they were not designed features of the game, and should never of been there in the first place.
2012-06-09 20:56:30
the point is, if those bugs weren't there, the game would have capped out at a closer point in time, meaning players would all be the best, because there were less skills involved to dish out on gameplay.
this means the game would reach a climax of skill, and players would not get better, and more players would be at the top.
(in sum, making the game unstable, and the competitive scene would be no more than CSS, and look where it is today. same with CSGO).

Post edited 2012-06-10 08:08:22
2012-06-10 08:05:37
No it would still be the same kind of scene today. You are purely speculating on that front.

The point really is, they were bugs, people at first complained about them, they have now learnt to accept these bugs, and have tried to master them.

In the actual Q&A Chet, admitted they had made mistakes with how they went about CS before, and have tried an entirely different approach this time round. He was admitting that Valve were silly to ignore the bugs firstly, and should have fixed them in the first place.
2012-06-10 13:50:52
if you believe he means what he means, and seeing what they have done "maintenance-wise" on 1.6 for the past 7+ years, they haven't done ANYTHING. Nothing will be fixed, they could fix bugs right now. You just don't get how competitiveness works, yet I keep telling you.
They won't fix bugs, they make the game they want, they want money. They have no right in making a good competitive game, hence CS:S, CS:CZ, CS:GO. Done.

Seriously, do you even play 1.6? I'm asking because you'd know why 1.6 is better than source.

History shows that game-mechanic-enhancing-bugs make games more competitive, I have told you this already. Look at 1.6, look at Melee. Both prove that the simpler game is infact competitively superior to the current games such as CS:S, CS:GO, and SSB:Brawl, and the next SSB game to come out next year.
What is there to say? ur a brick wall, go play CS:S because you want games that are simply strafing games, no nature of complexity.

(look at cs:s's scene and tell me the how it could possibly match 1.6's competitiveness today. Because you just said CS:S>1.6. same kind of scene? cs:s is dead, LOOK at all the scams dude. CGS, etc etc, nothing but greedy people ruining a failure CS:S game, while the steady 1.6, I have nothing else to say. and look at SSB Brawl, awful competitive scene, any kid can be the best because there is nothing to get better at.)

No skills, bad game. CSS, CS:GO, ssbBrawl.

Lots of skills, successful competitive game. SSBMelee, CS 1.6.
Facts, not speculation.
Ur the one who thinks a bug should be annihilated from the face of a game just because it was an accident. Some mistakes improve the atmosphere of the competitive part of the game. Think about it. Side with the Valve employees who are greedy? go ahead.
2012-06-10 20:27:55
Did you snap or something?

I used to play 1.6, but you are sitting there justifying that these "bugs" make the game better, yeah that's because you probably didn't remember the original outrage at the bugs in the first place.

The bugs became ACCEPTED by the community, that is the major difference, this is where the game managed to get that extra skill. Note the use of the word "extra".

Counter Strike in general is a much more skill based game than other FPS titles, however that doesn't automatically mean those bugs were there to be used in such a way?

The fact that you think CS:S has no "skill" to it is unbelieveably naive, and the same to say about CS:GO.

What your point is, that any game without any of those bugs is not as "complex" in skills. The stupid thing is, most games have similar like bugs to master which eventually become part of the game, new players or players of a different game, may not know these bugs, and get caught out.

"Lots of skills, successful competitive game"... I'm not so sure about that. The reason why Counter Strike is so successful is because of the basic core elements to the game, ie standard guns, standard maps, 2 sides, and no massive advantages like games Call Of Duty/Team Fortress 2 have. Please note the use of "basic".
2012-06-11 00:12:43
cs:s, strafing is the only way to peek.
nothing more to say.
2012-06-12 18:38:09
lol... please understand Source better. Interp is the reason for a peak advantage.
2012-06-13 00:23:59
peek* and what I mean is there is no jumping to dodge bullets/ways to peek out of a corner such that 1.6 had (which obviously I hope you get out of this, more ways to peek means players can become better than just react and shoot out of corners).

Post edited 2012-06-15 06:24:01
2012-06-15 06:23:01
actually noone had a problem with his cs career before 2007 (the year that duck jumping was implemented officially)
2012-06-09 02:18:19
They should make dual baretta's fire with both right and leftclick so you could decide which gun you would use, lolz :D
2012-06-08 19:19:42
Ideas like yours maybe is the reason they just give a fuck about players feedback here.
2012-06-08 19:22:01
chet i just wanna liek say ty to you.. i mean i play on ps3 and it's really hard for people like me (hardcock FPS FANS) to play your game if it would been only pc. i love ps3, i mean those moments in CALL OF DUTY, noobtuubing, 4 feet knifing, ninja pro are so much fun. Thanx for releasing them to countering-strike, i owe you a big hug!
2012-06-08 19:44:30
I think GO project is comming really cool. Lets just get involved and help it development.
2012-06-08 19:53:06
I don't like his explanation on the effects of OpenGL and D3D on games and their competitiveness. His only reasoning is that it's 'just different'. Not better or worse, just 'different'. Get real...
2012-06-08 19:53:33
CS is not a console game...1.6 does not wnat a fucking console game !!
Get real you ignorant "developers"!

Post edited 2012-06-08 20:03:41
2012-06-08 20:03:12
CS:GO - Maps Suck , Guns Suck , Movement ultra suck ... why to switch CS:GO with CS 1.6 i think they need to invest money in CS 1.6 and make 1.6 a little better .. i think CS 1.6 need just a better graphic ... VALVE need to listen more to 1.6.. CS 1.6 players in CPH Games showed that they are better than the CS:S players [1.SK Gaming , 2.ESC Gaming]....
2012-06-08 20:12:05
by: tHm - <3 tHm
#77
But the Source teams was not the best Source teams, while it was the absolute top of CS 1.6 teams.
2012-06-08 22:49:22
interesting//
2012-06-08 20:18:22
by: Haco
#53
CS:GO failgame
2012-06-08 20:39:39
Hello Source 2.0
2012-06-08 20:59:06
console kiddies will luv it...but the game itself sucks.
2012-06-08 21:08:29
when ppl starts playing this game, everyone here will love it xD

f0rest: "will move to cs:go"

next day hltv.org topics "cs:go best game ever", "cs:go is here", "bye 1.6"

just wait
2012-06-08 21:19:29
never , ill rether play dota2 then this , and 90% of gamers 2 ... GL to COD players they will be very happy with that change :)
2012-06-08 21:45:33
You haven't even tried the finished version?! Christ...
2012-06-08 22:05:41
dont even want to ... COD MODERN WARFIRE is out if i want that kind of games :D
2012-06-11 08:14:02
good job representing yourself as 90% of gamers, have fun with dota2
2012-06-10 15:04:37
Let CS go. :trf:
2012-06-08 22:46:04
Looking forward to the game :)
2012-06-08 23:41:09
15$ is a very cheap price for a new game.
Not that i want to overpay for the game, that, for one thing, has most of it's maps pretty much ported from it's predecessor, but i'm not sure if it's a good or a bad sign.
2012-06-09 00:52:26
This is obviously going to go the exact same way as source. People will try play it and say how horrible and noob friendly it is and continue playing 1.6 hoping they finally get it right with CS2 after failing with (cs:cz, cs:source, cs:go)
2012-06-09 01:58:06
i'm stunned with the general iq of cs community users...below average. You just log in to say "fuck source, fuck go , 1.6 for life while most of you aren't even good enough for public servers and you don't have the basic knowledge of the game. this guy said that we wont touch the other two gaming communities we're just try to make a game that is somewhere in the middle between 1.6 and source. Noone is killing 1.6 and noone said that go will be more 1.6ish. Valve is a company and they want to make money so they make a new game that is based on general counter-strike and it will target for a bigger group of players at all game formats (ps3,xbox360,pc) . thats all 1.6 isnt going to die because valve releases a new game but as it seems none of you has the basic critical ability to understand it :)
2012-06-09 02:25:42
well the point is, is what will be held at major gaming tournies? csgo? or 1.6?
that's what everyone is wondering about. whatever is in the tournies, is where people will follow...
2012-06-09 05:27:53
this is something that has to do with gaming organizations and gaming companies that organize tournament, not with valve. Community cant be afraid that they will lose cs 1.6 everytime a new game goes mainstream and competitive.
2012-06-09 12:14:18
If you had the best video card to sell which game would you choose to support Crysis 2 or Tetris?

Post edited 2012-06-10 07:30:39
2012-06-10 07:29:13
crysis ofc..but as i said noone should blame valve, this has to do with organizations like wcg,eswc etc. and you shouldnt expect from nvidia to support 1.6 at 2012 , i wouldn't personally
2012-06-10 11:01:18
by: nSo~
#87
are the specs needed for cs:go released yet? im definitely gonna need to update my gfx card, my good one died and i get 60fps in 3 smokes on 640 rofl
2012-06-09 02:46:34
Not Yet, but they do need high specs, My poor pc couldnt support cs go :(
2012-06-10 15:10:24
Why is the guy interviewing such a douche. God damn, give me an interview with Chet and I'll ask proper questions.

Chet: 'I'd cover that hair up'

Best line of the interview.

Post edited 2012-06-09 05:20:56
2012-06-09 05:10:31
Chet, dude I know you love FPS and stuff, but you have to see all you are doing here is killing 1.6

Even though you are saying that this is a completely new game and it won't change a thing about 1.6 but it will accelerate death of CS as we know it and come to love over the years.

Sponsors will obviously move onto new and graphically attractive games and put money in those games only thus killing old legends like 1.6 due to lack any kind of incentive take up 1.6 professionally. While this little game of yours will make you some initial money and die out just like Source did.
But what do you care you guys will get your investment back anyways.




2012-06-09 14:10:43
you obviously dont have a company do you?? you need to stay competitive in the market if you want to be successful. 1.6 is as 13 years old game they wont support it. and if i had a gaming company i wouldnt either. They could just close all the servers (like they did with 1.5) and every player in the world could play only cs:go but they didnt thats why cs isnt going to die. also you should not expect cs go to attract the companies crysis cod bf will do the job just fine :)
2012-06-10 11:06:19
by: 851 - <3 mSx
#99
CS 1.6 < CS:GO < CS:S
csgoftw
2012-06-10 08:24:50
I could rave to this music
2012-06-10 20:28:33
1.6 simple the game is really n1>>but if u have car 12-13 years old what u gonna do.
end of story HF HF HF
2012-06-11 00:24:29
is this the update?? im looking forward for it... loved source and this one will be even better..
2012-06-11 00:25:09
why is this guy always sweating everytime he gives an interview
2012-06-14 01:52:05
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