All posts by Elite Abyssal

• This is not a change that has to immediately take place, but hear me out on this one. A lot of people consider Counter-Strike: Xbox to be a "mere" port of the original Counter-Strike to Microsoft's first console, others consider just an unworthy hybrid that stands between Counter-Strike (1.6) and Condition Zero. Though there's no denying that the game was in fact released before Condition Zero, has exclusive maps, was the first game to officially incorporate bots and have its own beta among other things. Needless to say, the game does deserve to considered a title on its own and not just a mere expansion of the original Counter-Strike.
• I thought about reworking the main page buttons so that they fit the latest title of the franchise (Global Offensive). All of these have been taken from Counter-Strike games, game files and covers, none outside of it: http://puu.sh/l9WRG/199e9b4642.jpg (Picture link)
• You may have noticed there's a lot of buttons in there for quite the content. As the Counter-Strike Wiki, our duty's cover anything related to the franchise, which means even unused content, interviews, glitches, lore and detail universe topics must be included. Gameplay has always been a priority, but the Wiki has to be simple more than just a simple game guide. Getting back to the main page, here is my idea for the button layout: http://puu.sh/la0ow/1511515267.png

Tell me if you agree or disagree with me.

Currently uploading soundtracks, but they will be more. That still means additional work. The channel control is accessible to admins.

Now, with time, we've been discovering a lot more cut content for the franchise. Counter-Strike is wildly known for its game play. Lore hasn't played a major role in it and has only been added in increments through the latest operations. But there's an element of the series that's as rich as the lore itself, not to say more: It's how the games themselves were made and the story behind each of them, and Counter-Strike is extremely big on it.

Unfortunately, we're going to have to face the reality of things: nowadays, the Counter-Strike fan base is mainly focused on Global Offensive. The older games are not entirely dead but they're not as shining as they were (again, not entirely).

Our to-do list with cut content has massively increased and the task is not going to be any easier as it involves contacting big corporations that are extremely busy and/or have cut support for the games and content in question. Or sometimes ask for content that is no longer available, publicly or no longer exists.

The list: -Contact Gearbox Software CEO Randy Pitchford and request the playable version of their Condition Zero build (preferably with development notes and concepts) -Contact Valve Software and request support on the previous request while also requesting the models, textures, sounds or even playable versions of the Alpha version of CS:GO (PAX 2011 version included) -Contact Microsoft and request all the content related to the XBOX Counter-Strile's website along with videos and the playable version of the beta version of said game. -Get a hand on Rogue Entertainment's work on the series as no publications were ever made of it.

As you can see, these are extremely hard tasks and may require a lot more contributor and reader support than we are getting. For those who are reading or read this, help us.

Co-creator of the series, Jess Cliffe, still working at Valve, may be our best chance at getting support from the company that owns the franchise and hoping that he may be willing to give it or even pay attention to us.

We could even go as far as demanding Valve to move away from Wikia and make an official Counter-Strike Wiki, but that's another topic.

Thank you for reading this and I hope to hear from anyone.

After countless hours of work, a funeral, a missed plane ticket, a back surgery and other incidents, my work on Counter-Strike: Xbox has been met with significant progress. Here's a report that discets the game piece by piece, showing many differences with it and the PC games. This does not include a comparison of each map with its Condition Zero version, though it does show many differences.

http://www.mediafire.com/view/fdp3rio57qiixrw/CSX.docx

Do note this is not the final version and feedback/corrections may be and are necessary. In the meantime, I will get back to contributing to the wiki.

As our readers and contributors may have noticed. Our coverage of cut content and old content as well as port content has significantly increased over the past few years. More work has to be done and is in fact in progress when it comes to articles in general, though the following topic goes over that.

Recently we have been able to reacquire several builds of each game in the Counter-Strike franchise and started dissecting each of them for information. These include: -The Betas of the original Counter-Strike (Half-Life mod) -The pre-alpha (2003 Leak) build of Counter-Strike: Source -The 2004 Steam Beta of Counter-Strike: Source -The 2011 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Beta -The 2012 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Beta -The North American version of Counter-Strike Xbox.

Several problems have been however slowing our progress down when it came to content coverage: -The leaked CSS Build features several broken models that cannot be opened with HL2 Beta and that require modelling expertise. -The 2011 and 2012 CS:GO models are somewhat incompatible with the current model viewer, specifically viewmodels, modelling expertise is needed. -The Xbox version of Counter-Strike uses a version of the GoldSrc engine that was specifically made it for it and the Xbox which leads to several other issues. Models and textures are hard to extract and are in formats that require developer software. We couldn't come across the Counter-Strike Xbox Modding Tools developed by fans as most threads containing have been removed. Some tools are spread across the internet though the whole set cannot be currently found. Some uploaders have been emailed, but none answered so far. Obtaining former Ritual employee's help that worked on the project through contact or petitions would help us even better.

Some other things we haven't acquired at all: -Rogue Entertainment's Condition Zero build. We have virtually no information about it not to say no proof of its existence. -Gearbox's Condition Zero build. Footage of it has been made and Randy Pitchford did talk about it with footage of it being shown and that includes a LOT of cut content. Contacting Pitchford and begging him or making a petition to release the build to the public is our only hope of acquiring it, if it is still shelved somewhere in Gearbox's Headquarters or archives that is. Acquiring Valve's support on this side would make it a even better. -Counter-Strike: Global Offensive PAX 2011 Alpha builds (console and PC versions). That might reveal a lot of information or just tell us how slightly different the game was. A certain significant build nonethelss. Valve is quite reluctant on releasing unfinished, old, beta content, especially after the 2003 Half-Life 2 Leak. Contacting Gabe Newell through mail or petition could help us out.

For the sake of the Wiki, for the sake of knowledge. Approve of this and help us.