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The best CS:GO Community Game Modes

After countless hours of serious exertion in game modes like Competitive and Deathmatch, you get up from your seat... | 5. January 2022

After countless hours of serious exertion in game modes like Competitive and Deathmatch, you get up from your seat wondering why you’ve exhausted yourself so much. And yes. Sometimes, it’s better to just sit back and play CS:GO to relax and have fun, instead of breaking your head over how you got flying noscoped from Van. In honor of the true essence of Counter-Strike and its vast community, here are some of the best game modes introduced into CS Source and CS:GO.

Surf

One of the most famous custom game modes in the history of Counter-Strike, Surf maps use an interesting movement quirk. If a slope is steep enough, pressing the strafe button along it helps you move along the slope instead of slide down. This creates a highly interesting and relaxing game mode, which you can learn and chill out in your free time.

So how to play parkour-like surf maps in CS:GO? Here’s a short tutorial!

Here are some Surf maps for beginners for you to learn and chill out on:

  • surf_beginner
  • surf_mesa
  • surf_rookie
  • surf_forbidden_ways

Bunny Hop

This is another game mode that is basically an exploit of Counter-Strike’s movement. If you press jump just as when you hit the ground and use the correct strafe buttons, you can pull off a bunny hop which grants you high speeds that you wouldn’t normally be able to achieve. Though it was highly OP in CS Source, it was highly nerfed in CS:GO, but it’s still possible to pull off.

To consistently pull off a bunny hop, you’ll need to put in a fair amount of hours of practice. Here are some of the best beginner maps for you to get started. Here’s how to play bhop in CS:GO!

Though you can do it on any normal map, some of the following maps are a little modified so that bunny hops are more pronounced. Enjoy!

  • bhop_haarukka
  • bhop_japan
  • bhop_sqee
  • bhop_challenjour_v2
  • bhop_exodus

Climb

These are obstacle maps that are slower-paced. These require pixel-perfect jumps coupled with perfect air strafes to pull off a jump. Though there are simpler maps for it, most maps become increasingly difficult for beginners to play on. Nevertheless, climb maps are a very relaxing and fun game mode to play on. They’re something you should definitely check out.

Here are some of the climb maps for beginners that you can try:

  • kz_frozen_go
  • kz_nature_go
  • kz_redline
  • kz_colors
  • kz_summercliff2_go

Though these three game modes are a part of CS:GO, they are not CS:GO at all at the same time. Ditching the usual run and gun mindset, these game modes are a great change of pace and perspective for CS:GO players. It is proof of how important every single detail is under a computer program and how we can magnify every single detail and create an entirely new mini-game out of it.

climb

There sure are a few more highly interesting mini-games in CS:GO. Here are the most famous ones.

Prop Hunt

One of the most creative game modes to have graced CS:GO, Prop Hunt is my personal favorite mini-game to play with my friends. A player basically turns into a random object. The others have to find that object over the map and shoot it. Not only do you need fine aim to shoot a random object capable of moving and flying, you also need high levels of map knowledge to know that the random table in Apartments has 2 cups, not 3. And no, players cannot go around shooting every object on the map, because every time they miss a shot, they lose some health. Balanced and beautiful.

If you hadn’t heard of this gamemode before, I bet I’ve piqued your interest. So here’s a fun video of NaVi players playing Prop Hunt! Where else can you Bunny Hop as a cup like boomb14 does?

Zombie Mode

This is one of the OG custom game modes of Counter-Strike. I distinctly remember playing such fun mini-games as a child in 1.6 and Source. At the start, a random player would turn into a zombie, equipped with only a knife, but thousands of health. And then every player that the zombie knives becomes a zombie too, and so on. These days Zombie Escape modes are famous too.

It was super fun to play back in the day, and some servers still host these games. I wish we could see past eternal Deathmatch, though.

zombie

If you think that Hostage Rescue is a forgotten and abandoned gamemode, let me introduce you to VIP. This mode did not make it out of 1.6, but alongside Zombie, this is a mode I distinctly remember playing. There would basically be a mildly armed VIP amongst the CTs, and he has to make it to a checkpoint. A helicopter, on the map I used to play on. The other CTs have to defend him by putting their own lives at stake.

It was never meant for real competition. But it embodied the pure spirit of having fun in Counter-Strike. It never made a major debut in CS:GO. But how are the other game modes any different from VIP with the enclosed mindset we have about CS:GO today? So open up! Try new stuff, and enjoy as much as you can. I’ve been playing Counter-Strike since I was 5, and my best memories are formed not in a competitive environment, but playing minigames like Zombies and playing on maps like Rats and blahhh. Have fun!