Counter Strike is an easy game when playing in your own PC with bots.But to play it online is a very different process and it may be very difficult for the newbies to understand.This post is for those who are confused of how to play Counter Strike online.I myself tried very very hard googling for exact information and watching YouTube videos when I was a newbie.So lets get started with this one!!
First of all,Why we have to play Online??
CounterStrike game is designed in such a way that bots uses AI techniques and play in only one dimensional play.They lack quick responses and thinking like Humans and are very predictable if you play regularly.So to get better gaming experience Online gaming is more preferred and popular.
How to play Online??
To play CounterStrike online we have 3 ways.They are using:
- Steam Servers.
- Garena.
- Hamachi.
Let us look at every way in detail now.
- STEAM SERVERS
- The first thing you need to do for this is to buy an original pack of Counter Strike from the nearest gaming Store.
- Then go to the site http://store.steampowered.com/ and install the Steam there.
- Once you installed the client,get an account and activate it by going into Settings and typing in your activation code which can be found under your CS pack.
- After that you are ready to play CS online.Just open the game,go to Find Servers.Select a server and start playing.If you dont have any servers you can go to Console by pressing ` button and start connecting to the server using IP address i.e.connect <Ip add>
- You can find the IP Adresses here .
- GARENA CLIENT
- Garena is an online gaming client which is used to play online games and which connects millions of gamers around the world.It supports various famous online games such as Call of Duty(CoD),Warcraft,Defense of The Ancients(DoTA),Age of Empires,Age of Mythology.You can download Garena client here .
- After downloading and installing,register in Garena and get an ID and a password and login.
- Now you are ready to start gaming in Garena,go to settings and setup the counterstrike.exe file.
- Go to your desired room and start playing.If you are from India then you can go to IndiaRoom 1,2,3.
- After starting the game,you can start playing by going into FindServers and selecting a server or goto the console by pressing ` and type SLIST you will get a series of servers with its IP adress.Type connect <IP ADD> and hit enter.
- HAMACHI CLIENT
- Hamachi is a software which creates a virtual LAN between the users.You can download it here .
- After installing and configuring Hamachi, create/join in a network and u are ready to play the game with your friend.
- Go to window and check the box show advanced options .
- Then right click on the players name and click on advanced.
- If you are the host , you can see your friends Hamachi IP in the Peer VPN Address and below you can see Peer VPN Alias.Set the alias IP in such a way that first 3 numbers of the IP is yours and the last number is a unique number.i.e; If your Hamachi ID is 5.1.2.3 and your friends Hamachi ID is 5.4.6.7 then your Peer VPN Alias is 5.1.2.(any number),ex:5.1.2.10.If you are playing with more than one mone of your friends set your Alias in a sequence i.e,set the Alias as 5.1.2.11 , 5.1.2.12 , etc;
- In this way you can continue to set the Alias for all your friends.
- Now,everything is set to start a Counter Strike game.
- Open the game and go to New Game,De-Select the Bots option.(You can also set a server by going into hlds.exe which is situated in the counterstrike folder).Now you have created a server and ready to play.
- On the clients side,tell them to go to console and type connect <ur Hamachi IP>.
That must do it!!So we saw all the possible ways to play CounterStrike online.Even though there is another Non-Steam procedure to play CS.I didnt mention it as I never tried it!! :D
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