Classic Offensive is a CS:GO mod with the goal of bringing back the community aspects and aesthetics of CS.

For now, you can only play the outdated beta version that has been published on ModDB.

This version is abandoned, there are no servers for it.

Since the last public release, a lot of progress has been made and a lot of new features have been added to the mod.

The definitive version of Classic Offensive is set to release on Steam sometime soon... Maybe...

Valve, please...

#ReviewClassicOffensive #ReleaseClassicOffensive

Official statement 01/11/2025:

"Dear Counter-Strike community,

Since we've submitted our build to Steamworks, we've received an automated Steam Support message about having retired our app without any reason explained. This is devastating as we've worked on the project for almost 8 years now.

We do not understand what happened, we went through Steam Greenlight back in 2017, talked to legal to know if this was possible for us to release on Steam. We even discussed with some of the developers on different Valve projects, and they have been very cooperative in helping us figure out the means of release back then. After some requested legal changes due to the usage of Valve's IP, we were off on a good start, our mod page was created on Steamworks, things were looking promising and the team was extremely motivated.

Steamworks had requested that we finish the build before being able to release, and now that we did, we are unable to publish it.

The project has been sticking to the guidelines on how to release a mod on Steam, we've followed the requirements and recommendations to the letter, no leaked code was used, or illegal actions were taken for those wondering, we've played by their ruled the whole time, sometimes even to the detriment of the quality of the mod:

Distributing Source Engine Games / Mods

Nobody at Valve told us to stop what we were doing during all those years, no sort of formal request, yet this feels like an even worse form of Cease and Desist at this point. Many people at Valve are aware of our and many other projects, yet have refused to communicate since late 2020. We feel like we were treated unfairly, and have been blinded by our own passion for the game, as many other projects did before.

We now feel required to tell any modding team related to Valve projects to reconsider what they're doing if their sole way of releasing is through Steam, especially multiplayer mods, as they will probably get rejected the way we did. We do not think our case is an isolated one at all.

Moving forward, we'll try to get in contact with Valve employees, even companies related to Counter-Strike in general to try get things moving in the right direction, in the hope this issue can be resolved.

Sincerely,

The entire Classic Offensive team."

For daily Classic Offensive news go to playk8 - Classic Offensive News YouTube channel.

ModDB Beta version installation:

1) Download "csgo_legacy" from CS2 beta branches.

2) Download Classic Offensive Beta 1.2.5c and 1.2.5d Patch.

3) Put the files inside "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Counter-Strike Global Offensive\".

4) Add "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Counter-Strike Global Offensive\csgo.exe" as a Non-Steam game.

5) Add "-steam -game cscomod/csgo" to the launch options.