Valve have returned to the most popular “Shooting people in the head” simulator since CIA Assassination Camp ’63, adding achievements and all sorts of player stats.  Particularly important are the new “lifetime achievements” screen, almost sarcastically accurate for people still complaining about camping.

But what would Counter-Strike be like if they’d been supporting it like Team Fortress 2?

FROM THE DESK OF GABE NEWELL:

When we decided to add our most important inventions of the past decade to Counter-Strike, we ran into a serious problem – the counter terrorists already have hats!  This shattered morale.  Many staff quit, or cried, or committed the final Valve option of “Hati-kiri“, pulling their hat down over their eyes so that they could no longer see and retiring from human existence.  What could possibly replicate the insane dedication displayed by hat-hunters have without accidentally including actual function?

(the remaining notes on the desk appear to be a termination notice, a government announcement that any company not currently producing food or post-dystopian leather gear was to be liquidated, and a crude attempts at fashioning small paper hats from food stamps.)

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