Man my heart is so full writing this. I had to physically stop myself from playing this game when the Battle Pass ended because I felt the middle schooler in me coming out daily when I got home from work to hop into my daily Deathmatch server and talk shit with complete Randoms for hours on end. I don't need to reiterate what I already said about 1.6 here but I'll start out by saying I really never thought that this game was for me, fuck it's over 10 years old and it just clicked with me fully. Everything great about 1.6 and source are here with just more love and structure and while it let me regress it's also a game I felt aged properly with me. There isn't just porn sprays and copy written wav files blasting in my ears. Now you have to pay for skins and pay for much worse copy written music but while that sounds like I'm speaking negatively it feels like it's the only way this can exist on such a huge scale and still have it's charm. I would catch myself at work looking at videos on throwing the perfect nade on every map and spending hours learning the recoil on every gun and I just remembered why I fell in love with counter stike in the first place. It is the best part of every shooter that came before and after it. You don't need leveling up guns and getting attachments. You learn to love what they give you and use it to your best ability. Everyone is on an even playing field and if you die it's your fault and you better get better or you will die again. This review sucks but this game fucking rules.