The least we can do is to bring Putin’s war crimes and Russian propaganda to light. The statement ends: “Russia's senseless aggression on Ukraine has killed tens of thousands of civilians, including children. However they did issue a joint statement about the work, emphasising their pride at being "involved in making such a map with a humanitarian purpose connected to the real world.” The map was created by two Counter-Strike map designers who understandably wish to remain anonymous. Finally it contains Helsingin Sanomat's best attempt to catalogue the number of Russians who have died in this war, which it currently estimates at 70,000. It also details the awful story of Yuriy Glodan in Odessa, whose entire family including his three month-old daughter were killed by a cruise missile while he was food shopping. The room contains accounts of the massacre in Bucha, where the Ukrainian government says at least 458 people died (though the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights estimates 73-128 people died). It all happened."Īccording to the paper, the Russian defence ministry through Russian state media instead circulated reports that the Ukrainian army was responsible for these atrocities in Bucha, and that all the Russian army had done was try to help the population. "Helsingin Sanomat’s reporter Petteri Tuohinen and photographer Kalle Koponen were in Bucha, north of Kyiv, when the cruelties of the Russian army were starting to come to light," reads the newspaper's own report on the project (contains graphic war photography). The room contains graphic descriptions of incidents in the war from on-the-ground reporters. It's not as if, back in the days of dropping leaflets from the skies, there was ever any way of knowing how many people read them: Just that some would.Īnd Helsingin Sonomat is as serious about the map's content as it gets. However, that is also the nature of journalism in a time of war: Propagandistic methods may be the only way to reach certain people with legitimate information, and the fact no one really knows how many Russians this will reach cuts both ways. It also seems inevitable that, should it acquire any traction, the Putin regime will notice and do what it does in terms of trying to limit Russian players' access. While this map contains serious journalism, there is an element of the PR stunt to the whole thing, not least in the slight wooliness Helsingin Sonomat seems to have about exactly how Counter-Strike servers work and how players will access this. The secret room built into the game is meant to force Russian gamers to face what's really going on in the war in Ukraine." While he was there, Russian troops killed his family with a missile strike. "One of the most touching stories in the secret room is about a Ukrainian man that went to the store. Go down to 'Counter Strike: Global Offensive SDK', click 'nextnextnextnext.finished' then once it's downloaded, double-click on it and choose 'Hammer World Editor'. "Ordinary Russians know practically nothing about the war crimes and atrocities toward civilians committed by the Russian army," said Mukka. To get into the editor, you go to the 'library' tab in Steam, click on 'all games', and choose 'tools'. And "Full Overhaul" maps will be rebuilt from the ground up with new geometry and features.Images and text in the map's secret room detail specific incidents and atrocities and statistics about the war including, per Helsingin Sanomat, "civilian casualties, human suffering, the mass murders committed by Russian troops and the amount of lives lost on the front." All the information is in both English and Russian. "Upgrade" maps use Valve's new Source 2 lighting, physically based rendering, and other modern features for notably improved graphics. "Touchstone" maps like Dust2 will keep the exact same geometry and features as their CS:GO counterparts but with some improvements to lighting or materials. Each map has received one of three levels of clearly defined updates. More than anything else, Counter-Strike 2 appears to be a significant technical overhaul of CS:GO.įor example, Valve will introduce improvements to lighting and other effects across the game's various maps. In fact, it will be free, and it's meant to replace CS:GO. There were three subsequent releases: Counter-Strike: Condition Zero and Counter-Strike Source in 2004, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in 2012.Ĭounter-Strike: Global Offensive (usually shortened to just " CS:GO") is currently the flagship Counter-Strike game, but that will change this summer.Ĭounter-Strike 2 by no means offers a fundamental change to the original game's design. It was acquired by Half-Life developer Valve Software and released as a commercial product in 2000. A hacker pouncedCounter-Strike began as a mod for Half-Life back in 1999. Further Reading Valve waited 15 months to patch high-severity flaw.
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