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[GUIDE] Counter Strike Guides / Playbooks

sto0ka's mega-bundle of pro-team CS 1.6 strats and playbooks — dead links, reuploads, and the classic 'unhide' chorus.

A 2009 guide thread in the Counter-Strike 1.6 Guides subforum where member sto0oka compiled pro-scene team strategies and playbooks (Fnatic, SK-Gaming, NiP, Team 3D, MouseSports, and others), plus an AWP guide, a mouse guide, and a CS:S strat book, all bundled behind a hidden-content download link. The thread follows the typical era format: dozens of low-effort 'thanks'/'unhide' replies to unlock the hidden download, a dead link that had to be reuploaded (160MB), and one skeptical veteran calling out that the content was just recycled stuff sold elsewhere for a dollar. Mostly a low-drama resource thread, notable mainly as a time capsule of competitive CS 1.6 culture and forum download-unlock etiquette.

These are the same things kids try to sell you on keyhunt for a dollar a piece.— vermiLLion

Yeah but link is death , give me some time to reupload— sto0ka

[Tutorial] How to install material hacks! (CS:S Guides)

A five-line drag-and-drop guide that racked up nineteen pages of 'thnx' and 'unhide' spam

Long-time member Poppins posted a quick, casual tutorial on installing 'material hacks' for Counter-Strike: Source, essentially explaining how to drop a hacked materials folder into the game directory. The thread quickly became a low-effort reply farm typical of guide sections back then, with dozens of members chiming in with 'thnx', 'unhide', and other one-liners just to unlock the hidden download or bump their post count. A brief bit of banter broke out between Poppins and forum regular Afteryou over a sarcastic thank-you, and someone asked the inevitable 'is this undetectable?' question, getting a classic hedge of an answer. The page also carries a banner ad for 'Project-Win' private CSS hacks, a nod to the era's cheat-selling side economy.

yes totally undetectable! well unless you make it obvious.— Poppins

I was being sarcastic don't mind me but nice thx— Afteryou

Un detectable right?— goodman84

How to Lag NoobGalore Servers (CS:S Griefing Bind)

A bind, a spam script, and one rival server community's bad day.

User 'rape' posted a simple CS:S bind/script guide designed to flood chat and cause lag on NoobGalore.us servers, framed as a prank/griefing tool rather than a hack. The thread got the usual round of hidden-content 'unhide'/'ty' replies typical of guide sections, with a couple of members noting the servers were just bad anyway. A banned old member, -Darkness-, chimed in to point out the trick was leeched from another site ('p7') and was already old news by the time it was posted here.

leeched from p7. Old news :) Thanks for posting it up here though.— -Darkness-

ty i hate them fags— QuaXz

they have bad servers— bolton55

Improving Your Counter Strike Skills — the classic hide-tag CS:S guide

A tongue-in-cheek CS:S skills guide that mostly just became an excuse for a chorus of 'unhide pl0x'

ZoaQ, a long-time 'Last Stand' ranked member, posted a joking-but-earnest guide to getting better at Counter-Strike: Source — covering not dying, landing headshots, teamplay, and smart weapon buys, all wrapped in mock-serious humor about 'TOOL' (Terminally Owned Operating Lethargy). The actual content was hidden behind a spoiler tag, so the reply thread is almost entirely members begging to 'unhide' it rather than discussing the tips themselves. It's a snapshot of the classic hide-tag guide format that drove engagement on the forum, with a light background hum of the site's Project-Win hack advertisement and its usual mix of Members, VIPs, and a couple of already-banned posters chiming in.

Terminally Owned Operating Lethargy (TOOL)— ZoaQ

UNHIDE MOTHAFUCKA— franswa122

Im allready pro:D But lets look— ThePirate

Lethal's CS Training Guide (Vol. 1)

A pro CAL-Invite player's old CS training guide gets posted... and immediately buried under offer-wall complaints.

This thread in the Guides section shared 'Lethal's' Volume 1 CS Guide, a competitive Counter-Strike training resource originally written in 2005 by a player with CAL-Invite/CPL and Complexity (COTA) background, covering movement, aim, strategy, and team advice. The poster mortertas shared it as a download, but replies quickly devolved into typical download-link gripes, with users complaining the offer/survey links didn't work and asking for a reupload. A pretty mundane guide-sharing thread that captures the era's reliance on offer-wall downloads and short, low-effort forum replies.

this shit rly works for me but ill give it a try and scan it guys lACK OF WORKING TRYED THIS LIKE 10TIMES— viper107

reupload to new site please since i do one quiz and it says 1% is completed so how many quizes are there to do....— destruction

De_Aztec Wall Glitch Tutorial

An old-school CS:S map glitch tutorial that mostly turned into a wall of 'unhide' replies

xXHeistXx posted a guide in the CS:S Guides subforum explaining a movement glitch on de_aztec that let players reach an invisible ledge along a wall by the terrorist-side water ramp, with screenshots included in a hidden quote box. The replies are the classic hidden-content ritual of that era: mostly one-word posts like 'unhide,' 'ty,' 'kool,' and 'cool' from members trying to unlock the hidden images, plus a couple of side comments about it not really working for them. It's a small, low-drama slice of the CS:S guide culture that was common on fkn0wned at the time.

you can get to a spot where nobody would expect you to be. You probably won't win any games camping up there, but it can be fun to surprise the other team.— xXHeistXx

wtf i still cant see it : >— Rock Superstar

MW2 Guide: PS3 Leaderboard Hack (posted by PopTart)

The thread where fkn0wned's Warez King dropped a link promising to rig the MW2 leaderboards on PS3.

A short guides-board post from December 2009 in which longtime staff member PopTart shared a third-party video and download claiming to let PS3 players manipulate the Modern Warfare 2 leaderboards. PopTart was careful to note the video wasn't their own work and included a VirusTotal scan link, a small nod to the community's usual caution around sketchy downloads. It's a snapshot of the era's console-hacking guide culture, sitting alongside random sidebar clutter like a bodybuilding supplement giveaway ad.

NOTE* This video was not made by me!— PopTart

Copy-Pasted Steam Social-Engineering Script from StickPage

The old fake-Steam-support script that half the forum copy-pasted straight off StickPage.

In this Guides subforum thread from September 2009, member Prisonerofwar posted a lifted script (openly linked back to a StickPage forum post) describing a social-engineering routine for tricking Steam users into handing over CD keys or login info by posing as Steam support investigating a 'stolen account' dispute. The reply thread is mostly low-effort forum filler: people saying thanks, asking for the text to be unhidden, demanding 'proof' or screenshots, and a few dismissive replies noting the trick was old and that keyloggers or phishing pages were the 'better' route. It's a fairly unremarkable, of-its-era relic of cheat/scene forum culture — copy-pasted 'skid' content dressed up as an original guide, with the community reacting the way these threads usually did.

lol there are so many of these, its better to get a keylogger or a phishing site.— parkie

this better be funny or im reporting you— jonneh28

So they will either give you the account after some questions that you answer *KIND OF* honestly.— Prisonerofwar