Every official Counter-Strike 1.6 map ships with the server, so there is nothing to download. These are the ones people still load first. All of them are in the deploy picker, and you can switch between them mid-game with a single command.
Bomb Defusal (de_ maps)
- de_dust2: the most-played map in shooter history. Long A, the double doors, mid control. If in doubt, load this.
- de_inferno: tight chokes at banana and arch, all about smokes and map control. The thinking player’s map.
- de_nuke: two bombsites stacked vertically. It reads differently from every other map and rewards a team that knows the rotations.
- de_train: open sightlines between the train cars. An AWP map, and a patient one.
- de_dust: the original. Smaller and simpler than Dust2, still a great warm-up map.
- de_aztec: rainy ruins and the double-doors standoff. Pure nostalgia.
Hostage Rescue (cs_ maps)
- cs_assault: the warehouse siege, and the definitive hostage map. Ts camp the vents and roof, CTs break the stack. Endlessly replayable.
- cs_office: the snowy office block. Close-quarters fights and hostage escorts through the corridors.
- cs_italy: the market and the cellars. Chaotic, chicken-filled, and beloved.
- cs_militia: the house in the woods. Tight, dark, and tense room-to-room clears.
Loading a map
Pick any of these when you deploy, or switch on a running server from the console with rcon changelevel de_nuke. Custom maps (fy_, aim_, surf_) need a FastDL host to hand files to joining players, so on a stock server stick to the official pool above.
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