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Money is a major gameplay mechanic featured in the Counter-Strike series. In most game modes, players use money to buy various weapons and equipment from the buy menu in the buy zone.

Overview

Players start out a match with a specified amount, and will receive more as the match goes on, with the maximum amount a player can have set to $16000. Players receive money for completing rounds, with more money awarded for winning a round. On servers that use plugins to give players large cash reserves, money management is less important than in servers that do not artificially adjust them.

When looking at a player's saved loadouts on the buy menu, any loadout that cannot be fully-purchased with the player's current cash reserve will be slightly grayed-out, as will specific weapons and items in the categories of equipment. Often times, players may be forced to pick a different weapon selection than they prefer due to monetary limitations.

The amount of money the player owns is retained between rounds, and is only lost when the player buys equipment or incurs a penalty.

In most games and Global Offensive Competitive, the default starting money for a game is $800. In Global Offensive Casual, the default starting money for a game is $1000. Additionally, at the start of the warmup, players will have their money set to the money cap of the game mode.

The money system has been slightly updated in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive to award differing reward amounts for getting kills with certain weapons and currently any money gain/loss is noted above the player's health in the HUD with text notifying what the change was for (such as "$300 awarded for planting the C4" or "$300 awarded for neutralizing an enemy with the M4A4"). In addition, if playing a Casual Mode game, all money awards for kills are halved.

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Rewards

Kill reward

  • In all modes, killing an enemy player rewards $300 to the killer.

Objective rewards

  • In Hostage Rescue, Interacting with a hostage as a Counter-Terrorist rewards $150 to the player, but only the first time they interact with that specific hostage.
  • Rescuing a hostage as a Counter-Terrorist rewards $1000.

Round end rewards

  • In Bomb Defusal, the winning team receives $3250 if they won by eliminating the enemy team.
  • In Bomb Defusal, all Counter-Terrorists receive $3250 if they won running down the time.
  • In Bomb Defusal, all Terrorists receive $3500 if they won by detonating the bomb.
  • In Hostage Rescue, the winning team receives $3600 if they won by eliminating the enemy team.
  • In Assassination, all Terrorists receive a $2500 reward if they won by killing the VIP.
  • In Assassination, all Counter-Terrorists receive a $2500 reward if they won by successfully guaranteeing the escape of the VIP.
  • The losing team receives:
    • $1400 after losing the first round
    • $1900 after losing 2 rounds in a row
    • $2400 after losing 3 rounds in a row
    • $2900 after losing 4 rounds in a row
    • $3400 after losing 5 or more rounds in a row
  • If the team that wins two consecutive rounds beforehand loses then they receive:
    • $1500 after losing the first round
    • $2000 after losing 2 rounds in a row
    • $2500 after losing 3 rounds in a row
    • $3000 after losing 4 or more rounds in a row

After the condition of a team winning two consecutive rounds is satisfied then the loss bonus money changes to above where their first loss means they receive $1500 and not $1400.

  • In Bomb Defusal, if Terrorists were able to plant the bomb but lose the round, all Terrorists receive an $800 bonus.
  • In Hostage Rescue, all Counter-Terrorists receive an $850 bonus for every hostage they rescue, even if they lose the round.

Penalties

  • Every time the player injures a hostage the player will receive a -$150 penalty
  • Killing a hostage will result in a penalty of -$1500
  • Teamkilling will result in a penalty of -$3300, including killing the VIP as a CT

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

All information below only applies to Classic Modes (Casual and Competitive) as Arsenal and Deathmatch do not use money. The Money cap in Casual Mode has been changed to $10000 as opposed to $16000 in Competitive.

Rewards

Kill rewards

Weapon/Equipment Casual Competitive
Knife $750 $1500
Pistol $150 $300
- CZ75-Auto* $50 $100
Submachine gun $300 $600
- P90* $150 $300
Shotgun $450 $900
Rifle & Machine gun $150 $300
- AWP* $50 $100
Grenade $100 $300
Zeus x27 $0 $0
* indicates exceptions.

Objective rewards

  • In Bomb Defusal, defusing or planting the bomb awards a $300 bonus for the player that defused / planted.
  • In Competitive Hostage Rescue, all Counter-Terrorists receive a $600 reward for picking up a hostage.
  • In Competitive Hostage Rescue, all Counter-Terrorists receive a $600 reward for rescuing a hostage.
  • In Casual Hostage Rescue, all Counter-Terrorists receive a $500 reward for picking up a hostage.
  • In Hostage Rescue, the player who picks up the hostage receives a $300 bonus.
  • In Hostage Rescue, the player who rescues the hostage receives a $1000 bonus.

Round end rewards

Objective Competitive Casual Wingman
Winning By Team Elimination (Bomb Defusal) $3250 $2700 $2750
Winning By Team Elimination (Hostage Rescue) $3000 $2000 for T or $2300 for CT
Winning By Time Win (Bomb Defusal, CT) $3250 $2700
Winning By Time Win (Hostage Rescue, T) $3250 $2000
Winning By Bomb Defusal (CT) $3500 $2700 $3000
Winning By Bomb Detonation (T) $3500 $2700
Winning By Hostage Rescue (CT) $2900 $3000
Losing 1 Round $1400 + $800 if bomb planted as T $2400 + $200 if bomb planted as T $2000 + $800 if bomb planted as T
Losing 2 Rounds In A Row $1900 + $800 if bomb planted as T $2300 + $800 if bomb planted as T
Losing 3 Rounds In A Row $2400 + $800 if bomb planted as T $2600 + $800 if bomb planted as T
Losing 4 Rounds In A Row $2900 + $800 if bomb planted as T $2900 + $800 if bomb planted as T
Losing 5+ Rounds In A Row $3400 + $800 if bomb planted as T

Penalties

  • When the player injures hostages, the player will receive a -$30 penalty for every point of damage dealt to the hostage.
  • In competitive mode, teamkilling will result in a penalty of -$300.
  • To discourage "denying" (prevent the enemy from getting a kill award by committing suicide), players who committed suicide or disconnected mid-game will cause an enemy player to receive compensation equal to the kill award that could have been gained.[1]
  • In Bomb Defusal, surviving Terrorists will not receive any round-end money if the round is lost by running out of time.

Other

Csgosdk game money entity

game_money entity from CS GO SDK.

  • Custom maps can reward or penalize the player by inserting game_money entity on the map.
    • The entity also allows map developers create custom text awards like "$XXX: [custom text here]" (Game icon 730 only)

Achievements

Special
War Bonds css War Bonds
Earn $125,000 total cash.
Spoils of War css Spoils of War
Earn $2,500,000 total cash.
Blood Money css Blood Money
Earn $50,000,000 total cash.
The Frugal Beret css The Frugal Beret
Win 10 rounds without dying and not spending any cash.

Team Tactics
War Bonds csgo War Bonds
Earn $50,000 total cash.
Spoils of War csgo Spoils of War
Earn $2,500,000 total cash.
Blood Money csgo Blood Money
Earn $50,000,000 total cash.
The Frugal Beret csgo The Frugal Beret
Win ten rounds without dying or spending any cash in Classic mode.

Trivia

  • The currency used in all of the Counter-Strike games is the U.S. Dollar.
  • In some maps (especially in the beta), money can be seen as (unobtainable) props.
  • The money cap of $16000 can be exceeded with customization of a server.

References

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