We hope you have all been enjoying the first week of CSPromod Beta 1.04's public release. Over the past six days, we have been receiving encouraging and useful feedback from many areas of eSports, including community members, professional players, leagues, and broadcasters. We've already begun work on 1.05, as that's the next big milestone for this project.

CSPromod Beta 1.04 has obviously been a very hot topic of conversation this week, as many individuals have questions and comments on where CSP is right now, and where it can, should, and shouldn't go. This Sunday (tomorrow) on Live on Three, the pro gaming broadcast brought to you by djWHEAT, SirScoots, and Slasher, CSP's Project Manager Alex Garfield will be coming on air to discuss CSPromod and field questions from live call-ins. Make sure you tune and call in, and don't miss what will certainly be an in-depth and passionate discussion.

Here's Live on Three's official press release: "After one week of public release for CSPromod, including reactions from the pro-player community in both 1.6 and Source, along with the media's thoughts, Project Manager Alex Garfield will be a guest on Live on Three this Sunday at 4PM EST/22:00 CET. We will be talking about how the release has gone thus far, and if things have gone as expected, better, or worse, his reactions to the player and media statements, more information and hopefully a general release date for 1.05, and what the plan is for CSPromod for the future of the Counter-Strike community."

Live on Three airs this Sunday (tomorrow), February 7th, at 4PM EST/22:00 CET, at http://www.djWHEAT.tv

Perhaps the hottest topic of discussion with regards to CSP Beta 1.04 has been a feature that's actually not in 1.04 - the upcoming model and animation fixes to be released in Beta 1.05. Many have said that they just don't know how to judge the feel of CSPromod with the Source models in there, and have been asking where exactly we are in the process of implementing the new models and animations.

Well, thanks to our brilliant animator Matt "mazzer" Maslen, we're able to give everyone a window into our progress with the new 1.6-style models and animations. Take a look at the video - we feel that it speaks for itself, and we hope that everyone likes the progress so far!

Enjoy.

I'd like to thank CSP's amazing dev team for all of their hard work.

-Alex

Hi Everyone,



Several weeks ago, our friends at Cadred.org released a news post offering their community members the opportunity to submit some questions about CSPromod, under the premise that the best queries would be sent off to me (CSP's Project Director) and subsequently answered. Now, on the eve of our release, we're pleased to announce that Cadred has published an article containing my answers to some of those select questions. Make sure to check it out, and we hope to see you tomorrow when we release CSP Beta 1.04!

Sincerely,

Alex Garfield
Project Director, CSPromod

As we quickly approach the public release of CSPromod Beta 1.04 coming up on Sunday, the CSP Dev Team is pleased to announce two CSPromod Spotlight Videos, highlighting some of Beta 1.04's exciting new features. The videos, which focus on the game's new Heads-Up Display and Options Tab designed by Art Director Ludovic "alba" Slangen, are narrated by Project Director Alex "chibsquad" Garfield, and can be viewed at the links below.

CSPromod Beta 1.04 Spotlight Video: Heads-Up Display
CSPromod Beta 1.04 Spotlight Video: Options Tab (Part 1)
CSPromod Beta 1.04 Spotlight Video: Options Tab (Part 2)

Thanks very much to Live on 3 Executive Producer Scott "SirScoots" Smith and CSP Development Contributor Redstar for their help in putting these videos together.

Over the week leading up to the release of CSP Beta 1.04, a select group of prestigious eSports journalists from the world's top coverage websites, who've already received pre-release access to the game, will be publishing their unfiltered, unbiased reviews and opinions. Check CSPromod.com daily for links to the articles.


Oscar "OggC" Johansson, Fragbite.com: "Compared to Source, it's awesome. Everything is ten times better, and it makes you wonder why Source wasn't always this way... It is even better than 1.6 in many ways."


Genie, Rakaka.se: "Tremendous progress has been made since I last tried the game... The shots register where they should, the coding seems fresh, and the possibilities are endless."


Justin "PrimeTime" Loeb, SK-Gaming.com: "Huge improvements have been made from their last release... the foundation is there for this to be a really strong game that has the graphic appeal of Source."


Richard "Dr. Gonzo" Lewis, Cadred.org: "As a faithful adaptation of 1.6 the game absolutely succeeds... I came in as a sceptic, but have been won over by what is a hugely impressive feat."


Luis "MIRA" Mira, HLTV.org: "If you take a deep look at Beta 1.04, you can see that there are huge improvements from previous releases."


Nick "Shrew" Bee & Brett "Few" Sheffield, Gotfrag.com: "CSPromod Beta 1.04 is light years ahead of its problematic past and could very well give the 1.6 community a new lease on life."