Bot Abuse Achievement Guide

Overview

Want to get CS:S’s achievements but don’t have any friends? Hate getting owned by better players? Can’t find a decent server to grind on? Why not use bots? With a few bots and a little patience, you can get ALL the achievements in the game.

Introduction

The purpose of this guide is to provide a comprehensive walkthrough for completionists and achievement hunters. The primary coverage in this walkthrough is via the unmodded game itself, with no command line parameters and no custom maps. However, in cases where one wishes to avoid grinding and monotony, or where the achievements simply cannot be unlocked otherwise, command console strategies and links to achievement farming maps are included.

This guide does not and will not cover achievement farming via hacks or achievement managers.

Since those methods require no strategy or planning, it would be a waste of space to cover them here. While I personally dislike the use of hacks in any multiplayer-oriented game, you are free to use whatever methods you like to get the achievements in this game. Just know that I won’t be covering the aforementioned methods in this guide.

Pistol Round
In traditional Counter-Strike, both teams start out with a very small amount of money with which to purchase items and weapons. Because the cash amount is too small for all but the most basic pistols and a few tools, the first round of a traditional match has players using pistols and/or knives until they earn more money. A Pistol Round can easily be simulated with bots by setting the lowest amount of starting money possible (just enter a 0 and let the game figure it out) and only letting bots use pistols. You will have to re-create the match after each round, however.

Hold This Position
“Hold This Position” is a radio command (Z-3) that orders bots to hunker down and defend the area you’re standing in. This is useful if you need to keep your bots out of the way. Keep in mind that the option “Bots can go rogue” MUST be un-ticked when setting up your game, or else bots may disobey your orders.

Domination/Revenge/Nemesis
Counter-Strike: Source uses a domination/revenge system exactly like the system used in Team Fortress 2. If an enemy kills you four times without you killing them in between, the player is considered your “Nemesis” and is “dominating” you. If you kill an enemy after they have become your Nemesis, you will have gotten “revenge”. The domination/revenge system is crucial to several achievements.

Splash Damage
The damage an explosive inflicts on you.

Cumulative/Sequential Achievements
A Cumulative achievement is an achievement where progress towards it is tracked and does not need to be completed within a certain window. Examples of this are achievements with a progress meter, “Earn X amount of cash”, “Kill X enemies with Weapon A”, and so on. A Sequential achievement is an achievement where progress must be started and completed within a certain window, such as “Kill two enemies with your bare hands” or “Rescue 4 hostages in a round”. As a rule of thumb, achievements with numerical goals are implicitly Cumulative unless otherwise specified.

Prop
Any object in a map that has physics and reacts dynamically to changes in its environment, e.g. a barrel getting knocked back by a grenade explosion, a bottle rolling on the floor, a computer breaking into chunks from a gunshot, etc.

• Always choose Easy bot difficulty. Smarter bots are not what you want. Smarter enemies will kill you easier and smarter allies will interfere with your achievement-hunting plans.
• Make liberal use of radio commands. Radio commands are how you can control your team. Learn to use them to put your team out of the way, to have them cover you, or have them provide distraction. I myself have underestimated the power of radio commands.
• Never let bots go rogue. In Counter-Strike Source, there is an option that allows bots to go rogue, meaning they can ignore radio commands you issue to them. You will never need to let bots go rogue, so leave that check box unticked!
• Knife Matches unless otherwise specified. Knife Matches make things easier for you, since death takes you out of play until the round is over. It also gives you more control over the opposing team.

Using the Command Console

Counter-Strike: Source’s ability to be abused in its purest form is to be commended; however, to get the most efficient use of time out of your achievement hunting, you might consider using console commands. For the sake of purity, I have avoided bringing up console commands in the main guide unless absolutely necessary; however, console commands will make your achievement hunting progress much faster and much less dull.

A comprehensive list of console commands can be found here. I only selected/uncovered a few of the more useful ones.

Thanks to Steam user Hacker?pcs for digging up several useful commands!

• mp_autoteambalance 0: This prevents CS:S from balancing the teams if one team has more members than the other. Useful if you need a lot of teammates to pick up your slack or need a healthy supply of targets for weapons grinding.
• mp_c4_timer X: This command adjusts the time it takes for a bomb to explode after being planted, where X is a value from 10 to 90. Useful when grinding for Bomb-related achievements.
• mp_limitteams X: This command defines the maximum number of players each team can have over another, with X being a number between 0 and 20. This allows you to do more imbalanced matches for farming purposes. Entering this command will cause bots to join the game and fill the spots needed.
• mp_restartgame 1: Restarts the current game. In tandem with bot_kill, this is useful for winning the number of pistol rounds required for Piece Initiative, Give Piece a Chance, and Piece Treaty.
• mp_round_restart_delay 0: This essentially removes the “Terrorists/Counter-Terrorists Win” message and delay before the next round begins. If set to 0, the new round will begin immediately after the current one ends.
• sv_gravity X: Adjusts the gravity, with X being the desired force (default 600).

• bot_add X: Adds a bot, with X being the team, either “ct” or “t”.
• bot_all_weapons: Allows bots to use all weapons.
• bots_join_team X: Allows you to choose which team bots can join on, with X being any, T or CT.
• bot_kill: Kills all bots on the map, resulting in a victory for whatever team you’re on. Useful for getting quick victories and/or cash. A good strategy is to bind this command to a key[www.wikihow.com] for quick access. You might also consider using an automatic key program like AutoHotKey[www.autohotkey.com] or Auto Keyboard Presser[sourceforge.net], if you’re going for long periods of time.
• bot_knives_only: Allows bots to only use knives.
• sv_maxspeed X: Adjusts the movement speed of all players, with X being the speed. Default appears to be 320. Useful for any number of achievements.
• bot_mimic 1: Forces all bots on the map to mimic your movements with near-parity. This is good for setting up those random “act of God” achievements. It may seem impossible to kill a bot that is mimicking you, but if you get right up in their face and shoot at their head, you’ll hit them and they’ll miss you.
• bot_walk X Changes how bots move, with 0 meaning bots can walk AND run and 1 meaning bots can only walk. Useful for kill achievements or achievements where you need to buy time to set something up.

Achievement Farming Maps

Here is a list of maps suitable for achievement farming. Useful if you don’t have the patience or the time to farm on vanilla maps. Thanks to Steam user Hacker?pcs for contributing links.

• Bomb Achievements
• Rescue Achievements
• Kill Achievements
• Weapon Achievements
• Special Achievements

(Some people report problems with certain maps in v1)

• Bomb Achievements
• Rescue Achievements
• Kill Achievements
• Weapon Achievements
• Special Achievements

• Bomb Achievements
• Rescue Achievements
• Special Achievements

• Kill Achievements
• Weapon Achievements
• Special Achievements

(Not an achievement map per se, but can be conducive to earning certain achievements)

• Bomb Achievements
• Rescue Achievements
• Kill Achievements
• Weapon Achievements
• Special Achievements

Bomb Achievements

Win a round by picking up the bomb from a fallen comrade and successfully planting it
Start a Small Knife match, give the bomb to another bot, and follow him around until he is killed. Pick up the bomb from him and plant it. The round must be won by bomb explosion to unlock this achievement.

Plant 100 bombs
Start a 1v1 Knife match and plant the bomb 100 times. Note that you don’t have to win the round with a bomb explosion, you simply need to plant the bomb.

Kill 5 players in a C4 blast
This is a good achievement to pair with Wild Gooseman Chase. Start a Knife match with 5 CTs and join the Terrorists. Either stay your team or kill them at spawn, and then match out and plant the bomb. All the CTs will come marching, and your job is to evade them for about a half a minute. Buy some flashbangs to buy yourself some time and keep moving, but don’t leave the bomb site. Try to keep all 5 players corralled near you, and the achievement is yours.

You can also do this easily with console commands. Repeat the steps above, but when all 5 CTs show up, get them corralled close to the bomb and enter sv_maxspeed 0 in the console. Nobody moves. Boom.

Defuse a bomb with a kit when it would have failed without one
C4 takes about 45 seconds from planting to explosion. Defusal takes 10 seconds, but with a defusal kit a bomb can be defused in 5 seconds. Start a 1v1 Knife match and buy a defusal kit. Once the bomb is planted, count down from 45 seconds while securing the bomb site. Defuse the bomb once you’ve counted down to about 8 seconds.

Kill a CT while he is defusing the bomb
Start a 1v1 Knife match, plant the bomb, and hide somewhere out of sight. When the CT starts defusing (you’ll hear a sound that indicates he is defusing) kill him.

Stop defusing to kill a terrorist and then successfully finish defusing the bomb
Start a 1v1 Knife match, buy a kit, and start defusing the bomb, keeping an ear out for any approaching enemies. Kill the enemy and then successfully defuse the bomb.

Defuse 100 bombs
Start a 1v1 Knife match and defuse the bomb 100 times. This one takes a bit longer than Boomala Boomala, but is just as doable.

Kill an enemy player within 3 seconds of them recovering a dropped bomb
Start a Knife match and try to intercept the Terrorists while they are en route to a bomb site. Kill the bomber, wait for a teammate to pick up the bomb, and then immediately kill him.

Win a round by defusing a bomb
Self-explanatory. Start a 1v1 Knife match, wait for the bomb to be planted, then defuse it.

Successfully defuse a bomb with less than one second remaining
As a reminder, C4 explodes in about 45 seconds. Defusal time (with a kit) is 5 seconds. To pull this achievement off, you need to start defusal about 6 seconds before explosion. If you don’t have a good mental timer, this might take a few tries.

Plant a bomb within 25 seconds
Self-explanatory. Start a 1v1 Knife match. Assuming you book it to the nearest bomb site as soon as the round starts, you should easily get this achievement. You need only plant the bomb to get the achievement. de_chateau has a bomb site just to the left after Terrorist spawn, so try it on this map for a guaranteed achievement.

Win a round by planting a bomb
Self-explanatory. Simply plant the bomb and have it explode. You may need to distract the enemy to prevent them from defusing it.

As the last living terrorist, distract a defuser long enough for the bomb to explode.
Counter-Strike: Source’s bot AI is very straightforward: If the bomb has been planted, they will attempt to secure the bombsite before defusing. With this in mind, you simply need to be in the bots’ line of sight and in the bomb site to get this achievement. Start a 1v1 Knife match, and buy a few flashbangs to buy yourself some time. Most importantly, keep moving, but don’t leave the bomb site.

This has yet to be verified, but it could also be possible to use the command console. Repeat the same steps as before, but when the bot enters the bomb site, input either bot_mimic 1 or sv_maxspeed 0 into the command console.

Rescue Achievements

Rescue 100 Hostages
Self-explanatory. 1v1 Knife matches are the most efficient setup to grind for this. This will take at least 25 rounds assuming all 4 hostages are rescued each round. A good way to ensure a 4-rescue victory is to start a 2v0 match, which grants you two conflict-free free rounds before the game automatically balances the teams.

Kill an enemy player who is leading the hostages without injuring any hostages
Start a 1v1 Knife match and camp at the CT spawn. Choose a map with a small or bottlenecked rescue area, such as cs_militia. As soon as you see the CT, use a precision weapon such as a sniper rifle or a high-end pistol and carefully take him out. He usually leads the pack and has a little distance from them; if he is too far with the hostage crowd then aim for the torso.

Rescue all hostages within 90 seconds
Unless you’re playing on a hostage map you’re familiar with, you should practice on a map of your choosing. If you start a 1v1 Knife Run and run straight for the hostages, you should be able to rescue them all with time to spare.

Rescue all hostages in a single round
Self-explanatory. All vanilla hostage maps contain 4 hostages each.

Rescue 500 hostages
Same as Cowboy Diplomacy but to a greater degree. 1v1 Knife match, as before. This will take at least 125 rounds, assuming all 4 hostages are rescued each round.

Kill Achievements (Part 1)

Use Dual Elites to kill an enemy player that also has Dual Elites equipped
Start a 1v1 Pistol match with a high amount of money and join the CT team. Kill the Terrorist, and if he has Dual Elites (which he should, since they are good pistols and bots will buy good guns if money permits), equip them and kill the Terrorist in subsequent rounds. Assuming he buys the Dual Elites again, this achievement is yours. Make sure you don’t die, or you will lose the Dual Elites, as only Terrorists can purchase them.

Kill an airborne enemy player while you are airborne
This achievement, along with Death From Above and Bunny Hunt are downright difficult to get with bots, regardless of map. For simplicity’s sake, I’m only going to cover the console command route. Start a 1v1 Knife Round on a map where your opponent will possibly be jumping or otherwise airborne (e.g. Terrorists on cs_militia). At the start of the round, buy a scoped weapon and open up the console and enter sv_gravity 1. When the bot is airborne, jump and open fire. This might take some time since your accuracy is reduced dramatically when in the air.

Kill two enemy players with a single bullet
It’s a bit difficult to say how exactly you can get this achievement, as part of it might have to do with the kind of weapon you use. Start a Small Knife match and try to line up your shots so that the bullet passes through one enemy and kills another. It is safe to assume that more powerful (read: expensive) weapons have the ability to kill multiple targets if aimed properly.

Kill an enemy player in the same round as they kill a player on your friends list
Impossible to obtain with bots alone. Bug a friend into hopping online with you.

Kill 5 enemy players within 15 seconds
This achievement entails that you kill 5 players sequentially rather than cumulatively. Once you kill an enemy, you have 15 seconds to kill 4 more. You can get this in a 5v5 Knife match either as a CT by intercepting the Terrorists on route to a bomb site (if you’re lucky) or you can play as a Terrorist and duplicate the tactic for Wild Gooseman Chase and simply kill the CTs once they are all grouped together. Make sure to stay your teammates.

Kill 250 enemy players with headshots
Self-Explanatory. If your aim is good enough you can pull this off in a Small Knife match with a sniper rifle of your choosing. Otherwise, any accurate rifle, SMG or pistol will do, provided you get close enough.

Win 100 knife fights
Self-explanatory. Start a 5v5 Knife match and stay your teammates. The key to winning knife fights is to attack in between your adversary’s swings. Given full health and a full set of kevlar, you should be able to get at least 1-2 kills per round, as long as you don’t take on more than one combatant at a time.

You can also use the command console to streamline this process. Start a 1v10 Knife match (join one team, make the bots join the other) and enter bot_walk 1 in the console. adjusting the game so that bots can’t run, you will have a considerable advantage with any number of bots, allowing you a decisive victory.

Kill a total of 25 enemy players blinded by flashbangs
This achievement is best obtained in maps like cs_office and de_nuke, where there are lots of small corridors in which to overwhelm enemies with the flashbang. Since bots tend to travel in groups when heading to a destination, try to meet the opposition at one of these points, throw a flashbang, take cover, and then open fire once the grenade has gone off. Keep in mind that bots will attempt to take cover if a grenade is thrown, so don’t assume that all the bots you aimed for will be visually crippled.

Kill an enemy player while you are blinded from a flashbang
Start a Small Knife match, meet up with the enemy as described in Blind Ambition, and purposefully blind yourself with a Flashbang and open fire with a fully automatic rifle or shotgun. With some luck, you should hit something.

Kill 25 enemies
Self-explanatory. Use 5v5 Knife matches to easily achieve this.

Kill an airborne enemy
This achievement, along with Death From Above and Aerial Necrobatics are downright difficult to get with bots, regardless of map. For simplicity’s sake, I’m only going to cover the console command route. Start a 1v1 Knife Round on a map where your opponent will possibly be jumping or otherwise airborne (e.g. Terrorists on cs_militia). At the start of the round, purchase a scoped weapon and open up the console and enter sv_gravity 1. When the bot is airborne, open fire.

Kill a total of 20 enemy players that are dominating you
Swallow your pride for this one. To get this achievement, you need to let 20 enemy bots dominate you and then bring the smackdown on them. This is easily done in a 1v1 Knife match, but if you can manage it, a 5v5 Knife match allows you more efficiency, provided your own bots stay out of the fight.

Get a total of 100 kills on enemy players you are dominating
Self-explanatory. Dominate enemies, and each subsequent kill will count towards this. Try not to let the enemies get revenge kills, or you will have to build back up to a domination.

Kill 500 enemies
Self-explanatory. Use 5v5 Knife matches to easily achieve this.

Kill an enemy while at 1 health
This achievement involves grenades. Start a 1v1 Knife match and tenderize yourself with HE grenades until you are at 1 health, and then kill the enemy. An HE grenade’s splash damage decreases with distance, so in order to whittle your health down to 1, you will need to estimate your grenade throws without killing yourself. As long as you’ve set a high buy time and high starting funds, you should have no problem fine-tuning your health.

Kill an enemy player while you are airborne
This achievement, along with Death From Above and Aerial Necrobatics are downright difficult to get with bots, regardless of map. For simplicity’s sake, I’m only going to cover the console command route. Start a 1v1 Knife Round on any map. At the start of the round, purchase a scoped weapon and open up the console and enter sv_gravity 1. When you find your adversary, jump and open fire. This might take some time since your accuracy is reduced dramatically when in the air.

Dominate a total of 10 enemy players
Since dominations occur after 4 uninterrupted kills, you will need to accrue a total of 40 kills to get this achievement. Start a 5v5 Knife match and stay your teammates and you should have this achievement soon enough.

Kill Achievements (Part 2)

Kill the defuser with an HE grenade
This is a difficult, not to mention scary achievement to get with bots for many reasons. Steam user Dontreadthis has an awesome video walkthrough that details an effective strategy for netting the achievement on de_dust2.

First off, an HE grenade will not kill an opponent with full health AND armor, even at point blank range. Second, bots can be hard to intercept and harder to shake off your trail. Third, bots are good at checking hiding spots as they navigate, meaning it can be hard to hide until a CT bot has started defusal.

Start a 1v1 Knife match and purchase Flashbangs and HE grenades, but do not purchase any additional weapons. Keep your glock and camp a bomb site until the CT inevitably shows up. Plant 3-4 shots directly in his head, throw a Flashbang, and RUN. You need to lose the bot any way you can. Take lots of turns when you can, and try to walk or crouch walk to avoid footstep noise if you’re out of sight and far enough away. Once you’ve lost the bot, sneak over to a bomb site and plant the bomb. Hide until the bot starts defusing, then get into position and throw an HE grenade at his feet. Boom.

I got this achievement on de_chateau, but Steam user Hacker?pcs pointed out that a good map to try this on is de_dust2 with a 1v1 Knife Round, wherein you find and damage the bot (3-4 shots to the head should work), run away and lose him, then head to bombsite B, plant the bomb, and hide on the platform, as pictured in the top left

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Kill an enemy player 4 additional times while you are dominating them
As per the already-explained Domination/Revenge system, simply kill an enemy 4 times to dominate them, and then kill them 4 additional times without them killing you in between.

Get a kill with every weapon
This is a cumulative achievement. Simply cycling through each weapon as a Terrorist and then as a Counter-Terrorist will do the job.

Kill a zoomed-in enemy sniper with a sniper rifle of your own
Start a 5v5 Sniper match and try to hide in the crowd of teammates when the two sides meet up. From there, just pick a target and fire away.

Kill 100 enemy players with enemy weapons
Start a 5v5 pistol match, join the Counter-Terrorists, and try to pick up either a Five-seveN or the 40 Dual Elites from a fallen Terrorist. From there, simply rack up kills with your stolen goods. Don’t die, or you’ll lose the guns and have to re-acquire them.

Kill 10,000 enemies
Self-explanatory. Start a 5v5 Knife match and stay your teammates and this one will be yours with enough patience.

Get two kills standing in the same spot with a zoomed sniper rifle.
Start a Knife match on a hostage map with two Terrorists and join the CTs. Purchase a sniper rifle, grab a corner, and wait for the Terrorists to come to you. Do not move from your spot for any reason, and don’t take your rifle off zoom if you can help it. An alternative is to have a Knife match on a bomb map with two CTs, join the Terrorists, and plant the bomb and stay in a corner. The CTs will come rushing over.

Dominate 3 enemy players simultaneously
You’re essentially getting 12 kills for this one; 4 per player. Do not let them kill you or you have to start from 0 kills for that player. Go for a Knife match on this.

Kill an enemy with an un-zoomed sniper rifle
Start a Small or 1v1 Knife match , purchase a sniper rifle, and get up close and personal. Unlike most FPS games, snipers in Counter-Strike are NOT something you can easily no-scope, so close as much distance as possible.

Kill an enemy player that is dominating you
Let an enemy kill you 4 times without you killing them, and then kill them.

Kill an enemy player with a gun they dropped that round
Start a 1v1 Pistol match and go to the opposing team’s spawn. The Bot should have purchased a better pistol than their default, and the default will have been dropped on the ground. Pick it up, find the Bot, and kill him with it.

Make the Cut
Win a knife fight
Start a 1v1 Knife match and kill the enemy with your knife. If you’re really lazy, you can use the command console. Enter bot_walk 1 in the console, which will force bots to walk and make them easy prey.

Kill an opponent you are already dominating
Kill an enemy 4 times (uninterrupted) and then kill them once more.

Dominate an enemy player
Kill an enemy 4 times without them killing you in between.

Survive a shot to the head because you had the good sense to wear a helmet
Start a Small Sniper match and purchase Kevlar + Helmet. Try to get the bots to land a headshot on you. The best way is to take cover behind a chest-high wall or any obstacle that would make only your head or upper body visible. You can also try upping the bot difficulty if their shots just aren’t connecting.

Kill an enemy player while they are reloading
Start a Small Pistol match, wait for the enemy to reload, and then fill them with bullets while they reload.

Take 80 points of damage from enemy grenades and still survive the round
Start a Small Grenade match, buy a Kevlar + Helmet, and try to stay ahead of your teammates until they encounter the enemy team. Bots can be rather hesitant with grenades, but thankfully you only need to take 80 points of damage, so at least one grenade at point blank should do the trick. Do not attempt to kill any enemies unless necessary; the round has to end with you alive for you to get the achievement.

Kill a zoomed-in enemy sniper with a knife
Start a Small Sniper match and split up from your team. Try to find a point where the enemy team will meet up with yours and engage them. Then just sneak up and gut an enemy of your choosing.

Kill 100 zoomed-in enemy snipers
Start a Small Sniper match and wait for the enemy to stand still before killing them. Easy-level bots will never shoot a weapon, let alone a sniper rifle, while moving. This will telegraph whether or not they are zoomed in.

This achievement can be streamlined using the console. Start an empty match in any map of your choosing and a lot of starting cash. You’ll need to use the bot_add command to populate the opposing team with bots and enter both mp_autoteambalance 0 and mp_round_restart_delay 0. Finally, enter bot_mimic 1, buy an AWP, and go find your bots. You’ll notice they’re not attacking you at all, but instead mirroring your movements. Get as close as you can to an enemy, zoom in on the head, and fire. RInse and repeat as needed.

Kill two enemy players while you are blinded from a flashbang
Start a Large Knife match, buy a flashbang and a full-auto rifle or shotgun. When you meet up with a group of enemies, throw the flashbang at your feet, pull out your gun, and fire away.

Kill an enemy player with a knife during the pistol round
Easy-level bots are a poor aim and will stop and acquire their target before firing. Use this to your advantage or try and sneak up on an enemy and knife them. A back-stab is an instant kill.

Kill Achievements (Part 3)

Get 10 kills on enemy players you are already dominating during a single match
This is a cumulative achievement, and can be earned with one player at the very least. Dominate a player, and each subsequent kill will count towards this.

Kill 3 enemy players with a single HE grenade
Your best bet for this is to start a Small Knife match as a Terrorist. Stay your teammates and plant the bomb, and make sure at least 3 CTs show up at the scene. Let the chase you while you butter them up with a few headshots, grouping them together so the HE grenade damages and kills them all.

Get kills with 5 different guns in a round
Start a 5v5 Knife match, join the Terrorists, and kill your teammates, letting the CTs come to you. Buy a rifle or SMG, get a kill with that and with a pistol of your choosing, then run back to spawn/buy zone and buy another rifle/SMG and pistol. Get another two kills, and then buy one more weapon. Remember, you have to get kills with five different weapons. Don’t re-buy weapons you’ve already killed with.

Weapon Achievements

Not much to say aside from abuse Knife matches with bots. This will take a while, especially with HE grenades, as bots always purchase Kevlar when funds allow. A Pistol Run combined with strategic kill stealing may boost your numbers better than a Knife Run where you occasionally butter up your enemies.

Below is a list of weapon achievements:

• .40 Dual Elites Expert – 100 kills
• 228 Compact Expert – 200 kills
• 9×19 Sidearm Expert – 200 kills
• ES Five-Seven Expert – 100 kills
• KM Tactical .45 Expert – 200 kills
• Night Hawk .50c Expert – 200 kills

• ES C90 Expert – 1,000 kills
• Ingram Mac-10 Expert – 500 kills
• KM UMP45 Expert – 1,000 kills
• KM Sub-Machine Gun Expert – 1,000 kills
• Schmidt Machine Pistol Expert – 500 kills

• Leone 12 Gauge Super Expert – 200 kills
• Leone YG1265 Auto Shotgun Expert – 200 kills

• Bullpup Expert – 500 kills
• Clarion 5.56 Expert – 500 kills
• CV-47 Expert – 1,000 kills
• D3/AU-1 Expert – 500 kills
• IDF Defender Expert – 500 kills
• Krieg 550 Commando Expert – 500 kills
• Krieg 552 Expert – 500 kills
• Magnum Sniper Rifle Expert – 1,000 kills
• Maverick M4A1 Carbine Expert – 1,000 kills
• Schmidt Scout Expert – 1,000 kills

• HE Grenade Expert – 500 kills
• Knife Expert – 100 kills
• M249 Expert – 500 kills

All leading up to…

Unlock every weapon kill achievement
Send your index finger on vacation after this one. It’s earned it.

Special Achievements (Part 1)

Inflict 1,000,000 total points of damage to enemy players
Assuming each bot buys kevlar and no other teammates intervene, this achievement will take at least 5,000 kills to obtain.

Shoot out 14 windows in a single round on cs_office
cs_office has 14 windows to shoot out. Start a small knife match as a CT and start from the end that doesn’t lead in from the garage. Work quickly, as Terrorists will almost always break windows to access the front entrance.

Spray 100 decals
After you spray a decal, there is a cooldown time of about 15 seconds before you can spray again. In addition, the cooldown time resets after a round ends. If you spray every chance you get, spray after a round ends but before the new round begins, and then immediately after the round begins, you’ll get this achievement in no time.

Entering decalfrequency 0 in the console eliminates the cooldown time entirely.

Win a round while making no footstep noise and killing at least one enemy
Start a 1v1 Knife match as a CT and do not run. Hold down your walk key, take the stairs, and avoid drops or gaps. Watch your back and take out the Terrorist.

Win a round in less than 30 seconds (against at least 5 enemy players)
You can win this with either competent bots or a damn efficient weapon. Start a 5v5 Knife match on a small map and watch the clock. You only need to win the round.

Earn $50,000,000 total cash
Below is a list of ways you earn money:

• Killing enemy players: $300 each
• Interacting with hostages: $150 each, only the first interaction
• Rescuing a hostage: $1,000 each
• Completing a round: $3,250 to the winning team, $2,000 to the losing team

Money lost through killing teammates/hostages or by buying equipment will not detract from achievement progress.

Kill the entire opposing team without any members of your team taking any damage
Start a 5v5 Knife match and stay your teammates. For this achievement, you must kill every member of the opposing team, and your team (yes, YOU included) cannot take any damage.

Kill the entire enemy team (with at least 5 players) in a single round
Use the same tactic you employed for Clean Sweep. The only difference is that you and your teammates can take damage and/or die.

Win a round without your team killing any enemy players
Start a 5v5 Knife match on a bomb map as a Terrorist and stay your team at spawn. Plant the bomb and distract any opposition until the bomb goes off. As an alternative, load a hostage map, play Counter-Terrorist and stay your team somewhere that isn’t spawn but somewhere where Terrorists won’t check. I personally prefer cs_office in the little alcove with the snowman. From there, grab the hostages and make a dash for the rescue zone. As long as the Terrorists don’t have guns they can’t shoot at you.

Do 5,000 damage with nightvision active
You remember nightvision, right? That tool that’s utterly useless unless playing on a custom map with lots of darkness? You get to use that for several rounds! Just start a 5v5 Knife match, stay your team, and mop up the opposition. And choose your map wisely, otherwise you’ll end up with strained eyes like this idiot.

Start a round with all players on your team wearing the same uniform (at least 5 players)
Start a game on any map, allowing bots but setting the number of bots to 0. Join the Counter-Terrorists and select the GIGN skin (Option 4). Open the console and enter the following commands:

• mp_autoteambalance 0
• mp_limitteams 20
• bot_add ct Crusher
• bot_add ct Pheonix
• bot_add ct Shark
• bot_add ct Stone
• bot_add t

The round will immediately begin and you will obtain the achievement.

Kill an enemy player who has been reduced to less than 5% health by other players
The inverse end of Primer. You might have luck with a 2v1 Knife match, but it will take a while, since you don’t know an enemy’s health level.

Start a round on the same team as 4 of your friends, with all of you wearing the same outfit
Impossible to get with bots.

Win 10 rounds without dying and not spending any cash
Simply start a 1v1 Knife match, get a nice weapon, and do as the description says.

Win 25 Pistol Rounds
See Piece Initiative for information on getting the Pistol Round achievements.

Kill 5 enemy players with headshots in a single round
Start a 5v5 Knife match as a Terrorist, stay your team, and equip a weapon you’re most comfortable pulling off headshots with. Plant the bomb and let the CTs come to you.

Kill an enemy player who has just killed 10 of your teammates in a single round
Because it’s not possible to set individual bot AI, this achievement might be impossible to get. One possible solution is to start an 11v1 match (see Using the Console) with friendly fire on, join the CTs on a hostage map, stay your team at spawn, and attack them until their health is less than 10%. The Terrorist bot will head over to CT spawn and mow down your teammates. Once he’s done, kill him.

If this tactic falls through, use the console in conjunction with a short buy time to only allow knives for bots, buy a nice weapon, whittle down your teammates’ health, then allow bots to use whatever type of weapon you bought after the buy time is up. When the Terrorist bot approaches spawn, drop your weapon for him to pick up and hide while he mows down the opposition. You might need to bump up the bot difficulty for this to work.

Kill an enemy player who is on a killing spree
This achievement is ambiguous. Theoretically, this has the same criteria as The Immovable Object. WIll update when I find a solution.

Special Achievements (Part 2)

Donate 100 weapons to your teammates
(Big thanks to Hacker_pcs for cracking this one)

According to the developers, “Your count for this stat only gets incremented if the player who picks up the weapon you donated could otherwise not afford to purchase that weapon.” The best weapon for this is the Schmidt Machine Pistol (TMP). At $1,250, it’s a good buy that’s also outside the starting cash level.

Start an empty round in de_chateau (letting bots use all weapons) and join the CTs. When the game starts, enter the following commands:

• mp_limitteams 500
• mp_autoteambalance 0
• bind v “bot_kill”
• mp_round_restart_delay 0

These next few commands are going to loop. To sum things up, you need to spawn a Terrorist bot and kill it to farm cash, then drop the starting cash to $800, kick the Terrorist bot, add in a couple CT bots, and keep them still while you buy and toss them guns.

• Enter bot_add t in the console, followed by sv_maxspeed 0.
• Repeatedly kill the Terrorist bot with your “V” key, which is bound with bot_kill.
• Once you have $16,000, kick the Terrorist bot by entering bot_kick in the console.
• Still in the console, enter mp_startmoney 0.
• In the console, enter bot_add ct about 9 times. You can do this quickly by entering the command once and then pressing the up arrow to go to the command last entered.
• Tell your team to “Hold This Position” in spawn (Z-3), and then type sv_maxspeed 320 in the console.
• Go into the buy menu, and under SMG, purchase a Schmidt Machine Pistol (TMP).
• Find a CT holding a pistol and drop your TMP in front of him with the dropweapon key.
• Continue donating guns until you run out of money or weaponless CTs.
• In the console, type bot_kick, followed by mp_restartgame 1.
• Repeat this list until you hit 100 donations.

Win 5000 rounds
Self-explanatory. Keep in mind that even with the map achievements you’ll still be short a few thousand rounds.

Break at least 15 props in a single round
Some props, such as glass bottles, tables and computers, are breakable. cs_office has tons of breakable props, including projectors, computers, file boxes, tables, and other electronics. Start a 1v1 Knife Run as a Terrorist and break ♥♥♥♥ with a shotgun. If you can’t break 15 props before the CT arrives, switch to the CT team, buy a shotgun, hide somewhere until the Terrorist decides to camp at CT spawn, and then run into the office and have a field day with the office supplies.

Kill an enemy with the last bullet in your magazine (excluding sniper rifles)
You’ll most likely get this achievement by accident as it’s a common occurrence, but in case you haven’t, simply start a 1v1 or Small Knife Run, get down to 1 bullet by buttering up your foes or just shooting off some rounds, and then land a headshot with the last round. Shotguns or powerful pistols work best for this.

Kill the entire opposing team without any members of your team dying
Same as Clean Sweep and The Cleaner, except none of your teammates can die. Your best bet is to start a 5v5 Knife match in a bomb map, stay your team, and go to work on the opposing team.

Win 10 rounds
Self-explanatory. 1v1 Knife matches make this and all similar achievements go quicker, or just stack it with other win-based achievements.

Win 5 Pistol Rounds
Since bots will almost never use pistols if they can afford it, you’ll have to restart the game after each round so that the money for each team resets and bots continue to use pistols. If you don’t know how Pistol Rounds work, see “Pistol Round” in the Introduction section of this guide.

If you want to streamline this process, start a 1v1 game on any map and enter mp_round_restart_delay 0 followed by bot_kill. When the new match begins, enter mp_restartgame 1. Repeat this a few times (Consider binding the kill and restart game commands to keys for ease of access) and the achievement is yours.

Win 250 Pistol Rounds
See Piece Initiative for information on getting the Pistol Round achievements.

Inflict 2,500 total points of damage to enemy players
Self-explanatory.

Kill an enemy with a grenade after you’ve died
Start a Small Knife match, buy an HE grenade, and accompany your team until they encounter the enemy team. Try to get the attention of an enemy who has already been buttered up a bit, then throw a grenade and let them stab you to death. If you time things just right, the grenade should explode before your assailant wanders off.

Do at least 95% damage to an enemy player who is then killed by a another player
It’s hard to estimate damage, but your best bet is to start a 2v1 Knife run, butter up the enemy with your starter pistol, and let your teammate finish him off. Firing at different parts of the body produce different amounts of damage, but it might just boil down to luck, or you’ll get this achievement randomly like I did.

Win 200 rounds
Self-explanatory.

Blind an enemy player who then kills a teammate
Start a Large Knife match with friendly fire on, wait for the two teams to meet, and then throw a flashbang and watch the bots wildly swing their knives at each other.

You can use the console to streamline this. Start a 1v2 Pistol match. Then, buy a flashbang, enter bot_mimic 1 in the console and then meet up with your adversaries. Orient yourself so that one bot has their gun pointed at the other bot. Then, throw the flashbang. When it goes off, open fire until one of the bots is dead.

Earn $2,500,000 total cash
Self-explanatory. Use the same tactic described in Blood Money.

Survive damage from 5 different players within a round
This can be very difficult to do in vanilla. I’ll update this later. For now, you can use the bot_mimic 1 command. Start an empty match and use the bot_add to add five bots to the opposing team, as well as mp_autoteambalance 0. After entering bot_mimic 1, head off and find your bots. Shoot each bot in the leg, which will cause them to shoot you in the leg. Then, get as close as you can to each bot and pop them all in the head.

Kill 10 enemy players in a single round
Start a 9v10 Knife match, stay your team, and clean up the opposition.

Earn $125,000 total cash
Self-explanatory. Use the same tactic described in Blood Money.

Be the last player alive in a round (with at least 5 players on your team)
Start a 5v5 Knife match with friendly fire, kill your teammates, and then kill the enemy team. Some users have reported issues unlocking this achievement. If the achievement doesn’t unlock for you, try adding more players to each team, starting with 6v6.

Inflict 2,500 total points of damage to enemy players
Self-explanatory.

Map Achievements

Below is the list of maps that have Map Veteran achievements. You must win 100 rounds on each map.

• cs_assault
• cs_compound
• cs_havana
• cs_italy
• cs_militia
• cs_office
• de_aztec
• de_chateau
• de_cobble
• de_dust
• de_dust2
• de_inferno
• de_nuke
• de_piranesi
• de_port
• de_prodigy
• de_tides
• de_train

Maps with the cs_ prefix are hostage maps, while maps with the de_ prefix are bomb maps. 1v1 matches are the quickest way to get these, although they will be mind-numbingly boring during a grind and you can miss out on opportunities to farm for other achievements. Maps are best farmed with Terrorists.

1,800 rounds at 2-4 minutes each is quite a lot of time, but there’s a way to farm these achievements without falling into a boring pattern.

Start a match with the maximum number of players set to 5, and make sure “Bots defer goals to humans” is unticked. If you’re farming a hostage map, join the Counter-Terrorists. If you’re farming a bomb map, join the Terrorists. Make sure you have the bots set to join your team in the game settings.

When the game starts, open up the console and enter these commands:

• mp_autoteambalance 0
• mp_limitteams 5
• mp_round_restart_delay 0
• mp_c4_timer 0 (if farming a bomb map)

There are a few caveats here. For starters, the bots’ navigation AI isn’t really the best. Sometimes they get stuck on doors or windowsills, sometimes they catch themselves on a physics prop and can’t move, and so on. cs_havana is the worst offender due to its dynamic nature between rounds.

Another point to make note of is that on bomb maps, even if you’ve deferred goals to bots, sometimes you’ll still spawn with the bomb. If you notice it’s been a few minutes since a round started, you might have spawned with the bomb.

One more thing I’d like to add: the timer doesn’t seem to work in one-sided matches like these, so if a bot gets stuck or you have the bomb on you, there’s no time limit to automatically start a new round. Your best bet is to run the game in a small resolution window and check on it every few minutes. Binding a key to mp_restartgame 1 is a quick way to restart rounds that have stalled.

Steam user Bimjee discovered that making a 1v1 game, binding a keyboard key to the command bot_kill and spamming the key after each round counts towards the achievements. Setting mp_round_restart_delay to 0 can speed things up even further.

Miscellaneous Achievements

This section is for achievements are hidden or don’t fall into any of the other categories.

Win a match of at least 10 players where the entirety of each team is composed of a single clan.
Impossible to get with bots. If you really want this one, organize it online or find somebody trying to organize one. I recommend the Clan Warfare Achievement Group. They organize sessions every month so that players can earn the achievement en masse.

Collect three gifts dropped by opponents.
For about nine years, this achievement was impossible to get by any means, single player or otherwise. Luckily, Steam user Leeson found a way to obtain the achievement legitimately–even offline.

You can find Leeson’s guide here. I highly recommend checking it out and giving their guide a thumbs up.

Notes/Revision History

If you have lots of CS-savvy friends or simply enjoy the kind of game Counter-Strike: Source brings to the table, then by all means, farm online! If you don’t want to play this game at all, use SAM or any other achievement unlocker! However, as the game’s community inevitably dwindles, it will become harder and harder to legitimately get achievements for the game. This guide attempts to navigate around that issue as a method to help out fellow achievement hunters in the years to come. Enjoy, and please comment if there’s something to be added/removed/edited in this guide. Your feedback is invaluable to me.

• Version 1.2.6: Added information on legitimately obtaining the Gift Grab achievement, thanks to Steam user Leeson. Updated various phrasings. Removed an achievement farming map that was no longer available on GameBanana.
• Version 1.2.5: Updated information in “Miscellaneous Achievements” section.
• Version 1.2.4: Renamed Valve Gift Grab 2011 – CS:S to Gift Grab to reflect recent game updates. Added additional info in “Miscellaneous Achievements” section.
• Version 1.2.3: Added a walkthrough video for Defuse This! provided by Steam user Dontreadthis.
• Version 1.2.2: Added “One-Key Farming” chapter to “Map Achievements” section. Thanks to Bimjee for discovering a quick farming method!
• Version 1.2.1: Added some info for War of Attrition and Clan Warfare. Fixed a typo.
• Version 1.2.0: Added “Achievement Farming Maps” section. Added “Kill Achievements (Part 3)” section. Moved Three the Hard Way, Ten Angry Men and Variety Hour to “Kill Achievements (Part 3)” section. Renamed “Using the Console (WIP)” to “Using the Command Console.” Added several commands to “Using the Command Console” and merged several elements into the rest of the guide as necessary. Updated info for Aerial Necrobatics, Bunny Hunt, Death From Above, Snipe Hunter, Road to Hell, Target Hardened, and Defuse This!. Changed “Broken Achievements” to “Miscellaneous Achievements” and moved Clan Warfare to “Miscellaneous Achievements.” Added info for Killanthropist. Edited “Introduction” section. Super huge thanks to Steam user Hacker?pcs for providing several tips, links and resources for this guide!
• Version 1.1.4: Added descriptions to Give Piece a Chance, Piece Initiative and Piece Treaty for clarity.
• Version 1.1.3: Thanks to Steam user Bjoern90 (DEN) for pointing out that “Phoenix” is actually “Pheonix” in the command list for Dressed to Kill.
• Version 1.1.2: Replaced all reverences to “Run” with “Match” for clarity. Removed Dressed to Kill from “Using the Console”. Edited instructions for Combat Ready, Short Fuse, and Wild Gooseman Chase. Added info for Killanthropist, The Immovable Object, Finishing Schooled, and Kill One, Get One Spree. Moved Mad Props, Magic Bullet, Mercy Rule, and Newb World Order to “Special Achievements (Part 2)”. Fixed some typos.
• Version 1.1.1: Added information for the Happy Camper achievement.
• Version 1.1.0: “Unlisted/Broken Achievements” has been renamed to “Broken Achievements”. Clan Warfare achievement moved to “Special Achievements (Part 1)”. Added information for The Road to Hell, Spray and Pray, Death From Above, Lost and F0wnd, Blood Money, Variety Hour. Gift Grab achievement renamed to Valve Gift Grab 2011 – CS:S.
• Version 1.0.0: Initial publish. Still missing a few achievements.