CS:S console commands

Sets how many seconds players stay frozen at the start of each round, time they can use to buy.

Sets how many minutes each round lasts before the round timer runs out.

Sets how much money, in dollars, each player gets at the start of a game or after a restart.

Sets how many minutes after the round starts players can still buy weapons and equipment.

Toggles friendly fire, letting teammates damage and kill each other.

Toggles cheat commands such as noclip, god and bot_zombie on the server.

Sets how many bots the server keeps in the game.

Kicks bots from the server: all of them, a team, a type, a difficulty or one bot by name.

Restarts the game after the given number of seconds, resetting scores, money and the round count.

Toggles letting all players hear each other's voice chat, regardless of team.

Sets how many minutes a map is played before the server changes to the next map.

Sets world gravity, which controls how high players jump and how fast things fall.

Sets how many seconds the planted C4 bomb ticks before it explodes.

Sets how many seconds players can chat on the scoreboard after the map ends, before the next map loads.

Sets the number of kills a single player needs to end the map.

Toggles ignoring the normal round win conditions, so rounds do not end when a team is eliminated.

Toggles ending the map the moment mp_timelimit runs out instead of waiting for the round to end.

Sets the maximum number of rounds played on a map before it changes.

Sets how many round wins one team needs before the map ends.

Prints how much time remains on the current map.

Buys items automatically in the order listed in cl_autobuy, as far as your money allows.

Opens the main buy menu where you pick weapons and equipment.

Sets the list of items autobuy tries to buy, in order.

Buys one of your saved favorite loadouts from the buy menu.

Buys back the same items you had last round, in the order set in cl_rebuy.

Opens the team selection menu.

Ends your own life instantly, a suicide that counts as a death.

Toggles automatically kicking idle players and players who kill too many teammates or hostages.

Toggles automatic team balancing, which moves players when one team has too many.

Toggles fading a player's screen to black when they die.

Toggles whether players can use the flashlight.

Controls who dead players are allowed to spectate.

Restricts human players to one team, CT or T, or allows any team.

Sets how many more players one team may have than the other before joining it is blocked.

Controls which player names appear when you aim at someone.

Shuffles players between the teams randomly and restarts the game.

Sets the window in seconds after a round starts during which a team kill gets the killer kicked.

Swaps the two teams and restarts the game.

Toggles punishing team killers by killing them at the start of the next round.

Adds a bot, optionally choosing its team, weapon type, difficulty and name.

Adds a bot to the Counter-Terrorist team.

Adds a bot to the Terrorist team.

Lets bots use every weapon type again.

Controls how much bots talk on the radio: off, radio, minimal or normal.

Sets the skill level of bots that join the game, from 0 (easy) to 3 (expert).

Toggles stopping bots from firing their weapons.

Toggles whether bots wait for a human to join before entering the game.

Sets which team bots join: any, T or CT.

Restricts bots to using knives only.

Restricts bots to using pistols only.

Sets how bot_quota counts players: normal, fill or match.

Restricts bots to using sniper rifles only.

Toggles freezing all bot processing, so bots stop thinking and moving entirely.

Toggles bots standing idle without attacking, useful as target dummies.

Generates a navigation mesh for the current map so bots can move around it.

Changes the server to another map while keeping players connected.

Changes to the next map in the server's map rotation right away.

Loads the given map, starting a fresh game and disconnecting everyone briefly.

Sets the text file the server reads its map rotation from.

Lists the maps installed on the server, optionally filtered by text.

Sets the map the server changes to when the current map ends.

Sets how quickly players reach full speed when moving on the ground.

Sets how much control players have over their movement in the air.

Toggles removing the speed cap on bunny hopping, so players can gain speed by chaining jumps.

Sets ground friction, which controls how quickly players slow down.

Sets the highest speed players can run at.

Sets how fast you fly while in noclip.

Sets the highest step in units that players can walk up without jumping.

Sets how many flashbangs a player can carry.

Sets how many HE grenades a player can carry.

Sets how many smoke grenades a player can carry.

Toggles the original Counter-Strike: Source grenade damage behavior.

Starts a vote on an issue such as kicking a player or changing the map.

Runs every command in a .cfg file from the cstrike/cfg folder.

Sets the server name shown in the server browser and scoreboard.

Turns server logging on or off.

Changes the maximum number of players allowed on the server.

Sets the file the server loads its message of the day from.

Toggles the game's pause state.

Lists the server plugins that are loaded, such as Metamod:Source.

Closes the game or shuts down the dedicated server.

Toggles the built in player voting system.

Toggles letting players download missing files such as custom maps and sounds from the server.

Toggles letting players upload their custom files, mainly spray logos, to the server.

Sets a web address players download missing files from, known as FastDL.

Toggles LAN mode, which skips Steam authentication and only lets local network players join.

Toggles writing server logs to files on disk.

Sets a password players must enter to join the server.

Toggles whether the game can be paused with the pause command.

Sets or shows how strictly clients must use unmodified game files.

Toggles kicking players whose game files do not match sv_pure rules.

Sets the region the server reports to the server browser so players can filter by location.

Logs the server into a persistent Steam game server account using a login token.

Sets the tags shown for the server in the browser, separated by commas.

Overrides the player limit shown in the server browser.

Sets how many command packets per second you send to the server.

Sets which files you download from servers: all, none, nosounds or mapsonly.

Sets the interpolation delay in seconds used to smooth other players' movement.

Sets interpolation as a multiple of the update interval, the usual way to tune interp.

Toggles server side lag compensation for your shots.

Sets how many updates per second you request from the server.

Joins a server by IP address and port.

Leaves the current server and returns to the main menu.

Adds the given amount of artificial lag in milliseconds to all incoming data.

Shows the network graph with FPS, ping, loss, choke and rates in the corner of the screen.

Sets where the network graph appears on screen.

Sets the maximum data in bytes per second you accept from the server.

Reconnects to the last server you were on.

Sets the highest cl_cmdrate clients may use.

Sets the highest rate in bytes per second the server allows clients to use.

Sets the most updates per second a client can request.

Sets the lowest rate in bytes per second clients may use.

Sets the playback speed of a demo.

Shows or hides the demo playback controls.

Plays back a recorded demo file.

Starts recording a demo from your own point of view.

Ends the demo recording you started with record.

Plays a demo as fast as possible and reports the average FPS, a benchmark.

Toggles automatically recording every game as a SourceTV demo.

Sets the SourceTV broadcast delay in seconds.

Toggles SourceTV, which lets spectators watch the server and lets you record demos.

Sets the SourceTV bot name and the name shown to spectators.

Sets a password spectators need to join SourceTV.

Sets the network port SourceTV listens on.

Starts recording a SourceTV demo with the given file name.

Shows SourceTV status, including spectators, relays and delay.

Stops the SourceTV demo recording.

Transmits your microphone while the bound key is held.

Opens the radio menu with standard radio commands such as cover me and hold this position.

Sends a chat message to everyone on the server.

Sends a chat message only to your team.

Toggles voice chat on the server.

Toggles voice chat for you, both hearing others and talking.

Toggles hearing your own voice when you talk, to test your microphone.

Sets how loud other players' voices are, from 0 to 1.

Bans a player by userid or Steam ID for a number of minutes, 0 for permanent.

Bans an IP address for a number of minutes, 0 for permanent.

Removes a player from the server by name.

Kicks a player by userid or Steam ID, with an optional message.

Lists the Steam IDs on the ban list.

Lists the IP addresses on the ban list.

Sends a command to the server's remote console.

Sets the remote console password that lets admins run server commands remotely.

Removes a Steam ID ban.

Removes an IP address ban.

Shows the map, server address and every connected player with their userid, Steam ID, ping and loss.

Sets how many minutes an IP is banned after too many failed RCON logins.

Sets how many failed RCON logins are allowed before the IP is banned.

Saves permanent Steam ID bans to banned_user.cfg.

Saves permanent IP bans to banned_ip.cfg.

Sets crosshair transparency, from 0 (invisible) to 255 (solid).

Sets the crosshair color to a preset, or 5 to use your own RGB values.

Sets the blue part of a custom crosshair color, from 0 to 255.

Sets the green part of a custom crosshair color, from 0 to 255.

Sets the red part of a custom crosshair color, from 0 to 255.

Toggles a dot in the center of the crosshair.

Sets the resolution the crosshair size is scaled against, kept for old configs.

Sets the length of the crosshair lines.

Sets the thickness of the crosshair lines.

Toggles the freeze cam that shows your killer after you die.

Toggles drawing the entire HUD.

Sets whether the crosshair spreads apart when you move and shoot.

Sets radar transparency from 0 to 255.

Shows your frames per second at the top of the screen.

Toggles showing the crosshair.

Sets how much the weapon bobs while you move.

Sets how fast the weapon bob cycles while you move.

Toggles holding weapons in your right hand or left hand.

Toggles drawing your weapon and arms on screen.

Sets the field of view of your weapon model, which changes how big and close it looks.

Fires your weapon while the bound key is held.

Crouches while the bound key is held.

Jumps while the bound key is held.

Creates a custom command name that runs one or more other commands.

Assigns a command to a key, so pressing the key runs it.

Toggles automatically switching to weapons you pick up if they are better.

Toggles whether the developer console can be opened.

Saves your current settings and binds to config.cfg, or to a file you name.

Toggles switching weapons instantly with the number keys instead of confirming with a click.

Runs an impulse command by number, such as 100 for the flashlight or 201 for a spray.

Switches to the last weapon you were holding.

Sets the game's custom mouse acceleration mode.

Sets how far vertical mouse movement turns you. A negative value inverts the mouse.

Toggles raw mouse input, reading the mouse directly and ignoring Windows pointer settings.

Sets your mouse sensitivity.

Selects weapon slot 1, your primary weapon.

Selects weapon slot 2, your pistol.

Switches a setting between 0 and 1, or cycles through the values you list.

Removes the bind from a key.

Removes every key bind, including movement.

Sets an extra sensitivity multiplier used while scoped in.

Toggles using a single player model per team.

Toggles hiding other players' sprays.

Sets the highest frame rate the game will render.

Sets the HDR lighting level: off, LDR with bloom, or full HDR.

Sets screen gamma, which changes brightness.

Toggles motion blur.

Sets the threading mode of the renderer, which can raise FPS on multicore CPUs.

Toggles vertical sync, which matches the frame rate to your monitor to stop screen tearing.

Toggles drawing the 3D skybox, the distant scenery outside the map.

Removes all bullet holes, blood and sprays from the map on your screen.

Sets the maximum number of decals like bullet holes and blood shown at once.

Takes a screenshot and saves it in the cstrike/screenshots folder.

Toggles footstep sounds through the game rules.

Sets the music volume from 0 to 1.

Toggles muting the game when you alt tab out of it.

Toggles player footstep sounds on the server.

Sets the master game volume from 0 to 1.

Toggles buddha mode, where you take damage but cannot die.

Changes your field of view.

Prints your position and view angles to the console as a ready to use command.

Spawns an item or weapon for you by its entity name.

Gives you a full supply of ammo for the weapon you are holding.

Toggles god mode, making you take no damage.

Sets the speed of the game clock, for slow motion or fast forward.

Toggles noclip, letting you fly through walls.

Sets your view angles to the given pitch and yaw.

Teleports you to the given map coordinates.

Shows where your bullets hit, red boxes for the client and blue for the server.

Toggles showing the lag compensated hitboxes of players you shoot.

Switches to a third person camera behind your player.

Toggles showing your position, angles and speed at the top of the screen.

Wipes all text from the console.

Lists every console variable and command, optionally filtered by a prefix.

Sets how many developer messages are printed to the console and screen.

Lists every setting that is not at its default value.

Searches commands and variables whose name or help text contains the given text.

Shows the help text, default value and flags for a command or variable.