Kisak-Strike: Gentoo Offensive – LWSS Blog – Basement Dweller

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2023-06-03 15:00:04

Back in late April of 2020, the source code of CSGO and TF2 were leaked. Since then, I’ve been working with the CSGO source code personally on a project that I call Kisak-Strike: Gentoo Offensive.

The Goal of Kisak-Strike is 100% open source CS:GO from the 2017-era for perservation, enthusiast use, and long term maintenance.

April 22nd, 2020 - Rumor of a CSGO source code leak spreads around various groups. At first this was hard to believe, but as the day progressed, a mega.nz link materialized and it was obviously true.

The leaks come from a Valve fanatic youtuber known as the Valve News Network(VNN). I don’t really care for his videos much, but apparently his relationship with Valve is closer than he portrays in his videos. VNN and his group of goons had gotten buddy-buddy enough with Valve to secure a Source Engine Partner relationship, something quite rare and normally only given to professional developers for games like: Titanfall, Insurgency, Vampire: The Masquerade, and a few others.

Anyone can use the Source Engine 2013 SDK, but it only contains headers for precompiled libraries. It isn’t possible (without binary hacks) to modify the behavior/code of the engine because the Source Code is not included. A Partner relationship is more advanced and grants access to the Source Engine Source.