Multiplayer (mp_) and Game Setting Commands

This command changes how much money a player earns for defusing the bomb. It can't give more than the max amount of money you can hold in a specific server.

This cheat command alters how much money a player gets for planting the bomb. You can't earn more than the max money on a specific server.

This command sets the money lost or earned for damaging a hostage. By default this deducts $30 from the player for each time the hostage is damaged, and can be set to deduct even more or to award the player.

This command sets the money earned or lost for getting killed by an enemy. By default this is $0, but can be changed to either award the player or take money from them.

This command sets the money earned or lost for interacting with a hostage. By default this is $150, but can be changed to either award the player more or take money from them.

This command sets how much money is earned or lost by killing an enemy player with a default weapon.

This command sets how much money is earned or lost by killing an enemy player with one of the main weapons (default pistols, primary rifles like the AK/M4, etc)

This console command dictates how much money is earned or lost when a player kills a hostage.

This cheat command sets how much money is earned or lost for killing a teammate.

Sets the money earned or lost for rescuing a hostage safely in hostage mode.

Sets how much money players respawn with.

This console command sets how much money each team member earns when they eliminate all 5 enemies in a bomb defusal map , like Mirage or Dust II.

This console command sets how much money each team member earns on the CT side when they eliminate all 5 Terrorists on a hostage map.

This command sets how much money each Terrorist earns for winning a round in a hostage map by elimination.

This command sets the amount of money earned or lost for a hostage surviving a round. The default is $0.

This console command chooses how much money is earned or lost for a player interacting with a hostage.

This command sets the base cash earned by a team for losing a round. This then rises in set increments, which is controlled by a separate command.

This console command sets the cash increase for a string of losses to climb by. Having this value at $500 (default) means each consecutive lost round awards $500 more than the previous to the losing team, up until 5 lost rounds in a row.

This command sets the amount of money the Terrorist team earns for planting a bomb that is ultimately defused. This stacks along with the round loss bonus. The default value is $800.

This command changes the amount of money that the whole team earns for one player rescuing the hostage.

This command sets the amount of cash won by each player on the Terrorist team when they win a round by the bomb exploding.

This console command sets the amount of money the CT team earns for winning a round by defusing the bomb.

This cheat command changes the amount of money won by team members when they win a round by rescuing a hostage.

This command sets the amount of money that the CT players earn from winning a round by the time running out, meaning the Terrorists didn't get a bomb down or eliminate all the CT's in the required time limit.

This command sets the amount of money won by the team guarding the hostages if they win the round by not allowing any hostages to be rescued within the time limit.

This command is used to change the map you're playing on.

This command changes the map you're playing on into a single player instance. Doing this can cause the map you're trying to load into to freeze.

When this command is enabled, each time you spawn in deathmatch you will have a random weapon.

Use this command to produce a list of the active convars in your current game server, such as bot difficulty and the game mode you're playing.

This command will end the current round. Note that this essentially restart the current round. At the start of the next round, the scores will remain the same (there will not be a winner or loser).

This command sets the multiplier for bullet penetration in friendly fire. Default is 0. If set to the maximum value (1), bullets will have no penetration power.

This command sets the multiplier for bullet damage made to friendly teammates. The amount of normal damage is multiplied by this number. So if you set this to 0.5 and your bullet would've done 20 damage, it'd be 20 * 0.5, which would mean only 10 damage is done in friendly fire. Setting this to 0 would mean bullets do 0 damage to friendly teammates. Note that this command only has an effect when friendly fire is enabled.

This command sets the multiplier for grenade damage from friendly fire. If set to 1, damage would be the same, if set to 0, there would be no damage from grenades thrown by teammates. Note that this command only has an effect when friendly fire is enabled.

This command sets the multiplier for grenade damage from grenades thrown by yourself. Note that this command only has an effect when friendly fire is enabled.

This command sets the multiplier for friendly fire damage made to teammates from things that aren't bullets and grenades. Note that this command only has an effect when friendly fire is enabled.

This command can be used in conjunction with the game_type command to change the type of game you are playing (casual, deathmatch, etc). See argument information for help.

This command can be used with the game_mode command to change the game you are playing (e.g. arms race, competitive, etc). See argument information for combinations and help.

This command will give you the item with the specified item code. Find item codes on our give command list.

This command will top up your ammo to its maximum level for the weapons you currently have.

This fun console command is used to change how much damage molotov and incendiary grenades do . When cheats are activated, you can set this value to be incredibly high or incredibly low.

This console command changes how long the fires burn from molotov and incendiary grenades. It allows you to make them last for just a moment, or for an extended period of time.

This console command changes the distance between separate flame spawns when using molotov and incendiary grenades.

This console command changes the forward reduction factor used in molotov and incendiary grenades.

This command sets how long after you've damaged a teammate with a molotov or an incendiary grenade the server tells you that you've damaged someone on your team.

This command sets how long it takes for a molotov or incendiary grenade to bloom out and reach its maximum spread. If you set this value higher than the time the molotov is active, it will never reach its full size and stay contained to just a small section of where you threw it.

Use this command to set the longest period of time that can pass before a molotov or incendiary grenade's child flames spawn.

This command is used to set the maximum number of flames that can be created from a single molotov or an incendiary grenade.

This command sets the maximum distance that flames from a molotov or incendiary grenade can spread from their initial point of impact with the ground.

This command is the time in seconds that each new flame in an incendiary grenade or molotov will try to create new flames.

You can use this console command to prevent molotovs and incendiary grenades you throw from leaving scorch decals (scorch marks) on the ground once they burn out.

This console command adjusts the angle from which child flames burn to their parent. You can use it to edit slightly the way that molotovs spread when they burn.

This command edits the surface offset used in incendiary grenades and molotovs when they hit the ground and begin burning.

This console command is used to edit the velocity of the decay factor in the flames of molotov and incendiary grenades.

This command adjusts the velocity of molotov and incendiary grenades.

This command sets the normal factor of the velocity for molotov and incendiary grenades.

Use this console command to instantly change the map you're currently playing to a different map.

This command will make the specified map become the background of the main menu. May not work since Panorama mode (new CS:GO UI).

This command starts playing the specified map with commentary.

This command may not work. It should load the specified map in edit mode.

This command sets the bomb damage to the specified value and adjusts the radius to 3.5 the damage amount.

This command shows the bomb radius from the center the map's bomb plant spot(s).

This command will show the map's spawn points. Invalid spawn points will be of the red color (valid are green). Will be hidden after 60 seconds.

If you set this command to 1 (default 0), the same map will be replayed at the end of each game (instead of moving to the next map in the map pool).

This command will set the server's map group to the specified map group. Map groups are the groups of maps that a server will cycle through.

This command prints to console a list of all of the maps you have installed/downloaded.

This command sets the amount of money that is award to every player on every team at the end of each round, regardless of win/loss. Default is 0 (win/loss bonus is set with a different command).

This command sets whether or not the auto kick feature should be enabled. The auto kick feature kicks people for being idle (AFK) and team damage. Default is 1 (enabled).

This command can be used to enable or disable the auto team balance feature. This feature will swap players around teams at the end of a round if there are an unequal amount of players on either time (i.e. if team A has 1 player and team B has 3, at the end of the round, 1 player from team B would be automatically moved over to team A).

This command lists backup round files that match the specified prefix. The order they are listed in is most recent to least recent.

This command sets whether or not the game should be automatically paused when a backed up round is restored. Default is 1 (enabled).

This command will load the specified backup file and restore the game to the round after the last round saved in the backup file. Data saved includes the current scores, player kills, player deaths and player cash.

This command sets whether or not backups are stored in-memory to handle reconnecting players. Default is 1 (enabled).

This command can be used to set the files prefix. If you set a prefix here (other than backup), rounds will be saved to files with the following name format: PREFIX_date_time_team1_team2_mapname_roundnum_score1_score2.txt.

This command will print the name of the latest round backup file that was saved.

This command can be used to change the file name format of backup files. See argument info for help.

This command sets whether or not players can purchase any form of grenade from the buy menu. Default is 1 (enabled).

This command can be used to set whether or not players can access the buy menu when they are outside of the buyzone. Note that they still need to be within the buy time period - you can change the buy time period with mp_buytime.

This command makes it so that players can buy when they are immune, regardless of the current buy time. This is used commonly in deathmatch servers. See argument information for options. Default is 0 (disabled).

This command sets the amount of time (in seconds) that players have after a round starts to purchase items. This is the time period AFTER the round countdown. So players have the countdown at the start of the round (usually 15 seconds), plus this time period to buy.

This command sets how many seconds it takes for the bomb to explode after it has been planted by the terrorists. Default is 40 seconds or 35 seconds, depending on gamemode.

This command sets the amount of time (in seconds) that the scoreboard will show for (or voting time there will be) after a competitive match ends. Default is 15 seconds.

This command sets the default grenades that counter terrorists spawn with. Default is none (0). Separate multiple grenades with spaces.

This command sets the default melee weapon that counter terrorists spawn with at the start of the round. Default is weapon_knife.

This command sets the default primary weapon that counter terrorists spawn with at the start of the round. Default is none (0).

This command sets the default secondary weapon that counter terrorists spawn with at the start of the round. Default is weapon_hkp2000.

This command sets whether or not the C4 (bomb) is droppable. Default is 1 (droppable).

This command sets whether or not defuse kits are dropped on death. Default is 1 (dropped on death).

This command sets which grenade (if any) to drop when a player is killed. See argument information for help. Default is 1 (their best).

This command sets which gun should be dropped when a player is killed. Default is 1 (their best).

This command sets whether or not the deathcam can be skipped. Default is 1 (skippable).

If your map does not have an objective, this command will set who wins the game when the time runs out.

This command can be used to set whether or not players should receive defusers (for free) at the start of the round, and if so, who should receive the defusers.

This command will stop the user with the specified userid from being autokicked. Note that this user id is not their steam ID, the user ID is the number that shows in the "status" command.

This command will set whether or not assists are shown in the killfeed. Default is yes (1).

This command sets the maximum duration of the bonus time in deathmatch. A random time between this value and mp_dm_bonus_length_min will be chosen.

This command sets the minimum duration of the bonus time in deathmatch. A random time between this value and mp_dm_bonus_length_max will be chosen.

This command sets the percentage of extra points that should be added when someone gets a kill with a bonus weapon during the bonus time.

This command sets the maximum time between each bonus time period. A duration between this value and mp_dm_time_between_bonus_min will be randomly chosen.

This command sets the minimum time between each bonus time period. A duration between this value and mp_dm_time_between_bonus_max will be randomly chosen.

This command sets whether or not there should be a warmup period when you are in a private game / offline with bots. Default is no warmup (0). There is a typo in this command in CS:GO - mp_do_warmup_offine is the command, NOT mp_do_warmup_offline

This command sets whether or not there is a warmup period in games. Default is enabled (1). This does not apply to offline with bot games, use the mp_do_warmup_offine (that's not a typo) command instead.

This command prints round timers to the console. Used for debugging.

This command sets how much time (in seconds) players have to vote for the next map at the end of the game.

This command enables and disables the option for players to vote for the next map at the end of the game. Default is 1 (which allows players to vote).

This command sets whether or not the current map is allowed to be voted for at the end of the game. Default is enabled, meaning players can vote again for the same map.

This command can enable or disable the force assignment of teams. If force team assignment is enabled, players do not get a choice of which team to join, they are automatically placed on a team. By default this setting is disabled (players can choose their team).

This command sets the duration, in seconds, that the game will allow for a player to choose a team. After this time period, a team is automatically chosen for them. Default duration is 15 seconds.

This command sets the scope spectators have (i.e. who players can spectate when they die). See argument information for scopes.

This command may not work. It should force all dead players to respawn.

This command does not work. It should force the winning team (or specified team) to win.

This command, if set to 1, will make each player spawn with a vest and if set to 2, will make players respawn with both a vest and a helmet. Default is 0 (no vest or helmet).

This command sets how long players are frozen for at the start of each the round. This freeze time allows players to buy their gear and discuss tactics before the round begins. Default is 15 seconds.

This command can be used to enable and disable friendly fire. When friendly fire is enabled, players can damage their own teammates. The default setting for this command depends on gamemode. Competitive game modes have friendly fire enabled, casual do not.

If you have set mp_ggprogressive_use_random_weapons to enabled (1), this command can be used to set the amount of kills that are required to progress to the next weapon. Default is 2. This is used for gamemodes such as Arms Race (Gun Game).

This command sets how long it takes for an Arms Race (Gun Game) match to restart after someone has won. Default is 15 seconds.

If you enable this setting, in Arms Race mode, random weapons from each progression category will be selected, as opposed to the same weapons.

This command sets the amount of bonus upgrades CTs will be awarded with if and when they defuse a bomb in Arms Race (Gun Game).

This command sets the amount of bonus upgrades Ts will be awarded when they successfully detonate a bomb in Arms Race (Gun Game).

This command sets the amount of kill points required in order for a player to receive a bonus flashbang grenade in Arms Race.

This command sets the amount of kill points required in order for a player to receive a bonus HE grenade in Arms Race.

This command sets the amount of kill points required in order for a player to receive a bonus molotov, or incendiary grenade, in Arms Race.

This command sets the amount of kill points required for a player to receive a weapon upgrade in Arms Race.

This command sets the amount of seconds to delay before the bomb should become available to someone who has respawned in Gun Game (i.e. after respawning, you must wait this duration before being able to use the bomb).

This command sets the amount of bonus points that a player receives, in demolition mode, when a knife kill is the winning kill for the round.

This command sets the halftime "break" or "delay" duration for TR mode. Default is 0 (half time disabled).

This command sets whether or not the half should be ended when a player gets a kill with the final weapon in Arms Race mode.

This command sets how many rounds a player must go without an upgrade before an upgrade is automatically given to them. Default is 3, meaning if a player went for 3 rounds in Arms Race mode without an upgrade, then they would automatically receive an upgrade on the fourth.

This command sets whether or not a player (on T side) should be given a bomb at the start of the round. Default depends on gamemode, for demolition gamemodes, this setting is enabled (1).

This command sets whether or not teams are switched at half time. Default is 1, which is enabled.

This command sets the duration of half time, in seconds.

This command can make it so that the match is paused at half time, and will not resume until unpaused manually. By default this is disabled (0).

This command sets the maximum amount of hostages that should be spawned at the start of the round.

This command sets whether or not extra time should be added to the round if/when a hostage is rescued. Default is 1 (enabled).

This command sets how run speed is affected when you are carrying a hostage. 0.5 = half speed, 1.5 = 150% speed.

This setting, if enabled, makes hostages spawn at the furthest possible location. By default this is set to 0 (disabled).

This command can be used to force spawn positions. Enter each spawn position you wish to be the same every round (the number of the spawn position), with each spawn potion separated by a comma.

This command will set whether or not the location of hostages is randomized each round, or the same throughout the game. Default is 1 (same for entire match).

This command sets whether or not hostages can take damage. Default is 0 (unable to take damage).

This command can be used to restrict non-bot players to a specified team. Default is any team. See argument information for options.

This command can be used to enable and disable round win conditions. If round win conditions are disabled (ignored), then the conditions that would usually make a round end (e.g. bomb exploding, team being eliminated) will no longer make the round end - the round would last forever, until manually ended. By default, this command is disabled (meaning win conditions are not ignored).

This command sets the amount of time (in seconds) that a player can join the game for after a round starts. If they join after this period, they will be added to the spectators until the next round.

This command sets the maximum amount of different in players that there can be between two teams. If this was set to 1, if the CT team had 3 and T team had 2, a new player would not be able to join the CT team. Setting this to 0 disables the check. Default is 2.

This command sets the server "combat" logging setting. See argument information for help.

This command sets whether or not the game should be automatically ended when it is not possible for another team to catch up. For example, in competitive, when a team gets 16 rounds, it would be impossible for the other team to catch up (so the match would be ended). If this setting was set to 0 (disabled), the game would not be ended when 16 rounds were reached. By default is this 1 (enabled).

This command sets whether or not the map should perform a changelevel when the next map is the same map. Default is off (0), meaning scores/etc will be reset at the end of a match, and the map will not be loaded again if it is the same.

This command sets whether or not, at the end of the game, the current game (and map) is simply restarted or if a new map is loaded.

This command sets how long it takes, in seconds, for a match to restart. This countdown is used at the end of a match, not when the mp_restartgame command is used.

This command sets the maximum amount of money that any player can have at a given time. Maximum possible value is 65,535 due to technical limitations.

This command sets the maximum amount of rounds that the server will play for.

This command sets the number of seconds that a player must wait after acquiring a molotov before they can use it.

This command can be used to enable or disable overtime. Overtime is when extra rounds are played out to decide a winner, if the match ends with a tie. By default this is disabled (0). Set the amount of overtime rounds with mp_overtime_maxrounds.

This command can be used to enable or disable the pausing of the match in between each overtime half. If set to 1 (enabled), the match will pause after each overtime half and require a manual unpause before it is resumed. Default is 0 (off).

This command sets the maximum amount of rounds for each overtime session. Half time will be made at half of this value (i.e. at 6 max rounds, half time will be after 3 rounds).

This command sets the amount of cash that players start with at the beginning of each overtime half. Default is 10,000.

This command will pause the match at the end of the current round. Resume with mp_unpause_match.

This command sets whether or not players should be able to earn money for performing in-game actions.

This command sets what players can see in the status bar. See argument information for help.

This command sets the amount of time, in seconds, that the game should wait before showing information in the status bar. Default is 0.

This command sets the amount of seconds the status bar should hold old information for before updating with new information. Default is 0 (always updating).

This command sets who (if anyone) should be able to see the position of both teams on the radar. See argument information for help.

This command sets whether or not players should spawn randomly (e.g. in deathmatch). If not enabled (default for non-deathmatch gamemodes), players will spawn at the map's spawn locations (T or CT spawn, relative to team). See argument information for help.

This command, if enabled, will make the server try to spawn players outside of the line of sight of another player (i.e. spawn players in locations that other players aren't looking at).

This command sets how many seconds players will be immune for after they respawn, used for deathmatch gamemodes. Default is 0 in non-deathmatch gamemodes.

This command will set whether or not counter-terrorists will respawn after dying.

This command will set whether or not terrorists will respawn after dying.

This command sets how often "respawn waves" happen, in seconds, for CT players. Respawn waves respawn all dead players. At 10 seconds, every 10 seconds any dead CT players will be respawned. Requires mp_respawn_on_death_ct to be set to 1.

This command sets how often "respawn waves" happen, in seconds, for terrorist players. Respawn waves respawn all dead players. At 10 seconds, every 10 seconds any dead terrorist players will be respawned. Requires mp_respawn_on_death_t to be set to 1.

This command will restart the game. If you specify a number as a parameter, this amount of seconds will be counted down before the restart happens.

This command sets the delay before the next round starts after a round has been won.

This command sets the maximum amount of minutes that a round takes before it is won/lost. In demolition, after this time is up, the round win is handed to the counter-terrorists. Use decimals for seconds, 1.92 = 1m55s.

If this command is set to 0, mp_roundtime is used for round time. This command sets the amount of time that a round in any bomb-defusal gamemode takes, in minutes. Use decimals for seconds.

If this command is set to 0, mp_roundtime is used for round time. This command sets the amount of time that a round in any hostage gamemode takes, in minutes. Use decimals for seconds.

This command randomizes the teams (switches Ts to CTs and vice versa randomly) and restarts the game.