How to create Custom Radio Commands in CS:GO

May 2022 · 5 minute read

Good aim and tactical knowledge of the maps are two of the most important factors when it comes to climbing CS: GO’s ranked ladder. You’ll need to hold your own against the enemy team, even pulling off clutch rounds to save the day from time to time.

Though your mechanical skills will do most of the work during intense moments, you can put yourself in more advantageous positions by communicating with your teammates. The voice chat feature will be the best way to feed information to your team while also receiving some in return.

Using the in-game voice chat may not always be possible, however. If you’re playing late at night or using a headset without a microphone, you may need to rely on the old chat box which is one of the least efficient ways of communicating in gaming.

This is where CS: GO’s radio commands come into the game. Radio commands will allow you to communicate with your team as fast as possible, even if you don’t have a microphone. Though you’ll be able to tell only so much with radio commands, it’ll still be better than typing.

Here’s how you can create custom radio commands in CS:GO.

Get familiar with the in-game console

Back in the early days of CS:GO, not all the options were available in the game’s options menu. Handy players had to customize most of their settings with unique console commands.

You’ll need the help of CS:GO’s console to create custom radio commands. By default, you should be able to bring up the console by pressing the “~” key on your keyboard. If nothing shows up, you’ll need to head over to options and navigate to the Game tab. Once you’re there, find the “Enable Developer Console” option and turn it on.

After turning it on, you’ll be able to launch it by pressing “~.”

Decide on your hotkeys

For maximum efficiency, you’ll need to bind your custom radio commands to reachable hotkeys. After deciding on the hotkeys, you’ll also need to come up with a sentence that fits the voice command.

Here’s an example:

After typing bind, you can enter any key that you’d like to use as your hotkey and you’ll need to type in the command and your customized sentence inside quotation marks. Considering there are more than a handful of voice commands available in CS:GO, the options will be endless.

You can always customize all of them and have some funny quotes ready to go. Focusing on the most crucial ones can be a better idea, however, since you’ll only have a limited number of keys on your keyboard.

Voice commands that are call-outs or requests should have higher priority than others since they’ll directly contribute to your team’s success.

If you’d like to use the radio command interface instead of binding hotkeys, you’ll need to get rid of the bind command along with the key of your choice. Your command should look like the following:

Without the binding part out of the equation, you’ll only need to use quotation marks at the end of the command where you’d type in your customized message. Whenever you use a voice command, your character will still speak out the pre-recorded messages but your team will be able to read your customized messages through the in-game chat. The only reason this is more efficient then typing is that you’ll be spending a lot less time to activate one of these commands compared to typing.

Here are all the voice commands in CS:GO that you can customize like the examples above.

Locations

Responses

Combat status

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Taking out enemy players

Spotting enemy players

Bomb status

Team commands

Misc

If Valve ever adds more radio commands to the game, you’ll be able to customize them as well. You’ll need to open up the radial_radio.txt file located inside CS:GO’s game files and find the command you’d like to change.

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