Money and finances play an important role in winning a game of Counter-Strike. Buying avid weaponry and equipment will help teams win rounds, so it is almost inevitable that you will have to buy some sort of weapon or gear at the start of every round.
Since buying stuff is a recurring process in a Counter-Strike game, you can make your life easier by setting up buy binds to purchase your weapons and gear faster. In this article, we’ll go over how you can make CSGO buy binds.
What Are CSGO Buy Binds?
As the name suggests, buy binds are sets of commands attached to a button on your keyboard that will purchase specific items from the buy menu when pressed.
To put it simply, you can set several buy binds that purchase various weapons and gear, and press the dedicated button to buy the contents in an instant. It is very useful if you buy the same items over and over again, and saves you a few clicks and effort.
Having buy binds will also ensure that you won’t accidentally buy the wrong items from the shop, although you can sell items now.
How To Set Up CSGO Buy Binds?
Buy binds are related to your Counter-Strike settings, so everyone has the right to mess with them. However, you must have the developer console enabled, which can be performed through the in-game settings.
After you have activated the console, you can start creating buy binds using console commands. Here’s how you can do that:
- Ensure your developer console is enabled.
- Open your console by pressing the tilde key (~) on your keyboard.
- Now, make buy binds using a combination of the “bind” and “buy” commands.
- Once you have set up the command, hit Enter.
Understanding CSGO Buy Command
As mentioned earlier, there are two commands you must use to set up a buy bind: “bind” and “buy”. After using those two commands, you must also prepare the hotkey and items you are going to purchase.
As a result, the format for setting up buy binds is always the same: bind “[key]” “buy [weapon code]”.
You can also set up a buy bind to purchase multiple items at once. For example: bind “[key]” “buy ak47; buy molotov”.
Now that we understand how the buy command works, it is important to remember that buttons, weapons, and gear will have their own dedicated codes to input into console commands.
Codes For CSGO Weapon Names
Here is a list of all the codes for Counter-Strike weapons and gear:
Weapons
- glock – Glock 20
- hkp2000 – P2000
- p250 – P250
- elite – Dual Elites
- deagle – Desert Eagle/Deagle
- tec9 – Five Seven
- tec9 – Tec 9
- mp9 – MP9
- mac10 – Mac 10
- mp7 – MP7
- p90 – P90
- bizon – PP-19 Bizon
- ump45 – UMP.45
- nova – Nova
- xm1014 – XM 1014
- mag7 – MAG 7
- sawedoff – Sawed Off
- Machine Guns:
- negev – Negev
- m249 – M249
- sg008 – SG 008 Sniper/Scout
- awp – AWP Sniper
- ak47 – AK 47
- galilar – Galil
- sg556 – SG 556
- g3sg1 – G3 SG1
- famas – Famas
- m4a1 – M4A4
- m4a1-s – M4A1 Silenced
- aug – AUG
- scar20 – Scar 20
Grenades
- hegrenade – HE Grenade
- flashbang – Flashbang
- smokegrenade – Smoke Grenade
- decoy – Decoy Grenade
- molotov – Molotov (T Only)
- incgrenade – Incindiary Grenade (CT Only)
Gear
- defuser – Defuse Kit
- vest – Kevlar
- vesthelm – Kevlar and Helment
Codes For Numpad Keys
Generally, most players assign their CSGO buy binds to their numpad keys, which are on the right-side of their keyboards. Since these keys won’t be used for gameplay, they are incredibly useful for buy binds:
- Arrow Keys end in the direction arrow
- Number Lock = numlock
- Slash = kp_slash
- Multiply = kp_multiply
- Minus = kp_minus
- Home = kp_home
- End = End
- Page Up = kp_pgup
- Page Down = kp_pgdn
- 5 = kp_5
- Plus = kp_plus
- Enter = kp_enter
- Ins = kp_ins
- Delete = kp_del
If you are not going to use numpad keys to assign to buy binds, you can use general keys which are spelled as they are on the keyboard.
CSGO Buy Binds Example
Now that every component of buy binds have been explained, let’s demo some examples of buy binds:
- bind kp_1 “buy ak47; buy vesthelm; buy flashbang; buy molotov”
- bind kp_2 “buy deagle; buy vest; buy smokegrenade”