Keybinds are a big talking point in competitive Counter-Strike, with players often researching the binds of their favourite CS:GO pros to see which actions they map to which keys or buttons.

Recently though, a rather strange discovery using CS:GO’s player radio function has seen players looking for a rather different keybind. It’s not one to aid in gameplay, but one that will instead bewilder your teammates and opposition instead. It has come to be known as the CS:GO moan keybind.

Why is it called that? Well, because with the press of a key, you can trigger the ‘moan’ you hear from a CS:GO character’s death cry. Recently, players have managed to create commands for the player radio that can not only result in your character making some questionable noises, but also produce messages that trick people into thinking you’ve been VAC banned. It’s all rather bizarre.

To make your character moan in CS:GO on demand, you first have to open your in-game command console.

Then you need to decide which key you want to bind the moan to (for the sake of this guide, we’ve chosen the ‘Z’ key), and then input the following command exactly as we have it here:

bind "Z" "playerradio deathcry *moans*"

Of course, the Z is in reference to our own keybind, so replace that with whichever key you want to map the command to. After activating this command, press your desired key and you should see a message appear in the in-game chat saying “RADIO: Moan” and your character will make its death cry noise.

How to use it:

For example, instead of typing this:

playerradio Radio.LocBombA "A bomb site"

type this instead:

bind q "playerradio Radio.LocBombA A_site"

Locations

• playerradio Radio.LocBombA “A bomb site”

• playerradio Radio.LocBombB “B bomb site”

• playerradio Radio.LocBack “In the back”

• playerradio Radio.LocCatwalk “Catwalk”

• playerradio Radio.LocConnector “Connector”

• playerradio Radio.LocEnemySpawn “Enemy spawn”

• playerradio Radio.LocDoor “The Door”

• playerradio Radio.LocDoubleDoors “The double-door”

• playerradio Radio.LocHostageEscapeZone “In the hostage area”

• playerradio Radio.LocFront “Front side”

• playerradio Radio.LocHostage “Hostage!”

• playerradio Radio.LocHut “Hut hut hut”

• playerradio Radio.LocLong “Long”

• playerradio Radio.LocMid “Mid”

• playerradio Radio.LocOverpass “Overpass”

• playerradio Radio.LocPalace “Palace”

• playerradio Radio.LocPlatform “platform”

• playerradio Radio.LocRamp “ramp”

• playerradio Radio.LocSnipersNest “Sniper, get down!”

• playerradio Radio.LocStairs “In the stairs”

• playerradio Radio.LocOurSpawn “Someone’s in our spawn”

Responses

• playerradio Agree “Sure thing”

• playerradio Disagree “A thousand times no”

• playerradio Radio.Compliment “Excellent work”

• playerradio Radio.Sorry “Apologies”

• playerradio ScaredEmote “Mr. Stark, I don’t feel so good”

• playerradio Radio.Thanks “Cheers”

• playerradio Radio.RoundLost “I failed this city”

• playerradio TeamLeadWon “That’s the spirit”

• playerradio TeamLeadLost “We’re throwing”

• playerradio WonRound “More of these, please”

Combat status

• playerradio Radio.ImAttacking “Attack!”

• playerradio CoveringFriend “I’ll cover you”

• playerradio PinnedDown “I’m surrounded”

• playerradio InCombat “I’m under fire”

• playerradio FriendlyFire “Don’t shoot me, lol”

• playerradio LastManStanding “They’ve only got one left”

Taking out enemy players

• playerradio KilledMyEnemy “Got ’em”

• playerradio Radio.MyHeadshot “Another head for my collection”

• playerradio Radio.IKilledSniper “Their sniper is down”

• playerradio SniperKilled “They don’t have a sniper anymore”

• playerradio Radio.SawHeadshot “Great shot there, bud”

Spotting enemy players

• playerradio Radio.EnemySpotted “I just saw an enemy”

• playerradio SniperWarning “Watch out, they have a sniper”

• playerradio SpottedBomber “There’s the bomb carrier”

• playerradio ThreeEnemiesLeft “Three enemies left”

• playerradio TwoEnemiesLeft “Two enemies left”

• playerradio OneEnemyLeft “One enemies left”

• playerradio Clear “All clear”

Bomb status

• playerradio GoingToGuardLooseBomb “I’m guarding the bomb”

• playerradio BombsiteClear “This bombsite is clear”

• playerradio SpottedLooseBomb “Bomb’s on the floor”

• playerradio Radio.PickedUpC4 “I got the bomb”

• playerradio Radio.PlantingAtA “I’m planting A”

• playerradio Radio.PlantingAtB “I’m planting B”

• playerradio Radio.WePlanted “The bomb’s planted”

Team commands

• playerradio Radio.StickTogether “Stick together”

• playerradio Radio.FollowMe “Follow me”

• playerradio Radio.SpreadOut “Don’t stack on top of each other”

• playerradio Radio.TeamFallBack “Get back”

• playerradio Radio.GoGoGo “LEEEROOOOY!”

• playerradio Radio.LocHostage “Someone get the hostage”

• playerradio WaitingForHumanToDefuseBomb “Defuse that bomb, this instance”

• playerradio Radio.EcoRound “We should eco”

• playerradio Radio.SpendRound “We should spend this round”

• playerradio Radio.NeedLeader “Who will lead us to victory?”

• playerradio Radio.NeedPlan “Any plans for the round?”

• playerradio Radio.NeedDrop “Can I have a weapon?”

• playerradio Radio.NeedQuiet “Be quiet!”

• playerradio Radio.CoverMe “Cover me”

• playerradio help “I need help”

• playerradio Radio.HoldPosition “Freeze”

Misc

• playerradio Radio.NeedDecoy “Need a Decoy”

• playerradio Radio.NeedSmoke “Need a Smoke”

• playerradio Radio.NeedFire “Need a Fire”

• playerradio Radio.NeedGrenade “Need a Grenade”

• playerradio Radio.NeedFlash “Need a Flashbang”

• playerradio Radio.Decoy “I threw in a decot”

• playerradio Radio.Smoke “Smoke Em”

• playerradio Radio.Molotov Fire “Do not drink this”

• playerradio Radio.FireInTheHole “Grenade out”

• playerradio Radio.Flashbang “Flashbang out”

• playerradio DeathCry “Let the world end now, it matters not to me”

• playerradio AgreeWithPlan “Sounds good”

• playerradio WonRoundQuickly “Good Job”

• playerradio RequestReport “Team, give info please”

• playerradio radio.cheer “*cheers*”

• playerradio HeardNoise “I heard an enemy”

• playerradio killedFriend “Sorry mate”

• playerradio WhereIsTheBomb “Where is bomb?”

• playerradio TheyPickedUpTheBomb “They got the bomb”

• playerradio GuardingLooseBomb “I’m guarding the bomb”

• playerradio EscortingHostages “I’ve got the hostages with me”