Banshee — cso

Banshee is a female zombie introduced in Zombie: The Hero: The Origins patch in Counter-Strike Online.

Background

No one has ever witnessed the banshees, only rumors. It is said that the witch who instigated the pagan group was resurrected as a zombie after her death, using the ability of a magic series to capture multiple targets at a distance.

Advantages

Can pull humans using pulling ability
Able to jump higher with the High Jumping ability
Generally fast movement speed and high jump height
50% damage reduced while using the pulling skill

Disadvantage

Cannot use pulling ability while crouching
Low knockback resistance
Easy to perform headshots due to her appearance
Failing to drag a human will result in revealing your position
Unable to move when using the pulling ability

Abilities

Icon	Name	Description
	Pulling	Fires bats in the direction the player is aiming. Bats flock back to humans near their hit locations. Reduces damage taken by skill by 50%. Draw bonus points in proportion to the number of humans that hit the bat.
	Jump Enhancement	Higher jump height for 5 seconds.

Gameplay

Tactics

Use the Pulling skill to take out the humans who have the strongest weapons. This is especially very useful to take out the Hero and Heroine. Note that this skill will also pull other humans who are near the target.
The flock of bats will pass through your teammates and go directly towards the crosshair.
Use the High Jumping skill to get onto higher places.

Counters

When you see the Banshee idle temporarily, it may indicate that it is ready to use the Pulling skill. Shoot it temporarily first to make it retreat.
The Banshee has a delay time while using the Pulling skill, so always pay close attention to it when it is standing and looking for targets.
Interrupting a Banshee when she is about to launch the Pulling skill will make her not able to aim properly and miss the target.

Events

This zombie class was released alongside Zombie: The Hero: The Origins on:

Singapore/Malaysia: 23 May 2012 with Salamander.
Indonesia: 23 July 2012 with Fernando and Blair.

This zombie was released alongside Free Update on:

CSN:Z: 8 January 2015.
Vietnam: 26 March 2015.

Gallery

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Trivia

In Indonesia region, Banshee pulling skill was translated wrongly as "Pooling".
In Zombie: The Union, Banshee used to have 800 health points (1300 with Strong Lifepower) but now it has 1000 (1500 with Strong Life Power) and 200 (250 with Strong Life Power).
- In Zombie: The Union, instead of pulling the enemy closer, the [Pulling] ability will damage the enemy. It can also be used on zombies.
While using the [Pulling] ability, Banshee will not be able to move until the bats miss or fail to grapple a player.
Banshee does not make an appearance in Zombie Scenario, the same fate is shared with Jiang Shi and Stamper.
Player can clearly see that there are flesh and bones inside her clothes when she is performing her [Pulling] ability, or by standing beneath her.
- There is a bug where if the Banshee uses the [Pulling] ability before a round ends, the effect will continue in to the next round.
Before the Zombie Mode Rework patch, Banshee used to have another skill known as [Chaos/Confusion] that allowed it to disguise her teammates and herself as human players to confuse the opposing team. It was then replaced by the current [High Jumping] skill.
- Also, after this patch, its movement speed has been increased, while the jump height and armor have been decreased slightly.
- Possibly because, when the skill takes effect the human perspective zombies' player models will change to GSG-9 human player models, and in Zombies mode human players are more inclined to use fancy buff player models, rendering the skill virtually useless and obsolete.
For some reason, view models for the host variant can be found within game files, but they are unused.
Banshee can pull multiple Human at the same time if they are close to each other.