100% free to play, but competitive is locked till you reach level 21, but until you reach level 21, you can play everything which isn’t competitive, and once you reach level 21, you are automatically upgraded to prime level btw
in addition, if you don’t pay for the operation, you can still participate in everything gameplay related; you just won’t get the rewards, which you can either sell for money or use as cosmetics
the only limitation is you can’t participate in competitive queue specific to operation pass holders, but how does that matter? you can play competitive regardless in regular queue on the same maps, and operation pass holders can also queue in regular queue (and often do so they don’t take the chance of having to play a map they won’t like)
you can’t team kill in casual cuz friendly fire is off, and if you do it in competitive, you’ll get auto-banned immediately if you do it in spawn and at the 3rd kill otherwise
no, but you can queue with friends and choose opposite sides and try to game the system that way if you want
honestly, all of that isn’t necessary, it’s a free to play game, so plenty of 10-year-olds too
as for the win rounds missions, for example, you can get 0 kills and still easily get those, same thing with the earn X money ingame and choose enemy cards in retakes etc.
there’s also co-op-specific missions btw, but those only reward 1 star, so it’s not rly worth it, but it’s nice to play through with a friend, though quite challenging as well. Bots are not always to deal with, especially in number
I finally got NFS: Most Wanted to run; I just can’t play Career or run certain challenges because it crashes when going into free roam. Ah, well…until I get better PC hardware I’m stuck with what I can do with this.
Today, after being an Alienware Arena member for almost four years, and after over eight months of completing all of their tasks every single day, I have finally received the ultimate reward.
It’s been calling me for the past two weeks as it appeared on the horizon, but today it’s finally here.
It’s all mine:
1 year has now passed since my investment, and though I would now not be able to make a real profit on them, I would now be able to sell my cases for $40 net, meaning after steam tax, which is a positive in itself.
but just as an example of what I’m trying to do here, this following case had been stuck at 0.03 on steam market for 5 years; suddenly, 2 years ago, it started rising again (because they stopped dropping ingame [except extremely rarely], which eventually happens with all of them). Had anyone bought 1,000 of those then, for a total of $30, they’d now be able to sell them for a total net profit of $1,020.
I had a crash today going to work and severely injured my arm, smashed my head quite a bit on the pavement and probably hurt my neck a lot more than I am feeling right now. I can only be thankful the bike ain’t broken and pray I didn’t aggravate my old neck injury.
you can’t team kill in casual cuz friendly fire is off, and if you do it in competitive, you’ll get auto-banned immediately if you do it in spawn and at the 3rd kill otherwise 
points flying around posts like crazy 
