Yeah, I know about that, its just a pain to have to go through that. People on consoles wont be able to do that though. I just find the weapon purchase system to be inconvenient, and obviously in real life individual SWAT Team members don't purchase guns and ammo before they do a raid. There were so many times on CSS where I didn't have much money and so I was stuck with a handgun while all the pros(cheaters) with aimbots had automatic weapons.

@ Panda and tdrules

I actually love the actual gameplay of Counter Strike, but this is the only thing that bugs me. Just for the record tdrules, the gamemodes that I prefered in Socom were the ones where you couldn't respawn, but you could still set up your weapon classes :) I don't find running around with a handgun due to not having any other option very satisfying when many of my opponents have automatic weapons. Panda, I've got a close friend who says the same thing as you about the game not being CS without weapon purchasing. I'll give the new CS a try, but I'll have to force myself to get into it.

I like the way the system works. It rewards you for playing well. And it punishes you for being too greedy as you can blow all you money on a sniper-deagle-nade-kevlar+helm loadout and lose it all on a single guy killing you.

Besides, I find that I usually have enough for at the least some dualies, dealgle, or MP5 due to the $1,000 (I think, can't remember as it's been a few weeks) you get at the end of a round no matter what. The glock works really well if you can land headshots easily.

Plus isn't there a button to rebuy everything that you purchased in the previous round?

Yes, and you can have a handful of pre-set loadouts per team.