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This seems like quite the achievement. Can't crouch and walk forward though (ctrl+w), nor is it anywhere close to the performance of say cs:go at least in terms of input lag.
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On the other hand, they don't require admin rights, disk space or installation time, and are platform independent (including for example chromebooks)
The first two are trivially solved by portable applications (AppDirs, Application Bundles, AppImage, etc.). Platform independence is only kinda true, as many of these things don't actually function correctly on anything but Chrome, so they effectively target just one platform.
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On the other hand, they don't require admin rights, disk space or installation time, and are platform independent (including for example chromebooks)
I'm all for web apps, but does CS actually require admin rights? > disk space CS just downloaded 185mb of network resources for me to play. I would have thought those resources are stored on my disk, and not just in memory. > installation time That 185mb of resources took ~1 minute to download. By the time it had finished, it told me the server was full. Regardless this is still very impressive.
But I'm sure more people played this right now because of the low barrier to entry.
And the admin rights might not even be technical. Not a lot of people are fond of installing games on the laptop from work.
But like I said, everything has tradeoffs.
Wow, this is really cool. I wonder if in the future, everything will run on the browser, and most software doesn't care about the OS at all. There's even a xkcd comic about this[0]. [0] https://xkcd.com/934/
The real beauty of the web is to be able to jump into something just by following a link and that lets you do some really fun things. For example we recently collaborated with the streamer Day[9] to build this swarm game* he played with his audience. That basically requires the ease of access you get from the web experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs1p22oI_V4
* - The whole game was also built from inside a browser.
I love how people like to make browser versions of everything. From chat apps to email clients to games. But they all end up consuming 10x the memory but are still 10x slower than their native counterparts !
On the other hand, they don't require admin rights, disk space or installation time, and are platform independent (including for example chromebooks)
https://wicg.github.io/web-transport/
You can experiment with the initial draft version of QuicTransport today:
browser FPSs will never take off due to complete lack of protection from cheating, and cheating is the core implementation issue with FPSs.
Sure, they don't usually have the thousands of man-hours dedicated to cheat detection, but the basics are usually sorted out.