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This could serve as a demonstration what a long way way web sockets/rtc/channels still have to go, since the experience is much worse even considering the ping compared to 20 year old netcode.
As often, the keybindings use a QWERTY-centric layout, that doesn't make much sense if that's a different keyboard, and no obvious way to change it. The steam controller API is nicely designed: you define actions, and let the user pick a way to trigger those actions. I think there are predefined ones that already have mappings for common input devices. The API then returns an image and name to correctly prompt the us…
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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.
No. The cracked version(s) that are played in schools and whatnot are usually just a zip file you extract and run.
I like how they have Russia as the flag of Europe despite most of the country not even being in Europe, most people would use the EU flag but I guess this is CS 1.6 so they are most likely a fair few Russians about.
I like how they have Russia as the flag of Europe despite most of the country not even being in Europe, most people would use the EU flag but I guess this is CS 1.6 so they are most likely a fair few Russians about.
Most of the land isn't in Europe but most of the population is and I daresay Russians outnumber other nationalities on European servers.
Western Russia connects to Sweden or Poland. Northern European and Eastern European countries connect through the same nodes.
Connections within Valve network are handled internally (since they can tune it for better latency, etc.) and you don't even know where the actual game server is hosted. So there is always a big mix of players no matter where you are in Europe.
Fun thought: it depends on how much throughput can be handled by Starlink, but Valve could waste some money on it to bring players closer from further away. They already have the dynamic, latency based entry node selection set up. If they hooked up some of the internal network through Starlink, it could be amazing low latency cross-continent gaming. And games like CS:GO and Dota 2 doesn't require too much bandwidth.
It took me almost a minute until I started to play. The rotation with a mouse was very slow (you have to move the mouse by a huge distance). I prefer to play https://www.krunker.io , where you can play immediately :)
Going 20 minutes already on a fast connection... still downloading things. Very ominous.
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.