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browser FPSs will never take off due to complete lack of protection from cheating, and cheating is the core implementation issue with FPSs.
How is it that running in a browser is inherently unprotected? Sure, they don't usually have the thousands of man-hours dedicated to cheat detection, but the basics are usually sorted out.
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> How about being able to play with your friends after just handing them a link? Native 1.6 doesn't even run on my computer at all. This is actually one of the major selling points for Cloud Gaming. Although it still has a lot of issues to be adressed before getting into the mainstream, this is exactly what it promises. Just sending your friends an invite link and get them to sign up is a much more pleasant experienc…
I always thought the cloud gamming is really just a way to move gammers to "subscriptions" instead of one time purchases, in the end milking more money and taking more control from them just like Adobe did with their creative products.
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actually binary websockets won't do in this case since the underlying protocol is still TCP with automatic retransmission mechanism which kills performance for very fast-paced games. You have to use WebRTC in that case
So there's no reason to use binary commands when using something like socket.io?
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While plenty of people will likely move over to Valorant, as someone who's played a bit I think there is still a distinct difference between the two games. The main thing shared between the two is the feel while shooting. It's hard to explain, but you feel the "weight" of the gun and it's rate of fire really well and it's satisfying when you land shots. But, the abilities, while not overly broken, does change the fee…
Valorant is already dying. I doubt it will do anything to displace CSGO. If anything the toxic and racist community GabeN has cultivated will do CSGO in before a competitor will best them in gameplay.
The Internet has been "toxic and racist" since, oh, the first chat room...
Kiddies in a game can't hurt you. Worry about the important shit, like being killed or thrown in a cage by law enforcement.
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 !
I think mad props are due to people figuring out how to port non-trivial, closed-source applications to browser javascript environments.
It's hard to figure out which server I'd want to play when they don't show pings in the server browser
> they don't show pings in the server browser Pings are more complicated in this setup. A low ping to a server won't help too much if you have high ping to the online client itself. Are there different clients in different locations so you can select a low-ping client?
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Valorant is already dying. I doubt it will do anything to displace CSGO. If anything the toxic and racist community GabeN has cultivated will do CSGO in before a competitor will best them in gameplay.
Seriously sick of hearing this. The Internet has been "toxic and racist" since, oh, the first chat room... Kiddies in a game can't hurt you. Worry about the important shit, like being killed or thrown in a cage by law enforcement.
In any respectable community, those sorts of people tend to get unceremoniously ejected from the community - from IRC channels to web forums to community-run game servers of old.
Now, games are match-made and game companies are pretty much forced to exercise discretion about what kind of community they want to have playing their game. Personally, I no longer have the patience for losing 30+ minutes of my life to a game that was lost because there's a 3-stack on my team who do nothing but throw, team-kill and think they're the height of comedy because they say offensive things or have a swastika as their profile picture.
I sunk many hours of my life into this beautiful, beautiful game (starting at the tail end of 1.5, however!) and sometimes tune in to watch CS:GO competitive matches. I know Valorant is apparently stepping up as a spiritual successor to Counter-Strike, but I just love this game for it's emphasis on pure skill, and I really am surprised few other games have come as close as 1.6 to perfecting a team-based FPS that land…
What areas does CS:GO fall short in when compared to 1.6?
I sunk many hours of my life into this beautiful, beautiful game (starting at the tail end of 1.5, however!) and sometimes tune in to watch CS:GO competitive matches. I know Valorant is apparently stepping up as a spiritual successor to Counter-Strike, but I just love this game for it's emphasis on pure skill, and I really am surprised few other games have come as close as 1.6 to perfecting a team-based FPS that land…
What areas does CS:GO fall short in when compared to 1.6?