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Re: Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser

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Post by jeffwask » Thu, Feb 02, 2023, 4:35 PM UTC

danjoredd wrote: post #12

dopeboy wrote: post #7

CS before it went downhill. Played so much de_dust (before de_dust2 became popular) from the beta days to 1.6.

When did it go downhill? I thought CS: Source was great fun. Didn't really care for CS:Go

Source wasn't well received by a portion of the community. The community bisected for a while with some folks staying on 1.6. I don't recall everything behind the 20+ year old drama but it was a thing. Source eventually won out and the rest is history.

Re: Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser

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Post by capableweb » Thu, Feb 02, 2023, 4:35 PM UTC

gwill wrote: post #16

this would have been great during high school. we had to install it to thumb drives in order to play.

My son specifically got into computer security as he found it more fun to figure out how to get around various security policies and whatnot in his school in order to figure out how to play games (with CS 1.6 being the most popular at his school at that time).

Re: Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser

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Post by ghostpepper » Thu, Feb 02, 2023, 4:35 PM UTC

dopeboy wrote: post #7

CS before it went downhill. Played so much de_dust (before de_dust2 became popular) from the beta days to 1.6.

If you played the betas I wonder if you remember beta 7 and the jeepathon2k map. Not many people know that CS had driveable vehicles for a short time. It was pretty silly but a lot of fun.

Re: Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser

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Post by EliRivers » Thu, Feb 02, 2023, 4:36 PM UTC

I still have a copy of the alpha release version of CounterStrike here somewhere. As I recall, probably as a self-extracting exe but maybe a zip file, and it was about 8 megabytes; that's not quite so amazing as it sounds, as it was purely a mod for Half-Life and sat on top of an existing Half-Life installation.

I should check that it's available in historical repositories and if not, see where I can send it for posterity.

Re: Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser

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Post by capableweb » Thu, Feb 02, 2023, 4:38 PM UTC

qbasic_forever wrote: post #11

creaturemachine wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shots penetrating meter-thick stone walls. Good times.

Sniper bullet to the foot just as instantly deadly as to the head too.

I don't think that was true, even the AWP (highest damage in the game) wouldn't kill people if you shot them in the legs or below. I think at least, was a long time ago I last played the game. Scout was even worse, only headshots would one-shot someone.

Re: Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser

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Post by __henil » Thu, Feb 02, 2023, 4:39 PM UTC

eptcyka wrote: post #14

Crashes firefox.

crases for me as well.

I am running firefox nightly version 109.0a1

Re: Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser

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Post by jeffwask » Thu, Feb 02, 2023, 4:40 PM UTC

jeffwask wrote: post #22

tukantje wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am not sure if this is made with source engine, would it still have bunny hop if not?

I honestly can't recall when that was fixed. It's just such an embedded counterstrike memory. My second tech job IT setup an internal counter strike server and a bunch of us would play at lunch or after work until someone yelled at us for screaming at each other over the cube walls.

Nothing quite like hearing, "Fuck you, you fucking camper" echo across the office floor at noon.

Re: Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser

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Post by r9550684 » Thu, Feb 02, 2023, 4:40 PM UTC

Waterluvian wrote: post #27

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #17

Met what ended up being a great friend in real life somewhere in some random IRC room looking for a 5th member to join my friend's group He had a special CRT monitor to get the best refresh rate to be as competitive as possible for the game Feels like a lifetime ago

I was always amused by how many of my friends got crazy monitors but still just used headphones. Surround sound for 1.6 made the game incredibly unfair. Being able to hear specifically in what direction and volume footsteps were coming from was basically a wallhack. I would often use headphones because parents weren't the biggest fans of hours of that a night, and it was so crippling. Funny enough, my semi-pro career…

sound blaster at some point allowed you to emulate exaggerated "3d sound" polyphony. I distinctly remember a control panel, where you could drag around surround sound speakers and it would attempt to emulate them in headphones.

Re: Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser

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Post by lqet » Thu, Feb 02, 2023, 4:43 PM UTC

To this day, I still have exact intuition for the time span between "Fire in the hole!" and "Boom".

Re: Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser

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Post by MuffinFlavored » Thu, Feb 02, 2023, 4:44 PM UTC

Waterluvian wrote: post #27

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #17

Met what ended up being a great friend in real life somewhere in some random IRC room looking for a 5th member to join my friend's group He had a special CRT monitor to get the best refresh rate to be as competitive as possible for the game Feels like a lifetime ago

I was always amused by how many of my friends got crazy monitors but still just used headphones. Surround sound for 1.6 made the game incredibly unfair. Being able to hear specifically in what direction and volume footsteps were coming from was basically a wallhack. I would often use headphones because parents weren't the biggest fans of hours of that a night, and it was so crippling. Funny enough, my semi-pro career…

> but still just used headphones

I haven't thought of Ventrilo/Teamspeak in years...