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

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Post by r9550684 »

jeffwask wrote: post #31
danjoredd wrote: post #12

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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.

source engine is different from goldsrc, and the "feel" of goldsrc goes back to q2 (and some idiosyncrasies from q1). so if you spent several years playing from beta days, or for some people transitioned into cs from even more years of q2 or q1, then source would just be an entirely new experience. there's nothing valve could've done to preserve the right feeling, which is fine. old timers continued playing goldsrc until full blown grown up took over, where's new timers were formed by the conventions of source and further.

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

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Post by hackernewds »

Waterluvian wrote: post #44
MuffinFlavored wrote: post #40

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> but still just used headphones I haven't thought of Ventrilo/Teamspeak in years...

Ohhhh right that reminded me of another anecdote: sound cancellation wasn't really a working tech back then so my Vent buddies hated hearing my game. I would have a little earbud in connected to Vent on my other computer so I could hear them, but they'd always hear my game, so I ended up developing this half-assed skill of speaking only during quiet times.

What is a vent

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

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Post by Waterluvian »

hackernewds wrote: post #62
Waterluvian wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ohhhh right that reminded me of another anecdote: sound cancellation wasn't really a working tech back then so my Vent buddies hated hearing my game. I would have a little earbud in connected to Vent on my other computer so I could hear them, but they'd always hear my game, so I ended up developing this half-assed skill of speaking only during quiet times.

What is a vent

Vent aka. Ventrilo was a group voice chat application from about 20 years ago. You'd log into a server and have different "chat rooms" to be in, and it was voice-centric (and text to speech and many other features).

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

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Post by capableweb »

qbasic_forever wrote: post #56
capableweb wrote: post #35

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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.

It was in the beta days. You could camp the long tunnel on dust and every AWP shot to the terrorist feet as they came down the tunnel (before they could even see you) was an instant kill. It was 'fixed' so you had to hit them in the head for a headshot instant kill.

I guess it was "fixed" so that you had to hit them in the body or above, because a body shot with the AWP would kill someone instantly in 1.6, if I remember correctly.

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

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Post by Moissanite »

bob1029 wrote: post #53

fy_iceworld was my favorite from 1.6. I recall nothing could touch it with regard to rapid, repeatable chaos. I've probably put 500 hours into that one map alone. You will find an almost identical structure in virtually every Call of Duty multiplayer experience - One big room with 4 "cubes" in it that players fight around, with various degrees of partial cover scattered throughout.

Rampant wall-banging on scoutknivez until people call you a hacker was my personal fave.

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

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Post by totoglazer »

Waterluvian wrote: post #44
MuffinFlavored wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> but still just used headphones I haven't thought of Ventrilo/Teamspeak in years...

Ohhhh right that reminded me of another anecdote: sound cancellation wasn't really a working tech back then so my Vent buddies hated hearing my game. I would have a little earbud in connected to Vent on my other computer so I could hear them, but they'd always hear my game, so I ended up developing this half-assed skill of speaking only during quiet times.

Ventrillo, a voice chat program popular for gamers. I guess sort of 2002 era Discord.

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

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Post by yboris »

kapitanjakc wrote: post #20

Alright, let's move out. That's the way it's done. Owned. Follow me. Fire in the hole. Roger that. Affirmative. Ah, negative. Let's go sir. Go Go Go. ..... good stuff

My favorite at the beginning of the game is "get in position and wait for my go" B-)
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