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

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Post by anthk »

zactato wrote: post #167

I remember playing one of the early CS betas as a Half-life mod in ~1999. It was such a huge leap in gameplay and style from anything else out there. Most FPSs up to this point were SciFi based, guns like the BFG and plasma guns. Counterstrike's focus on realism really altered how you connected with the game. Columbine had happened very recently and was still very much in the zeitgeist. There was a very real cultural…

Doom users did what you say on creating real life based environments before, to be honest. And, yes, FPS where scifi based but the Delta Force series had more realism than CS itself.

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

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Post by qup »

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.

I ran a 24/7 Iceworld server in my bedroom.

The latency advantage was real.

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

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Post by rco8786 »

zactato wrote: post #167

I remember playing one of the early CS betas as a Half-life mod in ~1999. It was such a huge leap in gameplay and style from anything else out there. Most FPSs up to this point were SciFi based, guns like the BFG and plasma guns. Counterstrike's focus on realism really altered how you connected with the game. Columbine had happened very recently and was still very much in the zeitgeist. There was a very real cultural…

> My friends and I would build CounterStrike maps that were the layout of our highschool

Ah yes, forgotten artifacts of an innocent past.

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

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Post by anthk »

nerdponx wrote: post #130
bob1029 wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMO, the latest COD is really bad with regard to how the game feels to play. There is still some sort of shitty e-sports objective that is being optimized for and no one in charge seems to care. If you go back to something as recent as COD Vanguard, you will find the gunplay is likely closer to what you recall. I play in lobbies like Ship Haus 24/7 to get myself warmed up. It is really hard to feel competent dropping…

I recently started playing Urban Terror after seeing it posted here. The gunplay, weapon design, and map design all remind me a lot of CS as well (I never played Quake 3 so I have no reference point there).

Urban Terror it's like CS mixed with Hollywood action movies from Bruce Willis and such.

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

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Post by wbobeirne »

bogwog wrote: post #94

Played this for a bit but ran into some trouble with the key mappings. CTRL to crouch means that I can't really press anything else without causing firefox to ruin the game. * CTRL+R (reload) causes the page to refresh * CTRL+W (walk forward) attempts to close the current tab * CTRL+S (walk backward) opens a dialog to save the current page * CTRL+D (walk right) bookmarks the current page Luckily firefox shows a confi…

If you install the page as a PWA then it will be able to prevent those shortcuts https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...

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

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Post by nfriedly »

One of the only times I got detention in high school was when playing CS 1.6. It wasn't for playing the game, though - our class had done something good and as a reward we were allowed to goof off and play games that period.

But, a classmate had killed me several times in a row and was having a good laugh about it. I gave him a middle finger and then got back into the game.

At the end of the class, the teacher handed me a detention slip and then explained that he had been standing behind me watching my screen when I flipped the bird.

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Post by Heston »

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

I'm surprised is wasn't mentioned yet but towards the end of CS:Source, just before Go, Valve nerfed the aiming and added in randomization to bullets fired that couldn't be corrected for. It was done to make the game more approachable to new players as a skill equalizer.

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

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Post by Fil0sOFF »

JimWestergren wrote: post #29
eptcyka wrote: post #14

Crashes firefox.

Worked for me but without sound.

Setting media.autoplay.block-webaudio=false in about:config enables sound for me. Sound is crackling though. It happens when audio output sample rate is not 44100hz according to their forums.

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

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Post by rollcat »

bogwog wrote: post #94

Played this for a bit but ran into some trouble with the key mappings. CTRL to crouch means that I can't really press anything else without causing firefox to ruin the game. * CTRL+R (reload) causes the page to refresh * CTRL+W (walk forward) attempts to close the current tab * CTRL+S (walk backward) opens a dialog to save the current page * CTRL+D (walk right) bookmarks the current page Luckily firefox shows a confi…

Say what you like about Apple, but having all these functions on the Cmd key instead is not just more logical, it's actually sane (doubly so for the terminal). I think MS has missed an enormous opportunity when they introduced the Win key; and X11 desktops, toolkits, and apps imitated the more familiar (rather than the better) solutions.
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