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

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Post by rajamaka »

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.

Don't forget fy_pool_day!

I always found it such a shame that a map like as_oilrig never took off in a competitive sense. Always thought "protect the VIP" was a really cool concept, but I guess the rest of the world disagreed.

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

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Post by tiahura »

akiselev wrote: post #249
monktastic1 wrote: post #245

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> a good quality T1 Oh man, I remember the good ol' days, when a 1.5 Mbps connection was unthinkably fast. I imagined only God herself had a T3.

That was when I discovered the magnificent beauty of symmetry.

And more importantly for gaming, low latency.

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

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Post by kube-system »

Zurrrrr wrote: post #187
Seanambers wrote: post #177

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In computer gaming (RTS / FPS) equipment matter, especially in FPS. Not to mention your internet connection. I would guesstimate about 100% more effectiveness compared to a subpar setup. Meaning all else equal the guy with the better setup would win an encounter twice as often. You also need to know about all of the configuration steps to maximize advantage. What might look superhuman on youtube for instance may very…

Sure, internet matters. Equipment matters less these days. All I'm saying though, is if you're a crappy player, it's not because of your equipment, and buying better equipment won't make you a better player.

It depends. Being a couple milliseconds faster won't make a difference if your reaction times are a hundred milliseconds slower than your opponent. But there's a lot of junk today that didn't exist in years past. Buy some cheap bluetooth accessories and you might just end up with latency that is orders of magnitude worse than devices from the 90s.

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

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Post by jacooper »

BHSPitMonkey wrote: post #260
jacooper wrote: post #257

I have been recently playing CSGO with my family members. Its honestly very difficult to play, its really not suited for Casual players(playing on speakers with mediocre mice and so on) especially with the very difficult aiming system. But I didn't find anything that is both free or basically free and can run on everything, from macbooks with Intel/m2 GPU to a gaming PC. Overwatch 2, too gimmicky and heavy Fortnite,…

> both free or basically free and can run on everything Team Fortress 2 is still alive and well

Doubt it would be any easier than CSGO

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Post by rollcat »

peoplefromibiza wrote: post #226
rollcat wrote: post #199

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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.

the point of the CTRL key is to send CONTROL messages anyway, this is just a coincidence, CS was a Windows only exclusive-full-screen game where those combinations had no possible conflict no one thought we would be playing CS in a browser in the future on Macs the CMD key is simply a poor man's CTRL key, except when you are in a terminal, where you have to use CTRL again... doesn't sound so well thought.

> on Macs the CMD key is simply a poor man's CTRL key, except when you are in a terminal, where you have to use CTRL again...

Let me check.

Cmd-F in Notes.app, finds things in the current note.

Cmd-F in Terminal.app, finds things in the current terminal session's history.

Cmd-C in Calendar.app, copies an event.

Cmd-C in Terminal.app, copies the selected text.

Cmd-T in Finder.app, opens a tab.

Cmd-T in Terminal.app, opens a tab.

Cmd-W closes the current window/tab. Cmd-Q quits the app. Cmd-S saves. And so on, in any app, tracing back to 1984 or so.

Whereas Ctrl-C, Ctrl-T, Ctrl-F, Ctrl-S, on Windows/Linux... all do wildly different things, depending whether you are in an xterm, cmd.exe, a game, Emacs, or some other app.

You know what else? Ctrl-C in Terminal.app does the same thing as Ctrl-C in an xterm. This sort of thing is consistent in every app. You're literally having your cake and eating it too.

Windows couldn't use Ctrl-W to mean "close the current tab" in every single application, because - indeed, in a game, holding down Ctrl could mean crouch/sneak, and W to move forward. Windows could've chosen to use Win-W for that, but ignored the opportunity.

> anyway, this is just a coincidence

One of these patterns visible here is deliberate design, the other is piled up coincidences. I don't think it's that easy to confuse one for the other?

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Post by agileAlligator »

jacooper wrote: post #264
BHSPitMonkey wrote: post #260

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> both free or basically free and can run on everything Team Fortress 2 is still alive and well

Doubt it would be any easier than CSGO

The aim and movement mechanics of tf2 are certainly easier, though the gameplay rules are more complex and there are classes with different abilities and attributes.

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Post by yakshaving_jgt »

outworlder wrote: post #213
cal85 wrote: post #207

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Why?

Probably because, if you want to have an app anyway, why don't you just install the native game?

Probably because differences in CPU architectures make that impossible. CS 1.6 won’t actually run on MacOS afaik.

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Post by eertami »

Zurrrrr wrote: post #131
brezelgoring wrote: post #111

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In cycling there's a term called MAMIL, which means 'Middle Aged Man in Lycra'. It represents a grown man, clearly out of shape, with the latest and greatest equipment that probably cost him north of tens of thousands of dollars, singing praises about about the edge his equipment gives him over everyone else - whilst sporting legs worth about 5 dollars. I play RTS games, which don't need any fancy equipment to play a…

It's exactly this. People blow money on things they think give them even a slight advantage. At least, people who have money do. Then again, a fool and his money are soon parted.

Or because the experience is just noticeably improved...

I could play tennis with a 30$ racket from ALDI but it would be a lot less fun.

I bet you use a high resolution monitor for work? You could argue that is blowing money on something for even a slight advantage, since you could do the same work on a 15" 1024x768 monitor too. Oh, but the experience sucks? Yeah exactly - that's why people want to improve their gaming experience even if those people are casual/only playing as a recreational hobby.

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Post by vuln »

lstamour wrote: post #258
vuln wrote: post #251

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> simple mapmaking It's not simple mapmaking though is it? It's creating a map inside a video game to simulate school grounds. Drawing a map of the school and putting it in a frame on your wall? Fine. Drawing a map, recreating it inside a first person shooter, then spending hours playing (training) memorizing the map? I believe anyone could see that as a terroristic threat. Edit: Example Legos. Having a Lego model of…

I think you might also need to consider the context though - well before the thought of a “school shooting” was an annual occurrence. If schools had metal detectors it was for knives or worst case, a hand gun. And guns themselves are not universally liked or practiced with. I seriously doubt someone would suggest that playing an fy_ map is grounds for practicing anything except video games. Extending a video game to…

What about the context of flying a commercial airliner into a skyscraper?

Moussaoui enrolled in a flight simulator training course at a Pan Am facility near Minneapolis, Minnesota. Pan Am’s Minneapolis facility used flight simulators only, and the training there usually consisted of initial training for newly hired airline pilots or refresher training for active pilots.

https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/...

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

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Post by climb_stealth »

jacooper wrote: post #257

I have been recently playing CSGO with my family members. Its honestly very difficult to play, its really not suited for Casual players(playing on speakers with mediocre mice and so on) especially with the very difficult aiming system. But I didn't find anything that is both free or basically free and can run on everything, from macbooks with Intel/m2 GPU to a gaming PC. Overwatch 2, too gimmicky and heavy Fortnite,…

Someone else mention Urban Terror [0]. Similar in style to CS but fast paced. Also because it's Quake3 based it has all the strafe jumping and highly rewarding movement. Haven't played it in years, but back then it was good fun. Whilst the aiming itself is not necessarily much easier, it is more forgiving. In CS you have one encounter and the round is over for you. With this I'm pretty sure there are various deathmatch modes and much more relaxed respawn rules.

[0] https://www.urbanterror.info/home/

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