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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.
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
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Yes I'm well aware of the consumer whore, but you don't understand, none of this is about money, it's about proper configuration. Vsync: Unbearable amount of input lag, feels like you're moving your mouse in molasses. It can be disabled for free by setting an option. (the amount of lag decreases as refresh rate increases. 60Hz vsync was the worst thing ever. 120Hz is somewhat acceptable). Me and my friends actually e…
Is this actually true, or BS? If true, can someone explain? My mental model is that vsync will lock the framerate to the same as the monitor refresh. So if monitor is 60hz, my games graphical update rate runs at 60fps. Let's say without vsync, my graphical update rate would generously go up to 120hz. Worst case we're talking about an additional input latency due to vsync of maybe 1/60s? 16ms? I don't believe 16ms is…
but your input delay is not 0, so your input might come in before frame A above, but frame A doesn't reflect input yet, which makes your worst case input latency 48ms: input comes in, blit ..., render frame A, blit frame A, render frame B, blit frame B.
there are also bad vsync implementations, that by virtue of being enabled, introduce further delay between state and graphics. or if fps drops under refresh rate, things go out of sync, and your vsync becomes a compounding effect.
finally vsync delay existing in addition to whatever other delays. a 30ms delay for whatever reasons, becomes an 80ms delay because vsync on top.
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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.
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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/arc…
I recall installing CS from CDs. I was so excited to play, but my internet was so slow it took basically the rest of the day to download the updates. Then, when I got into the game, some servers had mods and maps to download which took forever. Needless to say, once I was playing I felt so gradified and cool. My dad brought home a 'flat' CRT a few months later from his work. It felt life changing at the time. A while…
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…
The best FPS. I've been playing COD on PS5, but it is not the same. The game play is so much better, and more intense in Counter-Strike: * Respawn points are consistent * You have to manage money * It gets intense when you are the only one left on your team
Playing an FPS on a console sucks, sorry. The best handling it's a kb+mouse because of the precision.
[0]: https://gamesbustop.com/ps5-games-that-supports-keyboard-and...
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you're skeptical but you had to have been there! cheap 90s hardware was jank, and characteristics you take for granted, because they are on standard issue hardware today, were only available on high end expensive machines. in Eastern Europe we had computer clubs, which were like internet cafes, but without internet. you went there to play lan games, paid by the hour. they were usually packed, and people were usually…
You don't get it: I WAS there. I'm almost 40. I was playing CS from the very start. I maintain that the people spending tons of $$$ to try and get an advantage in CS are mostly trying to buy skill, and it never works.
We were one of the first to get cable in the area, so our ping was generally about 5ms..
This was when many others were still on bonded ISDN for a (nice stable) ping of about 120ms or dial up (150+ ping).
That made up for a lot of skill :D