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

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Post by bob1029 »

rajamaka wrote: post #261
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.

I remember pool day now! Definitely played that one a lot too. Also have some memories of oil rig.

Agreed on the hostage maps. TFC had that one map too...

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

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Post by Legion »

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 and would then run around and shoot each other. This was very taboo at the time. We knew that this would be interpreted as threatening by the powers-that-be at highschool, but it was exciting.

I think every budding DOOM and Duke Nukem 3D map creator made their school at one point. Of course, that was years before Columbine (despite the inclusion of DOOM in the Columbine finger-pointing), and nobody thought twice about it then.

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Post by manual89 »

monktastic1 wrote: post #245
ddtaylor wrote: post #239

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> My friends and I would build CounterStrike maps that were the layout of our highschool and would then run around and shoot each other. There was a small netcafe nearby when I was young that had a good quality T1 connection and hosted their own CS servers. Some of the players got together and actually mapped out the entire netcafe store itself and some of the surrounding area to create a "de_" style map. This meant…

> 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.

I remember the days when I tried to play Quake on my 28.8 modem over the net pre-Quakeworld.

Almost made me swear online multiplayer off for life.

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Post by zerd »

robbs wrote: post #149
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…

A high refresh rate monitor does help in measurable ways. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2dPIHPNOeY You don't need to spend lots of money to get 120+hz screens. They can be had for $150 if you're willing to make compromises.

LTT also tested this for FPS games and both professionals and casual gamers improved significantly going from 60HZ to 144+. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX31kZbAXsA

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Post by CTDOCodebases »

shapefrog wrote: post #229
afavour wrote: post #85

Man, what a trip down memory lane. Learned to fear that AWP sound again immediately. Counter to others I'm actually surprised by how little I enjoyed it. I used to play a ton of FPSes back in the day (CS betas to 1.6 heyday) then stopped for well over a decade. Picked up Call of Duty during the pandemic as a means to stay social with friends and told myself barely anything had changed. Boy was this a great lesson tha…

> Picked up Call of Duty during the pandemic as a means to stay social with friends The pandemic had some really good times.

So true. It was like that quote from Bane in The Dark Knight Rises:

"Oh, you think social distancing is your ally. But you merely adopted social distancing; I was born in it, moulded by it. I didn't socialise until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING!"

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

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Post by jml7c5 »

outworlder wrote: post #210
arcanemachiner wrote: post #204

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I will concede that for once, Apple's insane keyboard mappings actually work in their favor. But I still won't get them any credit, since it is purely a coincidence that their mappings happened not to mess with this one browser game.

> it is purely a coincidence that their mappings happened not to mess with this one browser game. Not really a coincidence and that's not the only scenario where it's preferable to have a dedicated command key

It is a sort of coincidence that Apple decided the pinky finger button should be control rather than command. The other way around and crouch-jumping would be more difficult and you'd want to rebind it... but you would then run into the same keybind overlap issue as experienced on Windows/Linux.

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Post by mywittyname »

geph2021 wrote: post #232
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…

We knew that this would be interpreted as threatening by the powers-that-be at highschool These days that kind of behavior, if reported to law enforcement (mandatory reporting in some cases), will get investigated with the potential for criminal charges, and likely school expulsion.

Kids got in serious trouble for this back then too. I'm not sure I could find a article, but I do remember hearing about it happening in the news (post columbine). I'm pretty sure the kids who committed columbine also did this with a Doom level editor. So rightly or not, school officials would see this as copy-cat behavior.

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Post by manual89 »

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.

My favorite thing to do in the earlier versions was to "gun-run" dropped weapons back to base, since they did not despawn at the end of the round. So much fun amassing a giant arsenal for your teammates to pick through.

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Post by jml7c5 »

vuln wrote: post #269
lstamour wrote: post #258

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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…

It's a Cessna rather than a commercial airliner, but slamming a plane into landmark buildings was not tabo or out of the ordinary pre-9/11: https://youtu.be/ssig3LUCwng?t=4m35s.
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