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

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

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Post by marginalia_nu »

astlouis44 wrote: post #326

For anyone interested in WebAssembly and the future of gaming in the browser - my team and I at Wonder Interactive are bringing the full power of native gaming to the web. We're building out a platform and suite of tools that allows developers to publish, host, share, and monetize their games directly to their players online, without 30% fees. The current focus is on the Unreal Engine (4.24, 4.27) and UE5 support whi…

Given the boundary condition that a web browser can certainly not allow a game to make more out of the hardware, that is, the best case is that in-browser gaming is equal to native gaming, and the probable case is that it's somewhat worse; what is the rationale between targeting a browser?

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

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Post by astlouis44 »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #331
astlouis44 wrote: post #326

For anyone interested in WebAssembly and the future of gaming in the browser - my team and I at Wonder Interactive are bringing the full power of native gaming to the web. We're building out a platform and suite of tools that allows developers to publish, host, share, and monetize their games directly to their players online, without 30% fees. The current focus is on the Unreal Engine (4.24, 4.27) and UE5 support whi…

Given the boundary condition that a web browser can certainly not allow a game to make more out of the hardware, that is, the best case is that in-browser gaming is equal to native gaming, and the probable case is that it's somewhat worse; what is the rationale between targeting a browser?

Portability and accessibility are the two big ones for players.

When games are a single click away, no dedicated client or launcher download required.... anyone can be a gamer.

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

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Post by madscphoto »

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #41
lqet wrote: post #39

To this day, I still have exact intuition for the time span between "Fire in the hole!" and "Boom".

https://www.purepwnage.com/

I have been looking for this forever! I couldn't for the life of me remember the name.

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

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Post by MonaroVXR »

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…

What about Valorant? I have all the CounterStrike games, but Valorant is something very good to me.

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

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Post by spoils19 »

qup wrote: post #192
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.

What's Iceworld? I don't keep up with the latest news.

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

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Post by ArtWomb »

ddtaylor wrote: post #239
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. 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…

>>> There was a small netcafe nearby when I was young that had a good quality T1 connection and hosted their own CS servers

PC Bang in Columbia MD circa 2006! $3/hr. Spanking fresh GeForce 7900s.

Starcraft was really why every one showed up though ;)

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Post by philosopher1234 »

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

Doesn't run on 64 bits

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

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Post by leviathant »

ddtaylor wrote: post #239
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. 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…

Nice! I've always appreciated how moddable games like this have traditionally been. I texture-mapped? skinned? myself and my friends onto the models in the Counterstrike installations we had on the four computers we kept LAN'd together in our apartment.

Well. We only ended up playing with them a couple of times, because it ended up feeling uncomfortably gruesome - shooting and and killing your friends in cs_italy or whatever.

Mapping out familiar buildings and locations? A much less traumatizing use of time and resources. Kudos.

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