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

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Post by montag »

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…

I, too, created a 3D model of my high school... a little "I am Spartacus" moment on Hacker News.

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Post by ddtaylor »

ArtWomb wrote: post #338
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…

>>> 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 ;)

Ha! Same here it was about $3/hr but you could also buy a monthly thing. It was about 2002.

Everyone showed up for CS or Red Alert it seemed!

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

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Post by parineum »

mywittyname wrote: post #288
geph2021 wrote: post #232

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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.

There's got to be a name for this phenomenon where people focus in on a pattern that may be consistent between events but is actually an incredibly common set of factors that it's totally nom-predictive.

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

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Post by efxhoy »

rollcat wrote: post #199
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.

The default keyboard layout is a big reason why I keep using macs tbh. I’ve used windows all my life and used a bunch of linux distros but the only os where my fingers are comfortable is on a mac. Swedish ISO btw.

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

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Post by colordrops »

astlouis44 wrote: post #334
marginalia_nu wrote: post #331

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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.

Yes, an example is the .io games, which kids love to play, because they just go to the browser and load the page and they are playing with other kids, just like that. No installation, no setup, no network debugging, etc. These are simple games, but more advanced games would also benefit from nearly frictionless entry to the game.

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Post by LAC-Tech »

efxhoy wrote: post #345
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 default keyboard layout is a big reason why I keep using macs tbh. I’ve used windows all my life and used a bunch of linux distros but the only os where my fingers are comfortable is on a mac. Swedish ISO btw.

Not trying to convert anyone, but changing keybindings is pretty easy in almost any unix window manager and/or desktop environment I've ever tried.

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Post by rtpg »

arcanemachiner wrote: post #204
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.

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.

I mean it's an intentional design decision to avoid using ctrl for OS shortcuts. Coincidence is a bit much! (Not an Apple partisan, stopped using Macs when I couldn't open iTunes without being pitched Apple Music)

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Post by tukantje »

r9550684 wrote: post #18
tukantje wrote: post #9

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I am not sure if this is made with source engine, would it still have bunny hop if not?

no, bunny hop is an artifact of quake strafe code, which was retained in valve's goldsrc. it was fixed in Source since it's a completely new engine, but goldsrc counter-strike also had its own mitigations, which I assume were special cased hacks. I played from early beta (russia LAN party "pro" cs player here), and I distinctly remember when bunny hop stopped working. I was running out as ct on de_dust, and went to d…

Thank you - talk about it's not a bug it's a feature.

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Post by kirso »

Its funny to say but this game has had a huge impact on my life.

I've joined cyber cafes and made life-long friends that last till now, travelled to different countries to play against other teams and won tournaments nation-wide when the main prize was a can of beer and a motherboard.

We used to pick-up our keyboards, discuss mouse DPI and how it influences aim as well as trying to figure out whether 640 or 800 was the best resolution.

I am glad that this game was made, such nostalgia!

Also if someone wants to go down the memory lane remember the golden age of CS movies? Annihilation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6gcmbioqiE&t=96s

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