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

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Post by veec_cas_tant »

anthk wrote: post #223
kept3k wrote: post #166

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.

The second most annoying gaming debate of all time, after Playstation vs. Xbox of course. Answer to both: who cares, use whatever makes you happy

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

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Post by uoaei »

parineum wrote: post #344
mywittyname wrote: post #288

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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.

It is an error in Bayesian reasoning. All high school shooters play violent video games, but not all kids who play violent video games are going to shoot up their high schools.

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

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Post by friendlyHornet »

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…

Making maps for Half-Life and Portal is what lead me down the path to become a software developer.

I was never that good a mapper but it got me into computers in general.

If I had never discovered Hammer Editor on one summer afternoon in 2008, my life would be SOOOO different

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

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Post by memorable »

I was interested in CSGO for a while because of the eSport history videos but never got the chance to try it out because my main computer is a Linux and my brother's Windows computer is absolute garbage at running everything honestly. Thanks for this OP!

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

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Post by kurisufag »

memorable wrote: post #354

I was interested in CSGO for a while because of the eSport history videos but never got the chance to try it out because my main computer is a Linux and my brother's Windows computer is absolute garbage at running everything honestly. Thanks for this OP!

CS:GO works perfectly well on Linux. Valve is great about that kind of thing.

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

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Post by MonaroVXR »

sC3DX wrote: post #165
Waterluvian wrote: post #27

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I was always amused by how many of my friends got crazy monitors but still just used headphones. Surround sound for 1.6 made the game incredibly unfair. Being able to hear specifically in what direction and volume footsteps were coming from was basically a wallhack. I would often use headphones because parents weren't the biggest fans of hours of that a night, and it was so crippling. Funny enough, my semi-pro career…

audio spatialization has gotten really fancy in games. We can trick your eat into thinking sounds are coming from any direction with a combination of filters, delays, attenuations, etc. Of course it's not as good as the real thing but it is still very convincing (and certainly good enough to be competitive in CS these days).

I figured this out already with speakers and definitely with headphones.

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

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Post by spiritplumber »

ddtaylor wrote: post #343
ArtWomb wrote: post #338

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>>> 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!

For us it was Starcraft and Need For Speed.

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

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Post by encryptluks2 »

memorable wrote: post #354

I was interested in CSGO for a while because of the eSport history videos but never got the chance to try it out because my main computer is a Linux and my brother's Windows computer is absolute garbage at running everything honestly. Thanks for this OP!

CSGO works great in Linux.

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Post by pascalr555 »

memorable wrote: post #354

I was interested in CSGO for a while because of the eSport history videos but never got the chance to try it out because my main computer is a Linux and my brother's Windows computer is absolute garbage at running everything honestly. Thanks for this OP!

Actually, CSGO is supported on Linux on Steam. And it's even free to play now.

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

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Post by encryptluks2 »

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.

Have you ran the numbers to see how many game developers would switch to get rid of their launchers that they picked. I'm guessing it is zero.
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