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Re: Counter Strike 2 is here

#31

I really miss the old CS Source community server scene. Especially in the UK, there were university servers, old man servers, clan servers, all sorts. You'd join more for the banter over voice Comms than the game itself. 99% of the matchmade servers I join is people shouting at each other in Russian. It's so lonely I don't really enjoy playing anymore. Where did everyone go?

Come play board games in person.

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#32
post #8

Unless you don't use Windows, then Steam tries to run a Windows binary and crashes. Also CSGO is gone so find another game I guess.

It's pretty unbelievable that they'd entirely botch CSGO on Linux. But here we are. It's been given little to no consideration with this update. It used to work fine.

Re: Counter Strike 2 is here

#33
post #8

Unless you don't use Windows, then Steam tries to run a Windows binary and crashes. Also CSGO is gone so find another game I guess.

I've played it on (Arch) Linux today. It seems to work fine, and I don't see any traces of Wine/Proton/Steam Play in task manager, so I assume it's native.

Re: Counter Strike 2 is here

#34

An interesting thing I learned about CS is that the guns have a consistent pattern to their bullet spread. When you fire an entire clip with automatic fire, the bullets are not laser accurate of course, some bullets go left, some right, etc. Well, the pattern by which the bullets are off is consistent. The second bullet always goes right, the third always goes left, etc. This means if you practice enough you can lear…

For anyone that plays CS for more than 20 hours this is a well known fact. There's tons of youtube videos teaching how to master the mechanic. Many of the lowest ranked players know about it and try to compensate. Every single pro practices it. An advance usage of this technique is called spray transfer where a single automatic fire sequence will start on one enemy with compensation movement (spray control) and after the enemy is killed the player will quickly snap to the next enemy while continously firing and continue the spray pattern where it left off. This can be very difficult because the spray pattern gets increasingly erratic.

I realize the point was to inform others that don't know but wanted people to realize it's a core game mechanic.

There are other skill based mechanics in CS that trade off realism to let the game have a higher skill ceiling and it's one of the reasons why CS is so popular.

Re: Counter Strike 2 is here

#35
post #8

Unless you don't use Windows, then Steam tries to run a Windows binary and crashes. Also CSGO is gone so find another game I guess.

During the beta I had to use proton to be able to start the game and was getting anxious about the state of non-Windows versions, but it launched natively and it works fine.

Now you can run a native client on Wayland and pipewire. The only big issue I've seen is CPU starvation on the servers during the launch, but that should get fixed soon.

Re: Counter Strike 2 is here

#36

An interesting thing I learned about CS is that the guns have a consistent pattern to their bullet spread. When you fire an entire clip with automatic fire, the bullets are not laser accurate of course, some bullets go left, some right, etc. Well, the pattern by which the bullets are off is consistent. The second bullet always goes right, the third always goes left, etc. This means if you practice enough you can lear…

The correct nomenclature is spray or recoil pattern, not spread - spread is the inherent inaccuracy applied to each bullet that can not be compensated for.

Re: Counter Strike 2 is here

#37

An interesting thing I learned about CS is that the guns have a consistent pattern to their bullet spread. When you fire an entire clip with automatic fire, the bullets are not laser accurate of course, some bullets go left, some right, etc. Well, the pattern by which the bullets are off is consistent. The second bullet always goes right, the third always goes left, etc. This means if you practice enough you can lear…

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Re: Counter Strike 2 is here

#39

I really miss the old CS Source community server scene. Especially in the UK, there were university servers, old man servers, clan servers, all sorts. You'd join more for the banter over voice Comms than the game itself. 99% of the matchmade servers I join is people shouting at each other in Russian. It's so lonely I don't really enjoy playing anymore. Where did everyone go?

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