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Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by reubenmorais »

Jasper_ wrote: post #137
reubenmorais wrote: post #102

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> IIRC it got replaced at some point. The current iteration of Source's netcode doesn't have anything to do with that, though. Do you have a source (heh) to back that? Lots of the networking configuration cvars from 1.6 are still there in CS:GO and do the same thing. Maybe it was cleaned up but I wouldn't be surprised if it's still mostly the same code.

According to Valve, they deployed https://github.com/ValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets successfully on CS:GO.

GameNetworkingSockets is pretty cool, and integrating it must have required some extensive changes, but it's more of a networking middleware library. I thought blattimwind was referring to the gameplay related netcode (prediction, interpolation, lag compensation, etc). My understanding is that it hasn't changed much since the 1.6 days, because all of the configuration knobs are still available today, but maybe they rewrote it and I'm just out of the loop. It'd be a major task to do that without affecting gameplay "feel", which is why I was interested in some source to read more about it.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by baud147258 »

Zhyl wrote: post #144
hombre_fatal wrote: post #105

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Yeah, enumerating why something sucks is trivial. Anyone can do that about anything. Yet for some reason it's tempting to do it. Maybe because it makes us feel like a critic? For some reason it takes more effort to see the positives in something or someone, even ourselves. It's often a good practice to stop and think of the positives of something. Maybe it's not so obvious. Why did someone decide to build it this way…

This was actually explored in this Cracked article [0] which I heard about on the Cracked Podcast. Basically, being cynical and negative is one of the easiest ways of appearing smart because you don't need to back up any of your assertions and people are less likely to be called out for shitting on something. [0] https://www.cracked.com/blog/the-7-stupidest-things-that-mak...

I don't see how being negative allow one to not back anything, I can say something sucks, but I'd have to explain why. And people will get called for shitting on something, see the GP comment.

I'd even say you're less likely to be called out for being negative without giving an explanation than being positive without giving an explanation.

Though it's usually easier to explain why something sucks than why something is great, since a negative explanation has only to find which part don't work, rather than explaining why something is globally good.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by dumbfounder »

me551ah wrote: post #37

I love how people like to make browser versions of everything. From chat apps to email clients to games. But they all end up consuming 10x the memory but are still 10x slower than their native counterparts !

It works well on my laptop without installing a darn thing. Why do I care if it's 10x the memory if I have that memory to use? Graphics are good enough. Gameplay is like I remember it 20 years ago (was it that long?!?!). I think this is pretty amazing.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by thefounder »

moooo99 wrote: post #123
hombre_fatal wrote: post #74

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Seems a bit unfair to only acknowledge one side of the trade-offs. Obviously native apps win the perf side. How about being able to play with your friends after just handing them a link? Native 1.6 doesn't even run on my computer at all. I think browser ports are the only hope that old games have at coming back. The other month I played Nox's quest mode with my friend on a browser emscripten port (plus a lot of custo…

> How about being able to play with your friends after just handing them a link? Native 1.6 doesn't even run on my computer at all. This is actually one of the major selling points for Cloud Gaming. Although it still has a lot of issues to be adressed before getting into the mainstream, this is exactly what it promises. Just sending your friends an invite link and get them to sign up is a much more pleasant experienc…

I always thought the cloud gamming is really just a way to move gammers to "subscriptions" instead of one time purchases, in the end milking more money and taking more control from them just like Adobe did with their creative products.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by gear54rus »

simias wrote: post #85

Is this made/approved by Valve? Or is it just that nobody cares about taking down CS 1.6 piracy anymore because it's such an old game?

A counter question: why do you care? Do you believe someone waited all those years to not buy it and play for free in browser with massive lag? Is this an attempt to enforce bullshit corporate-centric policies that are copyright laws simply for the sake of enforcing them?
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