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Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by sumnole »

ta17711771 wrote: post #224
birdyrooster wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Valorant is already dying. I doubt it will do anything to displace CSGO. If anything the toxic and racist community GabeN has cultivated will do CSGO in before a competitor will best them in gameplay.

Seriously sick of hearing this. The Internet has been "toxic and racist" since, oh, the first chat room... Kiddies in a game can't hurt you. Worry about the important shit, like being killed or thrown in a cage by law enforcement.

Food for thought: kiddies playing games might one day work in law enforcement

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by vvanders »

redka wrote: post #181
viewer5 wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean by "small binary commands"?

Instead of cramming ecoded json into the data channels, like you'd with websockets, you can build binary buffers with all the data that has to be communicated between server and client. For example movement commands like up/down/left/right alongside some flags like isJumping can be packed into a singe uInt8

Yup, delta compression and potential visibility sets are also a huge win as well.

The best thing is to design your gameplay to be "predictive", that's how we had ~300 player games like Subspace over 28.8/56k way back in the day.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by treebornfrog »

ericzawo wrote: post #185

I sunk many hours of my life into this beautiful, beautiful game (starting at the tail end of 1.5, however!) and sometimes tune in to watch CS:GO competitive matches. I know Valorant is apparently stepping up as a spiritual successor to Counter-Strike, but I just love this game for it's emphasis on pure skill, and I really am surprised few other games have come as close as 1.6 to perfecting a team-based FPS that land…

Yes it's a shame, I have so many fond memories of playing condition zero. Used to switch between playing CS:CZ, frontpage and photoshop.

Back when PSD slicing was a thing.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by kbenson »

capableweb wrote: post #227
kbenson wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> they don't show pings in the server browser Pings are more complicated in this setup. A low ping to a server won't help too much if you have high ping to the online client itself. Are there different clients in different locations so you can select a low-ping client?

No, ping is as complicated as for any gaming server. You have one central server and many clients connected to that central server. I don't think the game is running somewhere else, it's running directly in the browser, so only ping you care about is from your computer to the central server.

There's definitely not "one" central server. Depending on how they route your connection (do they proxy you or redirect you), you might still just be connected to the server you're playing on, but the "ping" is also more complicated in itself since the protocol is more complicated. Instead of information from the client to the server which updates all the dynamic entity states, you are instead sending input commands and getting video and audio back. So, not only would "ping" measure something entirely different, it would possibly be optimized for in the path between you and the remote differently as well.

They may have decided that instead of providing a metric that might lead people to believe it's similar to and implies the same thing as it did in the past, they'll remove it. If so, I would hope they would put something semi-equivalent in it's place. Maybe they did, but it's so removed it's hard to locate?

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by notRobot »

tartoran wrote: post #196

Wow, I find this amazing though im not into this kind of games at all. I gave it a run, took a while to load at first but the playing experience was quite nice. I killed a few people with a knife and got killed a few times and thats enough violence for me. Nonetheless, having this run in the browser just like that, no downloads, no installs, no tweaks.. im wowoed. Good job peeps Edit: my experienece was quite nice, I…

That's not a mediocre laptop.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by cellularmitosis »

BiasRegularizer wrote: post #169
gear54rus wrote: post #158

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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?

FYI the creators are actually charging $2/week subscription for this game. Profiting from a cracked software definitely crosses some moral boundaries.

Does it? It has been over 20 years. Should a creator be able to profit indefinitely off a single work? 20 years is long enough for a patent to expire. The fact that copyright outlasts patents is really just a corruption bug in our legal system.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by tartoran »

notRobot wrote: post #235
tartoran wrote: post #196

Wow, I find this amazing though im not into this kind of games at all. I gave it a run, took a while to load at first but the playing experience was quite nice. I killed a few people with a knife and got killed a few times and thats enough violence for me. Nonetheless, having this run in the browser just like that, no downloads, no installs, no tweaks.. im wowoed. Good job peeps Edit: my experienece was quite nice, I…

That's not a mediocre laptop.

I paid ~$500 for it, its an average laptop. Lenovo ideapad s340. We’re in 2020, whats an average laptop for this time and age

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by baby »

I discovered that the other day, I find it completely insane. Also how is this even legal. Well I hope Valve doesn't get angry at it, actually I don't know why Valve is not even doing this (and adding their own skins marketplace)

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by rootlocus »

ta17711771 wrote: post #224
birdyrooster wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Valorant is already dying. I doubt it will do anything to displace CSGO. If anything the toxic and racist community GabeN has cultivated will do CSGO in before a competitor will best them in gameplay.

Seriously sick of hearing this. The Internet has been "toxic and racist" since, oh, the first chat room... Kiddies in a game can't hurt you. Worry about the important shit, like being killed or thrown in a cage by law enforcement.

Are you trying to justify online toxicity and unsportsmanship in multiplayer video games by comparing them with the tragedy of George Floyd?

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by enahs-sf »

ericzawo wrote: post #185

I sunk many hours of my life into this beautiful, beautiful game (starting at the tail end of 1.5, however!) and sometimes tune in to watch CS:GO competitive matches. I know Valorant is apparently stepping up as a spiritual successor to Counter-Strike, but I just love this game for it's emphasis on pure skill, and I really am surprised few other games have come as close as 1.6 to perfecting a team-based FPS that land…

Thousands of hours gone to many a sleepless night of scoutzknivez with friends. Fond memories.
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