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Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by baby »

capableweb wrote: post #192
chaostheory wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pavlov IMO is the spiritual successor

Seems to be a VR game, so unless VR suddenly gets a lot cheaper and a lot better, Pavlov will never replace CS. Looking at the first few seconds of the first video on Steam for Pavlov ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/555160/Pavlov_VR/ ) shows a very low-skilled encounter as well. If they are trying to attract CS players, they need to show it's a game that shows skills, not like that.

VR is 400$ with the oculus quest, no computer needed, no TV needed. Considering that, it's a bit more expensive than the nintendo switch, and cheaper than pretty much all consoles and PC gaming.

I just played Pavlov on it and it works flawlessly, I'm not sure I get your comment.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

smabie wrote: post #214
kodt wrote: post #209

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I think CS will keep its popularity. Only players who can't cut it at a high level in CS are bailing to Valorant.

You mean like Skadoodle?

It's different for professional players, isn't it:

>'On June 3rd 2020, it was announced by T1 that he has resumed his professional career but in Valorant - reuniting with ex-iBUYPOWER teammates Braxton "swag" Pierce and Keven "AZK" Larivière in the process.' (https://liquipedia.net/counterstrike/Skadoodle) //

If Valorant is less aim-based (I don't know) wouldn't that make sense for a retiree from a more aim-based game?

Also Valorant could have just paid a load of CSGO "names" to move to their games as part of their marketing.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by anoraca »

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…

Valorant appears to me to be an uninspired clone with a few gimmicks and a lot of marketing money behind it. It's the same way that LoL was a clone of DotA with extra marketing and a few gimmicks.

I don't understand why anyone knowledgeable would be installing a "free" game that includes a kernel level rootkit.

https://www.techspot.com/news/84841-valorant-anti-cheat-soft...

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by baby »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #76
blattimwind wrote: post #27

This could serve as a demonstration what a long way way web sockets/rtc/channels still have to go, since the experience is much worse even considering the ping compared to 20 year old netcode.

You're going to hang the state of networked browser gaming on this random person's netcode implementation? Go to r/GameDev and you can find some redditor Unity projects built on UDP that are even worse, but you aren't going to say "wow, UDP sux". Check out something like https://krunker.io/ which gives me a surprisingly good FPS experience despite my distance from the server. Browser gaming does take some thought tho…

How good is krunker? Don't have a mouse but maybe I could get one.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by baby »

jfkebwjsbx wrote: post #126
hombre_fatal wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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? That doesn’t work well for games with lots of modern assets. > Native 1.6 doesn't even run on my computer at all. That is strange, it works on the latest Windows. > I think browser ports are the only hope that old games have at coming back. Why? Steam, GoG, DOSBox, Proton, DXVK, emulators, VMs, etc. all give you access to almost every ga…

pretty sure I can't run 1.6 on my mac

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by fooqux »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #242
smabie wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean like Skadoodle?

It's different for professional players, isn't it: >'On June 3rd 2020, it was announced by T1 that he has resumed his professional career but in Valorant - reuniting with ex-iBUYPOWER teammates Braxton "swag" Pierce and Keven "AZK" Larivière in the process.' ( https://liquipedia.net/counterstrike/Skadoodle ) // If Valorant is less aim-based (I don't know) wouldn't that make sense for a retiree from a more aim-based g…

For sure. I don't know about all you, but I would go nuts if I had to stay in the same job forever. Sometimes you desire new challenges or greener pastures.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by baby »

throwawhey00 wrote: post #103
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 !

This is a flippant useless negative comment on someone's cool effort. Looking at your other comments, and at your blog - everything is negative. "This sucks, this is crap, I would never use this". What's with all the negativity? Just give creating comments and posts about stuff you like a try. The internet is not short of critics to make useless negative comments.

GP's comment is a short and non-insightful comment, this usually gets downvoted but for some reason it made it in this thread. I usually call this "driveby feedback" at work.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by baby »

me551ah wrote: post #138
throwawhey00 wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a flippant useless negative comment on someone's cool effort. Looking at your other comments, and at your blog - everything is negative. "This sucks, this is crap, I would never use this". What's with all the negativity? Just give creating comments and posts about stuff you like a try. The internet is not short of critics to make useless negative comments.

Comment OP here I am an avid gamer who players a couple of hours of Apex Legends and Call of Duty Modern Warfare everyday. And I've been info FPS gaming for 2 decades now. To play a game released a couple of decades ago and see it take up almost the same amount of resources as the games I mentioned earlier gave me a chuckle. I commend the developer for his effort though. To make a game like that run on browsers is a…

Weird, I'm similar to you and seeing 1.6 running in my browser was just mind-blowing and took me back.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by baby »

m0ck wrote: post #101
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?

Cracked (non-steam) CS 1.6 clients are available for years and I don't think Valve ever cared.

yeah but you can't play with your friends on steam so... there was never really a point to play on these servers (also cheat)

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by baby »

MayeulC wrote: post #59

As often, the keybindings use a QWERTY-centric layout, that doesn't make much sense if that's a different keyboard, and no obvious way to change it. The steam controller API is nicely designed: you define actions, and let the user pick a way to trigger those actions. I think there are predefined ones that already have mappings for common input devices. The API then returns an image and name to correctly prompt the us…

I've had to deal with this all my life because of the French AZERTY, but honestly the best solution to this problem is to get a QWERTY keyboard. I haven't thought about this issue once in the last decade.
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