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Post by johnchristopher »

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…

BF recreated his house and the square in front of it in hl2. He added secret room to his house. We only ever played it 1vs1 but it's one of my top 5 FPS memories ! The fun came from walking in a setting I knew and recognizing it as "our" immediate surroundings. It was not about killing each other, though blowing up part of the furniture in the house was fun.

I didn't like playing with people who were too much focused on killing+owning/taunting other players though, it was (and still is) my limit.

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Post by johnchristopher »

BearOso wrote: post #386
ddtaylor wrote: post #239

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> My friends and I would build CounterStrike maps that were the layout of our highschool and would then run around and shoot each other. There was a small netcafe nearby when I was young that had a good quality T1 connection and hosted their own CS servers. Some of the players got together and actually mapped out the entire netcafe store itself and some of the surrounding area to create a "de_" style map. This meant…

> a "de_" style map Those prefixes indicate the map mission type, not a style. "de" indicates a de molition or de fusal mission. The actual official map name is what's after the underscore. I think there were only those and the "cs" "counterstrike" hostage maps at the start.

So, you don't remember "es_", hmmm ? Tss, tss.

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Post by pyinstallwoes »

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…

Yeah I remember having to buy half life and there wasn’t any recoil yet! Haha. Good ol’ cs_assault days.

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

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Post by pyinstallwoes »

ddtaylor wrote: post #239
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…

> My friends and I would build CounterStrike maps that were the layout of our highschool and would then run around and shoot each other. There was a small netcafe nearby when I was young that had a good quality T1 connection and hosted their own CS servers. Some of the players got together and actually mapped out the entire netcafe store itself and some of the surrounding area to create a "de_" style map. This meant…

I have a similar story from a pc gaming cafe. Someone became convinced I was cheating and pulled a knife out on me. Strange times.

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Post by ddtaylor »

elefanten wrote: post #389
BearOso wrote: post #386

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> a "de_" style map Those prefixes indicate the map mission type, not a style. "de" indicates a de molition or de fusal mission. The actual official map name is what's after the underscore. I think there were only those and the "cs" "counterstrike" hostage maps at the start.

I don't think gp necessarily contradicts that. Maybe just difference of word choice wrt "style"

That is correct. The pedantic and accurate term would be "objective" since they are basically modify the win conditions of the round, but I chose to use the word "style" because it comes down to how you want to play the game.

There are many players that play "cs_" maps where you're technically supposed to be grabbing hostages and returning them to the spawn zone, but many players chose to play those maps in a different style where they just eliminate all the other players or run out the timer.

Likewise on "de_" maps you're supposed to plant the bomb, but instead many players choose to simply use the bomb to pressure (by essentially tricking the enemy into thinking you care about the bomb) people into situations and trade out kills.

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Post by no_time »

andrewmcwatters wrote: post #242
eukara wrote: post #225

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It is not. To clarify, this mixes proprietary code with GPL code from id software. Valve has spoken out about the engine used [1] before and has barred it from being used for mods on Steam. [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20160701071741/http://www.moddb.c...

At Planimeter, back when we were "Team Sandbox," we ran into similar issues when attempting to publish Half-Life 2: Sandbox.[1] People can still find the source and game code on our repository listings from when we migrated off Google Code. Valve Business Development did not give us the go-ahead. Notably, we were the first usage of LuaJIT in the Source Engine, and we think that later GMod caught up to us. But you cou…

Wow I remember playing around with your LOVE2D engine like ages ago. It was too complex for my usecase, but I remember it being one of the most fascinating projects on the love2d forums.

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

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Post by nirvgorilla »

I took this screenshot sometime in 1999 of the CS Beta: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/897901358999548004/10...

I took this famous screenshot that was subsequently used in several advertisements for the game: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/672345936449634304/77...

Here's one of them advertising a "personal server" on Planethardware: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/672345936449634304/77...

I also found my screen used in an alienware ad, an Xbox magazine talking about Counterstrike, and Gamespy ads. It was wild.

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Post by conradfr »

victorbstan wrote: post #216
arcanemachiner wrote: post #204

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I will concede that for once, Apple's insane keyboard mappings actually work in their favor. But I still won't get them any credit, since it is purely a coincidence that their mappings happened not to mess with this one browser game.

What’s insane about a standardized key mapping that is predictable across apps and works? On windows you can never be sure what any key combo will do from app to app.

As a Windows user who has to use MacOS at work there's nothing predictable about "Cmd or Ctrl?".

Habits, I guess.

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Post by HeadlessChild »

TomatoTomato wrote: post #173
exhaze wrote: post #156

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What was wrong with 1/2/3/4 for key binds? I played CS 1.3 -> 1.6 professionally in 2000s, never really saw folks do this.

Many people use mouse wheel for jump as well

Same for "duck jump" or "crouch jump" as well (which was technique used to move more silently).

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Post by epolanski »

pugworthy wrote: post #365
epolanski wrote: post #291

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I enjoyed it enough to download Day of Defeat 1.3 again :D

That's awesome :) I was the original mapper for the Day of Defeat team. It was quite a ride to go from a bunch of strangers making a mod for fun to working with Valve. I haven't played it in ages, but do sometimes think about going back into map making just for fun and maybe more as artistic expression. Always that temptation to make something neat looking, but not very performant.

What do you mean by "original mapper"?

DoD started as a community project, most of the famous maps are from amateur contributors (anzio, caen, harrington, chemille, etc).

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