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Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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tasogare wrote: post #65
koonsolo wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the other hand, they don't require admin rights, disk space or installation time, and are platform independent (including for example chromebooks)

Those are all very minors inconveniences. Installation took a few clicks, disk space is negligible for that category of apps (and if it isn’t re-downloading on each access is a more pressing issue). Only the platform thing matters, yet the exemple you give isn’t convincing given it’s super low market share.

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Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by hombre_fatal »

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 !

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 custom code / networking to get it online). And it's a game I thought I'd never get to play again. Gog.com sells Nox for Windows but of course the servers are long offline.

The adolescent glee over how much worse browser applications run really misses the big picture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nox_(video_game)

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by modzu »

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 !

then there are apps like photopea.com. feature parity with Photoshop, but starts immediately, consumes virtually no memory, requires no special permissions, runs on virtually any os. compare that to the adobe app which loads half a dozen services, takes about a minute to load, wont run on linux, etc...

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by hombre_fatal »

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 though, to be sure. UDP via WebRTC is relatively new and isn't trivial. And I know some games get around TCP head of queue blocking by opening up 2+ WebSockets.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by lqet »

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 !

I would actually love to see an old browser (e.g. IE 6) purely implemented in JavaScript to run inside a browser, without using the browser's DOM rendering capabilities (the web page should be rendered by the JS code on a element, input events should be correctly handled, and of course a JS engine also has to be implemented).

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by dreen »

rapsey wrote: post #34
tupac_speedrap wrote: post #7

I like how they have Russia as the flag of Europe despite most of the country not even being in Europe, most people would use the EU flag but I guess this is CS 1.6 so they are most likely a fair few Russians about.

Russia is and always has been considered a European country.

Russia is the last remaining European Colonial Empire with their colonies still part of the original power, mostly thanks to them being geographically together.
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