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CounterStrike:Source Is it good?

ctrain

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They ALL played like crap. Only server that was ever good was some french one (probably since it had FR and pl were screaming "merde" on it :p ). The ping was quite high compared to others (70-80), but it played incredibly well. Every hit was properly registered and only few awkward situations ever happened. The best netcode i've ever used was in UT99 considering its age. And still is if i take Killing Floor as an example. Bunch of players and hundreds of monsters everyone have to see in the same spot and it's still bang on unless the ping is slightly higher where you get a constant delay. But once you get used to it it plays fine.

well, the game provides you with the tools to see who is at fault.

net_graph will show the server framerate, the rates, your fps, choke, spikes and what's causing it, etc. it's close to the end all in what you need to figure out where something is going wrong.
 
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It was always fuckin choking. And when i thought i've found a sweet spot it was choking some more. I was so pissed of with this crap that i just set it back to default, used only anti lag features (prediction enhancements) and that's it. Seems to work the best without the useless rates tweaks that never did anything good. It's far from good detection but it's not totally shitty either.
 

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I love it - cant beat de dust 2! It's the kind of game that you can just pick and play when you feel like it - you don't notice time flying by on it at all 5 mins can turn into 5 hours!!
 

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I will tell you this. Be prepared to die ALOT! Its one of the first good online FPS games (CS 1.6 that is). Its very fast paced and be prepared to do a lot of the army motto "Hurray up and wait" cause when you die, you have to wait until the round is finished to play again (kinda like Americas army but better). Now don't think you will be waiting on it forever. The default round time is 5 min but most servers are set around 3.5 minutes for faster paced action. Once the bomb is planted it drops the time from anywhere under 45 seconds (according on what the server admin has it set to).

Over all its a fun game once you get into, I feel in love when I played it cause of the competition. I also recommend getting CS 1.6/CZ as well Its 9.99 for the pack of both
 

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I have made a short demo for you with CS 1.6
This was me earlier this morning on a popular CS 1.6 server. I was 22 and 5 during this demo. I had just came from a session in condition zero. As you can see the game is very fast paced.


*Sorry for double post, thought I hit edit*
 
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lol @ "original" and "1.6" I started on 1.0 obviously there were several improvements between that and 1.6. IMO if you've gotten by this long without playing it, you'll be just fine continuing without the experience. There are more modern, more frequrnted, and less hacked games available out there. But if you want to go and play with someone who's spent the last 8 years learning how to be the super secretive uber hacker, by all means try it out. lol
 
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You blind yourself on that second flash :p :laugh:
And maybe next time we pub, let's not play with 32 people, try 24 lol.
 

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1.6 is better then source and TF2 is free 2 play now. I don't know what keeps valve alive they give away things for insane prices and now also giving TF2 for free.
 

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You blind yourself on that second flash :p :laugh:
And maybe next time we pub, let's not play with 32 people, try 24 lol.

Its hard finding good 24 man servers, everyone like the 32 man
 
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1.6 is better then source and TF2 is free 2 play now. I don't know what keeps valve alive they give away things for insane prices and now also giving TF2 for free.

simple, all of those games paid for themselves many times over years ago. So valve unlike other publishers gives away its old games for free to increase brand recognition and whereas other publishers will charge you outlandish prices for old games trying to milk it for all its worth.
 

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1.6 is better then source and TF2 is free 2 play now. I don't know what keeps valve alive they give away things for insane prices and now also giving TF2 for free.

because they sell millions upon millions of copies of every game they ever release

they literally shit money, and they have steam on top of that
 
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Hahaha i play TF2 as well but i only play CS:S with friends (like 10 of us get on lol) but thats hardly ever so yeah i love TF2 and combat arms.
 
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