Shit I can’t believe people still play this game. I thought for sure people would be on to bigger better games by now. But I just checked into it and there tons of people still playing to this day.
I play cs-source occasionally. They keep adding awesome mods to it. I haven’t played a “real” match of CS since the old De_dust on 1.6… The mods are just to much fun.
Welp just got a torrent cause I have no key for HL anymore. Lets see what happens. The ver I got was 1.6 back to the old school.
Wonder what I am going to do with out a key or if vac or steam is up still for this game play or if you can just connect to servers directly and use a web site that displays servers and connect manually.
Guess I will find out
AFAIK you need a Steam account to play still.
No you don’t it plays
Its bizzare how many people still play counter strike and starcraft ect, then again those games dont have the crazy system reqs like the new games do.
People play them because they’re good competitive games. Not everyone cares about graphics or some nonsensical plotline with 12 hours of cutscenes.
If you get steam download or at least try the demo for a game called “World of Goo” its a stupidly addictive little puzzle game i’ve been wasting hours every night since I got it lol. Think it was like only like $4.99 too.
Dude… I tried for an entire 3 months to learn CS. My first time playing I felt like an old woman at a death metal concert. Just totally confused about everything and scared.
Everything moves so damn fast, how do you learn? My first like, 100 times playing I got killed in the first 20 seconds of play. If I ever made it past 15 seconds, I thought I was winning!
Half life is the shiznit, adn I wanted SO bad to be good at CS, but I just gave up.
The hardest part about CS skaz is learning where the objectives are and good places to hide. Once you learn that its cake. I dont know if you can still travel around in ghost form after you die but if you can look around the map. or follow someone on your team and watch where they go / what they do…
terrorist - blow something up or prevent ct from getting hosties…
ct - prevent bombing or rescue hosties…
really all there is to it…
short bursts with the ak or it doesnt hit anything. desert eagle is the shiz…
Having a good crasp of tactics and knowing the map layout helps alot… so does making sure there is someone beside you who gets shot at first.
Personally I just can’t compete anymore innit… Most of the time I don’t even see the attacker coming till I’ve already got shot in the face, doesnt seem to matter much how I’m positioned.
The reflexes and accuracy some of these teenagers have feel insane compared to what it used to be when I played it actively in the early 2000’s.
Alot of it is mouse developement and other hardware advantage they have over me, but it’s mostly motivation and attitude issues that keep me from being competitive at it today.
If you want to be good at it you need to accept that you’re gonna get your ass kicked alot for quite a while and that you’ll be constantly ridiculed and disrespected by a bunch of annoying as hell 12 to 16 y/o’s.
Finding a good private server with well behaving, teamspirited people playing onnit is a must.
Why not just download steam and purchase the game for 7.99? That way you have access to friendslists and saved favorite servers, etc, etc.
[quote]skaz05 wrote:
Dude… I tried for an entire 3 months to learn CS. My first time playing I felt like an old woman at a death metal concert. Just totally confused about everything and scared.
Everything moves so damn fast, how do you learn? My first like, 100 times playing I got killed in the first 20 seconds of play. If I ever made it past 15 seconds, I thought I was winning!
Half life is the shiznit, adn I wanted SO bad to be good at CS, but I just gave up.[/quote]
If you felt like cs was fast you should refrain from playing pretty much any shooter =x
I never liked the round based style of cs(and later cod when it adopted it). Always preferred stopwatch/objective style games, RTCW, Enemy Territory, TFC/2, or CTF modes in quake/UT. But with that said CS/CSS are fun to pub now and then and shoot around for a bit.
im actually off to go play counter strike now! lol
[quote]R@NE wrote:
Having a good crasp of tactics and knowing the map layout helps alot… so does making sure there is someone beside you who gets shot at first.
Personally I just can’t compete anymore innit… Most of the time I don’t even see the attacker coming till I’ve already got shot in the face, doesnt seem to matter much how I’m positioned.
The reflexes and accuracy some of these teenagers have feel insane compared to what it used to be when I played it actively in the early 2000’s.
Alot of it is mouse developement and other hardware advantage they have over me, but it’s mostly motivation and attitude issues that keep me from being competitive at it today.
If you want to be good at it you need to accept that you’re gonna get your ass kicked alot for quite a while and that you’ll be constantly ridiculed and disrespected by a bunch of annoying as hell 12 to 16 y/o’s.
Finding a good private server with well behaving, teamspirited people playing onnit is a must.[/quote]
If you play in a stationary position, the cs netcode gives the peeking player around 100ms advantage. In other words, if you’re not moving and he is, he’ll always see you first.
It’s one of the fun “features” in the game.
I’ve played competitively in leagues for around two years now, so I’ve seen and done pretty much every cs trick there is.
I remember I started playing Counter-Strike when I was like 12 or something, that was like… 9 years ago. The old one was amazing, I was obsessed with all the old Half Life mods. It was such a good time for gaming, I really miss it.
Does anyone remember what the old network was before steam? It was called C net or something I think. Good times.
[quote]Ratchet wrote:
The hardest part about CS skaz is learning where the objectives are and good places to hide. Once you learn that its cake. I dont know if you can still travel around in ghost form after you die but if you can look around the map. or follow someone on your team and watch where they go / what they do…
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ahhh your one of those campers who I Head Shot all the time.
1.6 > source.
There isnt anything better than cs:s out, not in that type of game any way.
BF2 is great but it’s also alot different to cs:s.
I remember CS. What a time killer. In high school some friends and I made a clan but were accused of hacking (lol). We got fed up with it so we disbanded although I would say our skill levels were around cal-m to cal-p (if you know what I’m talking about).
Source isn’t as fun as 1.6 but I still miss 1.5, especially with the no delay AWP scope. Yep, I was one of those jackasses.
I started playing Counter Strike around 2001 and I was horrible for probably a year maybe 2. But after I realized that latency (ping) is the biggest indicator of how well I will do and that you only get better by playing with people better than you, thats when I really started to get skills.
I found a server located not to far away from me with a shit load of cool people, most were around my age and the admins were really cool too. This server also had a lot of pro players there. So it was an awesome atmosphere to get good and have fun.
Funny enough I asked one of the best players there to teach me, and he did, and I also observed every good person there and I got goooood (kind of like the advice people give about bodybuilding). I played for a few more years and without sounding like a complete fag, I think I was probably the best person in every pub I’d go in. Got banned from a countless amount of servers. Accused of hacking by everyone.
I without a doubt think that if I had ever wanted to join a clan, I could have gone all the way to the top. But I had an extremely shitty computer and enjoyed pubbing way too much.