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Anyone play it? I've played since I was 9 or 10. I was a 1.6 player for a long time, but a little less than a year ago or so I switched to Source. I play competitively a lot with very good players, but I still know how to have fun. =D If anyone here plays, 1.6 or Source (preferably Source since I'm terrible at 1.6 now), let me know and we can play some time. :) |
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you must be quite young. i remember those key binding days of beta 1. |
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people still play counterstrike? |
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counterstrike is fun if you're on a good server. I've never played source and don't really want to. Check out ukcs.net those servers are brilliant fun, caused me to carry on playing that game instead of giving up. the people on there are great and ive laughed my head off at some of the banter more times than i can remember. |
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Yeah, I play CS:S all the time. My steam account name is jamesdewar, if you want to add me to your friends list. |
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Once I played a superb game of counterstrike. The other members of the team all spoke english, no one engaged in any dickish team killing and people actually worked as a team. Perhaps most incredibly, when people issued commands or advise, the other members of the team listened and adhered to it. I've never played another game which came close and soon after stopped playing. |
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i used to play 1.6 about 60 hours a week when i was unemployed. it was the hardest addiction i've ever had to break. |
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Never really liked counter-strike all that much. No stamina system means infinite bunny-hopping, and no respawns = boring. The guns and maps are all reasonably cool, I just don't see how there are people who spend their entire day playing this game. For those of you who think evolume is joking, there are people out there who STILL play 60 hours per week. My friend Chris is one of them and plays Cal open tournaments all the time. His job is literally to play counter-strike. Since he's making a little bit of money off of it here and there, it's hard to tell him to quit, but to devote all your time to it? Goddamn that is a life I don't ever want to lead. |
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the thing that really made it hard for me to quit was the competitive nature of it as well as the team play aspect. i was a total stat whore and so I was always trying to be top not only on my server but in the world with different weapons, on particular maps, headshots etc. then when they added voice communication, it really changed the game because a really tight team could dominate using actual strategy and teamwork. I also really loved the purity of the game. you are extremely vulnerable, and with no respawns you had to really use cover and work as a team to protect each other. also, there are really no power-ups and the weapons are, for the most part, pretty balanced and more or less accessible to everyone. So the only way to get more powerful, is just to become a better player than everyone else which means you gotta play play play play...skip meals...ignore your real life... stay unemployed... ahh good times... |
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I once had to strike the counter in my kitchen because I was so incensed that my coffee was not only sub-strength, but also tepid. |
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I used to be slightly addicted, but ever since Battlefield 2 came out it's been that instead. And I play loads of games, so I'm never really addicted to just one. |
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im more of a Battlefield 1942 guy |
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I think online games are great but sometimes I feel lucky that I personally am not attracted to them. The circle of non-stop death isn't my thing. I kind of need a narrative or a world I can interact with at my own pace, I don't like competitive gaming. I don't even run in games that I really like, I walk unless I'm attacked. Online co-op is super though. |
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Well, I'm 18, but I've been playing CS for a very long time. I don't play for absurd amounts at a time like a lot of people do (though I used to), because I found that I get burned out if I play too much like that. I really enjoy the competitive community most though. It's nice to have people that know what they're doing, know how to execute strategies, and make good calls when you're playing. I actually may be heading to the Summer CPL tournament for CS:S with my cousin, though we still need to get a team together, hah. As for the Battlefield series, I played it a little bit when 1942 came out, but I'm really pretty terrible at it. The maps are huge, and I find that I get lost easily, and get picked off everywhere I go because I don't know where players are on the map. My dad loves the series though, and plays BF2142 a lot. |
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In Battlefield, you have to use the terrain much more effectively. I can't speak very much about 1942 because I hardly ever played it, but I absolutely love BF2142, and almost never get sniped because I use cover and movement to my advantage. I do agree that just about any multiplayer game is really fun when people are working together and using strategy. Unfortunately, I've only ever played CS:S in pub servers where it's mainly just Rambo-ers and Trash talkers, most of which have yet to hit puberty. Being harrassed by someone who's balls haven't even dropped yet is not my idea of fun. In the same breadth, I don't know if it's fair to judge the game itself based on the actions of annoying players in pub servers, so overall I'd say it's a pretty good game. |
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much more effectively than in most games* |
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Yeah, I see what you're saying. One game I'm actually really excited for now is Call of Duty 4. If you've seen the trailers for it, not only are the graphics amazing, but you can actually use tall grass, trees, etc. for cover. Looks pretty awesome. And of course, Crysis will be badass. I do agree about pub servers though, most are filled with stupid 12 year olds. If I hadn't gotten involved in the competitive scene for it, I doubt I'd still play it. |
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Call of duty 4 looks great, and so does crysis, and even though I have a direct X10 vid card, I dont have vista and don't plan on getting it for a while, so there goes crysis, at least for now. But yeah, I should've probably noted that I think counter-strike really would be awesome when played competitively. The only problem for me is that tournament play isn't very accessable to casual players who still want to use strategy (unless you want to lose). I'm a sucker for WWII games, so I really like DoD:S. Do you play that? The stock servers offer some pretty unrealistic, arcade style gameplay, but there are servers that run Realism mods to correct the accuracy, rate of fire, supply (how much ammo you have), etc. of the game, as well as putting the reins on bunny hoppying. People usually play strategically in these servers, so it's basically like CS:S set in 1940s Europe with respawning. |
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i've played it. once |
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Yeah, I know what you mean about the teamplay in Counter-Strike, most people in pub servers opt for the run-n-gun-get as many kills as I can strategy and don't listen at all. I've played DoD:S before, and I actually like the game quite a bit. I do like DoD 1.4 (I think this is what it's up to now) a lot more. I never played DoD competitively, but I was probably good enough to. My cousin, my brother, and their friends were actually all really good. My cousin started one of the best DoD teams that is still in existence, and they all went to CPL for DoD in 2005. I like DoD 1.4 more because I think it's a lot more balanced than DoD:S, and I like the old versions better. |
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Agreed, DoD 1.4 is balanced a bit better, and has the British "team" and the paratrooper maps.. Ultimately DoD:S is a modest offering compared to the original DoD, but I'm a sucker for the Source engine, which has improved even since DoD:S was originally released, and will improve again with the release of Episode II. The main reason I play only on realism servers is because it brings back some of the balance from DoD 1.4, even if the British are nowhere to be found :*( |
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Pffffft you all suck. TFC was where it was at. |
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Well actually I don't recall ever sayi... *stares into flashing red eyes* Mmmust play TTtee Efffffff Chhceeeee.... *shambles off* |
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Anyone remember about that guy who died in an internet cafe after playing counterstrike for 30+ hours straight in one sitting? |
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Haha! seriously? I don't mean to laugh but... wow, he must have been on some drugs to keep hunger and sleep at bay for 30+ hours... I understand that the game itself is a drug for some people, but isn't it natural to assume that after not having eaten in 30 hours, he'd get hungry enough to take a break? R.i.P Die-hard CS fan... |
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...or are there internet cafes in some parts of the world that allow food and drinks at the computer? |
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There's a LAN center here (Lee's Summit, MO) that my cousin is sponsored by that actually sells food and drink - most of it's just candy bars, chips, soda, and energy drinks, but it's still nice to be able to have a snack and eat. =D |
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Oh, haha.. internet cafes... I was thinking of lan centers, as all the lan centers in my area dont allow food or drink in the cubicles. I should go to bed. |
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Really, your lan center sells snacks? That's gnarly... The ones near me are so damn uptight... they're afraid of people's greasy hands on the mouse, and people spilling drinks on the computers, I suppose. |
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i played only like 6 games of CS, and 5 of them i got kicked off the server cause appearently being really accurate at giving away headshots is considered cheating |
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I used to get banned on 1.6 pubs for that all the time, lol. I hardly ever pub at all in Source though so I don't have that problem now. =D |
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