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The Rise Of Counter-Strike
b0r1s writes "Business 2.0 is running a story about Minh Le, and his now famous Counter-Strike mod for Half Life. The article explains the origins and motivation for the development of the mod, as well as explains the virtues of making code freely available for those who wish to hack games."
I almost flunked out of college because of you ;)
Thanks for a great game and many wasted hours.
Personally, I know he's not out to create a fun game and uphold ideals of sharing code and such. I mean, have you played Counter-Strike?
He's out to conquer the world, and with each new person who plays, it's one less person who can operate normally in life. I mean, I started playing CS 3 years ago, and while I havn't died of any marathon sessions, I've come awfully close.
Sounds like a bad Pinky and the Brain episode, but... it's too scary not to consider.
Next step : Move out of your parent's house. I mean, how are you going to use that newfound fame as a hot shit game designer to get chicks if you still live in your 'rents basement?
He needs to give John Romero a call.. Romero can teach him how to get chicks, and he can teach Romero how to make a game that doesn't suck shit. If a piece of shit like Daikatana can get you Stevie Case, imagine the kind of girl writing a good game like Counter-Strike will get you.. ;)
All movements for social change begin as missions, evolve into businesses, and end up as rackets.
The judges have found that Valve can't sue Counter-strike because a) Counter-strike is a game, and b) it is developed by Valve.
When are you people going to learn that you can't trust someone called "Trusty"? And when are the moderators going to learn that before modding something as "informative", they should (at least) check that the information is true?
RMN
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Hmm, if that's the case, DC area residents should make it a regular practice of shouting "AWP WHORE" every few minutes. If this guy is truly a CS player, he'll surely jump up from his cowardly camping spot, run towards them with an MP5 shouting back "I'll 0wn j00 bi0tch." Obviously, in his 12-year old furor, he'll have forgotten to load his MP5. When arriving at his target area, he'll squeeze the trigger and nothing will happen. He'll shout "Fux0r!@&!" before getting riddled with bullets by 72 year old Mrs. Eileen Mulberry, who goes by the CS handle, "Granny0wnZurBitchAzz."
Counter Stick?
Too many zeros, not enough ones
Uh. Not to be a smart ass, but when someone else brags for you, it's called Praise.
Surely you've been praised before?
I've found that the best way to reduce cheating in CS is to play over a LAN. Then you can walk across the room and deal with the cheaters in a much more effective way than anything online...
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
So you would sit there and shoot a guy a bunch of times and then it would turn out he was a teammate (unless of coruse friendly fire was on, heheh).
You couldn't turn friendly fire off until after the first several betas, and what make it a bigger pain was that the only difference between the CT and T models was the lack of sleeves on the latter; from the back it was impossible to tell friend from foe. The team killing was horrendous up until then because any player that came in would have no money, and other players had guns he might want, and guns were also much more expensive and money was much harder to obtain. I specifically remember one instance where a guy came into a server and proceded to kill the closest teammate with a good gun (the auto-sniper, called the GSG3 or something like that, been awhile since I played). The moron failed to notice his victim had a 0 ping and was therefore the server owner.