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Knife-Licensing Sensation Sweeps Counter-Strike
Thanks to Shacknews for passing on the bizarre news that Valve's currently-beta Counter-Strike 1.6 release has an official knife license (PDF doc). An excerpt from the press release reads: "The new Counter-Strike knife is based on Mick Strider's award winning bowie. It is an integral design that started as a 1/2" thick slab of 6AL4V titanium. The edge is press-fit Stellite.. ..the handle is fossilized mastodon ivory." There's also a link to a an in-game screenshot of the knife, looking both sharp and shiny. We're looking forward to seeing how Valve can top this licensing masterpiece... suggestions?
We're looking forward to seeing how Valve can top this licensing masterpiece... suggestions?
This is news?
Yay, a new skin for the knife. Why should I care? A virtual knife is a virtual knife, it doesn't have any of those high quality carbon-steel mentioned on the webpage.
Hate to tell you this, but it's hardly a masterpiece. How much did Valve pay for this "license"?
What's next, McDonalds happy meals?
It seems that Turd Ferguson doesn't like the new knoife skin that much. Not sure if I like it either.
The knife is nice looking alright.. but it doesn't fit. The guy's hand has half as many polygons and shittier textures. Its neat that they are adding real-life objects, but it doesn't mesh with the game. This could be a nice prototoype for the next generation though.
-molo
Using your sig line to advertise for friends is lame.
"I'm not sure I like this artoicle."
I agree!
This is just another example of advertising intruding into the gaming scene.
It's a good thing CS doesn't have the text notifications of player deaths, or else the in-game messages would all read:
"So-n-so snipes 1337gunR"
"Iggy scores a headshot on ~playa4_lif"
"D00d has hacked n00b to death with his 'Award Winning Bowie knife' (now only 24.99 at www.yaddayadda.com)"
What bothers me is what it may mean for Valves development approach on a larger scale. Will Half-Life 2 have WinXP PCs in all the research labs you fight your way through? Will the Invading aliens from another dimension drink Sprite?
This approach only insults the players and reinforces the idea of a general lack of creativity in most American game developers.
Heh.... holding the knife like that, the terrorists are sure to lose their thumbs very quickly
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
I look at the picture, and it's some bad photograph of some twit holding a knife over his shoulder. I can't see any detail, and it certainly doesn't look like counterstrike. Unless you're supposed to hold this thing while playing counterstrike or something?
Iâ(TM)ve had a server parked at home waiting to get updated with the 1.6 version of Counter Strike. When the hell are they going to get around to re-opening the beta? Or even better, releasing the bloody thing? Yes â" since I would be hosting I could get in the beta â" but I enjoy playing with folks Iâ(TM)ve gamed with for a couple years now would be SOL. They shut it down in January, and never heard a peep since.
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I think Shacknews already got in trouble for putting a.) a picture up from in-game that they didn't have the right to and b.) the pdf from the game.
As such, they've already replaced the 'in-game picture' with a quite silly picture of someone with a kitchen knife and the pdf with a one-page info-sheet on the knife (not a license). However, the pdf *does* have the screenshots in it.
Or maybe I am just not hip enough
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
The dude who was hosting it obviously noticed the slashdotting and replaced it with a smaller picture of his boyfriend in his most seductive pose while cooking dinner last night.
Liberty.
So yeah, V1.6 has a new knife, new knife action (quicker stab and more of a sliding alternate attack for it)... But, in the meanwhile, they changed the names of all of the guns to generic, fake names... The heralded "sig" (you hear the word and it strikes fear), now has some stupid name... Almost all of the weapons have changed.
I like the new CS. Official, and officially smart, bots (100x better than any community coded bots, and more versatile), de_aztec is changed a bit, and new GUI... I'm held back because I lost all of my buy aliases, and I have no idea how Steam works, so I can't really put them back or anything.
We'll see how it goes. I'm paciently awaiting HL2...
Mike
I know everyone's been hanging out for the official CS line of camo pants and flak jackets! Maybe a licence for a better pair of glasses for that guy in the pdf too, you won't get any terrorist respect looking like a dork, no matter how snazzy your knife is.
If I see another axis-aligned cube I'm gonna puke...
We're looking forward to seeing how Valve can top this licensing masterpiece... suggestions?
Hmmmmm maybe a licensed MP5! Last time i checked (and I did) it was hard to get a license for a class 3 firearm in my county. Not to mention finding a pre-ban mp5... If valve could help me with licensing... W00T!!!!
How about Valve including the world famous Victorinox Swiss Army Knife in a future release. I mean, you could even use it as a mini flame thrower!
Life is like a sewer; what you get out of it depends on what you put into it...
Amen to that. Superior soldiers do better with average equipment in the real world than poorly trained substandard people could ever hope to do with top of the line gucci gear.
I think that companies trying to cash in on weekend warriors so that they can have a that elite soldiers have are just cynical profiteers.
There is no such thing as a Warding Staff of the Badger in the real world.
There ARE nice knives which somebody has paid attention to so they fit well in the hand, don't break and cut well without getting blunt too quickly, but the bottom line is that that knife will bounce off a true warrior's cloth chest rig if wielded by a 90lb weakling, while the trained warrior's arm will drive his standard bowey through said agressor's sternum and two inches into the hard ground behind.
Brand names mean nothing. What the particular piece of weaponry or gear can do in your hands might be something, but ulimately it is the person who does the deed which decides things.
Hell, people have been known to miss with cruise missiles.
So yeah, ye manufacturers. Stop commercialising war. Make good products for the sake of making good products. Make them well. Make them stand up on their own merits. DONT make people think that that they'll just be turned into the ultimate badass just by buying them. Practice, training and dicipline count. Anything less just makes them a danger to themselves and others around them. (unless they're buying the tools to be wall hangers, and that just deprives the rest of the community of good equipment.)
My objection is not that the knife is in the game. My objection is the game depicts a knife which is supposed to be able to make you into a better warrior, both in the game world and the real world. There is no such object.
Oh and leave the mastadon ivory for artists and paleobiologists. it has no business on a "serious knife"
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If only macgyver was still running...
but then we'd get even more crass commercialisation.
Then we'd all have Mikov
.380 with the added bonus of
leverlocks instead of 500 dollar microtech knives.
We'd carry 150 dollar Makarovpistols
instead of 550 dollar glocks and kahrs.
And that would mean we'd all be pretty smart. The
Mikov is one of the most wonderfully underrated
knives in existence. It's perhaps THE strongest
automatic knife design there is. It's light,
quick, and has an excellent blade that holds an
edge for a damn long time. Not bad for a 100 year
old design that you can pick up for 40 bucks with
black plastic ABS handle.
The Makarov is the ONLY gun I own that has never
jammed ONCE on any ammo I've ever fed it. The
ammo is cheap as sin too. It's got about the same
amount of power as a
easily grouping 3 inches at 25 yards quickly, and
easily under 1 1/2 inch with winchester white box
ammo if I really concentrate. Being able to
rapidly place shots exactly where you want them
is a hell of a lot better than getting tagged 3
times before you recover from the recoil of your
first shot with your magnum.
With the nearly thousand dollars you save buying
these two weapons over the ones featured in
hollywood movies, you can start to pay for some
things that matter more. Like, some training.
Training so you are less dangerous to yourself
and the people around you if you ever are put
in a position to have to use deadly force.
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
Hell, people have been known to miss with cruise missiles.
So yeah, ye manufacturers. Stop commercialising war. Make good products for the sake of making good products. Make them well.
Unfortunately, most of those cruise missles haven't been manufactured since the late 80's. We're just lucky that Reagan ordered so many of them that the government has a huge stockpile.
As for the knife, BFD, or maybe I just don't care because I don't play CS.
I think it's an interesting idea to allow real-world manufacturers to pay for a good model of their product to be included in a game. I think it'd suck if it became overdone. I also think the latter is almost impossible once the former shows effectiveness.
-PainKilleR-[CE]
Dang, maybe I need to download the 1.6 beta..! And, someone needs to tell them that they did the blood splatter on the sharp edge of the knife the wrong color.
Decided that the knife works so well in-game and looks so cool that you just *have* to have one? Better be prepared to cough up about $450US.
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