CS: Condition Zero @ Shack
by Steve Gibson, Feb 27, 2002 11:48pm PSTI decided to go ahead and post this bright and early for the heck of it. A little while ago I took a trip to Gearbox Software to find out just what in the world Condition Zero was. What I discovered was not some goofy find the key plot thrown in to the Counter-Strike game, but a clever approach that should pleasantly surprise Counter-Strike fans. CZ is slated for release 2nd quarter of this year.
How do you do that? Package a modem and a dial-up account in every box? Include a video or DVD? Send Pat Hook door to door to AWP every customer on a LAN? Well I think Gearbox came up with one of the smartest and eloquent solutions possible. They took Counter-Strike and combined it with... wait for it.... Tony Hawk Skater 3!?. [snip]I'm certain there are more questions that I could have answered, and there is a revelation in there about the future of online Counter-Strike as well which will probably frighten and confuse some folks. Hopefully I can do a nice follow-up addressing whatever comes up in a week or so and include that with the extra images and footage I'm expecting from Valve.
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Dan
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i believe cs:cz is perfect for this target audience.
2. good for practice! sometimes i don't feel like hopping onto a server but end up running around a map by myself... cs:cz (i'm hoping) will fix that.
3. extra copy of key? so my brother can play on the shack servers at the same time :)
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We want gamers without the bandwidth to enjoy the game ? COME ON! 60k people play this game every day. And I bet a good portion of them live on 56k connections.
If i remember the game engine was designed to work with the 56k connection.
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Hmmm, dunno about that. This game could be really fun with aimbots and wall hacks. ;)
· Do it under 2 minutes!
· Do it with only pistols!
· Rescue the hostage without reloading!
. Knife only!
. Spell out "PWN" in bullet marks on the dead terrorist body!
. Do it with completely Nerf'd jumping (and god knows what else got nerf'd) so our Newbie skill bots can get lucky headshots on you!
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are you saying it will be more DoD 2.0 style where its slowed action where you have to plan your moves etc so you don't get killed? as opposed to where it is now, rush the hell out of it and hope you don't die.
Additionally, is there any possibility of us getting a Shack DoD 2.0 server? We only really us SFO and NYC CS servers so if you take one CS server down and make it DoD that would be much appreciated =)
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That way we could role-play Palestinians vs. Israelis! ;)
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FAG!!@!@#!
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W A R 3 B E T A ' D
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And the jokes on the first page didn't make me laugh, and confused me instead. They were oddly placed and not appropiate.
It was informative, but didn't seem to get the once-over it needed. He says there's no LAN or multiplayer in CZ, but you can play a co-op mode? Is the co-op mode only with bots? I don't get it.
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well you can count me out then.
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