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Half-Life: Counter-Strike Announced
by Maarten Goldstein, Aug 31, 2000 4:12pm PDTIf you thought Platinum was the only new (and last) version of Half-Life you would see..nope. Sierra and Valve have also announced Half-Life: Counter-Strike (which showed up on EBWorld back in July). HLCS will feature "all of Valve's multiplayer content, three of the top MODs for Half-Life, and the #1 played online action game*, Counter-Strike". All of Valve's multiplayer content means Half-Life multiplayer, Team Fortress Classic, and Half-Life: Opposing Force multiplayer.
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Author Topic: You wanna hear Goose rant Version 1.0? Step right up.
Mach5
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Posts: 2699
Registered: Mar 2000
posted 09-01-2000 02:47 AM
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IÂ’ll admit. CS changed my life. I wonÂ’t go into how, but it has. And when I first started playing, I trusted Goose implicitly. He did no wrong. Each beta got better. I wonÂ’t say when it got bad, but it got bad. The fun factor disappeared. To me, fun meant a game which wasnÂ’t bull**** deathmatch arena crap. CS, in the beginning, was just the opposite. But nowÂ…Â….oh well.
Point being, some people have asked WHY I have a beef with Goose these days. This is why.
He is disconnected from the community. Sure, itÂ’s mostly filled with lamers, but in places like the Ideas/Suggestions (I/S) forums, there are shining examples. Members of the QCP, for example, mostly have played the game since day 1, and theyÂ’re some of the most mature people IÂ’ve met. Same goes for all the CoFRs, who eschew pure DM for a locked server with their own mature, teamplaying kind.
Point being, he doesnÂ’t listen to the community anymore. Akimbo is evidence of that. For the past 9 months, there has been a war in the I/S forums against akimbo, led by none other than the QCP. TheyÂ’re gun nuts, to boot, and they had a long, detailed, flawless list of arguments against akimbo. But Goose implemented it, proving that he never visits the I/S forums and/or doesnÂ’t care about the I/S forums. ThatÂ’s sick.
Furthermore, Goose ignored emails from his own (former) mods. When me or Raziel would clip ideas that were good from I/S and mail them to him, weÂ’d get no response. Given, Goose is a busy man, but too busy to respond to emails from his own fricken moderators?
Goose proved himself to be egotistical and dumb many a time. Rick, from the Hostile Intent mod (http://www.hostileintent.net/) found a fix for the aim proggie. Goose refused to use it, and described the method he was working on. Rick later explained to me that GooseÂ’s method is gonna get people who arenÂ’t cheating booted from servers just as much as cheaters.
The fact that with every beta, entry into servers is getting harder is even more proof Goose canÂ’t code. It now takes over 40 seconds to get into a server on my brotherÂ’s computer; in 6.2, it took less than 20.
And with all the bugs that plague CS, what did Goose spend time between 6.8 and 7.0 doing? He surely wasnÂ’t listening to you guys, the CS loving addicts that made this game popular (word of mouth was what made this game, plain and simple.) He wasnÂ’t coming up with new and innovative ways to discourage deathmatch style gaming. Hell, he wasnÂ’t even getting the damage values on the ****ing guns that are ALREADY in the game correct. You know what he was doing? Bloating the codebase with DRIVEABLE VEHICLES and AKIMBO PISTOLS. Oh, a new Seal model? Let me wet my pants now. Sarcasm intended.
Not saying 5.2 was that great, cuz I thought it was more DM than 6.2, but ever since 5.2, IÂ’ve just noticed GooseÂ’s methods going downhill.
I learned a lot of other fun things about Goose during my time as moderator/alphatester. But those things I really shouldnÂ’t tell, because I have been asked to keep a lot of that secret.
I hope you people will understand why IÂ’m so angry at Goose and think heÂ’s an @$$blaster.
[FOOK]Mach5
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Unfortunately he's a pale shadow of those he wants to be. The poor dear.
Thanks!
-Lex
We want to make it very clear, however, that you will still be able to download Counter-Strike for free from our web site. This standalone version is only for those who don't want to buy Half-Life, and only want CS (at a slightly lower price). Once again, CS will continue to be free and downloaded from this web site.
Or maybe their marketing team just is tired of playing poker in the backroom.
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Counter-Strike.
I'm the 'computer dude' at our company and wanted to get some of the other guys in the office addicted to CS too.
That and I found some old copies of Half-Life lying around the back of my local EB for $15... ;)
Valve screwed up in my opinion -- they should have started selling keys over the internet months ago for like $10-$15. Cut out the middle men and gone direct. There were some weekends in the office where we would have bought five or six keys at the spur of the moment, when some of the guys had their kids in and wanted to play we would have liked to buy more keys on the spot.
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Name the sayer of the given quote:
"Thank You Very Much, You Mother Shitter"
And a pleasant slumber to all!!
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Enough already, try doing some work on TF2!!!
BH
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* O V E R M I L K ' D *
I agree with you about basically everything. No one is forcing anyone to play Counter-strike. I was reading a similar discussion on the CS boards today at work (sshh don' tell on me). One person was telling everyone to stop whining then everyone started bitching at him etc. But the fact is that it's a free mod and no one is forcing you to play it. We should all be grateful that goose and cliffe released this mod to the public. Sure there are things I don't like about each new release, but if I continue to play it, I have no right to bite the hand that feeds me. At the most should be giving constructive critisicm. Whether the mod designers listen to me or not is up to them. It's not like I'm paying them to play CS...
whew! Longest post I've ever typed here... =)
-SatansFist
Let the flames commence.
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unfortunately the 3 files do not play as one! :( what am i doing wrong
how do i join many .wav files into one AND let them play the one file as all?
i think i need to strip some header information?
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someone posted it a while back - for merging files?
copy XXXX.YYY %???? XXXX.YY2 %???? XXXX.YY3 %BLAH DESTINATION XXXX.ALL
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for eg joining split files into one?
anyone know - it was in one of the comments sections, does the shack search, search comments?
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:D
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There really needs to be a release-date cagematch... Duke Forever vs. TF2, which on will make it out by 2002? :P
Thanks!
-Lex
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Uh anything else? Yeah CS is a good game but its OLD.
Tribes2 for me bitch
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