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CS 1.6 was peak gaming. There were servers with Warcraft 3 mod where you could pick your race and level up to receive additional modded abilities and items, and it would save your progress over months. Not to mention the map customizations.
Also, no paying for season passes or DLC, no paid skinpacks, no censorship or embedded ads or tracking. And custom porn sprays.
EDIT: there were definitely skins, they were just free downloads from modders. And they were client side so you could see them but other players would just have their own skin or default for the same item.
So you're saying there was new content all the time, it's just that it was made by the community for the community.
Man made me remember zombie escapes. Complete darkness, scary maps with zombie screams from another game. I used to play a lot of those.
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Source also had W3 mod. I remember a server that ran it on de_deathcookin for some reason, but it was so good.
Also, glass maps. And this one server that ran 24/7 scoutzknivez low gravity gun game.
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This reminds me of wc3 mods run on fy_pool_day. Stupid fun with the overpowered HE nades
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We had mods. They're a bit like skins and new content, only free and far more creative. They are what you call microtransactions today but you didn't have to sell your right arm to get them because anyone could make them.
CS mods
Yo dawg, we heard you like mods...
Mods are literally the reason why doom II, skyrim, fallout new vegas and assaultcube are still my most played games, I'm both genuinely surprised and scared at what people can come up with.
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Trollbait, it has to be. "no brand tie ins" is genuinely hilarious to me. I'm picturing a videogame reviewer going like: "The game is an artistic and a technical milestone. The gameplay is also the smoothest we've seen so far. Unfortunately, the game does not feature a Ronald McDonald skin or even a Slurpee coupon, so we have to give it a 7/10".
No Mountain Dew tie-in ? 0/10
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It was pure gaming.
No advertisments, no marketing, no extra costs.
The only way to get better was to play more.
How can it not be fun?
Good ol' days, thank you VALVE.
CS 1.6 was not made by Valve, it was a mod for Half-Life.
I believe the thank you was regarding the mod-friendly mindset of early valve. A section in the game menu for loading new mods and it shipped with a mod (TFC, which was based off a community mod for Quake)
By...not playing it? No boomers were playing Counterstrike back in the day, lol wtaf?
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God I miss those times, it was all about skills. Cheating was also also extremely rare in CS (according to my memories) during the earlier 2000s. Loved that game
Server culture was a bulwark against cheating.
I miss dedicated servers.
There still are community servers for old games like CS 1.6. Personally, I prefer CS:Source which feels less dated, controls feel much better, and the game works properly on widescreen monitors.
The point is that there is still a dedicated player base. You can still play them.
Sadly CS:Source is rife with hacks and cheats. 1.6 still has really good servers.
As a gen x, I didn't know any boomers played CS.
Gen Z calls anyone older than them boomers
I never thought it would happen to me :(
You have boom in your username. So... kinda asking for it
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I used to play LAN Quake at Uni before 3D graphics accelerating boards (and before that things like Pacman and Manic Miner on a ZX Spectrum and before that arcade games) and I ain't a boomer.
Boomer games are more like this
Zoomers genuinely think everyone more than two years older than them are boomers. Same as how actual boomers thought everyone more than two years younger then them were millenials.
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same. i'll never forget the sound of that grenade launcher... foomp tink tink tink BOOM
I don't even claim free season pass rewards because I couldn't give a fuck less about your cosmetic trash. Gameplay is king in this household.
Well we had mods and custom levels when we got tired of the official stuff.
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I heard some weirdos switched de_dust and de_duat2 for de_aztec and cs_office sometimes. Avantgarde as fuck
Aztec is a better map than dust. Dust is massively onesided sided because Ts have to either run through the tunnels to get to the sites or come from the underbridge where CTs can kill them easily.
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Skill progression ig
No skins and no new content? CS had way too many different maps to play on, not to mention the amount of custom skins were crazy.
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I spent so much time playing 1.6 in college, even after Source was out. On the university wifi, that game was rock solid.
I still play 1.6, Source, and I'm trying out some multi-player on Quake
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