Counter-stike: source beta

[GF5]Binky · Post by **[GF5]Binky** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 4:17 pm

noob

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Blade! · Post by **Blade!** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 4:29 pm

that takes time an effort

Night wing / joe king · Thu Aug 19, 2004 4:35 pm

the flashes leave an after image if they hit u dead on, u get a flash of it just before u get ur vision back.

the grenades deafen you for small amounts of time, and send everything flying.

i don't think i've pld an fps that has felt more "real" while palying it. i actually felt like a part of the battle.

Post by **MrsWintermute** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 4:54 pm

I certainly think its good looking.... but I'm finding it difficult to get used to (maybe due to the fact that I'm playing on Wint's lappy).

Blooming FB's - they catch me out everytime. I also thought the computer had buggered up when someone threw one at me. I just stand there like a rabbit in the headlights.

Certainly changes the style of play.

Post by **KillJoy** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 5:04 pm

Right... read this entire thread and i'm still confused..., is cs:s available to the average joe bloggs then or do you have to own cz??

Post by **Mackey** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 5:11 pm

Any one found a decent server to play on yet the ones i have been on so far have been full of tk'ers or very laggy

Post by **BournE** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 5:17 pm

KillJoy wrote:Right... read this entire thread and i'm still confused..., is cs:s available to the average joe bloggs then or do you have to own cz??

you have to own CZ or a voucher for HL2 that came with certain graphics cards

Post by **KillJoy** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 5:19 pm

ack, right - well im not even gonna bother - till i get a new souped up pc anyway

Blade! · Post by **Blade!** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 5:21 pm

i dno teh ip but ther'ye is an 18man server with low ping admins and " UK

" at end of its name ,its at top of the list normaly

Post by **Wintermute** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 5:25 pm

Just do "Find Servers" then sort by ping.
There's quite a few UK based 16-20 man servers that seem OK when I've been testing.

Foxtrot_Uniform · Post by **Foxtrot_Uniform** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 5:51 pm

what about a dvf source server on the secondary one?

Post by **EagleEye** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 6:06 pm

Night wing / joe king · Thu Aug 19, 2004 10:40 pm

the splash has been reduced by the looks of things, and i don't think it passes through walls in the same way.

Post by **-=Alex=-** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 8:16 am

so can someone post up a demo of the new cs beta so theoes of us who don't have it can have a look of what it really looks like

[GF5]Binky · Post by **[GF5]Binky** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 11:01 am

Some screenies we took last night:

http://www.btinternet.com/~azz1/pics/cs ... reenshots/

Urb · Post by **Urb** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 11:08 am

Wh00p!!! played it last night, Huzzuh!!

my mate send me a message confirming about the HE grenades, they dont go thru walls or crates, so WH()()PPIIEEE..

Love the flash bangs
Recoil is good, not same as cs:norm, but if ya used to other games like bf:v and bhd, its similar to those so not a major issue..

I wonder how the servers are handling it, seems good ping but the ones ive played on could have been struggling a little, being that the map itsself has changed and its got to tell allt he clients about object moving, being shot at etc aswell as the normal player positions and bullet reg..

plus, anyone notice about outside of the map being 3d aswell and not just a flat image like old..

Escapologist · Post by **Escapologist** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 11:24 am

That looks amazing!

I doubt it will play very well on my setup

Post by **jamie** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 11:28 am

Foxtrot_Uniform wrote:what about a dvf source server on the secondary one?

Do you have any idea about what is needed to get that up and running?

Post by **Wintermute** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 11:36 am

Nice screenshots - the level of detail is quite stunning when you clock things up. I mean, that bottle

Oh, and the 3D skyboxes are superb, the idea being that you don't appear to be in a "level" but just part of a larger environment, and they seem to capture this nicely. They were developed for HL2 - when you're in the city it looks like it stretches for several miles around you.

Played it some more last night and I like it a LOT; although I still think Valve's "minimum specs" are laughable.
HL2 (and CSS) is going to force a LOT of upgrades, but personally I think it's looking worthwhile.

dark_wulf · Post by **dark_wulf** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 11:44 am

I was getting quite a poor FPS on this, although the environments are very nice

I did find (and one of the [BSOD] guys as well) that 1024x768 ran the same or better than 800x600 which is odd.

I will be testing it again to see if knocking out some background services will do (like virus scanner and uninstalling this bloody iTunes Helper that keeps popping up in task manager) and see what effect that has.

Until then , anyone got any idea what settings are needed to make it run better like the filterin and vSync in options?