My mates used to run an internet cafe back in the day, which happened to have two rooms with six PCs hooked up to a LAN. It was as if someone designed it for CS. Haha. I spent many a Friday night not getting drunk but battling it out there instead.
OLD SKOOL CS PLAYERS (1.3-1.6)
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Reminds me of a friend who for some reason had the use of some rooms above a nightclub which we used to LAN (think his mum owned the club or something) - though also plenty of alcohol involved. Second photo in the image below - we had to drag everything up and down 3 stories high sequence of metal stairs:
From:
Yeovil's Virtual Museum, the A-to-Z of Yeovil's History - by Bob Osborn
An A-to-Z History of Yeovil, Somerset, England - by Bob Osborn
Ah yeah, that would make sense as I think the finals that this was feeding was in Korea I think, from memory.
I remember noc having a solid team.
Edit: Internet archive has come up good.
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Oh wow, some of us took our own PC's and Laptops but not on those precarious-looking stairs!Reminds me of a friend who for some reason had the use of some rooms above a nightclub which we used to LAN (think his mum owned the club or something) - though also plenty of alcohol involved. Second photo in the image below - we had to drag everything up and down 3 stories high sequence of metal stairs:
From:
Yeovil's Virtual Museum, the A-to-Z of Yeovil's History - by Bob Osborn
An A-to-Z History of Yeovil, Somerset, England - by Bob Osbornwww.yeovilhistory.info
Wonder if that is hell.uk in the Quake 3 bit - used to play with him quite a bit in the early 2000s - very good player.
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Id love a revival or the War3craft mod servers, used to live on those back in the day. That and some classic surf maps.
Was fy_poolday for me, the most basic, small, DM map you've ever seen but used to just transfix me.
Funny enough ran into a screenshot from poolday (CSS) earlier:
That glorious 800x600 resolution...
Sadly I don't seem to have kept much CS 1.6 stuff.
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Used to play with Bom and the M2S lot at the time. Bubble’n’Squeak left M2S to join the BEERZnWORMZ lot for a while.
Bom wanted me to trial to take his place at (I think) D2C when he was moving on, I really was that good.
I miss being good at CS. Still play CS2 once a week but only a couple of games and not enough to grind the ranks.
Know the feeling, I do think the skill level is much greater than it ever was too, average players in cs2 would have been very good way back when.
Aye it’s a fair point!
As with many games like this what has changed is the meta - pure gun play and reaction times to a degree has been superseded by understanding the mechanics and strategy - you see some gamers with very not great movement and aim doing very well because they are cognitive of the odds, etc. though you still get some old school players with top level aim, etc. and a good understanding of the mechanics who can rock even the top tier new generation(s).
You're spot on. All this learning of smoke/molly/fb lineups really grinds on me, as I'm still in the old skool run and trust your aim mode
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Punt had a wonderful mouth on him
Used to love going back and forth with him when we would play the odd practice game. I remember as 1.6 was dying, I very briefly was involved in a mix team of me, rattlesnake, reality(pt) madspunk and i'm forgetting the 5th. Smashed out some results in practice games quickly but it never came to anything. Then the Championship Gaming Series threw an absolute tonne of money at source and creating franchises. I ended up going down to Birmingham to help admin the CS side of things. I was on good terms with the owners of the SGL league and those guys were contracted in to run the CS part of the Championship Gaming Series. Plus I knew I would catch up with Reality as he was trialing out.ODEE from dignitas was there and I'm not sure on the details but I think he got to run one the franchises. Reality and Rattlesnake got recruited into Birmingham Salvo. Was an interesting event, they had the players go through lots of little reaction tests etc and a bunch of games.
I was reminiscing about the good old days of CS and stumbled upon this thread! I recognise loads of names, it was such a great time and the community was brilliant.
I played all the time on the PC Zone public servers and on PC gamer / Barry’s world etc. My name was Merlin The Happy Pig, I played with a few guys in a clan called ::CoN:: with Barley Legal (before he joined ONE) DaArab, Hunter and Mr Whippy is who I remember!
I have been inspired to give CS2 a whirl, wish me luck!
I played all the time on the PC Zone public servers and on PC gamer / Barry’s world etc. My name was Merlin The Happy Pig, I played with a few guys in a clan called ::CoN:: with Barley Legal (before he joined ONE) DaArab, Hunter and Mr Whippy is who I remember!
I have been inspired to give CS2 a whirl, wish me luck!
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I’ve started playing this a lot and ill be honest im pretty terrible but i’m still learning. Competitive seems to be a pretty casual experience believe it or not. The actual “casual” playlist is anything but.