COUNTER-STRIKE:SOURCE

NEWS UPDATE 2-21-05

 My, it has been a long time since I've updated this page. Here are some exclusive updates:

The clan has officially moved to CS: source, which is personally to my disadvantage because of how slow it is.

For the other clan members who want to stay with 1.6, the clan has joined forces with the Infernal clan done by Wesley.

I just made an anti-steam/cs source tutorial for htose who want to play without source.

NEWS UPDATE 8-24-04

Just a days ago, Steam released Counter-Strike: Source Beta, which is a duplicate of the famous Counter-strike with enhanced graphics. Taking advantage of the half life 2 graphics engine, CS source has become a new precedent in visual graphics. Now there are new breathtaking graphics and physics. Those with Condition zero will be able to beta test it.

CS: Source has rag doll too and the new effects are hilarious. Now when one gets shot and killed, their bodies bounce off the wall and lets gravity takes over so each death action is practically different.

Now you can interact with just about anything in the map. The barrels and trash bits seemed just perfect to add to the map for now when they are shot, they fly, or tumble. Its fun to use them for cover even though they get blown away at the lightest blow. Grenades have been GREATLY improved. First, Flashbangs. Now if it sees you, you go blind, and not just blind, also deaf for a short while. HE grenades look better now, deal more damage, and also has the deafening attribute. Now the smoke grenade is awesome. Instead of this gray blob in the middle of nowhere, it has a bang and then a really realistic dark cloud fades in and it is just impossible to see through it. It is just wonderful. The last thing i want to add about grenades is that when you throw it at people, it now does damage and is just really fun for dodgeball scenarios.

Bullet holes are also cool. Now it is based on the object being show. If its like a crate, the holes are like holes in a crate unlike the old black dot. When you shoot a wall, especially like the one in de_dust, dust shoots out and it is just great eye candy. Also, when you shoot people in the head and they have helmets on, this wicked cool looking spark comes out instead of the yellow  dashes in CS1.6.  When you shoot up a barrel and this is for people with nice video cards, unlike my 32MB, the barrel looks as if it could crumble at any time. This came as a disappointment, but the ejecting shells are a lot smaller and fly out so fast that its hard to see where they fall. This might be more realistic but the old "cool-feeling-of-many-shells-flying-over-you-screen" is gone, but now you get to see the other player crumble in cool ways as it can be.

Taking screenshots is pretty hard and not fun. There is the old printscreen button which works fine if you are playing in full screen, but that takes one picture at the LIIMIT. There is also the go to "report bug" and clicking take screenshot, but it doesn't come out in a high quality fashion. its ugly and no one wants it. Another thing about the report bug way is that you cannot move while taking the picture, so it is hard to get some action in the picture. I bet that it will be easier when the real version comes out, which should be like around next month. Note how the terrorist is off the stairs in an angle instead of the go-through0the wall fashion used in cs1.6 and how hes not in any particular shape like how some were either spread eagle or face down in the old series. Ragdoll is just great. AND here's my favorite part: shooting dead bodies! Even though they are dead, doesnt mean you can't shoot them anymore. Its nothing much, but just fun to show your anger into overkilling, but theres no such thing as dismembering(i dont know if I spelled that right) yet in cs unless you look at those servers with the bodies exploding into skulls and chunks of red stuff when shot in the head by an AWP.  Yet another impressive factor of the new cs source is the C4.

Ok, old version; you would take out this not-even-plastic looking faded green box with a small timer and some lines drawn on it as wire and a alienish hand pops out and starts to type numbers into it, but you dont even see what you type. Now the new version: Swish! These cool realistic skin colored hands pop out and type in a number code that would be used to diffuse the bomb. Bomb looks great too! Then when planted you can see the numbers turn into *'s. And when a CT comes to diffuse it, the *'s slowly turn back to the original numbers. How cool is that?

Now  here comes the part about the physics. I have already talked about the barrels tumbling and rolling when you shoot them. Now here are the gun physics. When you drop your gun, in this case, a MP5, then it doesnt fall straight down in a flat horizontal way. It now flips in midair which add to the realism. Now when it hits the ground it lies flat as the ground, so if it is slanted, the gun lies slanted too, instead of the gun partially into the ground because it is lying straight. Now, if the hill is steep enough, the gun will slide down the hill which adds to the cool effects. Now remember how I said that everything is pretty much interactive. Well now are the guns. Shoot a gun on the ground and sparks comes out, but thats not the only thing. It moves like a few feet away. This adds more of the shooting-at-dropped-gun-when-person-wants-it-and-making-him-or-her-chase-it.

OK one of the last things I am going to mention in this long, yet incomplete article of CS:S. It is the scopes of the sniper rifles. Now you see a  somewhat blurred but cool version of what isahead, so you can now try those no scope kills. The only reason you dont see it in this picture to the left is because my video card isnt good enough, but I am sure that when I get a decent one, then I'll post all the scope pictures you want.  Oh and one more thing. My friend told me this, except I haven't seen it yet, but when you shoot the double doors in de_dust, and you shoot in a semicircle near the edge, the whole chunk falls out. Sounds cool, but now sure if it is true. Peace out.

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