CS History

[CSN NewsBot]

This is extremly interesting, in my opinion..



I was browsing around the Actor's Guild a stumbled upon the developer's area. Anyhow, about 51 weeks ago Blake slapped up a gooseman interview!! At the bottom there are a couple of pics from very early CS (they were taken in single player, as the HL SDK wasn't released yet).. Blah, check it out!

[CSN NewsBot]

CS History

Jaffacake has made his writing debut with CSCentral as he takes a look at the history of Counter-Strike. The article is the first part in a multi-part series, and so only the first beta to beta 4 is covered. Here's a completely random, but obligatory quote.

CS BETA 2.0 - [8.13.99]

Now THIS release was very exciting, I'm struggling to keep my trousers dry over it all. Not only did 2.0 have extra weapons (Sig SG-552 Commando , AK-47 , Desert Eagle), it also adding some things that you don't know how you'd live without in CS, like the round timer, how on earth did we live without that? Before we were simply stumbling around in a disorganized and untimely manner probably knocking into walls and shooting everything but the other team.

A whole lot better than those stories Grandpa used to tell. If you're interested in the history of CS, or you're just looking for something to kill the time, grab the article here. If you liked that article you might just love rizzuh's CS - Year 1 article about the first year of Counter-Strike (BETA's 1 through 6) written on the mod's first birthday.



CS turns four years old on June 18th.

[Pharlap]

i started cs since beta 7.0, and i still rememmber it like yestreday! now all u get is 'newbies' calling players like me 'noobs'....sigh, times have changed,

[naem]

*ahem* where's the rest of the story

only up to beta 4.0?

[superm0nk]

coming soon.

[-SDc-Match]

Paintball Dust. Now THAT sounds fun.

[-:Nighthawk:-]

I'm looking forward to the rest of the history, even if I was part of much of it... always nice to bring back the memories, heh. :)

[orphy]

I've heard that there's already a paintball place similar to dust. Never seen it though. I think it's in British Columbia, although I could be mistaken.



That article killed time. Not too bad.

[{AGB}HolyApe]

lol insomniac, i started around beta 5-5.2 and now a lot of poeple that started over version 1.0 own me... kinda sucks

[Spartibus]

That article is pretty interesting. Although I would rather read something like this from rizzuh, I enjoyed it because i only started in 1.1

[rizzuh]

Tech N9ne wrote..

That article is pretty interesting. Although I would rather read something like this from rizzuh, I enjoyed it because i only started in 1.1

http://csnation.counter-strike.net/articles.php/1/



It's pretty poorly written, though.

[Mr. T]

Dissing siege is a bad idea man, N0TH1NG will come back from teh grave and kick your ass, writer of this article!!

[rizzuh]

Why did he write an article on versions he didn't play? The article says he started on CS 1.3. If he played the BETAs he would have known that Siege was easily the most popular and the best map during the early days of CS. It only started to suck later in its life, around a year after the release of CS.



Either way, articles are always fun to read so good job, CSC.

[SinaC]

Edited by [user="2964"] @ [time="1054183469"]

im confused... the colt had a scope up to 5.2 i thought...

[Pharlap]

good point rze...i didnt realise that he didnt actually play the betas. maybe thats why i didnt like his style of writing.

like i said, i didnt enjoy the article. rze's one was definitely the best ive read so far. and i really loved playing the beta version (7.0) and even shortly afterwards, before CS started to 'suck', as the veterans think.



and the real life dust is about 20 miles from where i live :)