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"Counter Strike: Source"

Anyone else playing the beta yet? It was released via steam last week to owners of either Condition Zero or the HL2 voucher from ATI graphics cards, and isn't half bad. It was nice to find out how well the Source engine would run on this machine, and the physics and graphical touches impressed me greatly - particularly flashbangs (with images burned on to the screen) and muzzle flashes.

Still a bit buggy, there are regular updates to iron out gameplay glitches and so on, and they're still only using hitboxes for collision detection, though apparently the final will have per-pixel hit detection..

As a person who stopped playing CS months ago, this single level beta got me straight back in to it. All the weapons have been tinkered with slightly (the colt is now unstoppable and the AK generally pants) but that changes with every update anyway..

Worth a look if you qualify for the beta, about a 300mb download I think, just run Steam.

Source is a quality game..well worth the £12 for CZ!

Azul wrote:
> Is CZ worth buying?

This is what's holding me back - I don't see CZ as being worth the money, yet I want it so I can play Source.

Tough choice, but if I can find CZ on the cheap or used, I'll probably pick it up.

sPiKeCaSt wrote:
> Pic I took earlier..

I so hate you right now :D

...And tommorow I really will buy CZ instead of just saying I will.

Is CZ worth buying?

Pic I took earlier..floor textures look amazing!

http://img82.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img82&image=CS.jpg

Still tempted to buy CZ to see for myself (though not too keen on CS), coincidentally, The Half Life 2 pre load began a day or two ago, the first step to getting to download HL2 off Steam.

Aye good call, can be had for under £15 I believe, though I got a bit fed up with the single players stuffs after..not long.

Still, tell me when Source is ready to go ;)

Well like I said yesterday but has now disappeared, I got a bunch of errors and will be getting myself a proper version of CZ.

There!

FORK IT!