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The
Counter-Strike of Tomorrow
By Chris Clark |
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In
the past few days a few of the Reality Syndicate's "Special
Ops" have been hacking into computer systems all over the world.
What were they looking for? Why a look into what is to come for
enthusiasts of Counter Strike.
We
here at the Syndicate have a deep affection for this fantastic mod
for Half Life. It's been long enough since 1.0 Beta was released,
and now we're anxious to see what being planned. Here's what we
found:
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Finding #1 - Special
Menus
Pictured
here is a screenshot of something we believe to be only one of many "special
menus" added to be added sometime later this year (click to enlarge).
As you can see, This menu allows a player to beg for his/her life when
looking down the barrel of a rifle or other weapon. Options include:
- Why can't we talk
things out?
- Be reasonable, man!
- What if I PROMISE
not to plant this bomb?
- I just want T's
and CT's to get along for once.
- Please, I don't
have enough money for a decent rifle!
- Killing never solves
anything.
- Killing me would
be taking the easy way out.
- I'm this server's
admin and if you kill me, I'll boot you.
Other special menus
are still sketchy at this point. We'll keep you posted!
Finding #2: Higher
Quality Smoke
One
screenshot we recovered showed us what can only be a newer way of rendering
smoke and other special semitransparent entities (click to enlarge). In
this shot a smoke bomb has been set of it the Counter-Terrorist spawn
point on cs_militia.
Just look at those
stunning graphics! I don't think I've ever seen more realistic looking
smoke, and three of the houses I've lived in burned down! Fantastic.
Finding #3: Extreme
Sniping Capabilities
Have
you ever been playing as a Counter-Terrorist on some map and wish you
could see the absolute far end of the map from the spawn point, through
walls and everything? Now you can! As we can see in this screenshot (click
to enlarge), zooming capabilities on scopes have been greatly improved.
From what we can gather,
scopes are designed to use a special sucking action that bends light around
walls, corners, fellow players, hostages, whatever, and into your sights.
This feature is still in the developmental stages though, as on some local
servers running new experimental CS that we hacked into ran into grave
problems. When two opposing AWP's got within twenty feet of each other,
the server crashed as if the universe was being completely annihilated.
We can only hope this
idea never falls into the hands of people working in the country's defense
department.
Finding #4: Improved
Weapons
This
is quite a strange one folks. Take a good look at this screenshot (click
to enlarge). We don't know what to make of it exactly, as this can only
be described as "bizarre." After careful thought and speculation,
here are a few of our theories:
- Weapons were extremely
enlarged because the developer who did the graphics on each gun took
extra time and threw one heck of a tantrum when the weapons were to
small to make out the detail.
- The game was too
serious and needed to be more comical and clown-like.
- The people who make
CS were all fired and replaced with a team of ten year olds.
- Bigger weapons mean
more power means more kills means more violence means faster decline
in western society! Wahoo!
Either way, we can
only wait and see what the purpose of these giant guns is.
Conclusion - A Letter
from the CS People
After we did our investigative
hacking and posted this article, the folks who produce CS sent us a rather
nasty letter. We found it very funny and decided to share it here, but
do to space restrictions we are forced to eliminate all words under six
letters. Enjoy!
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Reality Syndicate,
Article copyright
violation outrageous. Litigation continue general.
Furious blatantly.
Internet misconduct countless violations regulations. Obedience.
Protect community
criminal offenses. Article obligated equillibrium punishment. Illegal
repercussions analogy cooperate.
Sodium Benzoate
restitution. Polymorphic disastrous plea-bargain. Dentistry.
Sincerely,
Counter-Strike Production
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I hope it made sense
to you! Once we passed this letter on to our crack team of PR specialists
and lawyers, they laughed like donkeys at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day
Parade. They requested the letter in full so they could assess how much
"damage control" was needed, whatever the heck that is. We told
them to go squabble over copyright laws for a few hours and then pass
out behind a gas station.
Needless to say, we
haven't seen them since.
Well, that's all for
now, but as we dig deeper into this subject we'll keep the world posted
of our findings. Have a great gaming day!
-Chris Clark
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