it looks...dark. Too dark may be considering comments on Steam :dizzy:

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I found the 3 last weeks CS:GO danger zone unplayable considering the number of cheating players (most of them clearly know where you are when viewing the replay, one shot-one kill), while I felt preserved from those plagues before. Some even speak about their cheats with no decency: ezfrags, lethality, etc. for which they pay ~50€

I don't understand how regulating those type of players can be managed but I imagine that it can be automated even without other player reports?

That's why playing more confidential games may be better but not too confidential games to have players

Do you know games like CS:GO danger zone without this mass of cheaters?

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Quoting: PatolaGame developers/publishers might not be the most honest people, but giving power to politicians to rule over the gaming market is the worst possible thing to do. Just give time for the market to go where users want. More regulation causes less competition, which slows or even prevents that process.

Abstract: don't trust (wo)men, trust the golden calf (sorry the "Market", which is known to manage everything perfectly oups! [External Link]

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*facepalm*
To cite minimachine.net [External Link]:
"That Atari is well driven by very very strong marketing people. They succeed in passing a paid subscription offer in an innovative service. [...]
In the meantime, we are still without news or images of a functional prototype of the Atari VCS."

- Retrogaming console ready-to-use (with 2 gamepads and 25k installed games from all atari's, nintendo, sega,etc.): 140€ e.g., https://boutique-retrogaming.com/liste-25000-jeux-consoles-pi/ [External Link]
- streaming subscription to Stradia: 9.99 $ with a internet connexion 25 Mbp (1080p and 60 frames per second), 30 MBp for 4k.

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Quoting: Interknet

Quoting: 14Why did they make this game? Graphics, animations, gameplay, even the text in the game look exactly like Counter-Strike.

Not really.
It looks like Tactical Ops, which actually is what this game is inspired by.

Indeed. and to add, counter strike and Tactical ops were developed and released nearly on the same time (counter strike released in Beta in June 1999; T.O. as a complete non-beta mod in dec 1999). CS was finished and became a game in itself in Nov 2000.

So T.O. was not a copy of CS.
The main specificities of TO versus CS was the speed of the game that poorly matched gameplay based on camping and snipers, it rewarded more rushers, constructed collective actions because you can't die with just one bullet in the feet (like with AWP in CS); it has bots (not CS, only through PODbot -Ping of Death- and those bots were far less entertaining); Guns were more different (eg 2 of the shootguns had very different damages and dispersal); maps had a lot of side-paths; you can fight underwater (in the dam map for example); ... I can go on for lines. I never understood why teenagers at that time preferred CS (may be because to win, you must have a real team play, not a selfish behaviour?).
So the bunny jump may be there to get those TO specific speed/dynamics?

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So many memories and hours spent on those maps (nearly 20 years ago...I'm so old!). Would love to test it.

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People that like fast fps, rogue-like and Heretic ambiance, make yourself a favour: try yet Ziggurat for less than 7€

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I can't understand that those games are not yet translated at least in text using the community. We have google translate and other kind of tools to do that for cheap, and communities ready to check and refine this first translation.
They can get french, spanish, deutch, swedish, etc. in couple of weeks

I won't buy due to that, I can play in english but not my teenager.

edit: but really nice to have introduce isometric view, it's my preferred view! Ô nostaligia of civilization, diablo, fallout time in isometric view (I'm too old, I go taking my pills)

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this judgment doesn't introduce new troubles. It just went back backward when all games were physically distributed (we, all olds, yet sold finished game on cd or disk)... did it avoid game developers and industry to develop? I don't think so.
Remember also that you will need markets to sell those used keys (and internet connexion to activate game and survey their uses but that's yet the case on steam, galaxy, epic launcher, etc.), meaning fees. With low cost games due to sales, buying used keys may remain anecdotal excepted for those who exploited their game as long-term annuities (ie keeping the price of their games high even after years).

Company that will keep alive their games, taking into account for users will have few impact from such decision. Those that will endure it will be bullshit companies or games: they will be immediately sanctioned by a massive resale and therefore a net stop of their sale. I think it will also clean the presale promises like linux announcement.

We do that with books, comics, bluray, ... so game market benefited from few years of a monopoly created with their owned developed tools (individual keys) which has guaranteed to many actors rents, even well after the true works were finished and profitable. It is simply getting this market back into the perimeter of the law.
Indeed, this unilaterally established monopoly allowed more incomes that created a niche from which also benefited some indies. Indies collateral damages can't serve as excuse for the rest of the industry.

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Quoting: Patola

Quoting: rustybroomhandle

Quoting: PatolaAnother victim of cancel culture...

Nobody who uses the phrase "cancel culture" with a straight face can be taken seriously. Off to the kids table with you.

QED. This is a hallmark of cancel culture, there is no discussion, simply personal attacks, sometimes quite vicious ones. Some subjects cannot be discussed. Some opinions cannot be uttered. This is the new, more radical form of making something taboo. It has grave personal consequences.

That's the difference between justice and morality. We are clearly in front of a police action of thought and expression.
RMS has to resign because of morality, not because of justice and law. Morality and security before justice are two well-known ways to stop the march of humanity progress. Should we ask the skin of the lawyers who will defend the guilties in a next future, considering on the same principle acting here?

The fact:
1/ the guy seems not a consensual guy, his intransigence and unusual political view seem to bother many people
2/ He said in a restricted correspondence what he consider at time t as his number-one hypothesis. Parenthesis: He did not say that to the offended people, so even moraly he did not try to hurt to anyone.

Principle: One can be allowed to discuss and doubt about anything, even if it offends most of people. If they is wrong, anyone can rationally or legally argue against. Without such principle, we will be still living in a world where telling that our planet is round will result to be burned or in a world where journalists could not have told (then demonstrated) that US government allegations about massive death weapons in Irak to entry war were false.
Decreeing that some subjects can't be discussed due to morality is anti-freedom and Enlightenment.
We are clearly in front of the Two Minutes of Hate (1984, Orwell).

Whatever we may think about RMS, THIS IS CLEARLY A SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNT by the edge. All people involved in that will make themselves despicable and ashamed for participating in such a baseness. When their turns will come (and it will if they will get some responsibilities or public voice), if nobody helps, they may only blame themselves.

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