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Counter-Strike 2 Released (13 comments)
Posted by Demiurge @ 17:39 CDT, 27 September 2023 - iMsg
Valve officially released Counter-Strike 2, its sequel/free upgrade to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, today, Wednesday, September 27, 2023.

Counter-Strike was first released as a modification for Valve's Half-Life as a beta in 1999. Valve purchased the rights to Counter-Strike in 2000 and released a string of updates. CS 1.3, released in 2001, quickly became one of the most popular games in the world, and helped to pioneer and catapult competitive gaming to a larger international audience. In 2003, Valve released CS 1.6 exclusively on its then-new platform, Steam. One year later, in 2004, Counter-Strike: Source launched and fought for popularity against 1.6 for many years, until Counter-Strike Global Offensive was released in 2012. CS:GO has since dominated as one of Steam's most popular games; most often claiming the number 1 position in popularity.

Counter-Strike 2 iterates on the Global Offensive formula with significant updates to netcode, graphics, and gameplay. Official servers implement a new approach to backwards reconciliation with the introduction of subticks, a lay-explanation of which can be found in Valve's official Moving Beyond Tick Rate video. Valve attempted to cater to competitive and casual desires for scene clarity by meticulously refining visibility of models against the backgrounds of maps. An additional highlighted update to the gameplay is dynamic and reactive smoke grenade behavior, which sees smoke grenade volumes responding to environmental disturbances such as explosions and bullets and causally filling the surrounding environment geometry.

From the CS2 Steam store page: A free upgrade to CS:GO, Counter-Strike 2 marks the largest technical leap in Counter-Strike’s history. Built on the Source 2 engine, Counter-Strike 2 is modernized with realistic physically-based rendering, state of the art networking, and upgraded Community Workshop tools.

In addition to the classic objective-focused gameplay that Counter-Strike pioneered in 1999, Counter-Strike 2 features:

  • All-new CS Ratings with the updated Premier mode
  • Global and Regional leaderboards
  • Upgraded and overhauled maps
  • Game-changing dynamic smoke grenades
  • Tick-rate-independent gameplay
  • Redesigned visual effects and audio
  • All items from CS:GO moving forward to CS2

Source: Steam, Counter-Strike 2 homepage
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Posted by Demiurge @ 19:26 CDT, 25 September 2023 - iMsg
So, I took some pictures last week, and I have some similar ones, and I'm not sure which is ones are better of the same view.

Help me choose A or B
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content ideas and admin nominations (100 comments)
Posted by Demiurge @ 10:59 CST, 5 January 2019 - iMsg
Happy New Year everyone! I can't believe its 2019. ESR is practically twice the maturity level of all of its visitors combined! Amazing!

But, this also means that all the current admins have bickered each other to isolation and apathy.

Please nominate some new admins who you trust to be fair in moderating trolls and approving your posts.

Also, if anyone has any ideas on how to promote and bring new fresh content to the site, please share.
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Christmas Special podcast between Xero and Brandan (31 comments)
Posted by Demiurge @ 11:37 CST, 27 December 2017 - iMsg
Community pro Xerosloth interviews community superstar and multi expert, Branden 'Seven' Anonymous. During a longer than two hour spacious conversation, they discuss topics related to cheating, such as:
  • Psychology of cheating
  • Community manipulations
  • Professional level cheating
  • Cheating in relation to self-delusion and trust
  • Chemical feedback loops
  • Brandan shines the light on watchmen of ESReality
  • QC closed beta testing
  • Xero admits he cheats
  • Sujoy and ESR gets mischaracterized
  • QC prospects
Listen to Christmas Episode from Google Drive.
You can also read about and listen to previous episode #5.

Source: Xerosawyer Twitch
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xero podcast with brandan aka qmau aka seven (30 comments)
Posted by Demiurge @ 13:19 CST, 11 December 2017 - iMsg
Our beloved ESports observers and professional gamers, you shall be delighted to know that the most important community pro has been interviewed by a ProMode enthusiast, web casting sportscaster and twitch star, xeroslayer.

The original platform twitch is not great for podcast, and quality is pretty bad due to volume differences, but I compressed, EQed and filtered the audio, so the end file a whooping 2h30m of wisdom.

https://soundcloud.com/nistley/xero-podcast-5-with-brandan

Highlights:
9:40 - is zero4 a nice guy
13:00 - xero thinks quake can have 100k players
13-22 - mean behavior in games
27:00 - xeros recipe for quake success
31:00 - Quake Champions problems
35:00 - brandan on quakelive
44:40 - brandan: syncerror and steve nix are like hillary clinton
47:00 - but syncerror is very nice
52:10 - brandan dates himself
1h10m - brandan enjoys zoots
1h20m - brandan suggests fat white guys are not culturally relevant
1h32m - xero wants casters to dress nice
1h38m - makaveli picking meat off the game
1h40m - id is victim blaming players for not playing the shitty game
1h51m - xero doesn't think quake is deep, but deep enough
2h03m - xero and brandan disagree on what the [id] flagship property is
2h06m - xero disrespects makaveli with respect
2h10-15m - game design by comittie
2h15m - rapid fire questions

Source: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/208423521?t=01h43m53s
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