the daily inxling!

When you think of immortality, you sum up an image of a deity. Indestructible. And that’s not far off Counterstrike. As I write, just shy of 40,000 people are playing on Counterstrike Source game servers world wide.

Only World of Warcraft puts Counterstrike Source to shame. And let’s face it- that game is as addictive is heroin, and it’s not even an FPS.

So why is Counterstrike Source still so popular, 5 years on?

• Vast array of mods. Zombiemod, Gungame, Deathmatch. Heck I even played on an INX surf gameserver the other day. That was….interesting for a gaming traditionalist like myself, use to the orthodoxy and conservatism of dust only CS Source servers.
• Maps. Thousands of them. Tens of thousands? So much variety. Some terrible, some beyond fun. But it’s hard to get bored of the same old Counterstrike game server.
• The l33t skill factor. Many players jump from CSS server to server pumping their stats. Call of Duty 4, TF2, arguably more a community feel to it. Counterstrike servers are full of Pro-Plus junkies, fiercely competitive, who will fight to the death. Quite literally.
• The banter. Let’s face it. I don’t know about you, but if I return home from a night on the town, slightly intoxicated the first thing I do (after pouring a bedtime drink), is jump on a Counter-Strike Source server. Where else can you laugh at the array of swearing and anger- OMFG! FFS HAX! SPAWN CAMPING NOOB!

One day when I’m in my 80’s they’ll have total virtual reality games. With bullet sensitive clothes, and hopefully even a girl if you come out top on the scoreboard.

But I’ll still be playing with the old school CS Source kru

Sorry guys, although this was applied, I missed adding the news post of a minor update for Cs Source servers:

Counter-Strike: Source has been updated.  This is not a required update, but it is recommended.  Please download it using hldsupdatetool.  The specific changes include:

- Fixed clients using reloadresponsesystems, sv_soundemitter_flush, sv_soundemitter_filecheck, sv_findsoundname, and sv_soundscape_printdebuginfo to lag/crash servers
- The -pidfile command line option now works for Windows dedicated servers

Jason

Just a very small update for Counter Strike 1.6 customers.

We’ve added in the file users.ini so you can edit this direct, and save different versions on our file editor.

Users.ini is the file used by AMXXmod to set admins, and admin permissions for managing Counter Strike game servers.