Counter-Strike 1.5 and a Half-life 1.1.1.0 patches are in their final stages and are expected to be released sometime in the next few weeks. Heres what Valve had to say:

Both updates (Half-Life 1.1.1.0 and C.S. 1.5) include the Ricochet Mod, phase two of the recently introduced anti-cheat technology, as well as various fixes and tweaks. The Ricochet Mod source, which includes animation blending and multi-serve technology, will be added to the Half-Life SDK. In addition, Counter-Strike 1.5 includes de_piranesi, a new mission created by Iikka Keranen.

......... revolutionary.

shupt

Not long now till we'll be beta testing it for them.

8-)

OH great, I have to not only download HL, TFC, and DMC, but also Ricochet, just to play CS and DoD... f***sticks.
This has to be a conpiracy with ISP's all over the world just so they get to charge more for the bandwidth.

yay

I thought we just had a release of HL and CS...that was pretty quick.

o FOR f*** SAKE

yeah Smeghead, its not hard to add a few extra lines of code and repackage the installation file ya know :)

Dear John,

Hurry up your production of Doom3 so CS can f***off and die.

Thanks.

you never know, they may come out with a CS-type mod for Doom III... be scared, very, very scared.

you never know, they may come out with a CS-type mod for Doom III... be scared, very, very scared.

Err Doom III = Q3 engine??? = Urban Terror???

[K] - Doom III uses its own engine.

Why is CS 1.5 being released so soon after 1.4?

What new features is CS 1.5 going to have?

When are they going to stop fkin updating it so rapidly.

cs 1.4 was sposed to be 1.5
but the release of condition zero was pushed back so they never realeased the full thing
1.5 just enhances the graphics a bit and adds new weapons n stuff
like customisable models, molotov cocktails and a LAW, etc
it looks pretty sweet

New features? CS? Since when has that ever been the case with any version of CS in the last 2 years?

"animation blending and multi-serve technology"

what are these?

all these ppl who hate cs, why?

pretty quick after 1.4, new features sound good.

CS:CZ is coming out in a few weeks, so this is the version that will allow CS mod users to play with CZ customers on the same server.

its just for all the ppls who couldnt be bothered goin out and buying CZ
... or finding it on a warez site

cs on doom3, sif that wouldnt own

Unit I guarantee that when Doom 3 is released someone will make a CS like game on that engine. So dont worry it will happen.

Wonder why they bothered releasing 1.4 if they where going to release 1.5 a little while later? Its not like there was any big differences apart from the GUI and the jumping.

However the new changes sound good, and it will be worth a look at.

Hurry up your production of Doom3 so CS can f***off and die.

ROFL.

no chance 1.5 will be out

Hmm... I have a theory about why they released 1.4...

Every time they release a new version, its a celebration, so they have a large party with heaps of caviar and wine and stuff....

now...

the team leader slept with his secretary the day 1.4 was due to be released.. anyways, he was feeling pretty bad about it, because he would have to go home and face his wife, SO.. he decided to release 1.4, chuck a big party, and drown his sorrow in a bottle of good white wine.

Thats my theory.

err yes virgil.. dont worry the van with padded walls is coming soon to take you away

lol lol sound liek the xbox game designers

*pouts* me no want no van with padded walls... :(

So soon, I can still remember the day 1.4 came out.

1.5 will be out when cs zero is out

lol @ people predicting Doom III release will be the 'death of cs'. Didn't you people say that about RTCW, Max Payne, and JK2 aswell?

lol lol cs will never die with cs zero coming out the multiplayer will be aweosme for cs




go the gas mask

CS will always be popular. IMHO

lol @ people predicting Doom III release will be the 'death of cs'. Didn't you people say that about RTCW, Max Payne, and JK2 aswell?

It will be, till everyone finishes it.

It is silly saying that a single player game will be the death of multiplayer one.

once bill gates takes over the world everything will be microsoft so no one will have a choice

hehe you know cs is being kiled off when Deeper hates it.

DeePer has "hated" CS for f***in' ages now :)

To quote "DeePer quits smoking as well as he quits CS".

(he still smokes btw :P)

Sif that will ever happen.

everyone says cs is dead but i always see ppl playing it at LAN's so i dont reacon it is

I understand what you're saying :P

Who cares. I cant even remember the day CS 1.0 came out let alone that f***ed up 1.4 that forced me to download a new Half-Life patch to play Day of Defeat online

"Animation blending" refers to interpolating frames that aren't in models (I'm assuming)

Say you have a model, one frame its head looking forward, and then next frame (50 msec later) its 10deg to the right. IF you're frame rate is greater than 20 fps (50msec in 1sec / 20) than blending the animation would fill in incremental changes during those frames instead of being one position for a few frames and snapping to the next.

Valve havent elaborated as to what they mean by 'multi-serve' technology as of yet. We're hoping it means optimisations for running more than one CS server per computer.

CS:CZ is coming out in a few weeks, so this is the version that will allow CS mod users to play with CZ customers on the same server.

According to my current price-lists, it's still TBA...

honestly
cs will brush off doom3 just like all the other games
i dont like cs all that much but im forced to play it until i get a new pc (september)

cs community while pretty screwed up is still huge

u need a good pc to run cs now and when cs zero comes out u will need a better one

CS will die out eventually, but that may be five or ten years away. Basically, it'll take until a much better game with similar gameplay is released and the people who want to play it (all several million of them) have the hardware to cope.

I reckon CS 1.5 is being released so soon because they were beta testing stuff in 1.4 and 1.5 is the "real" release that was planned.

what is there soo many cs realeases ?

i cant see valve releasing it any time soon

I don't know when/what they are releasing, but since it's from Valve I'm positive it will be at the absolute cutting edge of gaming.

haha, nice call.

Nats when I read it I assumed the same thing.

cs has set the record

it will be a long long itm etill it dies out

Nathan loves cs, u can tell by his eyes =p

Lobo, where did you get that picture ??

I want it !! :))

what is there soo many cs realeases ?

I dunno -Morgish-. But by reading the thread I am slightly enlightened on the fact. Perhaps you should do the same rather than just replying to a topic so you can be PostCount+1.

I reckon there's so many releases because they're finally getting closer to TF2

Sucks to be playing an experiamental game..

tf2 sounds great, ey and what engine is it gonna be using or will it be a new

TF2 doesn't exist. It's about as real as my sex life.

http://maxe.ausgamers.com/images/owned.jpg

yer about 1.5, sounds like a big change if its gonna have something to do with cs : cz.. coolies :)

cs coulda done with change since... version 1

Maxe, I wrote that btw, it's not an edit job.

I thought as much.

It is silly saying that a single player game will be the death of multiplayer one.

Quake was designed (belived it or not) as a single player game. Which is why it was so good.

Overbalancing made quake3 gay.

rofl @ whole thread

oh u queenlanders

quit smoking dpr, it will kill u, like ur addiction to CS

y live in qld when there in melbourne

btw de_comrade is in cs1.5 aswell

pd_warehouser iis goin to be in it

Great I hate to put a dampner on things but I hate updates for any of the Shaft-Life games because it usually means more lag and lower frame rates! Also bigger d/l's so Valve can force their useless new features down our throats e.g the HLTV thingy ....God what a waste of time that was :/

"e.g the HLTV thingy "

1. dont play it.
2. HLTV was and still is an excellent idea. And its implementation and the amount of people who use it and enjoy it shows it. I couldnt go to the cpl qualifiers but managed to watch some of the games from home because of it.

lol slaps_forehead

I must be a bit behind... but what is HLTV?

i think the reason why they brought out 1.4 and then 1.5, as well as the hl updates, out so soon after is so that they could impliment the final stages of the hl anti cheat?

had to wait to see what cheats came out for it, how they worked and such

thats what i heard ne ways..

Half Life TV is spectator server, that you use your hl client to connect to, and you can watch a game being played.
It's very clever the way it's done, it's like watching an intense movie. Because they have the camera change place to where the most interesting things are happening (it's on a delay too, so you actually go to the interesting part a few seconds before the interesting thing happens)

I like how the camera follows the grenades.

the camera work is better in waverace

thats cause waverace is the benchmark all aspire to :)

It's about as real as my sex life.

That explains soooo much

Half Life TV is spectator server, that you use your hl client to connect to, and you can watch a game being played.

You mean a proxy server :).

Hurry up your production of Doom3 so CS can f***off and die.

And if CS died, what game would all the cheating lamers move on to next?

I think its better if people keep playing CS, it keeps a lot of cheats/noobs/just general retards away from other multiplayer games.

lol
u could put it that way

or u could see it as that cs population is bigger
so therefore the amount of lame and cheat involved is also higher

oh and lets not forget the perfectly designed, totally bug free HL engine :P

/me sighs

This whole BS arguement again...joy!

The only things I have seen about 1.5 is screenshots of supposed new HLTV features;

http://csnation.counter-strike.net/images/content/image_4609.jpg

The other one is here; Screenshot 2.

And the new map, which...I guess...is designed for 1.4/1.5 jumping, but it's too big and it's a huge campers map which will just make CS on Pub Servers even more camp like, IMHO.

screenshot 2 the guy is getting over 99fps?

it would seem.

someone said something before about enhanced graphics??

but i'd doubt that affects how the engine works ?

hoax?

I reckon this could all just be one big fking hoax, as people have said.

Even though if it is true it probably won't happen for another 6 months.

i thought doom 3 was more aimed at the single player game rather than multi. So its not likely to take over from cs anyway

It will take over from CS for me, I know that much.


TF2: trog, stop trolling.

On the FPS issue;

Many verions of OGC allow you to get true FPS, without the limit of 99.

What does this have to do with it? The pics were leaked by someone linked to the official OGC development.

Great Source.

no one can prove anything untill it's released