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by pyrryh 1480 days ago
https://play-cs.com/en/servers

Been quite surprised to find fully functional CS 1.6 in a browser, but that's it. Heard that the latency is worse compared to the game client, haven't checked that myself because I don't want to bother buying or pirating the original version. Main use case: playing at work when you can't install random binaries but can visit websites (this use case isn't mine but I've been asking players there and they responded in this way).
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russelldjimmy 1480 days ago
Also see Quake 3 JS! http://www.quakejs.com/

I found no flaws. Just as fun as the original. And as a mac user, being able to play this after all those chip transitions is a blessing.

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pyrryh 1480 days ago
Yeah, seen that too, very cool. It pleases me to be able to play stuff simply by visiting a website. Solves many Linux-related problems as well. I wish some community-made mods made it to CS 1.6 with sentries and lasers, that really ups the game.
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i2Witty 1480 days ago
What is the technology behind this? Did they just port over the game using pure JS?
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pyrryh 1480 days ago
https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d-fwgs

https://github.com/FWGS/cs16-client (but this is closed source now, I don't know exactly how they use it, maybe there is some different fork of `cs16-client`)

These two are what their own references point to when you load the game.

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