[archagon]

That’s kind of what I miss about classic shooters. No rankings, no matchmaking — just random jank in service of pure pubbie fun. Don’t like the map? No worries, we’ll cycle to a new one in a few minutes. (Or hop on over to a different server.) Versus CS just being endless rounds of perfectly balanced de_dust2 these days. “Competitive,” sure, but freakin’ boring!

[manuelmoreale]

It really was all geared towards having fun. And the fact that all the weapons were available on the maps rather than being pre selected made the game so easy to play.

There was no wasting time figuring out what style of play you wanted to go for. You just picked a game mode and went for it.

And as you said, maps were changing very quickly depending on how the game mode was set up.

Plus, so many exploding bodies