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[–] GenitalHurricane@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This basically describes my experience with counter strike pre-1.6.... like 1.3 thru 1.5, circa 2002-2005. Lost thousands of hours of my youth negotiating knives-only rounds and doing stupid totem pole camping on de_dust while 1 guy on the other team tried to AWP everybody. Am I old?

[–] Windswept@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nothing wrong with getting older

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So much scoutzknivez and iceworld

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 3 points 1 week ago

I am a bit younger so chicken & waffels and a few other CS:S servers were that for me. Also Day of Defeat Source was underrated.

Also, the minigame servers... The mini games people came up with!

1 person shooting cubes at platforms whole others had to stay up, The prison, Piratewars, Multigames (the original fall guys), Prop wars, The one where there were like different power ups behind walls and then have different abilities.

But also battlefront 2 was like that for me. SMD clan with its almost mythical figurehead. Glitching servers, shooting the shit with other people trying to find new glitches. Those were the days.

While matchmaking is good for some games like Rocket League, it has really broken a ton of communities. I think that's why there aren't really "clans' anymore, because people aren't together enough to organize.