CS:CZ v1.2 next week

[smilodon]

My hypocracy does indeed know no bounds.

I'm a little concerned about the hostages geting up and running about. How will this affect game play? On the one hand it's going to be tougher for the CT's to round them up and break for home. On the other hand if they try to get back themselves they'll make life tough for the T's. I hope it will fit in nicely with the TCS style and keep T's close to the hossies. Could be a good move  

[brass]

Iv'e read all the posts in this thread and also bought CZ about a week ago. Since then I have played it quite a lot either on the missions or the standard maps full of bots and me. Maybe I am not as tuned into CS or appreciate the finer asthetics of it but to me any FPS game is for fun and whilst TCS adds to the fun and the enjoyment I still enjoy getting out there and shooting people just for the hell of it. Nobody calls me a frag monkey or several different shades of a*se*ole ( in fact one of the bots told me "good shot Sir" I was well pleased) and for £14.99 (free postage) I think it's money well spent and I thoroughly enjoy it :clap: LONG LIVE CZ  :clap:

[DuVeL]

Where are you now in the thing then? I'm on hard at tiles or something. These bots can be quit anoying from time to time. You're shooting with a sniper and they'll sit in front of you. It happend to many times. And why can't they buy defusal.  <_< And the 'Tbots, they can shoot with an MP5 a HS from 300 feat or so  :blink:

[OldBloke]

Looks like 1.2 will be released on Wed at 6pm PDT which is 2:00am Thursday for us UK bods (I think).

[Waylander]

Little info about CS:S

All CS:S is showing what can be done using the new engines "back dating" tools. When HL2 arrives you will be able to play CS 1.6 using HL2 and will see the benefits of the upgraded engine. You will also be able to play CZ, or HL deathmatch or HL itself in theory.

In short any halflife mod can be played on the new engine using the conversion tools available.

CZ will continue to have upgrades and be supported, CS only gets generic updates that happen because a change to HL itself is released.

Very little is known about CS2, could it be that CZ will turn into CS2?
Thats a question that wont be answered until it happens but it is rumoured that Valve will "reward" CZ owners when CS2 arrives.
Could it be that CZ owners will get a free upgrade to CS2 (which makes sense if CS2 evolves from CZ or could it be that CZ owners will just have to pay a small upgrade fee instead of a full RRP.

I agree 100% with what smilodon is saying, CZ in its infancy was not different enough from CS1.6 to justify the price tag but with each update that is becoming more and more untrue.

Load it up mate, I am sure it will win you over

[smilodon]

I wonder if it will make any difference which version a person has (I now have both as my hypocracy knows no bounds). CZ and CS1.6 are currently pretty identical with the exception of graphic quality. Agreed though, it will be interesting to see how far they drift apart as CZ is updated and CS 1.6 isn't. It would also be a nice touch for Valve to offer the CS:S upgrade for free or with a discount. Cynically though I fear Valve may be too tempted to release CS:S as a full price  new product and then drop both CS1.6 and CZ  

However it would be interesting to see how waterproof Cliffes 'Never charge for CS' deal is with Valve. Maybe they won't be able to charge for CS:S under the terms of their agreement. CZ was mainly a single player game and so probably didn't come under the deal. So we might all get CS:S for free after all  

However let me state before I'm verbally beaten up again, that if Valve add enough new content and innovative ideas to CS:S then I wouldn't have a problem with buying HL2 and CS:S as two separate games rather than expecting CS:S to be a free mod.  

[Doorman]

Originally posted by smilodon@Jun 2 2004, 06:42 PM
So we might all get CS:S for free after all  

 

Aaah bless.  

[Zok]

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Counter-Strike: Condition Zero 1.2 Released
June 2, 2004, 6:03 pm · cliffe
 
The official 1.2 update for CS:CZ has been released, and all other Steam games have been updated. Steam will update itself automatically when you restart. Here is a list of the changes:


COUNTER-STRIKE: CONDITION ZERO ADDITIONS:

Added new hostage models and animations

Added new hostage behaviors and dialogue

Added SPETSNAZ and Militia player models

Added crosshair customization (color, size, opacity)

Added player location system

Added exponential fog in OpenGL

Added in-game vgui progress bar for nav mesh analysis

Added de_sienna_cz

Added de_vostok_cz

COUNTER-STRIKE: CONDITION ZERO CHANGES:

Upgraded de_inferno_cz

Upgraded deagle view texture

Updated cs_italy_cz with 32 spawns

Upgraded weapon UI images

Tweaked glock and USP sounds

Tweaked snow walking sound

Corpses fade out with cl_corpse_stay

Grenades are dropped on death

Improved player turning right hitbox behavior

Improved shield behavior

Improved brass ejection behavior

Bots can use silencer on m4a1

Improved bot_auto_vacate behavior with spectators

Career tasks are reset on mp_restartround

Improved tutor behavior

hud_draw 0 doesn't remove blackout

Scope blackout drawn in software mode

Flashlight sound no longer masks weapon firing sounds

Improved text behavior in top-right corner of observer mode

Round timer doesn't re-appear until the round restarts when the bomb is defused or explodes

Improved player model hands

ALL STEAM GAMES:

Added refresh login dialogue for invalid login sessions (Invalid UserID ticket message)

History area in game console no longer gets key focus

One of the new changes looks particularly good

[Vincentvega]

mine is updated but me and squonk couldnt get on our server ...
comin up with your map differs from this one bla bla bla......
does our server need updating aswell?
 :unsure:

[Red_Thunder]

ma steams gone tits :|

[TeaLeaf]

Trying to update, but there's no bandwidth available from the Valve servers.  
 
TL.

[Red_Thunder]

Do you get games Unvailable, please try again another time ?


All mine games have reduced to 0% :S


hmm interesting

[Vincentvega]

mines ok   i just get  "server verification failed" on some servers  even cs 1's :unsure:

[Waylander]

Our servers have all been updated.

TL you want a barebone ?

[OldBloke]

CZ server updated.  

Running a shortened mapcycle to try out:

de_inferno_cz
de_sienna_cz
de_vostok_cz