Counter-Strike: The Billion-Dollar Game Built in a Dorm Room

Re:Counter-Strike: The Billion-Dollar Game Built in a Dorm Room by hvgenrbrbdh on Monday August 18, 2025 @04:56PM (#44945248)

I feel like a modern CS1.6 clone that is open-source, community run servers (only), no match-making, modable by design, could actually work. Even in 2025. Just needs some internet meme magic and a few dedicated devs

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Re:Counter-Strike: The Billion-Dollar Game Built in a Dorm Room by zokier on Monday August 18, 2025 @06:13PM (#44945861)

There is not only one but actually two separate CS 1.6 recreation projects floating around. CS: Legacy and Classic Offensive

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Re:Counter-Strike: The Billion-Dollar Game Built in a Dorm Room by IncreasePosts on Monday August 18, 2025 @05:01PM (#44945288)

The problem with mods is that there will be a million different mods with a million different rules A million different levels and behaviors, and you won't get good traction on any any specific style of gameplay, and people will not keep coming back.

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Re:Counter-Strike: The Billion-Dollar Game Built in a Dorm Room by ethan_smith on Monday August 18, 2025 @08:33PM (#44946985)

Check out "CS2D" - it's exactly what you're describing and has been running successfully for years with an active community and regular updates.

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Re:Counter-Strike: The Billion-Dollar Game Built in a Dorm Room by Thedarkb on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @01:36PM (#44964082)

CS 1.5 has been clean room re-implemented GPL Quake engine, just need assets to make a fully free Counter-Strike.

https://github.com/eukara/freecs

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