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1345 points philosopher1234 | 2 comments | 02 Feb 23 16:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.415s | source
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afavour ◴[02 Feb 23 17:09 UTC] No.34629624[source]▶
Man, what a trip down memory lane. Learned to fear that AWP sound again immediately.

Counter to others I'm actually surprised by how little I enjoyed it. I used to play a ton of FPSes back in the day (CS betas to 1.6 heyday) then stopped for well over a decade. Picked up Call of Duty during the pandemic as a means to stay social with friends and told myself barely anything had changed. Boy was this a great lesson that things have, in fact, changed a lot.

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1. MonaroVXR ◴[02 Feb 23 23:28 UTC] No.34634832[source]▶
What about Valorant? I have all the CounterStrike games, but Valorant is something very good to me.
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2. Nexxxeh ◴[03 Feb 23 02:22 UTC] No.34636371[source]▶
I loved CS1.x (and CS:Source, which many didn't enjoy). I did NOT enjoy CS:GO.

I loved Overwatch for the first few years.

Valorant initially disappointed me because I wanted a better Overwatch, but Valorant was a better Counter-Strike mixed with Overwatch. CS:GOverwatch, if you will.

I rapidly fell in love with it and had lots of fun. Unfortunately an IRL injury to my wrist stopped me enjoying it for a while, until I started playing with a vertical gaming mouse. I still have less mechanical skill than I started with, but it was really fun.

Valorant is Free-to-Play (with no pay-to-win crap or loot boxes). Very much worth giving a try.