Counter-Strike: Condition Zero: Deleted Scenes

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@quadrazid

At the RC bomb, you can take cover in the corner between the MK and the bomb.

Good improvement. That does seem to be noticeably faster too.

@quadrazid

What was the reason for jumping over the following enemies and not run past/shoot them? Knife and pistol do have the same movement speed. So I think pistol is generally more useful.

Ah. I wasn’t aware that knife and pistol have the same speed. I haven’t tested weapon movement speeds in this game. Too used to CS (or even regular CS CZ).

Not sure if the HE boost is faster than going the staircase. If you do go staircase, enemies will spawn very close to the sniper’s door.
Even if doing HE boost, the enemy should be brought before going to the sniper’s door.

Ah. Yeah. I forgot how that trick works. Then, I’d probably segment in approx. the same spot (after grabbing the medkit), then run up the stairs and run past all the enemies. That is some really difficult RNG to get the guy to do that trick, but that’s why we are segmenting, right?

@quadrazid

You can use “clockwindow 0” to get rid of the freeze after loading a game. And you can find HFR pause aliases in the helpdesk thread. Much better than the standard pause function.

OMG! You are a lifesaver! I’ve been trying to figure out why the game freezes like that since I started running this 8 years ago. What does the ‘clockwindow’ command do anyway?
I didn’t even see this Helpdesk thread. Wow. Super useful stuff here. Adding that to my links at the start of this thread.

@quadrazid

Interesting thing you mentioned about the messagemode pause. Didn’t know about that. You can actually look around during standard pause as well. But you cant see the change until you unpause. In HL you can use the RPG lasermark as indication where you’ll look as you unpause

The only thing I thought about related to it… would you need an external script (like AHK) to unpause the messagemode pause? (Since the only way out of it is to hit ‘enter’). If you wanted to use another key, you’d have to map enter to a different key using AHK. Just a thought about it.

Edit: Actually found an answer to one of my own questions after further searching:

Half-Life Linux Primary Server 3.1.1.0.b Beta Update Changelog

• Added new cvar “clockwindow”. This cvar is temporary.
  It’s designed to combat the speed cheats being used in-game.
  The default value for this cvar is “0.5”.
  We’re very interested in how low you can get this value and not have your players “feel” any
  different while they’re playing. Broadband clients shouldn’t be affected by this cvar.
  Adjusting “clockwindow” should have a greater affect on modem clients.
  As you lower the value (0.3, 0.1, 0.01, etc.), modem clients’ games should feel jittery.
  Adjusting “clockwindow” does not affect the server.
  Only clients will notice problems when the value starts to get too low.
  Please play with this cvar and report your results directly to Eric Smith.

[HL1/CS] Add proper anti-speedhack code, or fix existing one

Oh! And you mention this here:

Half-Life Single-Segment, Easy skill 32:55

Freeze glitch on Steam’s GoldSource games is now solved! Thanks to rofi for finding this out. It’s all about very simple cvar. “clockwindow 0” - and freeze is gone, enjoy. **From Half-Life Linux Primary Server 3.1.1.0.b Beta Update Changelog** Added new cvar “clockwindow”. This cvar is temporary. It’s designed to combat the speed cheats being used in-game. The default value for this cvar is “0.5”. We’re very interested in how low you can get this value and not have your players “feel” any …

I really like how that fix was only found like 5 years after I was doing my original CZ DS runs. Lol. It was a huge pain-in-my-ass back then.