Zarathustra[H];1037624159 said:Granted its been quite a while, but when I originally switched my game servers over from 1.6 to Source back in 2004 some time, I don't recall the gameplay feeling significantly different...
Maybe this has something to do with the Orange Box update? What happened there anyway?
I haven't compared them side by side since. In fact, I haven't even launched 1.6 since 2004 or so.
I'm not sure how anyone that has played both games could not notice the difference. It's literally night and day. The stuff German Muscle lists that got changed transitioning to the Orange Box apply an order of magnitude more going from 1.6->Source.
Old demos no longer played(this hit the movie making scene hard)
This was also SOP for Valve for CS:S from 2004-~2007 (or whenever CS:S updates came to a screeching halt). They'd frequently make engine updates that would render week-old demos unplayable (though there are now some tools to play back some of the older demos).
Not to mention it took valve 6 months to fix everything they broke and had messed up. Alot of people quit CS and went to other games. Since then its been dying a slow death.
The competitive scene was dead/dying long before the Orange Box update.