Hi Eric,

Sorry, at the time I had full intention of getting back into things, but life had other plans, and I had a beautiful daughter instead. She will one day play CS, just not yet :)

So far, I have gotten most of my answers from the CS2Fixes and AlliedModders guys, but wow, was I let down. You guys literally took away most of the fun stuff we could do, and that players enjoyed. I get it, ranked is a thing, cash needs to flow in, but we used to do these things in insecure mode for fun, and it was one of the single best things CS ever had going for it. Random CS fun servers made people's adolescence. They still talk about it today as if it shaped them.

It's shocking you took it all away when it really wouldn't have had such an impact if left to insecure and fun server types in a way that made sure it was separate.

So, anyway, the current question is: do you intend to ever implement or expose more interactive client features to the engine? For instance, currently, there is no way to display anything longer than a chat message to the client; there are some hacky ways to use WorldText and set the player as the parent, but it's horrendous. To me, it's one of many things missing (apart from all the regular stuff everyone had to work backwards to solve). Are there plans to extend some of the previous ways we had of making CS fun for players when they wanted a break from just plain ol' CS?

When we look at the world of games in 2025, most of them are adding *more* support for modding and adapting, but CS went the opposite way entirely, and I'm just out of words to describe how let down I am by that. Just look at Vortex and NexusMods!

Thanks for replying, though. I appreciate it. I know this list has gone through some iterations, and the current one is probably the lowest I've seen in 20 years.

Cheers,

Jay/c0ldfyr3

On 2024-02-27 23:05, Eric Smith - erics at valvesoftware.com wrote:

Jay/c0ld-

Were you able to get answers to your questions? If not, send the details and we can investigate.

Thanks.

-Eric

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jay C.
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2024 4:17 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [hlcoders] Adding models/materials to a server.

Hi.

I'm a little out of touch. I'm c0ldfyr3, original author of CS:S ZombieMod. I've just gotten back into modding and noticed it seems to not be an avenue we can take as a MetaMod plugin? Is that true? Do you simply not want us to do that anymore?

Thanks,

Jay/c0ld

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