The Mystery Of The Black Squares On CS_ASSAULT

Have you ever noticed the big black squares on cs_assault? Let us have a look at why they are there.

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[aidar]

The yellow blood in this video reminded me of how my Steam version of Half-Life decided to turn on German low violence mode for no reason. With robot marines and stuff.

[plaxic]

ESCALATION I'VE GOT YOU FAM

I made a ton of assault variants in 2007, have decompiled the original and reconstructed it at least 5 times, and know this BSP like the back of my hand. The black boxes were present way back in 2007 as well. Why? If you look closely, you will see that the bridge supports right next to the black spots are actually 1 unit off the ground - there is a gap between the ground and the bridge supports. Go into spectate mode in-game and this is really easy to see. This is definitely a mapper error that was never fixed, and it undoubtedly caused a lighting glitch that cast completely black shadows on the ground nearby. Similarly, the wood box inside near the back door is also 1 unit off the ground, and it also casts a weird black shadow right next to it. If you shine your flashlight on any of these black shadows, you can see the actual underlying texture beneath.

There are *several* glitches in this map. Maybe my favorite that is obvious once you find it is the floating ceiling light in the hostage room. Let me know if you want to know any other useless cs_assault trivia...

[RacingTherapy]

This map brings back so many memories, playing Cs in lan houses and skipping school.. the time flyes

[coajdka]

We love you, all my homies love excalation

[uncleernie]

Probably from playin some knockoff version of the map, the ones that add more rooms, platforms, ladders and even make the area under the bridge accessable.

[briggs]

The feeling I got from just seeing this map again... damn...

[ThoRCX]

The electronic boxes didn't disappear. You just changed dimensions.

[snowfloofcathug]

I just got a notification for this. Only now, two days late. Glad I clicked it though!

[StoutPika]

Steam just updated cs 1.6 and halflife few days ago lol

[arc-sdsk]

there were about 100 million cs_assault edits, so maybe you're remembering the power boxes from some custom version?

[gnx]

wait wait, there are no generators? XD

[whynotll]

valve updated the game and your memory encountered bugs and glitches.

[Kruku]

damn 0o my mind just moved back a looong time 0o

[jsXanatos]

i have no way of remembering a detail like that sorry. too worried about getting shot up there most likely

[CutieCat]

To be honest, i remember that there was a bunch of was this in the CZ version?

[antigen]

I have a cracked version of cs, i have seen those squares, what should i do?

[bromax]

Turns out Wario broke the light map. Every copy of CS 1.6 is personalized.

[boim]

So, do you have the map from Beta 6.5?

[XanderNiles]

There were black squares? Never paid attention to them. Even though I played the beta version of Assault. A little detail that can be easily missed.

[AzozGamer]

I mean, they updated 1.6 yesterday, why not fix the map? lol