I'm still older than both of ya. I find my interests shrinking compared to the past, where'd I'd be interested in "everything". Have to admit when it comes to FPS multiplayer, I choose the Source engine games.
anyone remember offhand the command line option to disable the title screen background map
If there is a commandline, I dont know what it is. But in one of the files you can edit with notepad, and comment out the line that tells the game not to use the map.
I'm at work so I can't look it up right now. You could probably Google it pretty easily enough...or check Steam forums.
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