Steam Platform 14

[ukHazard]

Hooray for the *DEAD* tags, at least they are listening to the majority, even if that majority had to be quite vocal.

[street]

......play 32 player games of a half life mod all you want, but don't call it CS.

[Alienmorph]

omg^ ^

omg _

[XTRMNTR]

At some point, realism isn't worthwhile, especially in a game like Counter-Strike, where this is more action than simulator. As it's already been pointed out, how can people ask for realism when there's the damn obituary on the upper right hand corner telling you who killed whom with what gun and whether it was a headshot or not.



Why mess with the scoreboard allowing you to know who's dead and who's not? At least let's hope the scoreboard can be modified to make it a server variable to make everyone happy.

[helloworld]

Valve had nothing to do with the 20 player limit. CS has had that as a mapping guidline forever. It isn't like they bought the game and said "fuck you" then limited the player count, they were following an established trend. Also if servers want to run 32 player servers that bad there are easy ways for them to add spawn points to a map, so it isn't like anyone is stopping it from being done.

[[pr]]

stupid, they should leave the tags off. great job, remove the best new feature from the game. Yeah, I should know who is dead and who isn't from 'the enemy' - that's realistic.

[[CyW]-=BigBear=-]

Edited by [user="6035"] @ [time="1056552529"]

32 players = choke hell



The HL engine (or call it the netcode) can't handle that many players properly.. *All* 32 player servers I know give me alot of choke unless I play with crappy 56k ratesettings (cl_rates not above 30 that is).. And no, it's not my connection, because I have a very stable high-quality 1024/512kbit ADSL connection which gives me perfect connections with 0% loss & choke on high rates (upto 101) to "normal" HL servers..



Which is to bad, because 32 players fragging frenzy can be fun (I do agree however it's not really CS, also because most standard CS maps are not suited for that many players).. I prefer playing 5v5 CS clanwars (because for me that's the only way to play proper CS with 1 organised team v another) over playing on publics anytime..



About the 'dead' tags.. I kindof liked the suspence of not knowing how many opponents were left.. But as someone already mentioned, in clanwars it was a useless thing because you can give that info simply over external voice etc.. A thing that bugs me more is the change in the buymenus.. It's not easy to change a routine in buying you have been using for many years, although with the use of buyscripts it's not a very big deal..



I also read here that there was a "+attack" bug in the last version.. I wondered if it was just me, sometimes when I fired or selected granades nothing happened, I thought it was Steam lag or someting wrong with my mouse.. Glad to hear that was 'a bug' not only affecting me..

[HeadHunter (007)]

Steam is aparently haveing problems, since i can't connect ... =(

Such dissapointment...

[.b0w. Bushwacker]

2 things i think should be added into CS 1.6



when a user dies.. all their shit drops.. not just primary weapon.. or at least the pistol drops too. because im sick of being t and not having my lazy ass buy a usp, then not being able to jack one from the cts im killing



also



it would be cool if there could be one person (you need to choose to be the person [ kinda like VIP, but you make the choice]) who is a bomb tech.

All they can buy is a pistol (any pistol) and they spawn with a defusal kit.

The reason for them is :

1) to defuse bombs

2) when your on a map, and you kill the T with the bomb.. instead of sitting there waiting for them to come and kick your ass, you call in the bomb tech to secure the area, after he "secures" the c4 (kinda like defusing it) the round ends.



I think that would really knock up the team play, because people would want to stick with the bombcarrier and make sure that it isnt dropped.

[Ho Hum (Ma$h3d)]

Edited by [user="13681"] @ [time="1056559473"]

[CyW]-=BigBear=- wrote..

32 players = choke hell



The HL engine (or call it the netcode) can't handle that many players properly.. *All* 32 player servers I know give me alot of choke unless I play with crappy 56k ratesettings (cl_rates not above 30 that is).. And no, it's not my connection, because I have a very stable high-quality 1024/512kbit ADSL connection which gives me perfect connections with 0% loss & choke on high rates (upto 101) to "normal" HL servers..

I get no loss/choke/lagg on my 2mb cable modem. Your not on a "Perfect" connection.



CS is CS. 32/16/5 V 5/16/32 players means what? All you clannies out there are holier than those who play on public 32/16 player servers? At the end of the day your running around as either a T or a CT trying to fulfill one of the objectives. OR by winning by default ala all opponents are dead. "Normal Servers" Pfftt!



If anything your argument should be the ageless "Go play BF1942" which is rather narrow minded.



I love Steam, the idea, the content, the presentation, friends is very very good for when you are trying to find elusive team members. =)

[.b0w. Bushwacker]

HeadHunter (007) wrote..

Steam is aparently haveing problems, since i can't connect ... =(

Such dissapointment...

i dont play 1.6 but i have steam, and i always get the updates...

[prompt.]

all they need to do now is take away the +3 frags for defusing\planting

[-:Nighthawk:-]

sixletter wrote..

I made a little update wish list

(snip)

5, New radio sounds.

6, New hostage models and voices...they sound gay...ya ever notice that the black scientist has white hands?

7, New VIP model...the current one looks like he could whoop my ass.

The first 3 were interesting, the breakable objects wasn't very practical with the way that the Half-Life engine is set up, but these last three are things you could change yourself easily with custom model/sound replacements. Oh, and just for reference, there wasn't a black scientist in CS last time I checked.

sixletter wrote..

OMG Platform 15 is already out !

That's what I've heard. However, downloading Platform 14 gave me one "unlisted" feature: running Steam does nothing more visible than starting a Steam.exe thread, and thus bitching if I try to run it a second time. Beyond that, there's no window, nothing reacts, there's no attempt to download the latest version and waiting endlessly doesn't affect it. Yay for this new feature it gave me.

[pr] wrote..

stupid, they should leave the tags off. great job, remove the best new feature from the game. Yeah, I should know who is dead and who isn't from 'the enemy' - that's realistic.

OH, AND HAVING A COMPLETE ROSTER OF THE ENEMIES YOU WILL BE MEETING IN COMBAT 24 DIFFERENT TIMES OVER THE COURSE OF AN HOUR IS "REALISTIC."



Wake up.

.b0w. Bushwacker wrote..

2 things i think should be added into CS 1.6

when a user dies.. all their shit drops..

Sounds decent enough, though you'd get a lot of clutter...

it would be cool if there could be one person (you need to choose to be the person [ kinda like VIP, but you make the choice]) who is a bomb tech.

I kind of like this idea, though there's some obvious problems with it. How do you choose the bomb tech? Voting doesn't often work well for things in CS, especially in pubs, and so you'd likely have to go for random assignment, like the bomb. In this case, you'd want the defuse kit to be able to be picked up if the bomb tech is killed, to balance out the fact that the bomb can be picked up by remaining teammates.



It'd be a significant enough change that I don't imagine it being implemented, due to the impact on both pub and clan play, but it certainly would be interesting to try out.



Anyway, I'm off to do stuff other than play CS1.6 until the dumb thing starts working for me again. Meh.

[sixletter]

-:Nighthawk:- wrote..

. Oh, and just for reference, there wasn't a black scientist in CS last time I checked.

In cs_militia..OK...Lets just say he has a darker complexion except for the hands.

[Curve]

From all this I think I read every single way to type out newbie. That's really annoying btw.