Poll Update!

[kSaini]

I scrimmed at least 15 times yesterday with my lan team and it's like competetive cs is now a joke. Now it doesn't matter how much money is going to the opposing team so long as you can afford a shield. It's fucking havoc trying to kill 5 "shield wielding faggots" that can shoot, block and then empty a few shells again almsot instantaneously. My suggestion would be to make buying a shield a server variable, removing it completely, or to severly hinder your mobility when you buy one.

[K0brakai]

i reckon u should run as slow as an awm with it... and slower when deployed. (i havent actually had much chance to test the speeds so far tho).its cheaper than any of the rifles i think and can usually beat them if used well. people that hide in corners with the shield should be shot, repeatedly, then riddled with bullets and cocktail sticks soaked in iodine.

[MrFelix]

hm well so far steam has died more than I would during a game so Im thinking thats not a good sign.. when all the niggles get sorted out (program running 1/10 tries for more than a minute, 5min waits etc) wonder if anyone will notice if i dont finish the sentence. oh yeah and i got distracted and removed my cs install too. so now i have no cs either til i get the motivation to reinstall

[orphy]

MikeJ wrote..

i'm sure we'll get use to it, so long as they NERF THE SHIELD PLZ K THX.



i don't really have a problem with the shield, it's just annoying as hell dealing with 10 shield wielding fragots.

Tell me about it. I was playing Cobble yesterday, and I was a CT, and the guy goes "Since we're loosing let's all buy shields and camp in the corner." I yelled to him "Sorry, no, I'm not a fucking faggot."

[Spedmaster]

Poor DaveJ.

Well, I appreciate the work you do. Not many people can claim to have created the most popular map for the most popular online game.



And if you didn't live in England, I'd send you some chocolates for the new cobble.

[0marTheZealot]

mmm so far I don't like Steam. It runs behind my back, and it doesn't tell me what the fuck its doing.

[Raven99]

Steam would be PERFECT if it was bug free.

[f0liage^]

1.6 is great....

Steam however is the worst idea since solar powered torches. It crashes constantly..the network is unstable and worst of all it takes so long to do _anything_



Perhaps they should rename it Mist or Fog rather than Steam

[Dr Delinquent]

I really don't know how they can keep the shield in without compromising balance. They could try just making it prohibitively expensive, I suppose. Or, after a certain number of hits, make the shield-bearer start taking damage—increasingly more damage with more hits. The idea that I can stand next to someone and empty a colt clip in into them with NO repercussions is preposterous.

[mf4]

PREPOSTEROUS I SAY!



Yeah, the sheild sucks. So does the HUGE text (and auto-help not being disabled when it should also w/ huge text) when playing at 1600x1200. Both should be variables, shield needs a lot of tweaking.

[Raven99]

Shield should act like kevlar vest, but with 200 points and protects the whole body.

[CARTMAN]

i think you should be able to choose when it comes to the font; use the new style or old style depending on preference... that doesnt seem too hard... does it? i personally can't read a damn thing in 1.6 unless i really focus; then i get shot in the face because im not paying attention

[shurcool]

Edited by [user="69226"] @ [time="1063562079"]

i love the new text, much easier to read at 1280x1024 (my LCD's native resolution)...



i can't comment on the shield yet because i haven't seen it being used to its full potential... both sides that is (guns vs. shield and shield vs. guns).



btw, did u forget how to use nades properly? if a whole team is shield-stacking in a corner, u tell ur team (not ur pub, but ur team) to throw nades around that corner right into 'em... jeez, people.



one thing i *don't* like about 1.6 is that's it's TOTALLY unplayable on my p3 500 mhz (not saying 1.5 was constant 100 fps either, but at least that was playable...)! that pretty much puts me out of the CAL scene until i get a new computer, gg. and that will take a while... i'm not made of money, and my parent's don't give me lunch money or anything like that that i could save. :@



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edit: oh, and if u're gonna tell me to play at 640x480, i did before i got my LCD for my bday (gg 550 bucks spent there, and now no new pc for me), and it ran at the exact same speed... why? because my radeon 8500 totally rapes my cpu (which is the bottleneck in my performance), thus even if i have boxes instead of ppl, running at 400x300 and with all gfx settings at low, i'd get a performance increase of 5%.

[Buddah]

David Johnston wrote..

So now only 1 in 4 people want to kill me. Hooray.

and I'm the 1.



Nothing personal, just my job to remove the stain that is dust from the world.

[Sovereignty]

Bah. A lot of people are saying "it will just take some time to get used to, like 1.4". I disagree with that. It's one thing to remove bunnyhopping, but it's another to change the entire balance of the game.



The shield is, simply put, fucking retarded. shurcool: You say just throw nades? What about if you're ct watching the bridge on aztec when two t's with shields rush straight at you with the rest of their team behind them? You're fucked. They're all invulnerable. The case is even worse for pubs because they dont even USE grenades.



Personally I quit cs yesterday. Uninstalled half life and steam. I've played since 1.1 and could always adapt to the changes, but 1.6 is just too much. You'd almost swear they're trying to get people to STOP playing cs so they'll go out and buy HL2. I won't even mention the fact that 1.6 pretty much fucks over everybody with a lower end system. If you got 40ish fps in 1.5, you get 15 now. A lot of the player base is still running a p3 or an athlon t-bird with a geforce 2. I have a decked out athlon xp system @ 2.5ghz with a radeon9800 and I don't even stay at 100fps @ 800x600, which is just ridiculous.