Poll Update!

[Bokuho]

I used the SG550 a ton anyway.... me thinks I'll start using the G3/SG-1 too now ^_^

[DarkViper311]

I sat in front of my computer and ate my fucking turkey, what else is there to tell? It's the same every year. PC and turkey.

[ghetto*mouse]

They used to be worthless for the price tag, and I loved using them to just fool around with and get "funny" kills because everyone knew the guns sucked. I bet steam will be "recalling" their new update or atleast fixing it once they realized that you can jump unzoomed nad have all of your shots hit as well as strafe while zoomed in and have zero recoil. Could be just me but this gun has now become THE gun to use if you have the money, but I know that they're going to fix this come next week or sometime soon. If they don't, well then it looks like there is a new favorite in pubs and scrims for that matter.

[SprayCan]

I figure people use aliases to get past those servers which remove the buy times and teleport everyone 2 seconds into the round :P

[Nunka]

puffycloud doesn't do SOTD reviews anymore... it makes me sad.

[wckd]

I've used aliases for a while, they help you learn a few things with how CS works when you make them yourself.

[Bokuho]

ghetto*mouse wrote..

Could be just me but this gun has now become THE gun to use if you have the money, but I know that they're going to fix this come next week or sometime soon. If they don't, well then it looks like there is a new favorite in pubs and scrims for that matter.

Think about it realistically. If a sniper had the choice in real life, do you think he/she would take a bolt-action, heavy-ass beast like the AW/M, or a semi-automatic/fully-automatic, rifle like the PSG-1 (or as is the case in CS, the SG550 or G3/SG-1), which is just as powerful and almost as accurate (in fact the accuracy difference is so small in real life you'd barely notice it)? They'll take the semi-auto/fully-auto every time, unless they're a real bolt-action specialist. In real life, semi-auto/fully-auto sniper rifles are more popular and get used more (and are generally better anyway), so why not in CS too?

Nunka wrote..

puffycloud doesn't do SOTD reviews anymore... it makes me sad.

If you have the time, read all this:

http://bbs.clandeadgoat.net/viewtopic.php?t=1878



Pretty much explains all you need to know about what 'happened' to the SOTD here ^_^

[Pharlap]

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Bokuho wrote..

In real life, semi-auto/fully-auto sniper rifles are more popular and get used more

sorry to correct you, but snipers do not use a fully automatic weapon. the guns in the game are fully auto, ie u keep the trigger pressed and they fire continuously, but in real life the g3sg1 and sg550 are semi auto (edit: oops! no they arnt!), meaning u need to press the trigger every time. dont know if valve will pick up on this minor detail. but good post. also in real life you wouldnt use an AWM to take out people. bullets of that size are used against vehicles and medium armour. the .338 lapua magnum (the one used in the awm) can go through 7 human bodies AND a kevlar vest at a distance of 1 mile. now to me that sounds a bit too powerful considering the tiny distances involved in CS.

[thor2488]

What about the option "I still haven't gotten steam because I'm a lazy bastard"?



Of course, I always use those guns, just so I can make fun of people who get killed by me.

[OPIE]

Edited by [user="163343"] @ [time="1070150854"]

Never used aliases before, never had a need too. I can buy pretty fast just by hitting B, using the #'s and pointing and clicking :P



As for the new poll...my opinion I think they are still a little too accurate, as gheto mouse was explaining. I noticed the jump in the air thing a couple days ago.



The only reason everyone uses them now is because its the easiest gun to get kills with now. But I will give it credit on making people use the shields more often now :)



But if VALVe does not change them, like I said before. Its change, and we just gotta adapt to it. Not gonna sit here and whine about it. There are ways around it.

[Buddah]

Behold! Valve did something that 50% of the population actually aplauds them for. This is a rare thing indeed. :P

[Bokuho]

Pharlap wrote..

sorry to correct you, but snipers do not use a fully automatic weapon. the guns in the game are fully auto, ie u keep the trigger pressed and they fire continuously, but in real life the g3sg1 and sg550 are semi auto,

I know, but in the context of CS, everybody just calls them 'auto', and frankly most CS players use them like fully automatic weapons anyway. Kinda sucks. If I had my way, the SG550 would be replaced by a PSG-1, and it and the G3/SG-1 wouldn't be able to go 'full-auto' at all. But hey-ho, can't have everything

[Thortok2000]

I used the autosnipers before anyway, especially since I considered them 'above' the awp. I think they should remove the awp from the game now that the autosnipers are better. The autosnipers are the new awp: Without bolt action, you're able to take on 3-5 people all at once. And they're easy to get headshots with.



It's a major improvement from before (you basically had to be crouching AND not moving in order to have 100% accuracy (and only on the first shot of a burst), and you had like .2% accuracy otherwise). Maybe too much of one, since you can practically strafe, jump, crouch, and play solitaire with your other hand while still capping headshots left and right. A smaller accuracy boost, but keep the damage boost.

[Julio Caesar]

Yuck, turkey sucks (Its so dry.) Anyways, the new improvements are awsome, espicially since I had no sniper skills before, but now I own like crazy with the SG550. awp=old, auto-snipers=new.

[Ghengis]

Bokuho wrote..

If you have the time, read all this:

http://bbs.clandeadgoat.net/viewtopic.php?t=1878



Pretty much explains all you need to know about what 'happened' to the SOTD here ^_^

i FREQUENTED THE CODG FORUMS RECENTLY AND THEY ARE A BUNCH OF UP THEIR OWN ARSES IDIOTS WHO LOVE THEIR PIMPED OUT HACKED WEAPONS AND REALLY ARE QUITE DULL. Rant over, everything in gumplungers comment in that linked thread is true, well said way to represent.



In other news, the associated, but far nicer, csrealism folks are nearly done with their pack though it seems be similar to mr insanes, Dijesse, needs to sort out some new player models, its getting boring..



Adn ifnally the auto snipers ahve become a whorey weapon and are just a tad too accurate, or powerful , they only needed to improve one, not both, peole woudl of course use m more, if they were cheaper.. that might have been helpful..