cs 1.6: hands-on

[PineappleV]

The models for the FAMAS and Galil are utterly terrible.

[Tree Wizard]

Changed so live players don't see enemy deaths in the scoreboard.



Is this what everyones on about btw ? Doesnt this just mean the players who originally had DEAD next to their name wont appear at all ?

If this is the case, why is that so bad ?

[-=cw=-/i/oIr]

I have a question.



I am studying at uni and currently playing over a uni network where theres lots of players. Because of the stupid firewall we cant connect to steam does this mean we cant play???



*sob*

[wckd]

very nice i enjoyed the read, can't wait to get it tomorrrow!

[|cyborg|]

GJ, definitely looking forward to playing the beta now, just to see and use all this stuff myself, i don't think 3 kills for a successful planting is good, 1 or 2. The damn scoreboard thing will irritate anyone who plays clan matches, but at least it will rid you from the spasm attack of the tab button.



Rizzah explains to erik johnson the stress's of being a damn sexy bitch, 4th screen shot if anyone never noticed.

very nice touch.

[[TW]Fox]

Two points.



1) The scoreboard is a stupid idea. How many times have you been aimlessly wandering around only to find just one person left alive, an AFK? Now, you won't be able to tell if theres just one left, or two, or three...



2) Everyone is mentioning the frags when you defuse idea. Sounds fantastic but what about hostage rescues? Is everyone so dm, sorry de, obsessed these days that they've forgotton about CS's original mode? Valve, lets have frags for rescuing hostages as well, ta. We need to convince more people to rescue.

Rhyzz wrote..

Not sure about the 3 frags for planting/defusing, it will screw up a players frags in a war, and make shite players look good...if you get me..

No, I don't get you. Do you seriously beleive that a guy who kills 3 people a round and thats it is a better player than a guy who kills nobody each round but consistently plants or defuses the bomb - the maps primary objective? Killing the other team is only a secondary objective. I think the guy who isn't interested in just running around looking for frags is the better player.

[|cyborg|]

While reading that i seen that its not thought that the launcher will make anyone love or hate the game more, but it will defintly make it alot better. Thats one of the main new features i like the idea for, everything else has potential to be hated, but the launcher is great looking.

[allstone]

Definately, this update of CS is like others (1.3, 1.4, 1.5), but I bet it will throw more sights to the game, CS will be liveliness at my opinion. New weapons adds more attraction to CS and various people who plays CS will be amazed. I think, CS 1.6 is great.

[.Sorcerer.]

Scroeboard change will take some time to get use to, a question that I did not see asked, Will dead people be able to see the entire scoreboard? If I remeber cvorrectly somewhere in the current version there is a command that enables the showing of only your score, in one of the configuration menus hide others scores(or something like that).



I really like my weapon skins, seeing how they look 50x more realistic than the defaults. If in 1.7 you can not change anything but your config file then I would hope that someone takes a look at the skins and makes them better.



A note to all you skinners out there, once the beta comes out and you all get tired of playing it, well that might be a while, someone needs to make better skins for the Galil and Famas.

[Darklord]

why don't they just make more stats - one for kills and one for deaths as usual, but adding one for total damage points scored (I'd love to see that!), one for defusing/planting, one for rescued hostages, one for vip's downed/saved (dependening on which type of map was running and team)... all that shit... that'd make it a lot more interesting I think...



ffs this would be so NEAT!...

[Spike Spiegel]

Tree Wizard wrote..

Changed so live players don't see enemy deaths in the scoreboard.



Is this what everyones on about btw ? Doesnt this just mean the players who originally had DEAD next to their name wont appear at all ?

If this is the case, why is that so bad ?

Apparently the names will still show up, however the "DEAD" will not.

(I'm going out on a limb here, no pun intended)

[Darklord]

Darklord wrote..

why don't they just make more stats - one for kills and one for deaths as usual, but adding one for total damage points scored (I'd love to see that!), one for defusing/planting, one for rescued hostages, one for vip's downed/saved (dependening on which type of map was running and team)... all that shit... that'd make it a lot more interesting I think...



ffs this would be so NEAT!...

yeah, I mean on the *scoreboard*... not plastered about the screen like on some servers...



I would LOVE to see a scoreboard that collected all this info...

[War_Fist]

[TW]Fox:

1) The scoreboard is a stupid idea. How many times have you been aimlessly wandering around only to find just one person left alive, an AFK? Now, you won't be able to tell if theres just one left, or two, or three...



Just one, two or three??

The way I understood it is that you se every one left alive one the scoreboard no matter team (and I am farly certain it is this way)

so you will still se how many are left.

Otherwise it would be really stupid.



And regarding the Galil, AK, Colt M4A1.

I dont know the damage differece between them, but the AK SHOULD do more damage than the Colt beceause it uses larger caliber (7.62) and the Colt uses 5.56.

And the Galil uses the same as the Colt so it would do the colt's damage but more accurate and bigger clip (if I am correct).



The FAMAS seems to me that it might be good, a quick accurate 3 round burst to the chest/head seems it would do some good damage.



But all this is left to se when it gets out.

[LoBsTeR-SiCk]

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Whats going on?



I'm impressed with the bug fixes esp the HLTV, but I'm kind of half and half here...i feel like a tool and these updates on a grand scale are a big joke, but am very much looking forward to them..



Valve/gearbox/ritual..and whoever else may have their reasons for when and why they do things, but it seems the guys at the top are pulling our chain a bit. They are in the position to set the standard graphically across the online gaming board with cz. I'm not saying push the gf4 to the edge, but come on.

They most definetly could have this game better than it is now....

I dont want a new gun, i want new textures on de_nuke and cs_militia. I'd like more player model options..i want tits..i want female player models..voice commands..girls play games too.

We all have atleast 3 instant messengers already. Who wants to be im'd while in this game? Not me.

Who feels like they need checkers to play when they are dead? Not I!



And rizzuh seemed to be trying kinda hard to come up with good things to say. I appreciate the honesty.

Is it just me or is the de_airstrip map review worse than havana's AND chateau's were?



This was a break through game as far as im concerned. It seems despite the all the delays and the 10,000s of ppl interested in making CS better, 1.6, 1.7...CZ will fall short to say the least. 1.6 looks fun, but it does not resemble a justifiable follow through. The online game of games deserves better. Someone set me straight?



lobstah

www.thebloodshed.com

[Gnu]

The likely reason there's no talk of crediting frags for hostage rescues is that there's no T equivalent for defense, unlike defusal for CTs on de_ maps. I guess an alternative could be to credit every T left standing with one frag for every living, unrescued hostage if time runs out.



Regardless, I don't see the bomb credits as anything but good. Anything to force people on pubs to PLANT THE DAMN BOMB. (On the other hand, I think this should come attached to a HEAVY penalty for TK-ing the bomb carrier when FF is on.)



The death display issue seems great, in my opinion. Should force players to communicate a bit more, and hopefully encourage proper defense.