VALVe Interview

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[MikeJ]

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Looks like the shield will take the primary slot and the 5-7 would take the secondary. I assume any rifles/smgs or pistols that the player was carrying would all be discarded and the shield/5-7 take up the slots. Also it may be that if you buy a different pistol after buying the shield, the shield might be dropped along with the 5-7. We'll just have to see how they intend to force the use of the shield/5-7 combo...

[Ghengis]

Mr. Poophead wrote..

Ditto. I think that they decided that it would be worthless after at least the 3rd round after Ts start buying AKs. He said rifles, but does he also mean the AWM? If that's true the CTs could compete against good Ts in cs_italy.



Off the subject, but wouldn't it be gravy if they added a secondary fire to some guns so you could pistol whip people rather than havening to pull out your knife? Maybe they should add a bayonet to the AK as it's secondary. You could just stab someone when they are 3' away instead of spray & pray.

Now that is a good idea!! Melee attack ssecondary or even tersary attacks for all weapon classes.. Id lovbe to bludgeon soem Awp ho witht he end of his Awp I also think we should be able to defuile the bodies of the dead, and perhaps, some sort of dismemberment too?? I am noit disturbed honest,....

[Zkilibon]

ummm... am I the only one to think of this, but will custom model replacements COMPLETELY ruin the disadvantages of the shield???



I say this because one of the disadvantages of using the shield is that you only have 1 tiny slot to peek through, thus limiting your view of the area. What would stop someone from making a model that is totally clear all the way around, allowing for totally unhindered view. (Look at the riot shields for police- some of them are totally clear) That would unbalance the game so that all people WITH a certain model would be able to see a lot more than the people WITHOUT it. Also, what would stop people from making the P models bigger and brightly colored in one solid color (bright red, maybe???)



On another note, if the shields STOP rifle fire, what would keep a bunch of T's from grabbing them and creating a "Wall of lame" around the bomb????



Hopefully valve has considered these problems...

[Grocer]

Zkilibon wrote..

...what would stop people from making the P models bigger and brightly colored in one solid color (bright red, maybe???)



On another note, if the shields STOP rifle fire, what would keep a bunch of T's from grabbing them and creating a "Wall of lame" around the bomb????



Hopefully valve has considered these problems...

Some people already do that with P models. Or so I've heard. And just because the shield stops rifle fire now, doesn't mean that it will stop rifle fire when 1.6 is released. Stop freaking out! This is why there's gonna be a beta period. Valve will start with the shield stopping everything, and lower the protection value until its balanced yet still tactically significant (I hope). And then 1.6 will get released. The same thing with the new rifles, and with the chemical gas grenade and the molotov cocktail when those are added... There's a magic number for all these things, but you have to test it in real play first to find that number.



Isn't Valve rewriting the netcode for 1.6?