mailbag: cs 1.5

[-Aragorn]

oReiLLZ wrote..

I don't see how you can pre-order America's Army. Isn't it just a free promotion tool that we can all get for free?

Erm..yeah...so you pre-order it for free.... what's the problem?

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Piranesi may suck gameplay-wise, but hey - if you want a little more realistic feel to your CS, I think it's great.

[-Dice]

-Aragorn wrote..

Piranesi may suck gameplay-wise, but hey - if you want a little more realistic feel to your CS, I think it's great.

Which is exactly why we all love the MAC-10!

[narby]

The golden map layout has always been a figure 8 shape. Dust is an exceptional example of that rule.

[toilet freak]

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de_piranesi is a good map? give me a break!!! can somebody give a correct prediction that this map will be one of the best maps playable since de_dust, de_aztec and more popular maps in the near future?



ladies, gentlemen and freakos..... place ur prediction right now and bet whether piranesi will be played frequently or not in the CS world. i put my first bet here: piranesi is a sucka map. nuff' said.



it may be one of the most creatively and beautifully crafted map, but i rather create a map, small enuff for me and my frens to have crazy frag-fest, rather than being a CT having significant deaths over my frags.



i want u, the mail bag initiator to put ur second bet...gagagaga...!



thank you & goodbye all my fellow frens.

[zimzap]

Dust2 is still my favorite map for matches then comes aztec. Dust2 may be complicated but with direct3d sound you can pretty much tell where everyone is if you know that map well.

[[SWE]Twiggy]

http://www.csmapping.b3.nu/



a friend of mine is running that site.



pretty good maps actually.

[Aibohphobia]

Edited by [user="3096"] @ [time="1024262222"]

I think de_piranesi would be fine if the hallways were simplified and a quicker route was added between the two bombsites. As it is one spends alot of time checking for campers when trying to flank the other team. It's an excellent map for large numbers of people (having played it when it was in the Steam beta I think they added to much complexity before it went official in 1.4).

[NebZ]

I hate this mailbag, boo i say, boo

[Kevin Laity]

I'm so tired of everyone complaining about the jumping in CS 1.4. Oh no, now jumping up and down like an idiot gets me killed! Just like oh, um, I don't know... REAL LIFE ? Yeah its true folks, in a real life combat situation, jumping up and down is a bad idea.



What made it a good idea in counter-strike was that it makes your opponent tend to hit you lower down, and getting shot in the leg in CS doesn't slow you down. Whereas in real life, getting shot in the leg may not kill you, but it makes for a really bad day and its kinda hard to walk afterward. Never mind getting hit in the crotch



The whole idea behind counter-strike was to make it as realistic an experience as possible. I think the new jumping helps do that job. It makes the game more about the duck-cover-shoot-cover fire-duck action of real combat, and less about the bounce-bounce-bounce-shoot-bounce combat of crazy bouncy ass world.



Which brings me to my last point (I promise) that alot of the time, its good to make changes to a game, even if those changes will have the player complaining. By the same token its not always such a good idea to cave in to players who want a certain feature. Even though the gameplay may seem frustrating, it can often keep the style of the game closer to what the developer envisioned.



"Realism?"

"No thank you!"

"Go play quake then."

[Gpig]

CS isn't about realism at all. Duck in half of a second to dodge someone's bullet then shoot them isn't exactly "highly" realistic. If you want realism go JOIN THE FUCKING ARMY.

[099513]

narby wrote..

The golden map layout has always been a figure 8 shape. Dust is an exceptional example of that rule.

A word from the wise there. This is very true.

[Unregistered]

Sikkibahm wrote..

I wonder why Honduh thinks adding more recoil makes CS noob friendly. Wouldn't that make the game more difficult?

i didint mean the more recoil being noob friendly.. i meant the damn headshots... first day i played 1.4..... atleast 8 headshots in a row... no one was cheating... as in 1.3 headshots came one in every couple minutes or so. bit of a differance eh?

[HelloNasty]

To tell you the truth, i really enjoy playing cs. v1.3 was the sweetest version out. Not a lot of errors, or bugs. But to tell you the truth, v1.4 sucks. The new spectator views are impressive, and the dead bodies are cool. v1.4 sucks! lag sucks, my lag was fine until v 1.4 came out, now i have to play at little maps like fy_iceworld to get it with no lag. My kills suck now. The most thing that pisses me off is everytime i get into a game after 5 minutes the whole computer crashes and restarts and that didn't happen in v1.2 or 1.3 but i hope v1.5 fixes that, i really do because i enjoy cs very much.



Thanks.

[Kevin Laity]

CS isn't about realism at all. Duck in half of a second to dodge someone's bullet then shoot them isn't exactly "highly" realistic.

Wow. Of course, that lag issue with your slow ass 56k modem was intentional, and they didn't have realism in mind at all! Its a conspiracy I tell ya! Either that or Gspot here doesn't have enough sense to connect to a server with a ping below 700.



You go join the army. Let the smart people talk.

[Unregistered]

talking about 56kers.... ugg.. i hate it when they "frame skip" as some people call it. near impossible to hit them.