Counter-Strike 1.6 Update

[lockhart]

Ho Hum (Ma$h3d) wrote..

Updated fine with me. In a nutshell now. Steam runs great, starts up fine, no problem with Ram, no problem with Shield (Heck I die quick enough with one!!!!), friends works great - you should see how many friends I have =) new guns are not "that" bad, whats the whinging about?



1.6is far better than 1.5. Shield almost negates those who like to run around with an awp for 10 odd rounds, I'm sure everyone has always complained about the git with the AWP camping his little butt in an unencounterable (Check the dictionary corner and has a lovely high score.



I have a 2mb cable line, ATI 9700 pro, xp200+ 1gb Ram and run my res @ 1792 X 1344 32 bit colour and get 100fps ALL the time. AND I have NO problems with the game.



Steam allows you to keep track of all your friends, spectate games, refresh server lists quicker, better graphics and u can even play around with skins if it flicks your bean.



Stop whinging, live with it and if you don't like it find something else to play. Personally I'm sick of reading "boo Steam, Boo Valve, Boo CS" posts.



*Goes back to playing CS 1.6*

The reason we don't like the shield is because it looks really really dumb to just run at a bunch of guys and not get hit at all. In a 1v1 situation, if a competent CT has a shield and the bomb is not planted, he WINS. All he has to do is follow the guy around with his shield up and he cannot plant the bomb, try to knife, or anything. Originally you could hit the person's feet, but now the hitboxes are so bad that random spraying is the best way to kill a shielder. Plus, you can shoot through 10ft of concrete wall, but you can't shoot through like 3 inches of steel? And people run rediculously fast with the shield too. YOU'RE CARRYING AN EXTREMELY HEAVY PIECE OF METAL and you run faster than you do with a para, something that is far lighter.

You know why you have no problems with steam? Because you have a damn good computer. People have been playing with really crappy computers for a long time, why should they be required to upgrade for a couple year old game? I have a decent computer, one that's far better than what many players have, and I have weird problems with my mouse and occasional crashes.

There is no such thing as an awper in an unencounterable corner. There IS such a thing as a shielder in an unencounterable corner. The awp is completely balanced because BOTH sides can buy it. The shield is not. Whenever you introduce a powerful element into a game, you better be damn sure it is BALANCED. The shield was put in for pub play, and all it has done is completely unbalanced the pubs. I really don't wanna know what it's going to do when we play it in matches.

Noldster wrote..

wow gay, now every time a fucking steam server update comes about, server companies have to restart all their fuckn servers, another thing valve fucks up, gg valve

rcon quit life

[.b0w. Bushwacker]

Paul Shuttle wrote..

Trivia:



Erik Johnson's last comment was almost exactly (to the minute) 1 year ago.



3:47 am on 9/26/02 by Erik Johnson

3:56 am on 9/26/03 by Erik Johnson



I felt that was worth mentionning. Carry on.

very worth it

[Pan the Goat God]

nomi.AWP.whore wrote..

Makes sense why dust is called dust

What the hell?

[stooopid]

Brutus wrote..

I found that I am playing more after a 6 month break.

Breaking free from addiction is such an incredible feeling. Have you ever awoken in the early morning, in darkness. Dressing and going out to see your city awaken around you. Silent and cold at first and then welcoming and alive. You feel like you could live forever there. Without CS. Without ownage... And then night falls again. It can be such a difficult cycle.



-stooop

[3a5tw00D]

I am a shield whore

ph33r

[_Shorty]

sphyx wrote..

and what about the mouseacceleration bug, because it still doesent works...

mouse acceleration works fine here, I wouldn't be able to stand playing if it didn't. Linear mouse movement just doesn't cut it for me, gotta have acceleration.

[xlokix]

great, all we need is to fix the bug that sometimes whenever your spectating no buttons work and your stuck until the round starts again

[Branagan]

Paul Shuttle wrote..

Trivia:



Erik Johnson's last comment was almost exactly (to the minute) 1 year ago.



3:47 am on 9/26/02 by Erik Johnson

3:56 am on 9/26/03 by Erik Johnson



I felt that was worth mentionning. Carry on.

sorry to spoil ur find but he has posted loads of times specially on steam forums and cs nation

[_Shorty]

xlokix wrote..

great, all we need is to fix the bug that sometimes whenever your spectating no buttons work and your stuck until the round starts again

until then you can "spec_menu 0" in the console

<edit> and don't leave the spectator menu open next time

[Pharlap]

bozer wrote..

Way off topic here, but anyone else slowly coming out of their long term Cs addiction?



Ever since 1.6 came out, I'm finding myself less and less interested in playing CS. Most of the people in my clan have become inactive, both of the pub servers that I run slowly seem to be dieing, and now I find it a lot easier to go to sleep at a decent time instead of keeping myself up to 2am and going into work sleepy. It could be just me, but I'm wondering if others feel the same.



The only thing that I'm not really enjoying (steam doesnt bother me)about CS, is that I feel like I'm just not as good at it anymore as I was. Most of the players that I have become acustomed to constantly owning, have been owning me lately in 1.6. I feel like everything is a headshot and its been really frustrating for me to get owned by someone who seems as if they arent even aiming at me. Maybe its an interp issue, maybe not. Whatever the case, I just preordered Halo for PC, and if its any good I have a feeling my long CS run is about to end.

i feel what youre saying.

btw ive played with you before, and i must say your skills are impressive. go mr l33t :)

anyway, i feel too that pretty much every1 has similar skill level and it doesnt take muchaiming from the spectators point of view to kill even the most cunning player.

i also noticed that its just as easy to get a headshot up close as it is from VERY far away.



cs HAS become more random, i say more, because of course you cant just blindly play, but since the beta days a lot of things have improved (stability, balance, new maps, etc) but the 'feel' of the game has degenerated.



i first started playing it and became addicted to it for a few reasons, the main being that i couldnt kill ANYONE! for months my score wouldnt even go above a few kills per map, if any at all. that made me want to continue playing, and to improve my ability. if i started playing cs from scratch now, i doubt that i would get the same 'rush' i got when i first installed a beta CS from a pc gamer magazine CD on the cover.

[[PKM]GenocideS1]

I love 1.6 but still ....

FUCK STEAM!

[marc___1]

xlokix wrote..

great, all we need is to fix the bug that sometimes whenever your spectating no buttons work and your stuck until the round starts again

go in to console and back out

[rogue_trooper]

Pharlap wrote..

i feel what youre saying.

btw ive played with you before, and i must say your skills are impressive. go mr l33t :)

anyway, i feel too that pretty much every1 has similar skill level and it doesnt take muchaiming from the spectators point of view to kill even the most cunning player.

i also noticed that its just as easy to get a headshot up close as it is from VERY far away.



cs HAS become more random, i say more, because of course you cant just blindly play, but since the beta days a lot of things have improved (stability, balance, new maps, etc) but the 'feel' of the game has degenerated.



i first started playing it and became addicted to it for a few reasons, the main being that i couldnt kill ANYONE! for months my score wouldnt even go above a few kills per map, if any at all. that made me want to continue playing, and to improve my ability. if i started playing cs from scratch now, i doubt that i would get the same 'rush' i got when i first installed a beta CS from a pc gamer magazine CD on the cover.

Yeah ive noticed that as well, head shots are far too easy now. You have as much chance of getting a random lucky head shot as you have from a well aimed one. And ive noticed that i can drop people from across the map pretty easily but you can stand next to someone and spray them and they still have time to pop you with a Glock. The hit boxes seem all screwed up.

[rabi_jammin]

rogue_trooper wrote..

Yeah ive noticed that as well, head shots are far too easy now. You have as much chance of getting a random lucky head shot as you have from a well aimed one. And ive noticed that i can drop people from across the map pretty easily but you can stand next to someone and spray them and they still have time to pop you with a Glock. The hit boxes seem all screwed up.

I have noticed this also. You can still get a good head shot if you aim nice and carefully, but you can also just run upto someone and spray them with a rifle. More often than not this seems to result in a head shot, even if you're right next to them (within reason). I think that this detracts slightly from the game when of going 1 on 1 (or 1 on 2) with someone, as skill doesn't come into play as much. It does seem to quicken the pace of some games though, which can be fun.

As for people getting worse since 1.6, I personally think that if you were any good before hand you should be able to adapt fine, so stop blaming your performance on the update.

[Registered]

that spectator bug only happens to me when i bind shift to duck, im fine with ctrl as my duck button tho.