Shielding CS:S

[CSN NewsBot]

In a post made on the 26th of June, Jess Cliffe asked the Half-Life2.net forums their opinions on whether or not the shield should be removed from Counter-Strike: Source, the Half-Life 2 engine port of Counter-Strike (full info - recent impressions). What's he doing asking the Half-Life 2 guys? The real CS fans are here, and it's only fair that we give you guys the chance to speak out:

What would you guys think if we gave the shield the boot?



Cliffe

Valve

Want my opinion? The shield hasn't been and never will be worth the development time. Boot it, Valve! But what do I know? Be sure to voice your opinion in the comments!

[efficient]

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We should keep it. If you don't like it, you can always disable it in the servers.

[bullet_head]

If they can properly implement it, go for it. If it will hog development time, drop it faster.... then.... something you drop in a fast fashion.

[INFERNO2K]

The shield is the worst investment ever to be included in this game. Rid of it forever.

[SourceZ]

wow rizzuh.. steal my post

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lol anyways i submitted something along those lines...

[efficient]

If it's removed, I'll just use the gravity gun and pick up a table and use it as a shield, or pick up a dead body and use it as a human shield. Oh wait, there aren't grav guns in CS. Dammit

[ebugg]

i think take it out, it will split the community even more if its kept

[Deletable_Man]

The shield is an idea that could work fine. It hasn't been executed well, however, and I say you might as well boot it at this point. Even if the shield was fixed up and made fair as possible, morons would complain and ban it anyway. It's doomed in CS and always will be, sorry to say.

[Smurfzilla]

I think they should remove it, and with the time and development it takes to make the shield, they should include something else, like maybe a 5th model for cs..a girl..why not? there are bad ass terrorist chicks, and girls that are in counter-terrorist missions, so why not include a skin for them? or maybe team customized things, like terrorists get there own knife skin, i doubt the CTs and the Ts happen to buy knives from the same dealer without running into eachother..

[<>MasterChi]

efficient wrote..

We should keep it. If can always disable it in the servers.

[D of the O J]

hmm... I don't think it should be removed altogether, just adjusted a little. Like you could make it where when you buy the shield, you run at a pace of about half regular running speed. Also, the price should be upped by about $500 or maybe even $1000.



I think that people who hate it should just keep it from their servers.



Side thing: Mac-10's and TMP's should be able to be used along with a shield, just have a bigger, more erratic spray. But then that's just a side request.



just my two cents.

[fundamentalz85]

Im going with removing it too. all it really does is create standoffs, and it interupts the flow of the game. It was a good idea, but in practice it ends of being just a pointless weapon

[IC dead people]

It's fun from time to time but nobody ever uses It.... they could have kicked it two weeks ago and I wouldn't have noticed...

Not worth development time is my vote

[CARTMAN]

scrap it, cliffe!!!

[D of the O J]

Up the price, lower speed of the carrier.



Also (though this shouldn't be immediatly added to CS:S as I want to play the game SOON) there should be added a molotov cocktail kinda thing to counteract the shield better for $500-$750 or something. Also the T's would be able to hold 2 of them like flashbangs, just in case there were more than one shields going around.