Boosting to Return

[CSN NewsBot]

The Counter-Strike: Source BETA began on Wednesday with the release to Valve Cyber Cafe Partners (full story) and one of the first details that emerged was that the ability to hop on player's backs and get to higher areas — or boost — was severely limited.



Jess Cliffe addressed this fact in a Steampowered.com forums post saying that "boosting will be back." This comes as good news to competitive players who often use boosting as a defensive tactic. I have to applaud Valve for keeping classic CS elements in play even when new technology allows for more realistic body simulation.



On August 18th, CS:CZ owners and ATI voucher holders will be admitted to the CS: Source BETA via Steam free of charge (details). Thanks to Xiu Xiu for the submit.

[krypt0rchid]

thats really good to hear, hopefully they will keep on listening to what the public has to say in regards to CS:S

[paranoidandroid]

Now remove additional stops after jumping and nade explosion and make flashes not blind you from the back and it will be all great.

[abel]

have to see about a lot of stuff, but i'm glad they added this back. makes the game a lot more diverse in terms of covering an area.

[0 Tolerance]

i was actually thinking id like the change to almost no boosting. ah well, back to the 'basics' it shall be, which is fine as well.

[Jocky]

sick..wait ...who cares...boosting or no boosting its all good baby..ur money

[azz0r]

[MrBo]

they are so money and they dont even know it

[nadomola]

It'd be nice to see new animations for boosting if it's possible.

[Schmich]

why did they take away boosting in the first place?

[Fuzzio]

MrBo wrote..

they are so money and they dont even know it

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[Branagan]

great news !



gj valve



hope it looks realistic

[KiGrind]

I like the jumping stops it keeps fucktards from jumping out and shooting you in the air with the awp bullshit.

Branagan wrote..

great news !



gj valve



hope it looks realistic

How will it look realistic when there is some dude jumping off another guys shoulder 10 feet off him to a box??



It will be like in CS 1.6 most likly.



WHAT I DON"T GET: Why didnt they take advantage of the barrels to boost themselves?? I mean you can either leave them or the CTs can shoot them out so you have to move them back, etc etc...



Oh well boosting is somewhat an off seen topic for cs but then again there are alot of strats in clan sthat involve it.

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Also like the fact you can't jump then run off cause it keeps that bunny hoping out that so many of us hate. Sure you can get a few hops in 1.6 but its nothing like 1.3 if you know what I mean.



The fact that someone can't jump out and and fire the awp and duck back in is good since there will be time for you to blast his ass away.

[HankPym]

This is almost certainly a good move, but I'd like the chance to experience some of these changes for myself before Valve changes them.



Glad to see the Beta is doing its job, though.

[tspoon1066]

Porting CS to the Source engine should make it all realistic right? Wrong, if they put boosting back in then it won't be realistic. I know that someone will now post a pic of a special forces man boosting thru a window or something, but the man who is doing the boosting can't shoot while hes doing this, unlike in cs. I also think it will look at of place in this new graphically enchanced version of CS, to see someone floating on top of someones head with a clearance of about an inch.

You should make the man on the bottom of the boost not be able to shoot, make it some sort of set peice that takes a set time or something.