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The suggestion was in addition to the KDR, and other work that has been done. Also useful may be a call to see how many points someone has — there were times, for example, when I would join an assault game already in progress, die my first round as a CT and then get switched to T for balance
Word. Maybe I’ll take a looksie. I wish I had a demo from my perspective. It was a near-perfect nade — landed right at my feet. Was nuts!
Liam, I’ll be straight with you: I did not read every page of the thread.
That said, what if you added some minor variable to take into account the “pub-advantage” team? For example, CT on dust, CT on aztec, T on italy, etc?
I’m a weapon snob and refuse to use the MP5. Sometimes I’ll pick up the P90 and spray/die, but ffs I hate those guns.
Sushi
Someone has that nade on a demo? I never cared enough to spectate you — too busy stealing/planting the bomb — but that nade was a major-BS moment. Sure, it could have been entirely random, but as I remember it that sort of random is few and far between:
I pick up the bomb outside of long A on cbble. I then walk, very slowly and deliberately, through long A, not seeing a single CT. I did not walk straight through — I glanced at corners, I paused here and there, and slowly but surely made my way to plant. As I am walking towards the bombsite-side of long A a grenade comes and lands at my feet for ~ 56 damage. There’s no way my shadow was involved and I could have been pretty much anywhere on the map at that point. I hadn’t seen anyone for 20-30 seconds (maybe less — time always slows down when it’s creepy crawly time).
So, could you have miraculously thrown a grenade at my feet for 56 damage? Sure, but when I saw the nade coming I literally yelled WHAT-THE-*edited*. After that I wanted to spec, or maybe I did, but holy poop it was strange.
If there is a demo I’d be tempted to reinstall (already) just to watch it.
Some blatant spinning/speedbot hackers are less BS than that nade was
But again, like I said earlier, *edited* like that does happen …
I’ll stick around the forums and probably start to idle in the irc channel. I like the shenanigans here.
I’ll be back if I can put together enough money for a new desktop.
But yeah, I’m old and I have a lot of things that I have to do. Playing CS:S, while always a good time, is a low priority right now. If/when that changes, and if I have a few dollars saved you’ll see me again
K:D is usually a pretty good indicator of balance — the team with the most players with the best K:Ds will win the most rounds.
Sushi said:
I have to work my way to #1 again, eh? Sweet, that’s the whole fun of it.Yup.
I’d like to see something like, anyone in the top 5 over XXXX is able to manually reset his points with a simple command!
It’s a lot more fun to gain than it is to lose.
And I like to play drunk.
gungame is a blast. I play a good amount on a dedicated gungame server that is administered by an active community — that’s key because hackers == bg!
Seems goofy. You were around a bunch and that was good for teams. Everyone has their quirks; yours were very manageable and your presence on the server is part of what made me commit to playing here.
My post was very unclear. The “say” would be “PRE-ROUND :: DO NOT SHOOT (X SECONDS REMAINING)” where X counts down to 0 at which time the “say” is “GET IT ON” in Green, or whatever.
1, 2, 3 and 4 are different events (differentiating between shooting and shooting and killing with different consequences for each; differentiating between what is fired — knifing the air shouldn’t result in blind or slay).
I have little/no knowledge of how these things work, but could you do something like:
Large red, centered text saying “PRE-ROUND :: DO NOT SHOOT (X SECONDS REMAINING)” wherein
(1) If you fire a gun you are blind for 15 seconds;
(2) If you fire a gun and kill you are slayed;
(3) If you “fire” a knife nothing happens
(4) X counts down 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
(4a) “GET IT ON” is appears in GREEN CAPSLOCK after X Seconds expires.
Trick to SK is flying around and knifing! Screw you dorks that like to shoot dudes that are flying through the air!
I liken 50 “omgfast” posts to an over-zealous admin!
This does not necessarily apply to Dave Thomas, but an overactive admin is as bad as the lack of an admin, IMO.
Invert your mouse. Surprisingly some people try to play without an inverted mouse. Even if you’ve gamed for a while without using inverted it is worth making the change — unless you’re pr0 and uber 1337 freak.
Find your sensitivity. I am still fine tuning my sensitivity. Do this through the console. Currently my zoom_sensitivity_ratio is 0.94 and my sensitivity is 1.79. I use a Logitech G5 @ 2000 dpi. You shouldn’t use my numbers, but you should find what works well for you.
Find a resolution that works for you.
Play with headphones.
Sit comfortably.
Technical details aside, never let up after you kill one person. Like Kuros said, people travel in packs and reloading or falling back too quickly after killing someone leaves you very vulnerable. It does not take many bullets to kill someone — an ill-timed reload is stupid.
If your team is under fire PLEASE LOOK AT THE MAP. YOU CAN SEE THE ENEMY AND THE DIRECTION THE ENEMY IS LOOKING. It’s an easy/free kill to swing around the corner and pop the baddie in the back of the head. Friendly fire is off on the server. Pay attention and listen and you will be rewarded with easy kills. Counter-Strike: Source is not difficult.
Recognize that 1-shot headshots from scrubs will happen. It’s not always a hacker, but crap happens a lot and managing your frustration will help you play better longer. I’m a bit emotional when I play and nub deaths do get under my skin.
Be patient. It’s a 12v12 server. Even if you are good and have a 3, 4 or 5 K:D ratio you will not sustain this for the course of a map (unless you’re a T on de_port, or other incredibly lopsided maps) and you will not be able to kill very many people at once (even P90 spray will only get you 3-4 lucky/bull*edited* kills before you die — remember, people run in ZERGS). Don’t try to do it all and don’t try to be a hero. That transitions well into my next point,
COMPLETE THE OBJECTIVES. Thankfully the admins here strongly encourage objectives. If you want to deathmatch then play fy_iceworld (or any of its ilk).
Ask me for pointers anytime!
Oh, yeah, it’s great. Now Seph can tell me I sound like a robot. I blame the poor codec not synthesizing the beautiful, deep subtleties of my voice.
Like someone said earlier, for me it’s not which weapon is used but rather how that weapon is used.
I can be (and have been, and will be) noob’d by every weapon.
Pretty much any time I die it’s noob.
Outie5000 said:
i really dont have any problem hearing people sneak up behind me and pull out their knife when im using my speakers. and for some reason i get feedback through my sound card so it doesnt matter whether i have headphones/speakers/headset i still get feedback.I have trouble hearing when that Bucket dude keeps going on and on and on and on …
There are some dual Opteron motherboards available through Newegg, but for $260+ I would have doubled the cost of the upgrade. The X1950XT (AGP variety) gives about the performance I’d get from the card if it was PCI-e; anything faster may be bottlenecked by the processor.
My next upgrade will be significant, and that’s why it will be expensive. For now the X1950XT works well enough at 1680×1050.
Re-roll? Are you crazy?
I’m already frustrated by the release of season 2 arena gear. It will be at least 3 months before I’m able to re-gear myself to an acceptable level. Right now I’m happily sitting around 11,000 hitpoints unbuffed with 1118 shadow damage and 200 resilience. With the patch next Tuesday I will have to re-grind honor (which, after hitting HWL in the old system and some 70,000+ kills, is a bit of a chore), and reform a competitive 5v5 and/or 3v3 team to get enough arena points for a full set of Arena gear.
I’m not happy unless I’m on the top and starting from scratch is way too long of a process. 1-70 isn’t as bad as the reputation, honor and arena grind.
