umop
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Well I just got back from the only local cafe playing CS:S.
It was surprisingly empty there. There were like 20-30 people there, but only about 3-4 others were playing CS:S. The comp specs were advertised as Athlon XP 3000+, 1024 MB RAM, 9800XT, but the game seemed to run a little laggy.
I was running it on 1024x768 with 4xAA and 6xAF, and that was too stressful (30 fps average I'd guess) so I turned it down to plain old 10x7 without AA or any AF, it helped but was still a bit laggy feeling (60 fps with dips down to around 40). The mouses there were some standard 3 button opticals, but the mouse lag was insane and the sensitivity was rediculiously low. I don't know if the cafe's mouses were set low or if CS:S is by default slow and unresponsive, but that was upsetting. After that I finally got into the game. I couldn't join any online games simply because they were all 100+ ping (bandwidth @ cafe was consumed by ppl playing DOTA), so I started a LAN game with my friend so we could experiment with the game we'd driven 45 minutes for (and got lost).
So we start playing, and I am trying to not notice the crappy mouse lag and shitty fps on these beast computers. I try shooting, and no matter what gun I use, the recoil seems (with a ping of 9 and 40-60 fps, seemed to be a cap at 60 even with fps_max at 300, vsync off so its not the monitor Hz) very unreliable and very random and crappy. The AK rate of fire is reduced greatly and doesn't fire right when you click the mouse, and it feels like crap. Actually now that I think of it, no gun fired when you clicked, it took a second. It doesnt shoot where you aim it seems, you just have to aim in someone's general direction and spray. The pings were fine, the fps was tolerable, but the general laggy feeling was rediculous. When you crouch you get like stuck for a second and can't really move. AWP is very nice, very accurate and fun. Para has been powered up, pump shotty is powered up. Pistols are useless at mid-long range as usual. The crappy knife model is still there. Physics are INSANELY cool. No shield obviously. The flashbang is really neat. Grenades are kinda cool, but when you get touched by one you get slowed down, very annoying. Smoke is kinda neat. Couldn't get rid of the gay vgui menus. Graphically it was very nice.
Now please don't take this criticism too seriously because this could have very well been just a bad cafe.
My overall opinion was more or less undecided. I'm not sure if the cafe sucked or not, because it did not feel ANYTHING like 1.6 or any other version of CS. It was very unresponsive and delayed (everything generally). I really hope that the cafe just sucked and the bandwidth was shitty and the computers weren't as advertised. I highly doubt the comps were shit, but they did have ass loads of games installed which is a factor. Bandwidth was probly a big factor, because there seemed to be little of it. (1.5 MB/sec up and down internet, probly 100 Mbps LAN shared with all the ppl). It was fun, but there was absolutely NO skill involved. Just spray and spam nades. Aiming accurately did not grand any kills, and when spraying it was very hard to determine where shots were landing, so it was impossible to correct over-compensating for recoil. The crosshairs were VERY laggy at expanding/contracting (remember this was like 6-12 ping) making it impossible to use them as an accuracy guide.
Again, this might just be the crappy cafe. It looked very nice but there's no way this is how it was meant to feel.
It was surprisingly empty there. There were like 20-30 people there, but only about 3-4 others were playing CS:S. The comp specs were advertised as Athlon XP 3000+, 1024 MB RAM, 9800XT, but the game seemed to run a little laggy.
I was running it on 1024x768 with 4xAA and 6xAF, and that was too stressful (30 fps average I'd guess) so I turned it down to plain old 10x7 without AA or any AF, it helped but was still a bit laggy feeling (60 fps with dips down to around 40). The mouses there were some standard 3 button opticals, but the mouse lag was insane and the sensitivity was rediculiously low. I don't know if the cafe's mouses were set low or if CS:S is by default slow and unresponsive, but that was upsetting. After that I finally got into the game. I couldn't join any online games simply because they were all 100+ ping (bandwidth @ cafe was consumed by ppl playing DOTA), so I started a LAN game with my friend so we could experiment with the game we'd driven 45 minutes for (and got lost).
So we start playing, and I am trying to not notice the crappy mouse lag and shitty fps on these beast computers. I try shooting, and no matter what gun I use, the recoil seems (with a ping of 9 and 40-60 fps, seemed to be a cap at 60 even with fps_max at 300, vsync off so its not the monitor Hz) very unreliable and very random and crappy. The AK rate of fire is reduced greatly and doesn't fire right when you click the mouse, and it feels like crap. Actually now that I think of it, no gun fired when you clicked, it took a second. It doesnt shoot where you aim it seems, you just have to aim in someone's general direction and spray. The pings were fine, the fps was tolerable, but the general laggy feeling was rediculous. When you crouch you get like stuck for a second and can't really move. AWP is very nice, very accurate and fun. Para has been powered up, pump shotty is powered up. Pistols are useless at mid-long range as usual. The crappy knife model is still there. Physics are INSANELY cool. No shield obviously. The flashbang is really neat. Grenades are kinda cool, but when you get touched by one you get slowed down, very annoying. Smoke is kinda neat. Couldn't get rid of the gay vgui menus. Graphically it was very nice.
Now please don't take this criticism too seriously because this could have very well been just a bad cafe.
My overall opinion was more or less undecided. I'm not sure if the cafe sucked or not, because it did not feel ANYTHING like 1.6 or any other version of CS. It was very unresponsive and delayed (everything generally). I really hope that the cafe just sucked and the bandwidth was shitty and the computers weren't as advertised. I highly doubt the comps were shit, but they did have ass loads of games installed which is a factor. Bandwidth was probly a big factor, because there seemed to be little of it. (1.5 MB/sec up and down internet, probly 100 Mbps LAN shared with all the ppl). It was fun, but there was absolutely NO skill involved. Just spray and spam nades. Aiming accurately did not grand any kills, and when spraying it was very hard to determine where shots were landing, so it was impossible to correct over-compensating for recoil. The crosshairs were VERY laggy at expanding/contracting (remember this was like 6-12 ping) making it impossible to use them as an accuracy guide.
Again, this might just be the crappy cafe. It looked very nice but there's no way this is how it was meant to feel.
