I hope all the whiny babys are happy now.

[ShinRa]

The pistol is now utterly useless in dm. Happy? Now you cant die once every 500 deaths from a pistol. Good job.

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

I managed to get kills with it before I discovered that bug....




But yeah... I think they should have kept it..

It was actually pretty cool in a way....

 

[Washuu]

Like it was an advanced "feature"

 

[SkylineGT-R34]

If you think pistol is useless then you are a n00b, pistol is very useful still, I get alot of kills with it as it is.

 

[Thadius Dean]

when did they get rid of the bug?

EDIT: just saw front page. well at least they fixed the magnum, for those who have tried it, is it working better now?

 

[Doppelgofer]

just now....the weapon to gravgun switch is MUUUCH faster now aswell...plus they've added a plank from the stairs to the combine overlook thing where most people shoot the rocket from on overwatch

edit: is it me, or does picking up grenades with the gravgun seem A LOT easier and more responsive now

 

[Edge]

hhahaha no more 357 whores. whose the whiny baby? You started this thread to whine.

 

[josho]

whose the whiny baby? You started this thread to whine.

quoted for truth

 

[notmydesk]

Come on, now. We don't need to begin threads by calling each other names.

The threads will devolve into name-calling within a page or two by themselves.

And anyway, we can settle our differences like men, in Deathmatch! Shall we say toilets at dawn?

(Also, as a Grav Gun enthusiast, I'm kinda happy the .357 was toned down a tad -- but hopefully not too much)

 

[bliink]

I still get kills with the pistol.. hmm.. I guess I'm just better than all of you.

(I'm gonna get killed for that one )

 

[Lanthanide]

Don't have time to test out how strong the new magnum is.

The changes to overwatch, however, I had a look at:

They replaced all the broken sniper windows (from the SP) with regular flat textures now. In otherwords, you can't grav jump into the windows and snipe people, not that I thought this was a real viable strategy anyway.

They added an (ugly looking) beam from the steps to the overwatch lookout sail, so you don't have to jump any more.

They also made invisible walls on top of the sail so you can no longer jump on top of it and then over to the orange-roofed buildings. You can still jump up onto the sail, but only the very outside edge of it. I think this sucks big time.

I haven't checked but I suspect they also added invisible walls behind the combine barriers at the end of the street by the dumpster/truck to stop people getting behind it, Cliffe said they would do that.

 

[Dumb Dude]

If you think pistol is useless then you are a n00b, pistol is very useful still, I get alot of kills with it as it is.

The pistol is useless, unless you have hurt a person with a ton of shots from another weapon then switch to the pistol. I seriously can imagine anyone killing someone with the pistol only. Chances are that the person you are firing at will notice, turn around, then kill you with a better weapon. And yeah, its useful when you run out of ammo for every other weapon in your inventory, but thats about it.

 

[Tantalus]

The pistol is useless, unless you have hurt a person with a ton of shots from another weapon then switch to the pistol. I seriously can imagine anyone killing someone with the pistol only. Chances are that the person you are firing at will notice, turn around, then kill you with a better weapon. And yeah, its useful when you run out of ammo for every other weapon in your inventory, but thats about it.

Well, I still use the pistol... and the 357 has been toned down, 75 for torse, I believe.

 

[joule]

I'm actually choosing the shotty over the mag now.

 

[Crushenator 500]

They got rid of the pistol glitch...?

NOOooooooooooo! ;(

 

[bliink]

Its spelt "babies" not "babys"

 

[MigaS_tX]

Valve changed it? THANKS VALVE YOU ROX!!
The best thing that valve did! Thanks, really. Both the pistol and the magnum are great now!

 

[The Monkey]

Yes, that magnum's damage is tuned down.

 

[ComradeBadger]

Meh. Just makes my xbow even more potent

 

[Ennui]

takes a lot of the satisfaction out of killing the magnum people with a toilet though

 

[MigaS_tX]

takes a lot of the satisfaction out of killing the magnum people with a toilet though

Eheheheh nice one.

 

[Sui]

darn, i never really got to take advantage of the pistol glitch, and now it's gone... ;(

i'm downloading the update now, i'm very annoyed with the nerfing of the magnum, i think it's rather annoying. but i'll get used to it

 

[riles]

what pistol glitch is everyone talking about? i didnt know there was one

 

[Mechagodzilla]

I'm happy with the whole magnum thing, 'cause I'm a better shot with the xbow anyways.

 

[JackelPDW]

The pistol glitch made it alot of fun, The power of the shot was offset by you only having one chance to hit them, and you were vulnerable while you were charging the shot.

I'm sad to see it go, I actually thoguht it added a nice balanced to MP

 

[HadouKen24]

darn, i never really got to take advantage of the pistol glitch, and now it's gone...

You didn't miss much.

Personally, I despised it when it was used online. About the only time that I think you could have justified using it is if you get knocked upwards someplace on Overwatch and get stuck (happened to me once), and you're out of ammo for all the other weapons.

Although I actually only ever ran into two people who used it more than once. I opened a can of whoopass especially for them.

 

[pixartist]

Meh. Just makes my xbow even more potent

yeah xbow rocks da pants :E

 

[DetonatorNova]

And yeah, its useful when you run out of ammo for every other weapon in your inventory, but thats about it.

That's the point of the pistol anyways, so I think Valve did a good job balancing it. If they made the pistol any better, people would be complaining that the SMG was too sucky.

The pistol is just a sidearm, used only for last resorts. If you want to start with a powerful pistol, go play Halo.

 

[stefanhendriks]

i found it quite funny to snipe with it though zoom in , then zoom out and shoot immidiatly. Was fun when you had a kill, most of the time it was quite hard to kill somebody.. meh, maybe i just suck at playing HL2DM

 

[Zeus]

The 357 is perfectly balanced. No longer can someone shoot me in the leg from 200 feet away and score a cheap kill. Yeah us "whiney babys" are happy now that a BUG that was EXPLOITED to some player's advantages is fixed.