Valve to make the crap pistols better

[Operational]

It's been six weeks now since the community's purchase habits began driving the pricing of weapons in Counter-Strike: Source. As many of you have probably noticed, the price of the Desert Eagle has been increasing steadily and is now somewhat out of control. This is happening because the Desert Eagle is considerably more useful than the rest of the pistols - purchasing one of the others is not a smart buy. We'll address this by making the Five Seven, P228, and Dual Elites more effective. The prices of all pistols have been reset to their previous defaults in preparation for this change.

http://www.csnation.net/comments.php?id=8577

If it were not for the reset of pistol prices the Deagle would have been $23,000 this week. The decision to beef up the other pistols seems to have been *gasp* supported by the community.

I'm a little disappointed at the price reset for pistols - it would have been hilarious the week after when Deagle prices are at, like, $1.

In other DWP news the AK and M4A1 seem to have stabilized in price at around $4,700 and $6,500 respectively. Grenades have continued going up in prices as has armor. The MP5 is the only SMG to be increasing in price while the other SMG's are continuing their rather dramatic fall - e.g. the TMP will be practically 1/2 the price of a non-DWP TMP.

 

[Solaris]

The other pistols were terribly shit, good move.

 

[The Brick]

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. Pistol round could finally get interesting.

 

[-Psy-]

Maybe they'll make the glock use real bullets.

 

[bigburpco]

Daymn, that's schweeet.

 

[Dekstar]

Let's hope they fix the Dual Elites so that the bullets go straight instead of the left pistol shooting slightly to the left and the right shooting slightly to the right

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Who the hell cares about the power of the pistol? I use the Deagle cuz it looks so freakin awesome.

 

[Operational]

And the player twirls it on his finger while bringing it out .

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Now you get it!

 

[CyberPitz]

It looks like the whole point behind this system is working wonderfully....

 

[Ennui]

The deagle was $23,000?! ROFL.

Time to go play CS

 

[XIII]

awsome

 

[Operational]

The update is out
http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=news&id=867&cc=--

 

[bigburpco]

Meh, thought they would also increase gun accuracy somewhat.

 

[Dinkleberry]

The update is out
http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=news&id=867&cc=--

Ah cool, I wondered what the update was.

 

[_-_-SELAS-_-_]

"Lowered allowed number of dropped weapons in a level to prevent gun spamming"

not good imo, disappering guns = no good.

what are the max now??

 

[Operational]

Well the way I see it is that even with every player filled to the brim with equipment (primary, secondary, 2 flash bangs, 1 hg, 1 smoke) on a 32 player server we are talking about 192 objects. +16 for defuse kits +1 for the bomb (as if bomb disappear lol) and we get 209 objects - a rather unlikely scenario. So if it was lowered to ~200 you wouldn't notice but its going to help with the gun spamming.

 

[destrukt]

I haven't played it yet (And I haven't played CS:S in months anyway) with the new update.

Are the other guns now viable options or do they still suck ?

 

[Polaris]

Good update. I was tired by players who used only Desert Eagles as a pistol.

 

[TrippyG]

nice update, maybe I'll start playing more again :cheers:

 

[Bull Goose Loony]

whats it like? 25% sounds like a big increase

 

[Javert]

Dual Elites foreverrrrrr.

 

[Praetorius]

"Lowered allowed number of dropped weapons in a level to prevent gun spamming"

not good imo, disappering guns = no good.

what are the max now??

Surely the count can't be as low as that. Even 80 would cater for everyone on the server and stop the Glock spamming.

 

[Operational]

The new pistol strengths are very good, combined with their large clip size and they give the deagle a run for its money.