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counter-strike 1.6
mailbag: counter-strike 1.6
Counter-Strike 1.6 has been out long enough for people to start to form more serious opinions on the improvements or lack there of to the latest installment in the Counter-Strike family. Let's see what they had to say.
from: Delta2
Its utterly pointless, we don't need two new guns, that suck, and a big black rectangle that stops bullets. 1.5 was CS perfection, they mucked it up. If it an't broke don't fix it. Don't even get me started on Steam.
"If it aint broke don't fix it" is a motto I have always gone by since I started playing Counter-Strike some three and a half years ago. Apparently I like to set myself up for disappointment.
from: headshotme
I condemn Valve for using the retail version of the gun names. Who the hell calls an aug a "bullpup"?
If you use buy scripts you'll never even notice the fake gun names. I personally recommend RzE's CS Helper: quick access to your IDF Defender or Nighthawk.
from: orphy
I've been beta testing 1.6 ever since the beta came out, so it's nothing entirely new to me. In fact, for the majority of the time it was out, I played it more often than 1.5. I think the shield is a great addition to the game, but it's a pain in the ass when the entire CT team is using the. I feel that they need to add something to balance it out. Or I could shut up and just run around the shield users and shoot them in the back. Good plan!
You were always one to brag, orphy. Playing since the beta came out, ha! You don't see me telling everyone about my incredibly low SteamID (15) now do you?
from: hans
I don't have 1.6 myself, but I did play it a lot at a friend's house. Riot shield was funny as hell at first, but got pretty damn annoying after a while. At least the nades do a little more damage. As for the new guns, I didn't care for them much, but I found a few people kicking serious ass with them. More guns is always a good thing. If it wasnt for Steam, 1.6 would be the best CS version yet.
The nades do a lot more damage, so much so that they crash the server.
from: DirtyDevil
it seems like im one of the few that actually like it the new glock can actually kill some one (i think it shoots bullets now not peas!!!!) i like the shield it can be used good in some situations and the famas own so dose the galil one thing i dislike are the changes to the ak.
The glock definitely needed an upgrade. In 1.5 the burst mode could be mastered by a skilled player with good reaction and aim, but now it stands more of a chance in single-shot mode, which is good for people who take 20 rounds to hit their opponent.

And as for my opinion on the shield; it's fun at first but gets annoying quickly when you constantly have to deal with hordes of shielders. Hopefully people are just getting use to it and trying it out and will opt for a rifle in the future. Probably not.
from: GonePostal
I would tell you if I had time to learn how to use the new and improved file dispersing method.
As expected we got a lot of Steam submissions. I think almost all of the slug-ness and crashes caused by the program are due to the overloaded state of the Steam network. The client itself just doesn't know what to do when it talks to Steam and gets no response. VALVe has a history of underestimating their user-base and its demands, and this is the result.
from: GhettoHistorian
hey what happened to the models? the hands are white, i mean not like peach white but paper white man i thought they were gonna fix that but apparently not
That's what happens when the only one around to model is rizzuh. Aha zing! Ok that was terrible.
from: Renegade[CSR]
To put it simply, it brings about many changes that require a slight amount of adaptation, the largest of these changes being the riot shield.

Due to its introduction, people seem to be complaining that it is "stupid", "gay" or something along those lines.

The riot shield, if anything, incorporates more strategy to the game in terms of having to revamp all existing map strategies in order to take the use of the shield into consideration.

In 3 months time, everyone will probably just be adapted to it and accept it as an integral part of the game, but this does not prevent people from asking this simple question: Did the game require more strategy or was it better off before? I'll leave that to the llama's.
Yeah three months seems to be a good figure, although I would go as far to say only one month. I think that a lot of people's opinions aren't going to change, however, until they can actually get into the game, but we'll leave that for another mailbag!

I somehow doubt that the riot shield will add any strategy to public pay though. Something always comes up that is suppose to "encourage teamplay" or something along those lines, but we still see a discombobulated mass of people running about going for frags. That's the way it is and we like it. It is, after all, a public server.
from: Gpig
Siege sucks.
"Stupid", "Gay."