The controversial CS:S update finally hit yesterday and I wanted to gauge your reaction. I've only played it for half an hour or so, and like the stereotypical cs player, I HATE CHANGE. Here [http://store.steampowered.com/news/3976/]'s a list of all the changes.
While I understand that many people like achievements, I find them really annoying. Pointless stats for the gamer equivalent of jocks that we can then all use to compare our e-peens! Great! I also really dislike the new scoreboard. On the old one, you could see everything you wanted to see, and it was crystal clear what was going on. The new one has changed the arrangement of the teams (so that means learning a new convention for quick checking) and added moronic avatar power so that people can annoy me with their pretentious or stupid profile pictures in yet another place. A place where they have no value, and hinder the clarity and ease-of-use of something that is best kept simple. Good job. MVP, 'interesting fact', domination, and death-cam bullshit I can take or leave, it seems a bit juvenile, but at least it doesn't really interfere with the game. Lifetime stats good, but I imagine there are more than a few players dreading being able to find out that kind of information eventually. Changing the patterns of the spray of the guns to a much more randomised version (though I'm sure with hundreds more hours we'll learn some patterns) is incredibly annoying and frustrating, though I guess what it takes away in the 'how to spray' skill set, it adds in emphasising first shot accuracy.
What you won't find in the release notes are references to a weird skating effects where character movement seem a bit like they're running on oil, weird mouse tracking that at best has just screwed up sensitivity settings, or several problems such as disappearing walls, invisible enemies, and constant wrong tracking as spectator.
Really though, I just have one question that Valve probably won't answer; if 6 years after it came out, your game is still the #1 played FPS on the internet, WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU START MAKING MASSIVE GAMEPLAY CHANGES THAT AREN'T OPTIONAL?
Anyway, I'm pretty sure you've worked out my opinion, what's yours and why?
While I understand that many people like achievements, I find them really annoying. Pointless stats for the gamer equivalent of jocks that we can then all use to compare our e-peens! Great! I also really dislike the new scoreboard. On the old one, you could see everything you wanted to see, and it was crystal clear what was going on. The new one has changed the arrangement of the teams (so that means learning a new convention for quick checking) and added moronic avatar power so that people can annoy me with their pretentious or stupid profile pictures in yet another place. A place where they have no value, and hinder the clarity and ease-of-use of something that is best kept simple. Good job. MVP, 'interesting fact', domination, and death-cam bullshit I can take or leave, it seems a bit juvenile, but at least it doesn't really interfere with the game. Lifetime stats good, but I imagine there are more than a few players dreading being able to find out that kind of information eventually. Changing the patterns of the spray of the guns to a much more randomised version (though I'm sure with hundreds more hours we'll learn some patterns) is incredibly annoying and frustrating, though I guess what it takes away in the 'how to spray' skill set, it adds in emphasising first shot accuracy.
What you won't find in the release notes are references to a weird skating effects where character movement seem a bit like they're running on oil, weird mouse tracking that at best has just screwed up sensitivity settings, or several problems such as disappearing walls, invisible enemies, and constant wrong tracking as spectator.
Really though, I just have one question that Valve probably won't answer; if 6 years after it came out, your game is still the #1 played FPS on the internet, WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU START MAKING MASSIVE GAMEPLAY CHANGES THAT AREN'T OPTIONAL?
Anyway, I'm pretty sure you've worked out my opinion, what's yours and why?
