Bought the game yesterday. As a 1.6 player, I don't really feel it. I don't like the changes they've made to de_dust2 and de_inferno. They've added and made changes to a bunch of double doors on de_dust2, and the angels are all fucked up on de_inferno. But maybe they based their remakes on the CS:S versions? The overall look of de_dust2 is pretty shit too. Needs more... sand.
de_nuke is probably a better map today (with the new route to B), except the fact that you can blow a fucking hole in blue door. Haven't played de_train, yet. Seeing de_cpl_strike get a remake in Mirage was pretty cool, that map never got a decent remake in 1.6 after the CPL went away. I also played a version of de_cpl_mill that was pretty good. It had some changes to the routes, but probably for the better. It also looked like a 1.6 map with better graphics, just glorious boxes and no burnt out car wrecks or any stupid shit like that.
I also played some cs_office. I hadn't played it in like a decade, it's a better map than I remembered it to be. For random public games of course. Played some cs_assault as well. If felt kinda broken with one of the hostages not being inside the little room. Most rounds we would just go in and pick that guy up and walk away. Oh well, the cs-maps never where were good anyway.
I don't like the new buy system. I don't really mind the way you earn cash etc., I assume they made the changes to get less eco rounds in competitive games. Watching anti-ecos where never all that much fun either way (unless the ecoing team were Pentagram and they bought deagles...). But they've moved the weapons around so I constantly buy the wrong things. Maybe there's a way of getting the old mappings back.
I haven't really experimented that much with the weapons yet. I mostly buy the same old shit I always did. I looked at the pattern for the AK though, and it seems pretty much like it is in 1.6. The guns sound incredibly weak though. They feel just like something out of CoD, but with weaker damage.
The death animations are pretty unsatisfying too. I guess canned animations would look pretty weird in this day and age, but there's nothing satisfying about shooting someone in the head in this game.
All in all, the game can provide the same fun as any other Counter-Strike when it comes to public games. But I don't see myself playing this competitively. Too much clutter and inconsistency for my taste. I'm getting old...
Also, where the fuck is my 1337 Krew skin?
