lol the top left. Takashi Murakami x Fabrique Nationale
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Counter Strike: Global Offensive The Arms Deal Update
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lol the top left. Takashi Murakami x Fabrique Nationale
jediyoshi
Member
No. It'll be like TF2.
I thought it just "dropped," i.e. showed up on your screen, upon death.
This isn't as bad then, but still kinda lame. They should be random rewards for doing stuff. Like if you survive a certain amount of rounds, or get a certain k/d ratio, or eliminate half a squad all by yourself. Doing such feats would get you a random box instead. Actually, maybe that's how it works; maybe getting high scores will increase your chances of getting stuff.
Or they should go all out and go for a xp system like in COD... But then again Valve isn't doing this for game play enhancements reasons, it's just more fodder for their trading market.
That would just lead to the same problem tf2 was in, achievement farming. The last thing CS:GO needs is servers full of people "performing" feats in order to get boxes of stuff to sell for money.
CountAntonius
Member
Tying drops to achievements make people stop playing the game right in order to farm achievements and it tends to be a terrible idea. And no thanks for to an xp system.
Rickenslacker
Banned
Adding drops to game feats would do less to enhance gameplay and more to set up abusive scenarios to obtain them.
The balance of counter-strike can be thrown off completely with very minor changes. If they even begin to do this, the game will die a rapid death.
They can get away with it in TF2 cause.. it's TF2.
It's only for the silenced version, to counter its advantages.
No other company is better at squeezing every cent from customers.
The Cowboy
Member
There's a reason tourneys ban skins in games like CS, these "harmless" brightly coloured skins do indeed give a gameplay advantage/disadvantage (I can choose to not use them, but I can't exactly choose to get the teammate standing beside me with the bright orange AWP to not use). These skins are OK for the deathmatch modes etc BUT should never be in the 2 classic modes (I don't consider people running around with bright orange weapons very classic competitive).
Like I said, keep this stuff in the non serious modes and out of the serious/semi serious ones - these things have no place in these 2 modes.
Rickenslacker
Banned
There's a big difference between say, using a skin to make all CTs/Ts a solid lime green to you specifically and using a skin on your weapon for all to see. Put as much concern over your teammates using such supposed disadvantages as them running around only using a knife.
Let the kneejerk reaction subside and you might find that it's not a big deal. Keep your own weapons plain if it's that much of a concern and use the opponent's vanity to your benefit.
I've played a match in Nuke with the new patch, competitive but with a team of "high silver" to 1 star... we are not BAD, but we haven't really played 1.6 that much.
The silencer weapons are so FUN. The sound is very rewarding. Also, I feel they are a very good weapon against not armoured teams, so it may be very good in CT-sided maps (like nuke was) and long distances.
We did not get any drops, I would love it to be Dota2-wise (once every 3-4 games)
The silencer weapons are so FUN. The sound is very rewarding. Also, I feel they are a very good weapon against not armoured teams, so it may be very good in CT-sided maps (like nuke was) and long distances.
We did not get any drops, I would love it to be Dota2-wise (once every 3-4 games)
Junior Mint
Member
Ehhh... these skins don't seem nearly as interesting as the item drops in Dota2 or TF2. It's cool and all but I don't see myself caring much about this.
Head of Vengarl
Banned
Snkfanatic
Banned
Hmm....may have to fire this up today then to try it.
blitzcloud
Banned
Probably outsiders like the update even more.
Brazil is the epitome, along with egypt, of bad DSL connections in games (peer to peer nightmare)
indigo-cyclops
Member
It seemed interesting when I first read about the update; as someone that doesn't play TF2 I don't really know the ins and outs of it all. Guess I should be worried about this if I love CS?
I don't play as much as I used to, years ago. Felt like this would be something interesting to do while getting wrecked by everyone. Now I don't know...
balladofwindfishes
Member
I'm actually going to take you to task on this
name me a specific time Valve did this for TF2. Specific. The update, the weapon, the update that nerfed it and then the next update the repeated the cycle.
No, TF2 is the best it's ever been. You have nothing to worry about, people just love to go to extremes with TF2 like every patch was the death of the game when that's the furthest from the truth.
blitzcloud
Banned
BIG difference between this and TF2: you can pick up weapons.
So that guy paid 10€ to get his custom weapon? I just killed him and got it for myself.
Much more dynamic and the need to get "exclusive skins" is weaker than, let's say, having tf2 items.
Unless i'm wrong (haven't seen a custom gun yet).
So that guy paid 10€ to get his custom weapon? I just killed him and got it for myself.
Much more dynamic and the need to get "exclusive skins" is weaker than, let's say, having tf2 items.
Unless i'm wrong (haven't seen a custom gun yet).
FriedConsole
Banned
Yeah I played off and on with breaks for about a year. After I would login after a year of not playing I would be like "What is this crap?". I still don't understand some of the stuff in there now with the items and crafting. All I know is that I would always get items for classes I would never want to play.
Wok
Member
There are two weapons with silencers in your inventory.
CountAntonius
Member
Only thing i'm not a fan off is the way they handled the silenced weapons. Why not just make it a right click like before? Why make me navigate another submenu to switch between the 2. If you want two separate weapons why not add them both to the radial menu. I just don't get it.
I've been looking at the Market and haven't seen any guns or cases, so I think cases just haven't dropped for people yet
blitzcloud
Banned
balladofwindfishes
Member
that's just returning to a game that is constantly updated, not any sort of testament to the game's quality or its updates.
I recently started playing Chivalry again, and hadn't since a week or so after it was released, and I had the same thoughts about it, that it was too different. But it doesn't mean the game is worse than it was the year before.
This update is a start to something huge for CS:GO.
FriedConsole
Banned
Between patches there is always a gun that everybody was using until the next update. I don't remember the names of all the guns. I haven't played in a while because of this reason. I can probably play for an hour right now and figure out the busted gun that probably was recently added to the store.
Rickenslacker
Banned
That is pretty dumb. While the silenced models retain the ability to remove the silencers and start with them attached, why bother with this loadout screen equipping which functional versions of the USP and M4 you want? They should keep it all within the buy menu.
same here. over 200 hrs but haven't played in months.
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
Thank god for the silencers, don't know why we need to lose ammo capacity for that though. Later on i'll grab a skin or two from the marketplace for a few cents, sa'll good.
FriedConsole
Banned
I want to play a game where there is a small set of balanced weapons. I want to know easily what my opponent has so I can counter. I have no desire to grind or pay to get better weapons. So the game I paid for is no longer the game I want to play. Would like an option to play the game I enjoyed as it was released. It is subjective but it isn't better for me.
CountAntonius
Member
Yeah. i just can't see a good reason for it. Hopefully it gets enough backlash that they fix it.
Wok
Member
I have read you have less ammo with the weapon which has a suppressor.
blitzcloud
Banned
they don't want you to have both options within a match is my educated guess.
out0v0rder
Member
fuck valve and their shitty console support argh
giancarlo123x
Banned
When's the date for the PS3 patch?
lol
Rickenslacker
Banned
You can swap out your loadout while dead, so while you can go between the two versions within a match, it's just a little clumsy and does seem to hint that they're going to be releasing more functionally different guns down the line. Hmm.
There are ammo and accuracy differences, but I thought they'd be variants you could choose from within the buy menu.
because of Valve adding cosmetic weapon skins and 2 silenced variations of existing weapons? c'mon.
FriedConsole
Banned
Talking about Team Fortress 2 there. These changes are nothing but it is just the beginning of CS:GO going F2P and then having unbalanced weapons to buy/craft.
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CountAntonius
Member
I feel the same way and feel that is just bad. I don't want to decide a loadout before going into a game. I want everything laid out just like before. seems odd to do this for just two guns. The entire implementation is there for them to do it for more but it's hard enough to get the perfect balance for whats there.
CountAntonius
Member
There are supposed to be but I think it is bugged at the moment cause I haven't heard of anyone getting anything yet and there is nothing on the marketplace but keys.