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Necc0 posted:So is the new meta pretty much 'gently caress thinking just buy the most expensive gun you can afford every round it doesn't matter' now? Maybe we're all being babies for complaining about Valve trying to do away with the save round?
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mistermojo posted:He calls himself an esports historian and I believe that's all you need to know not to listen to a word he says ...What would an esports historian even do?
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Apr 7, 2015 16:28
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metallicaeg posted:Yes and yes It's not really that simple; I've seen a few examples lately that I think add to the meta-thought process and spice up the "standard flow" of a typical CS game: 1. nV loses pistol round on CT cache, full buys pistols in round 2. Loses again but kills all but 1 player on the opposing team; decides to full buy pistols again on round 3. Loses again and full ecos round 4. Interesting deviation from the standard "lose 1, full buy one, full save one" meta 2. NiP wins pistol on T-side inferno, buys 5 SMGs round 2. Clean sweep with the SMGs on round 2, they don't lose a single player. Their opponent (fnatic) notices this and instead of saving round 3 to afford a full buy on round 4, opts to instead full buy FAMAS on round 3 knowing NiP would probably keep most/all of the SMGs they saved from the previous round. It worked and fnatic won the 3rd round. This is pretty dynamic stuff that we just were not seeing a year ago. We would see "lose pistol, save two rounds, buy round 4" pretty much every game from every team. That's some boring poo poo.
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Top Hats Monthly posted:...What would an esports historian even do? Say racist poo poo about polish people, get fired from his job because of it then try to pass the blame off on someone else saying "You baited me into saying racist poo poo about the polish!!!" 
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Apr 7, 2015 16:37
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Top Hats Monthly posted:...What would an esports historian even do? Cry themselves to sleep at night. metatalk: We've got an influx of new people, some who weren't yet born when the World Trade Center fell. poo poo's gonna be whacked for a while. In the big scheme of things, it's honestly not that bad. The overall feel of CS isn't going to die a horrible death, we're just not playing 1.6 in 2003 anymore.
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Apr 7, 2015 16:44
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They should bring bunnyhopping back, thats when CS was at its best
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Apr 7, 2015 17:00
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Kazinsal posted:Cry themselves to sleep at night. I was playing and some dudes were talking about the invasion of Iraq, and suddenly some kid steps up and goes "I was only three when that happened" and that for some reason threw me for a loop 
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Apr 7, 2015 17:01
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Lets all go back to playing TFC, Action Half Life and Natural Selection, back when games were good
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Apr 7, 2015 17:04
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Don't forget Firearms.
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Apr 7, 2015 17:09
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Fortress Forever's on Steam now
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Apr 7, 2015 17:15
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Science and Industry, The Specialists, that weird WW1 mod, even HLDM was fun
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Apr 7, 2015 17:16
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mistermojo posted:Science and Industry Holy poo poo how did I forget about this one. I remember playing this so much as a kid, upgrading that acid grenade or whatever it was to kill everyone and get powers to jump super high. Was this one of the first sort of games where they mixed an FPS with a tech tree? Ahdinko fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Apr 7, 2015 |
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Apr 7, 2015 17:18
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mcvey posted:Fortress Forever's on Steam now can we migrate to this please, thanks
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Apr 7, 2015 17:21
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I wouldn't mind Valve loving with the meta so much if I actually knew what their objective was. If they want to entirely eliminate the eco round that's fine but it's going to take way more modifications than just buffing the SMGs & pistols. You not only have to re-think the economy entirely but all of the most popular maps were made to be balanced around the big-3.
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Apr 7, 2015 17:42
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I like the new meta, as long as I get one kill pistol round I can at least get an mp9 or mac-10 + armor next round and own.
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I don't understand why Valve doesn't just make maps like Season or Mill or whatever official instead of insisting on pushing their own terrible maps and trying to rehabilitate Train and Nuke
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Apr 7, 2015 18:14
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Bohemian Nights posted:
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Apr 7, 2015 18:33
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I'm really retarded I suppose because I will use no armor p2k for 3 rounds, although I might be rewarded with a kill or two, I just don't think armor is effective against a glock rush. I also firmly believe I'm not good enough to justify throwing 1k into an eco if I can't sustain a firefight against a T full buy. Gives me a big economy boost though, which I guess is the idea. I suck a lot at the USP vs moving heads so I just avoid it. This is why I'm DMG for life.
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Apr 7, 2015 18:35
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Waltchelg posted:If you think that any game trying to be competitive on a large scale doesn't have to deal with devs catering to the lowest denominator you're out of your mind. I watched the second half of that video and while he's being sensationalist his points aren't wrong. Have u considered adapting
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Apr 7, 2015 18:37
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mcvey posted:Fortress Forever's on Steam now Little reason to play it over tf2 besides nostalgia tbh Thorin actually knows Things but is also a smug rear end in a top hat
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Apr 7, 2015 18:54
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metallicaeg posted:I don't understand all of the SMG hate here. Why should the entire group of guns be useless? From two pages ago but this is a good post.
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Apr 7, 2015 19:11
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Jeza posted:I think it's needless and stupid speculation that Valve are catering to lowest common denominator sources. What proof does anybody have of that? To me? maybe every player jump scouting or unicylcling across the map while spamming m1 with whatever gun. There's a pretty strong feeling that csgo has a lower skill floor and more random elements than before imo I'm also bitter as gently caress so
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Apr 7, 2015 19:16
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I'm still having fun with this game but I think that just might mean I'm not good enough.
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Apr 7, 2015 19:23
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Trying to trade for a ST AWP on csgolounge and the amount of people who think normal stickers make their weapon a special snowflake worth double marketplace value makes me sad. Am I crazy in thinking once a sticker is used on a weapon any value it had is gone?
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Apr 7, 2015 19:30
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Alighieri posted:Trying to trade for a ST AWP on csgolounge and the amount of people who think normal stickers make their weapon a special snowflake worth double marketplace value makes me sad. Am I crazy in thinking once a sticker is used on a weapon any value it had is gone? They're pixels that never had any value to begin with.
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Apr 7, 2015 19:33
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santanotreal posted:They're pixels that never had any value to begin with. my paypal account begs to differ
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Apr 7, 2015 19:38
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Didn't even notice until I was in the middle of the next game, but apparently I have ranked up to mg2. This is going a lot faster than I thought it would.  The steam servers appear to be making GBS threads themselves atm, though.
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Apr 7, 2015 19:45
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quote:Wait for a return offer... thanks obama..
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Powerful Wizard IRL posted:To me? maybe every player jump scouting or unicylcling across the map while spamming m1 with whatever gun. There's a pretty strong feeling that csgo has a lower skill floor and more random elements than before imo I don't understand why jump scouting is still in the game.. Or jumping with any gun.
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Apr 7, 2015 20:02
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Ephedra posted:I don't understand why jump scouting is still in the game.. Or jumping with any gun. Because it's fun, and extremely situational? It's not really something you see constantly that it's a real problem. If I see one or two dumb jump scouts in a game after 100 AK kills it doesn't bother me that much.
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Akumos posted:Because it's fun, and extremely situational? It's not really something you see constantly that it's a real problem. If I see one or two dumb jump scouts in a game after 100 AK kills it doesn't bother me that much. Counterpoint: IRL if I jump with a scout looking through the scope vs. jumping with an AWP/Auto looking through the scope, why would the accuracy be different for one vs. the other?
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Apr 7, 2015 20:14
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Top Hats Monthly posted:How often does stuff drop? I got a cyanosplatter skin after like 16 hours and that's it. I really don't care, more of a curiosity thing. Afaik, you get a certain amount a week (like 4-5, mostly crates usually), and it resets on a random day/time for everyone. I think its also a random timer from the last time you get one? I dunno for certain though, all I know is that I've gotten drops a few matches in a row before, but also it can also go days between them. Just play the game really.
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FetalDave posted:Counterpoint: IRL if I jump with a scout looking through the scope vs. jumping with an AWP/Auto looking through the scope, why would the accuracy be different for one vs. the other? Jump scouting is dumb but other than the fact that the GSG is an agency which actually exists I can't think of anything realistic about CS
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If they can unfuck the jumping hitboxes I'm okay with jumping scout but otherwise countering it is almost entirely based on luck unless your ping is 0
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Antares posted:Jump scouting is dumb but other than the fact that the GSG is an agency which actually exists I can't think of anything realistic about CS
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Apr 7, 2015 20:28
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I don't wanna find out how long the irl flash lasts
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Apr 7, 2015 20:29
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Antares posted:Jump scouting is dumb but other than the fact that the GSG is an agency which actually exists I can't think of anything realistic about CS It hurts to be shot in the face You can usually not fly (But sometimes you can fly) Some rifles have optics
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Apr 7, 2015 20:32
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TSM beats fnatic, loses to Titan. Comedy.
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