Posts by jackophant

  • What's going on with your life?

    Quote from Pampers

    Go back and read all the posts you have written about this relationship so far, it doesn't seem like a healthy one.

    It's easy to complain about the bad times when the good times go by unnoticed. Bad habits of people aren't always consistent, sometimes they flare up leading to these situations.

    I don't think it would be right for any of us to put words in your mouth. You should come to the conclusion by yourself, if for no other reason than you have no one to blame but yourself for that decision if it doesn't work out.

    But Pampers and Sprony do have a point about reading back over your posts.

  • What's going on with your life?

    "Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life" or however the adage goes!

    Just a little update on my situation: I managed to score a job as a Trainee Technical Support Engineer for the National Archives :D I felt the interview went really well and it just ended up being a bunch of nerds talking about tech!

  • Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

    Quote from dux

    I think it's more that SMG's you can just run and gun while holding mouse 1; you'll spray enough bullets to land a headshot 90% of the time without even aiming.

    I don't have a problem with that. Drawing on inspiration from real life (I realise it's a game), shorter, less accurate weapons (at range due to shorter barrels), generally with a higher rate of fire have a place in combat and I don't think CS should be any different in this respect. That's just one place they stand above rifles in their moving accuracy. They're also more expensive than pistols.

    I don't think the high reward money is necessary as most the time you use them you're in an anti-eco, so on top of winning you stand to earn a lot more money than you would have otherwise, giving pistol round winning team a greater economic lead.

    I don't suppose anyone can point me in the direction of how to mod the weapons like slothsquadron?

  • Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

    Quote from dux

    ...never stopped to think how good and pro level players would be able to abuse it.

    But it wasn't at the high levels, it was like they just introduced instagib into CSGO. It must have been so obviously broken, I don't understand how it got through, not to mention how badly implemented it was. Second time in a row they ballsed up an Armour Penetration value (first was same time as m4a1-s had rate of fire reduced) as it was meant to be as high as the awp but was "only" as high as the deagle. And let's not forget all the firing bugs it had letting people run around with a fully charged shot indefinitely with ridiculous accuracy.

  • Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

    Played some US CSGO last night with my main man @MaanMan and for some reason had the revolver equipped...

    That gun is so broken now, it's totally useless. You can't hold angles with it because the time it takes to charge, people have peeked, shot at you, and stepped back. It can only work in direct open combat and then you're at a disadvantage because your opponent has to point and click where you have to track them like you have an aimbot. The level of anticipation required when they play from cover means you need wallhacks to time anything. The best I could do was time the firing with me shoulder peeking and it meant i was wasting a lot of bullets. 8 in the gun and 8 in reserve doesn't leave you much room for error either.

    I'm angry with it so I'm going to publicly share my opinion (rabble rabble). I really feel they could borrow elements of a system like TF2s huntsman for it:

    • The longer you hold fire, the more accurate your shot will be
      • Standing still charges shot fastest - "base speed"
      • The faster you move, the slower full accuracy charges
        • Ideally "max speed" here would be as fast as you can run while incurring charging movement penalty (180 down from 220)
    • Give it a minimum cool down between shots
      • Allows some level of close range defensive spam
        • Even noscopes feel more reliable than the R8s secondary fire... I personally find it's inaccuracy to be too contrived
      • Removes need for right click
    • Similar (lower?) base damage than Deagle
    • Lower armour penetration than Deagle
    • Same price as Deagle

    Any thoughts?

    EDIT: and remove the damn camera shake! damn that's annoying

    For reference:

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    R8 (left) vs Deagle (right):

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  • New monitor time

    Quote from Pampers

    How do you guys stack Hz, ms, resolution, contrast etc against each other? for a gaming montior, what do you prioritize? I really really like my 144hz when I have a game where I can reach those framerates, but they are getting fewer and fewer as my rig is getting older. Can you get a monitor with noice Hz, low ms and something above 1080 if you pay a little more?

    Each generation has a standard, and because there are more brands than panel manufacturers, a lot of the underlying hardware is the same. It's no coincidence that Acer and ASUS brought out 165Hz 1440p panels within a month of each other.

    Personally I put refresh rate, resolution, and response time together. I then look to my preferred brands which is purely personal taste and not necessarily what's "best".

    We're now seeing 144Hz screens with 1440p resolutions with IPS technology so you have the better colour and viewing angles again, but they don't offer quite the same response time at 4ms compared to the 1ms of TN panels.

    Quote from El_Exodus

    Asus PG279Q if you don't care about the price tag. I want it so badly :(

    My dad has one, it's pretty sweet :D (except he only fucking tries to play guildwars on it :| )

    You also keep sharing 27" screens :P

  • New monitor time

    I've got the XL2420Z whcih is a slightly earlier model and it's doing me fantastically well. Yellow's are pretty washed out, but then it's for gaming not colour accurate work. I boost the colour with digital vibrance anyway.

    Regarding the ViewSonic: Tom's Hardware Article

    I've linked straight to the conclusion, but the whole article is there. TLDR: 4K is steadily replacing 1080p as the standard resolution, and quite honestly for that price why not?

    The panel is cheaper to make than finding a higher colour bit monitor at a lower "sensible" resolution. I'll happily keep poking around, but it does seem to be rated pretty highly.

  • [WIP][CSGO]de_tango

    I'm not disputing that you appreciated the feedback, merely commenting on the effectiveness of your approach and highlighting what it means to the people who helped.

    You may have decided the map is too flawed to continue, but we've hopefully provided the means to make it better so those flaws would be phased out with the work you put in. Nothing is perfect first off, and if all you do is scrap the layout when problems arise, you will never progress.

    None of the operation maps got their layout perfect first off, but perhaps being more experienced mappers were initially closer to something working. The success comes from being able to improve something not get it right first time.

    Of course you aren't committed to anything, this is just advice to consider.

  • CSGO - De_Climate WIP

    I was genuinely impressed with this map and really enjoyed playing it.

    My main cause for concern is the upper B area. I understand what you were trying to do from what you explained, but personally I think the door really doesn't work. At least in it's current state:

    • It's very loud
    • The activation trigger is too large
    • The vertical door motion reveals you feet/legs/body/head
      • You can be shot at before having any real angle to work with
    • The size of the balcony forces you to step outside the door to be able to get an angle on anything other than T main entrance into B
      • But as everyone knows you are there, you're walking into a shooting gallery

    I'd also maybe move the entrance to the upper level into the connecting room from CT spawn into B, rather than it's own room - I think this would allow a passive CT more options to work with.

    Aside from the upper B area, I would maybe make the aggressive T drop area a little easier for CTs to defend. Right now, a T can step to the very edge of the ledge, to shoot defensive CTs in the side of the head on mid and then strafe back to freedom almost unpunished. Perhaps don't have the floor extend to the edge of the wall? Like so (green upper area, red lower area):

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    Some people mentioned about flanking last night but I think sometimes flanking is more an issue of lack of team cohesion and not properly understanding the map's meta (because people are new to it). I think your map falls into both those categories rather than it having too many routes and it's impossible to control a flank.

    The layout for the bombsites is also a little samey. Not massively, but both have a T main route, a CT entrance route an upper level and a route off mid. Just something to bear in mind, but as I'm mentioning it, maybe just remove the controversial upper B area in favour of something ground floor like D2 B plateau ;)

    Otherwise I would suggest maybe doing a little more detailing and see about getting lots more playtesting done! I wouldn't make too many minor changes about things you personally think might need changing, especially if they weren't picked up on in the PT. Getting it a little more detailed would allow you an r/GlobalOffensive reddit test and you can generate some heat maps and lots of good stats from it. As we discussed last night on steam, I've seen a lot of good maps iterate away from what made them good in the first place!

    Good luck!