Aryanar
04-30-2005, 06:51 AM
I've had quite a few things on my mind after reading the forums and playing CS virtually constantly after buying HL2 two months ago. If anyone reads Ctrl-Alt-Delete (webcomic) you'll recognize the "Counterstrike Guy" and you can visualize many conversations between me and my girlfriend, and I'm pretty sure you'll understand that I'm an addict (thank god she just nods and smiles and says 'that's wonderful sweetie' and continues playing X-Box rather than trying to kill me).
1. This is the best damned server on all of Counterstrike. This has a few subpoints to it:
a)The one-shot kill sniper and the autosnipe both show a complete lack of skill and I'm glad they're banned here. I went to several other servers the other night since no one was online and virtually everyone was using it. Not fun, when I love the p90. Scouts are the true sniper's weapon.
b) Friendly fire. Never get rid of this - it has taught me to play so much better, especially after my recent TKing banning two weeks back. I actually went a whole week without killing a teammate after that episode. It creates realism and promotes thinking before firing (I just wish it promoted thinking before grenade throwing).
c) The atmosphere. Most everyone is friendly and you meet a lot of regulars... Saur, even though I hate playing against you I still like you, and Vash even though you hate playing against me I still like you too. The admins also do a damn fine job of keeping it friendly so everyone has a good time.
d) I never get accused of hacking. Seriously, this happened to me the other night. I had a score of 19-3 (I was in an autoshotgun mood) and was insulted by about 8 people and called a cheat. I don't think I'm allowed to post what the funniest comment was but it was... interesting. Here I'm good, but not THAT good.
e) The forums! 'Nuff said.
2. Compound. Some people like it, some people don't. Honestly, I don't want this map to be gone like the rumours I've been hearing. Not only is it my best map (no I don't snipe), but I think it's a lot of fun. Maybe we can reach an agreement where we don't allow any weapons that zoom onto the map. Personally, when I play this map I use the p90. FF2 has a pretty good idea, but maybe both servers should do away with zoom weapons and it would go a lot better.
3. Speaking of the p90... I've been reading strats for weapons and you'd swear this was a piece of crap. Go and look at my stats, and you'll find I'm a p90 whore. This is a really good weapon people, should I start writing my own strat for this gun? Just ask Vash, who's been on the wrong end of it with a bullet in the head more often than not. It's fun, and it prevents you from camping because it sucks at long range - rush damn it, rush!
4. Havana. Needs to go - it's too dark, and most of the time the Ts seem to own royally. That is, when the entire server doesn't abandon at night the moment it appears. I swear 90% of us playing FF1 use it as a point to stop playing "Well... Havana's up next, time to call it a night". It sucks because I play more often at night. I appreciate that it's not on FF2 though.
5. The stats pages. I've read posts that want it gone. Hell no, please don't. I love seeing how well I'm doing and it's the best stats page I've seen - listing individual kills with weapons and details about each map. Love it. I'm not a stats whore either thanks, I rush insanely with the p90 most of the time. And though I do tend to a certain side for one or two maps (Dust I almost always pick CT), if the other side would show more coordination and balls I'd love to be on the other side of it. You wouldn't believe how many times I've rushed with an SMG only to die because I was the only one who DID rush. Then I have to wait for another 3 minutes because everyone else camps.
Anyway that's all I have to say right now... great work on this amazing server.
Jeff (a.k.a. Aryanar)
1. This is the best damned server on all of Counterstrike. This has a few subpoints to it:
a)The one-shot kill sniper and the autosnipe both show a complete lack of skill and I'm glad they're banned here. I went to several other servers the other night since no one was online and virtually everyone was using it. Not fun, when I love the p90. Scouts are the true sniper's weapon.
b) Friendly fire. Never get rid of this - it has taught me to play so much better, especially after my recent TKing banning two weeks back. I actually went a whole week without killing a teammate after that episode. It creates realism and promotes thinking before firing (I just wish it promoted thinking before grenade throwing).
c) The atmosphere. Most everyone is friendly and you meet a lot of regulars... Saur, even though I hate playing against you I still like you, and Vash even though you hate playing against me I still like you too. The admins also do a damn fine job of keeping it friendly so everyone has a good time.
d) I never get accused of hacking. Seriously, this happened to me the other night. I had a score of 19-3 (I was in an autoshotgun mood) and was insulted by about 8 people and called a cheat. I don't think I'm allowed to post what the funniest comment was but it was... interesting. Here I'm good, but not THAT good.
e) The forums! 'Nuff said.
2. Compound. Some people like it, some people don't. Honestly, I don't want this map to be gone like the rumours I've been hearing. Not only is it my best map (no I don't snipe), but I think it's a lot of fun. Maybe we can reach an agreement where we don't allow any weapons that zoom onto the map. Personally, when I play this map I use the p90. FF2 has a pretty good idea, but maybe both servers should do away with zoom weapons and it would go a lot better.
3. Speaking of the p90... I've been reading strats for weapons and you'd swear this was a piece of crap. Go and look at my stats, and you'll find I'm a p90 whore. This is a really good weapon people, should I start writing my own strat for this gun? Just ask Vash, who's been on the wrong end of it with a bullet in the head more often than not. It's fun, and it prevents you from camping because it sucks at long range - rush damn it, rush!
4. Havana. Needs to go - it's too dark, and most of the time the Ts seem to own royally. That is, when the entire server doesn't abandon at night the moment it appears. I swear 90% of us playing FF1 use it as a point to stop playing "Well... Havana's up next, time to call it a night". It sucks because I play more often at night. I appreciate that it's not on FF2 though.
5. The stats pages. I've read posts that want it gone. Hell no, please don't. I love seeing how well I'm doing and it's the best stats page I've seen - listing individual kills with weapons and details about each map. Love it. I'm not a stats whore either thanks, I rush insanely with the p90 most of the time. And though I do tend to a certain side for one or two maps (Dust I almost always pick CT), if the other side would show more coordination and balls I'd love to be on the other side of it. You wouldn't believe how many times I've rushed with an SMG only to die because I was the only one who DID rush. Then I have to wait for another 3 minutes because everyone else camps.
Anyway that's all I have to say right now... great work on this amazing server.
Jeff (a.k.a. Aryanar)