Be Excellent To Each Other

Oh dear and I'm shit again, finishing about mid-table on the casual servers.

Need to dust off my skills again, but that's not exactly a chore since it's such a good fucking game.

I see Valve have been tweaking and honing since this time last year too, so the game and its interface are even slicker than ever.

I'm gonna blast this for a bit if anyone wants to join me. Stuck in the spare room because there are loads of people downstairs.

I'm stuck at work right now, but might be able to join you if I can go home soon.

My internets have died! Of all the times! Officially bored now.

I'm installing now on my Mac. Going to plug in my 360 controller for funtimes!

Installed and it seems to work. Let me know if you get your internet back.

Still down! Virgin know nothing about it, of course.

Back! Making a cuppa then I'm on!

Too late now. Let's reconvene tomorrow.

Also other people should play.

Excellent effort!

Yeah, other people, we're playing tomorrow night! You in? PC and Mac spods only apparently.

I don't play games on my Internet browser.

(C) Silent Elk 2008.

I really wish you would stop banging on about the fact you don't own a decent enough PC.

Uh, got carried away watching four episodes of Breaking Bad on the trot. Sorry!

I own the cutting edge windows 8 tablet.

It's depressing that its still the most cutting edge windows 8 tablet, 3 months later.

Didn't realise but they've got 5v5 "competitive" matchmaking which assigns players a skill level after 10 matches - a bit like StarCraft 2. It's great! Quite tense and serious, but a nice change of pace to regular 10v10 "casual" matchmaking.

Played 2, won 2 so far!

I'm still sticking to the casual matches until I've skilled back up a bit. (I kind of got my eye back in last year when I had a bit of a rush on it, but that's all gone out the window again. I remember the maps and the weapons and the tactics and the choke points and all that stuff, but it's just the 'edge' that seems to go when you don't play the game regularly.)

Loving the game though, despite it being about a million years old and very 'basic' by modern standards, it's still got what it takes.

Tonight?

Possibly! It may be another Breaking Bad evening. I'm probably going to be playing today though, seeing as the Mrs is at work.

I'm still quite good!

I have this. Let's play it sometime.

If only we had a calendar that we could use to organise ourselves.

I've been practicing!





I love the hell out of this.

And just to show that there are still plenty of people better than me:

Still, 16-0!

I may have possibly spent actual money on cosmetic stuff for my gun, though

Here it is, look:



My dude's trigger discipline sucks.

Since discovering 'Defuse' mode on BF4 (which is basically a straight rip-off of the bomb mode in CS:GO) I've really found it hard to even consider CSGO again, since Defuse in BF4 is basically CSGO with the Frostbite engine and BF graphics. (It's a total rip-off, right down to only getting one 'life' and there being no respawns.)

I know CS has never been about the graphics, but the Source engine is properly showing its age now.

Steam sale started today and CS pack including Condition Zero and Global Offensive is £3.

Have yoinked.

A few of us have GO now. We should try to organise something. Although it's impossible without a calendar.

Well, for that price, I bought it.

Whether I'll actually play it ever is a completely different matter.

I have also now bought this. I think I might be able to play it some time shortly following the New Year.

Also I'll be home from Sunday for a week where I has no internets, so I expect the best deals will be then. Bah.

I has this now. For free! Bought with the proceeds of selling my trading cards.

There was a big fucking update the other day, not sure what it's changed though as I haven't fired the game up yet.

I may take a look.

I'm usually very ruthless about uninstalling games I haven't played for a while due to limited space on my SSD, but I can't quite bring myself to uninstall CSGO.

Happy to play if I can tear myself away from DayZ.

How will we know when we are all free to play?

Fuck off

It's impossible isn't it? If only there was a way...

Fuck off

I thought you were a shithot coder. Maybe I was wrong?

Shouldn't you be eating Christmas dinner?

*burp*

I appear to have internet here at Castle Parents, so I'm free to dip in from time to time this Christmas...

CS is making me it's bitch again.

I was better at smack talk than I was at the game today, but I made some shiny new friends. Some guy on the other team said that I was "getting carried but still mouthing off", and as luck would have it I killed him four times in a row, making sure he knew it each time. The forth time won us the match, and he typed something like "FGRT&U^&UY%$HN%&UY$%YU%&%Y%$UY".

Lulz!

I'm playing this! On a PC! With a mouse!

I like it! I even ranked up to a sniper rifle that time! That means I'm good right!

That was all kinds of brilliant fun actually. Kinda like the Gun Game from one of the CoD games (BLOPS) where you level up your weapon and it's the first to reach the top rank. And my PC was holding up easy peasy plus it was fast, frantic, looked nice enough and I've no idea if I had anti-aliasing on. I don't know what that is really. Actually I didn't have to muck around with any of the settings presumably it just stuck it to optimum screen beautification. I thought CS:GO from the 360 demo was all square and drab looking but this was pretty enough for an arena based shooter pew pew. Yeah, me likey.

CS is brilliant.

I was quite getting into it earlier. Apparently it supports the 360 pad so I might spend some quality time with this.

You might find yourself getting humped if you use the pad as you won't be able to move your sights as quickly as everyone else.

There's something that doesn't feel right with FPSering with a mouse and keyboard:

1) Clicking, clicking, clicking to fire doesn't feel satisfying to me. Certainly not as natural or tactile as shooting with a trigger.

2) Moving with keys has given me an unnatural habit of pressing W near constantly to move around. I can't reverse to save my life.

3) Actually, yeah, spinning around was a thing but I was getting so hammered by the opposition I don't imagine a pad could make it any worse. If I play the more thoughtful bomb planting games I doubt the need to spin around rapidly will be such a problem.

I'll play around with it and see what I like best.

I can't imagine using a pad to play a twitch shooter. Good luck!

It may take a while to reprogram your brain to K+M, and that's if you even want to as it'll probably de-program you on pad.

A mate of mine switched to primarily console gaming in the 360 era and struggled terribly with a pad for FPS games at first, but after enough play (a lot of play!) it became second nature to him and he became entirely competent with a pad, to the extent that he now finds K+M quite onerous to use.

There's nothing fundamentally 'right' or 'wrong' with either, but as Bamba notes, if you're playing a game where both control methods are allowed you're going to do very badly against the K+Mers if you're using a pad, as from a purely objective perspective, K+M is a far faster and more accurate control method for FPS games. (Particularly so for CS.)

This describes me perfectly as well.

Huh. I can do both of them fine.

I should put it on my CV, or something.