please lookie at Hellgamer's linkie & tell me that getting !m4 or !AWP isn't nothing more than a authorised hack (assuming that its a hotkey to quickly switch weapons)?
i used to play on their Crackhouse deathmatch server, but got a several day ban because of a pr0n spray. (well my attitude on the website irc didn't help when i accused HG of joining the 700 club network, LOL)
now regardless of the offense that i might comply with, if only to play nice with the kids that play with their feces, if you play there with the players that either pay for the perk or rank in the top-20, is it fair to even try & play in such conditions? they do a good job permabanning actual hackers (they require demos as part of any official forum request for a steam ID banning), but when you face against folks who can legally swap guns at a key stroke, have special effects for weapons that do nothing extra but do annoy or even inimidate you... doesnt that make you feel like if your game play isnt elist, you just gonna get utterally owned? (and some of the players, especially a brazillion prick who took great pleasure in heatshooting me with his fucking explosive rounds)
pretty much know what i should do but id like to hear some thoughts from the other gamers...
actually im gonna expand this: what PC-based game, made with-in the past 3-4 years, is better than Counter-Strike: Source, that i should purchase as replacement (heresy, i know)...
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
I don't really play many multiplayer games other than the Mechwarrior: Living Legends mod for Crysis Wars.
There's just something satisfying about steppin onto the battlefield in a 100 ton giant killer robot and alpha-striking the first poor bastard who gets too close.
Oh and paying money for special privileges on a server is cheating. Especially if those privileges include weapon and money hacks.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Can you pay to play without a mathmatics degree in heat-sink allocation and managment? Might make mech games fun in that case.
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
Unfortunately there's no customization of mechs (they say it's in the works) yet, although most of the variants are pretty decently balanced for heat management.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
You'd think the heat sink issue would be moot in an freezing environ (though getting the mech warmed up might be a challenge)...and a nightmare in the desert. They should account for those issues.
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
The ambient temperature isn't going to make THAT much difference to your heat dissipation. The bigger factors are the mass of your heat sink and the air flow over it. So heat dissipation in a vacuum sucks.
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
Part of the fun of customizing your mech in the other mechwarrior games was basing your loadout on the planetary climate, maybe a few more energy based weapons on colder planets, or a few more ammunition based weapons on warmer planets. Shave a ton of armor off for that one extra heat sink, or keep the armor and potentially fry your self.
In the game, both tabletop and video game versions, ambient temperature had enough of an effect that you could base your whole loadout around whether it's cold or not.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
My roommate still has his- we occasionally still play Star Control on it.
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
I still fire up the old NES and play Mario and Duck Hunt once in a while. And even the old Ti-99 with Alpiner, Parsec, and Tombstone. Good Times.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Have you seen those Atari controlers that have all the old games built into them? Crazy. Only like $15 too.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Yet I hear complaints that they sometime aren't authentic to the original 2600 in the sound and sprites department. I do recall that one of those toys was in fact a real 2600 with games built in that could be converted to accept cartridges. I think one of the creators actually had instructions on website on how to convert it.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
One say we'll see X-Box controllers with all it's classics built into it- and the kids will laugh at the crappy graphics!
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