CS:S Counter Strike : Stupidity
GODDAMMIT! ARE YOU REALLY THAT FRIGGING DUMB????
Counter-Strike has been out for ages and I myself have played it for, well over the past 5 years since beta 4-5. Though I'm not involved anymore in competition, I am still a regular pub player. Now this scenario NEVER EVER happens in a pub server for CS.
So we come to CS:S. The old CS lovin' + new fangled graphics and physics. With Half-Life 2 coming, they are giving CS a facelift with the new Source Engine. (To be honest with you, I am more psyched up about CS:S then HL2.) So basically gameplay-wise everything is the same, and one should fit in immediately.
Now comes the part where they will be Closed Beta Test of CS:S. Well it's "Closed" because not everyone gets into the beta, only Cyber Cafes under Valve's program, ATI HL2 Voucher owners and CS: Condition Zero Owners.
1. Cyber Cafes - They have been running CS for as long as it has been out, and anyone frequenting these places and play CS everyday will be well informed
2. Condition Zero Owners - This group are usually die hard CS fans who would dish out Money to buy CS with new skins/bots/scripted maps (which can be downloaded free) that pass of as a "new" game. They would also be well informed
3. ATI Voucher Owners - I would presume that at least half of this group bought the card mainly because of the Voucher itself and again half of this would be Half-Life fans, thus have at least played CS or any of the numerous HL mods throughout the past 7 years. I mean COME-ON.
So what Am I ranting about? I've been playing the CS:S beta for the past 2 weeks and I'm Dumbfounded by the incredible amount of people who seem not to know anything about CS, but also about simple aspects of computing as well.
"Why I have no console?" - Click on the bloody OPTIONS and Enable it! Can't you see a Big Check box which says Enable Console??? If you can't even navigate though simple point-click graphical menus, you don't have any business messing with the console.
"How do I Change Team?" - AAAARRGGHHH! I'm vomiting blood
"Does CZ need HL2 to play? I cant connect to Game" - I rest my case
"How do I get other weapons?" - There is a big Menu that Covers the ENTIRE Screen where you click to choose your weapons even with pictures and descriptions. What the Hell kind of Question is this?
"Change Map Please" - There is ONLY 1 MAP in the BETA. Change to your Fathers House? But then, this particular request is very common in everytype on Online FPS game which I find very funny. Generally servers are setup with certain rules, Map Cycles are done automatically when these rules are met (eg. time-limit, frag-limit, goal-limit..etc.) or they can be changed Manually by Server Administrators "IF" they are around. I usually see these Dumbos come in, play 5 minutes and continuously asking to "Change the Map". Admins are not around, who's gonna change the map for them. Do they think the server can parse they're request and automatically understand and change the map? Morons.
"How to plant/diffuse bomb?" "Why is my screen so big?" "What option to Reduce Ping/Lag?" "How to Speak?" "It's so slow, game sucks" "Can I buy more grenades?"
I've even had a guy ask ME If this is the First Time I'VE played this game and If I understood Plain English. The Idiot was screaming at me telling me the enemy is at the "Underpass" while he was dead. "Living" and "Dead" players Cannot comunicate with each other so obviously I didn't see squat shit that he wrote. The fact that Nobody corrected him when he was "shouting" at me showed that no one actually even knew of that fact.
I'm telling you I've seen even more wierd comments and questions. Some of them are understandable but some are just plain ridiculous. Sure there are new players every once in a while. But the amount of these #@$*^#$@ in the "Limited Closed" Beta of CS:S is staggering.
Valve is milking the cash cow. At a developers point of view, a beta test should be targeted at veteran gamers that would have given valuable insight into the game and able to actually point out gameplay issues or bugs. NOT People who do not even know how to change screen resolution or use a menu. People who seem to be playing CS for the very first time in their lives. How the hell did these people even get the beta running is beyond me.


1 Comments:
That is so bullshit. deep down inside, you're just glad you got freefrags and lots of them.
though....your post makes me want to install it and kill some n00bs too.
Don't you understand, Most of these guys you are facing are playing from CS:CZ, and hardcore players would NOT have bought CZ. Face it, you're playing noobs. kill them, have a cup of tea. rinse, repeat and enjoy.
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