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| Counter-Strike Hippies! | 7th April 2001| Socknose |
Counter Terrorists versus terrorists, Terrorists versus Counter Terrorists. To be quite honest it's a bit unrealistic, I mean where are the hippies?
Yes for too long now the potential of the Hippie has gone untapped. I mean green peace spend all there time trying to infiltrate the army bases why cant you do that on counter strike?
I hope to put a stop to this. What I am suggesting is that Bob the scientist and his fellow work-mates decide to take various drugs and protest against various things. They could be against the establishment or the violent tactics of the Terrorists and go out of their ways to sabotage the activities of the various groups.
Players could go on the Hippie team as well as the Terrorists and Counters. They could chose at the begging of each round which team they were to give hell and sabotage. What they could do is: defuse the bomb for the counter terrorists, tell the terrorists where the V.I.P is, steal the hostages from the terrorists or even just run around like mad men and piss everyone off.
They could have two weapons, their protest signs and they could inject their enemies with drugs that make them hallucinate and make them see their own teammates as enemies. Their skins could be the normal scientists ones but they wear bandannas and have 'make love not war' written over their chests. There could even be levels with just them and the counter terrorists and they have to spray paint a part of the map with "DIE FACIST PIGS!" That would be cool.
And if you are really pissed off with the AI of the hostages you could get the Hippies to be them. The only down side I can see to having the hippies is that people will want to be the hippies and nothing else, leading to the fall of democracy! I am clearly getting carried away but it would be so great!
I'm taking the only good part of team fortress classic (being a spy and pissing everyone off) and putting it in CS but with HIPPIES!
It would be so great! It would be like Felix the cat (that x rated cat hippie thing).
One last thing so far my request for the counter terrorists to be naked has not been fulfilled, remedy this now please for I am horny.
Socknose |
| All I Want For Christams | 3rd April 2001| S@nch/3z |
Another great piece by Socknose.
Oh the feeling on those joyous days where I wake up with a beating heart.
Running down the stairs to see what I have been given, only to be disappointed when it's not what I want.
What am I talking about? Christmas? No the updates of counter strike. I always find myself bitterly disappointed when I eagerly join a server running the new CS to find none of the stuff I wanted had been added. It always makes me cry and pout for a few days.
Well not this time this time, I have made a list! .
Voice Commands.
First of all I think the voices should be changed to what I want because I'm a spoiled little shit who always gets his way.
Instead of "GO GO GO" I think that a sound file of Mrs Doile from father Ted should come up and she should say "GO ON, GO ON, GO ON"
And instead of "ENEMY SPOTED" It should say in a Liverpool accent
"OI' U WANT A FIGHT!".
Skins.
I would like all of the terrorists to be clowns. Yes you heard me, Clowns. What's scarier than a clown with a big red nose and a painted on smile holding an AK to your face.
Also, could the counter terrorists be naked. ?.
Guns.
I would like it if they talked to you like the car in knight rider example
"There's a terrorist. What shall we do Pete? (the hand guns will be called Pete, Ben etc)"
"Quick jump!".
That would be so cool!!.
Transport.
All forms of transport (jeeps etc) will be, from this point, on giant rubber ducks, which can be fitted with a toxic national lottery ticket.
Levels.
The following levels will be made OR ELSE.
Matrix lobby scene.
Ghost in the shell chasing that guy through the streets.
A VIP white house level.
THE WHOLE OF HOUSE OF THE DEAD!.
Other
When I clap my hands all non-believers will bow before their lord Frank Ogdorn aka KILLERTERMINTORBOOMBOOMIAMSKILLED2001
And...
A Short CS Story
Geoff was standing in the aeroplane cockpit. His gun, the Avtomat Kalashnikova, Model 1947, was slung over his left shoulder. His forehead was still slightly wet after his incident with the hostage. He licked his lips.
A hostage, who was lying on the cargo room's floor, started to move. He was half naked and had red marks on his back. At first he wondered what had happened, then he remembered. He ran to the corner of the room and was repeatedly sick.
After much consideration, it was decided to storm the aeroplane. The negotiations between the Terrorists and the Police had broken down ages ago. Eight SWAT team members geared up. They each had several grenades, a Heckler & Koch MP5, a standard sidearm and a pair of handcuffs.
The Terrorists could hear them getting ready; the decision was made to fight. They wanted the hostages. They each had an AK47, and a leather belt. The fight began.
After a few minutes of fighting, the Terrorists were over come with the SWAT team's superior power. They had the hostages. They made their way to the Cargo room, where they found the hostages. One started to scream. The Police licked their lips.
Sanch/3z and Socknose |
| Tactical Ops for Unreal Tournament | 1st April 2001| Socknose |
Welcome
Before you read this review/article I would like to welcome our first recruit to CS News, Socknose. Please make him feel welcome.
Welcome
My very first thoughts after playing one round of this shameless clone were "bloody hell this is counter strike!"
It's not unusual for games to borrow ideas from others, but this is just criminal. Its just there staring you in the face from the models of the characters right down to the interface it's a pure rip off of counter strike. Surely this is no bad thing as counter strike is the most popular online game ever? Well it wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't so godamn slow and the levels weren't so badly designed that they were more akin to mazes than engaging battlegrounds.
As an example, my team was in a building level much akin to high-rise and we were the terrorists. I took my position and waited eagerly for the counters to arrive. After five minutes there was no sign of them and only a minute left on the clock. Finally someone came and a fight began and I became entangled in a web of lag.
Which brings me on to the subject of the weapons. Firstly they are nearly all from counter strike so you are instantly familiar with them and the weapons that aren't may as well be because they feel like them, but they have different names. All this is very well if not for one fact.
They are all shit. Blunt, yes, unfair, no they are all piles of identical shit. Ludicrously the mp5 Navy performs just like the AK 47 in fact it does the same damage. This is the same for all of the weapons. The only weapon that really feels any different is the AWP equivalent sniper rifle, which kills in one shot. Another poor thing about the weapons are the textures on the. There is so little detail, which makes them look like just bumpy blobs.
That's a lot of negativity, but it does have one or two things over counter strike. Its got great graphics on everything but the guns, the animation on the models is very good and it's blessed with superb lighting. There are a couple of things that could be added to later counter strike updates such as the ability to pick up extra money from your dead opponent. Blood drips from injured players leaving a trail of blood. You can throw knives and more than one primary weapon can be carried at once.
This might prove popular with people who are not connected to the Internet because it has bot support as soon as you install it (even if they are woefully incompetent).
This game has some good points, but overall I don't recommend it.
Socknose |
| Multiplayer Names | 20th March 2001| S@nchez |
Have you noticed how people name their selves when they play online? For some it's Shit-kicker or F**ck-Face, but others go for the more sensible Gooseman or Cliffe. Do these name tell you anything about the owners, are they masks for people to hide behind or are they just names.
Some say that people who use offensive names are insecure and that they use the name to hide behind. I believe that may just have a lack of vocabulary or/and imagination.
Personally, I go for sensible names. This is for two main reasons. One, names can tell people a lot about someone, if I was called "I_AM_THE_BEST" you would naturally assume that I had a big head, but if just kept the default name "player" you would infer that I was a newbie.
At my local LAN gaming center, VR, the names tend to be slightly more reasonable, as there is quite a lot of shouting from computer to computer. You'd soon be thrown out if you were shouting "hey, F**k Face!"
S@nch/3z |
| Sniper Crosshairs | 17th March 2001| S@nchez |
As you probably know, in the latest version of Counter-Strike [v1.1] the crosshairs have been taken off of sniper rifles when they are zoomed out. This can be seen as making the game more realistic or as making the game less fun to play.
Personally, I agree with Gooseman's decision. In a real life situation, if you were ambushed by someone, whilst using a sniper rifle, you wouldn't be able to take a good aim and shoot them accurately. Taking out the crosshair on sniper rifles makes snipers more vulnerable and will also make secondary weapons more important.
As for this making CS less fun to play, I disagree. I believe that snipers can dominate many maps, like Militia, so making them less dominant can only be a good thing. Email me with your comments and I will put them up.
As for the AWP being toned down, good riddance to bad rubbish.
S@nche/3z
Comment by Roycefer
By your logic, it would make sense to take the crosshairs out of every weapon
that did not have its zoom function engaged. Especially in a game where one
cannot hope to align the barrel of the gun with its target or use aiming tabs
(as in real life), I think crosshairs (zoomed or otherwise) make a reasonable
substitute. With the awp, it was not at all as if the unzoomed crosshairs
improved accuracy (standing still, 20 degrees of aiming error is common on
the unzoomed awp)
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