Clan Line-up changes and UGS against Shield
Posted by Velta at 22:47 15/9/2003.
- Firstly, top player and general leader for team GameOnline Souledge has announced he will be retiring from counter-strike. He will be replaced by Sydow. This leaves the roster as: Hyb, zAFFe, erks, Sydow, sNajdan. Good luck to them
- HLO have also recently announce their new lineup. The biggest surprise is that goseY, SK organiser, has left to pursue a professional gaming career. The new lineup will consist of: Blackie, Gosey, Exp, Muffe, robstah, xet(Manager). Good luck to them also.
- As well as this, Upcoming UK team Phobia have made two additions to the lineup. Danneh from ForsakeN being the first and MadBarry from SFAL being the second. The lineup will consist of: Adm, Danneh, geo, Nateh, Madbarry and Roguey. They have also renamed themselves as Blueprint and announced a sponsorship from Hosting-live.
- In other news, the american league UGS, consisting of some of the top american teams has announced it will NOT allow the new riot shield in there matches. Here is their statement:
"UGS will not be allowing the use of the Tactical Shield in league play until the item is updated or changed by Valve. There are a few issues concerning the item including a server crash bug, hit boxes and exploits. When the shield is updated, we will then reevaluate our position"
CyberXgames have put up a public poll in regards to the public opinion of the riot shield. It seems that the CPL being the leading tournament will decide the overall use of the shield.
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Online Multiplayer Gaming
23:05 15/9/2003
Professional Gamer
23:06 15/9/2003
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fluid element
23:07 15/9/2003
Professional Gamer
23:08 15/9/2003
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fluid element
23:10 15/9/2003
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ForsakeN
23:10 15/9/2003
beware!! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
fluid element
23:11 15/9/2003
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ForsakeN
23:13 15/9/2003
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Professional Gamer
23:14 15/9/2003
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Mel Gibson
UKTerrorist
23:17 15/9/2003
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23:20 15/9/2003
Infinity-eSports
23:23 15/9/2003
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23:23 15/9/2003
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23:26 15/9/2003
ForsakeN
23:28 15/9/2003
Shoot First Ask Later
23:28 15/9/2003
Missing In Action
23:58 15/9/2003
Rush!
00:02 16/9/2003
eSports.Edge
00:03 16/9/2003
ForsakeN
00:11 16/9/2003
the upcoming uk CB cup looks like they are going to ban the shield which im pleased bout, hopefully other leagues will take notice and follow suit. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Last Chance
00:16 16/9/2003
Lite
00:16 16/9/2003
virtual Junkies
00:26 16/9/2003
eSports.Edge
00:28 16/9/2003
u could moan about the fact that in reality 1 bullet from a glock would kill u, but it doesnt in cs - counter-strike aims to realistic as possible, but obviously its gonna fall short on some occasions.
Just imagine if u gave the shield AP, id just spray the guy down until it wore away the AP and killed him. Making the shield able to take unlimited damage adds a new approach. If it did have a didicated number number of armour points it would most certainly be a waste of $2000, or whatever stupid price it has been put up to since 1.6 beta (where it was about $1000) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
virtual Junkies
00:29 16/9/2003
ForsakeN
00:41 16/9/2003
2seXeh 2perfoRm
01:06 16/9/2003
THIS IS EAGLE ONE REQUESTING AIR SUPPORT AT ALPHA CHARLIE ZERO ONE NINER.. OVER
'Counter-Terrorists Win!' [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
euthanasia
01:52 16/9/2003
theb0g
02:44 16/9/2003
i dont hate the shield because it makes u basically invincible, i hate it because it kills action, u turn a corner, see a ct, ur reactions & aim >>>>>>> his, but what shows from it ? nothing, so u just walk around waiting half an hour for him to drop his guard, coz lets be honest a half decent player with a shield controls the 1v1s entirely and the ball is always in their court
from a t's POV, every time i turn a corner and i see a ct with a shield, i get instantly bored, bored bored and bored, theres no challenge, theres no adrenaline rush for trying to get the kill, theres no POINT to having fast reactions or brilliant aim, and there certainly aint any f***ing excitement in it
shield de_stroys the action & skill that FPS is entirely based apon, they need to make it so u cant have a gun with the shield, that way it can be used tactically by clever people and still be very worthwhile in the right hands with excellent teamplay, but it wont completely unbalance the skill of cs in return. the shield seems to have meant to bring out the "teamplay" aspect u imagine from swat teams, but instead it does seem to reinforce the "rambo" element - being that if only 1 ct buys a shield, that ct is almost always the last ct alive and the one that has the most likelyhood to kill anything (yes, buying awp may be the strongest/best gun in the game, but someone with way more skill and a usp could kill more on an eco than u do with an awp, with the shield that is totally taken away because u need no skill at all to use it, if u see my point), shield+nogun would ensure u could only use it for tactical teamplay which is surely what it was intended for in the first place, and would at least stand a chance of opening up doors for more fun/exciting! tactics
i really dont think that making it so DE/AWP bullets went thru the shield would have any point at all, it wouldn't balance the shield, it'd just make it completely unbalanced against all the other weapons (as it is now) but make the AWP/DE completely unbalanced against IT, defeating the point of changing it entirely.
basically, the shield was meant to bring out more tactical teamplay, yet has just given people an easy way to rambo it up and i reckon they should get rid of carrying a gun, that way it can only be used for tactics, will rarely ever be used in publics (thank god) but could open up interesting ideas for clan wars if ure bored enough to actually be clever and think about using it
id rather have the shield take skill & challenging tactics to use but rarely ever see it used at all let alone properly (especially on publics), than have anything remotely near what its like atm
and btw does anyone else think that the new t "machine gun rifle wannabe thing" is just the old mp5, kinda defeating the point of the mp5 havin been balanced throughout the past versions of cs. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
virtual Junkies
03:13 16/9/2003
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o/ <o> o< /o [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Choke
07:54 16/9/2003
08:58 16/9/2003
gl to blueprint, GoL. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
09:22 16/9/2003
What a bunch of morons. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
09:31 16/9/2003
theb0g
09:33 16/9/2003
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eSports.Edge
10:13 16/9/2003
If you get a bunch of decent players all with shields, they could easily rip appart a fairly good clan.
be sure to post up ANY HLTV demos [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
10:56 16/9/2003
They should have called the shield a "Pavise" and coupled with it a crossbow. 1.7 they could then replace the AWP with a trebuchet you setup at spawn. 1.8 all the rifles are replaced with polearms, smg's with swords and pistols with pitchforks... [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
11:42 16/9/2003
Good luck to the name stealers ;) hehehe [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
11:56 16/9/2003
13:16 16/9/2003
The shield ROCKs in my opinion.. its just what the game needed to give it a little exra life.. Moving cover is gonna make such a difference to gameplay tactics... I only wish T's could buy it.. because they are the ones that do the rushing..
P.S My little brother is one of the dorks that sits at the computers in that time commanders program.. hehe [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
13:17 16/9/2003
theb0g
13:35 16/9/2003
Due to the way the hitboxes work in Half Life though, I don't know how possible that is :( [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
g30rg3h
UKTerrorist
13:43 16/9/2003
meatyballs
14:27 16/9/2003
Suggests they knew about the bugs doesn't it? ¬_¬
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meatyballs
14:28 16/9/2003
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15:16 16/9/2003
15:32 16/9/2003
following some 1 half the way around a map with a sheild and then gettin owned when he decides to pull his gun out is a joke well done valve u have tottally f***ed cs up and yes i did moan like this when they stopped jumpin in 1.4 but the sheild totally changed the game
no jumping >> sheild [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
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ForsakeN
17:00 16/9/2003
twisted Reality
17:37 16/9/2003
gl blueprint aint heard of any of ya b4 cept danneh but gl [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
ForsakeN
18:01 16/9/2003
*stroke*
weeeeeeeeeeee
its cos velta is a crooked admin
andy bite me u c**klobster [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
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21:37 16/9/2003
twisted Reality
21:52 16/9/2003