Saturday 25 April 2009

Major Update in Counter-Strike


Valve has released a major gameplay update in Counter-Strike . The update has faced heavy criticism by the community. Cries of "CS is dead", "I'll never play again" and "PLEASE ROLL IT BACK" are being heard community wide.

This update tends to remove the crouch walk exploit of the game. Sound has been given to any jump motion.Moreover the motion of a player will slow down whenever he presses the duck key. This would make a significant change to established competitive gameplay as many players and teams utilize the secrecy of silence during gameplay. Though there were some bugs in it which were removed by another update.
This new update primarily addresses an issue concerning the jump sounds in the game. It contains two fixes for the update released just the other day.
• Fix the wrong sounds being played on jump when moving to different surfaces
• Fixed crash in the spectator UI when hitting tab
Hence now this anti crouch walking update has no bugs also and seems to completely remove crouch walking or so called russina walk from game.
As far as I think this update will improve the gameplay as crouch walking was essentially a bug in itself which must be removed. Kudos for Valve for this great update. Though the jumping noise will be a nuisance in beginning but players will be accustomed soon to it. Similar was the frenziness in people when Valve released its update to abolish bunny-hop(Which was much easy at that time and a person could do it by merely pressing his +jump key continuosly). This update just improved the gameplay and same will happen with this new update.

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