I got to level 27 on Chuckie Egg once.
I won it using both approaches, not sure it was easier.
I used to be in a pretty solid Counterstrike 1.6 Enemy Down UK clan.
CS 2 is coming out in a month or two.... should be great!
Yeah I'm buzzing to play itThey're recreating all the old maps as well. De_Dust2 looks spectacular. CS_Assault looks a little different but still looks spectacular nonetheless.
They're not recreating all of them. Dust2 and Mirage are basically the same just with the gamma turned up. Hopefully meaning they'll both be ditched from all the competitive map pools.
Inferno and Overpass are getting full blown recreations.
Console shooters had a good spell with Halo, Cod4 and Gears, but then Activision ruined Cod. Microsoft torpedoed Halo and Gears. EA butchered Battlefield and Sony abandoned Killzone and Socom. There's nothing left.
And the hero shooters/battle royales that have replaced them are all shite with next to no competitive value.
They go to PC + controller because of the higher FPS and HZ whilst taking advantage of the AA that is never scaled properly. Doesn't make them bad no, but it's still a crutch. Hence why there's plenty of input enhancers a lot of these guys use in console only tournaments, plus those that allow you to have AA on mouse too. People are going to cheat to win, and most of the top guys use one trick or another.
I'm just on the wind up. DOTA I believe is meant to be more difficult than L0L as the enemy can kill your minions as well as their own as well as some other changes? Am I right in thinking the map, lanes and all things else are similar? Is DOTA still popular and regularly updated nowadays?Agree, disagree because L@L is the Fortnite of Mobas, 2003-2009 so thank you. Haha!
Do you know of a fella named Adam Johnson at all? (not the footballer)Unfortunately I do.
Do you know of a fella named Adam Johnson at all? (not the footballer)
Not sure if he plays fifa anymore but was pretty decent around a decade ago. Pretty sure he got flown out to Brazil during the World Cup to play in a tournament.
The first game in D1 against Nashwan is guaranteed to injure 2 or 3 players unless you are signing transfersSame here, but upgrading your starting team it was possible, over time to get all their stats up to max levels. The transfer market players had fixed stats.
I can't speak for all console gamers and I suspect you likely are correct in alot of cases. But I know players I played with who went on to play league of legends and fortnite on pc and have success.
And the problem you speak of on pc is the reverse on console. You get players on console using k/m without aim assist because they find it gives them an advantage despite losing their AA by using it.
In terms of input enhancers, I presume you mean controllers which maybe have additional paddles which you can bind keys to? Is that really an issue? It's like saying all pc players should use a basic mouse to make it fair. I think that's just evolution and makes sense. I just use a basic controller myself as alot of those controllers are a rip off. 10 years ago a scuf controller was around 60-80 quid and nowadays they're doing controllers in the hundreds!
Honestly though I don't think there's much difference in the top percentile of console players and the top percentile of pc. And those at the top dedicate alot of time. I imagine with the same dedication on pc that within a few months they'd be competing close enough to a similar level.
It's fine as a casual feet up sort of game but it's not remotely competitive. Same goes for all the other hero based shooters.
No, I don't mean paddles and all that. You can use mouse and keyboard on any system, with AA, with a thumb joystick for movement should you wish. You can also do the more "traditional" cheats like wall hacks on any device.
And there is a huge difference between the top percentile of players across the platforms and the inputs.
Yeah but when it comes to competitive gaming at the highest levels, I don't think cheating is as common as you think. Plus historically cheating has always been much more common on pc. On console it generally is a bit of a non issue.
I think you're vastly over estimating aim when it comes to a gamers overall ability. A pc player would struggle on a controller initially too. What sets the best apart is all the other elements to. Map knowledge, spawn knowledge, how to influence spawns, choke points, recoil patterns, anticipating things by tracking respawn and objective timers, knowing how to play dirty, team composition, communication, being aware of sounds etc..
If the controller was such an advantage then everyone would be using them instead. Most pc gamers have dedicated 4 figures plus into their gaming setups with top of the range kit and peripherals to give them the best advantage. The fact they don't switch suggests to me that their aim isn't as transferable as they think. Or else surely the best way for one of this pc players to prove a point would be to use a controller and show how much better they are.
That was pretty good going, something like 0.5% of players achieved similar, though there are still loads of players who have done far more amazing stuff in that game. I can complete Battletoads without warps which was quite a rare thing back in the day.@dumbo ... What he did in Hollow Knight is beyond amazing.
I rest my caseThat was pretty good going, something like 0.5% of players achieved similar, though there are still loads of players who have done far more amazing stuff in that game. I can complete Battletoads without warps which was quite a rare thing back in the day.
In terms of practically unparalleled performing in every way: I was amongst a handful of the best NES tetris players to have ever played the game a few years back. 2nd person in the uk to ever get a recorded maximum score, a couple dozen had done it in the world. My name is in the official records. Even now with the explosion in popularity and development of the competetive scene I think there are still fewer than 100 people who have ever scored a maximum with the traditional play style. Im genuinely, measurably better than almost everyone in the world at that.
I'm not about to be pwning anyone on COD, fifa or Street Fighter though.
The first game in D1 against Nashwan is guaranteed to injure 2 or 3 players unless you are signing transfers
Super Nashwan are in the 1st division. You start in the 2nd. You will already have upgraded a lot by then.The winning strat is to keep restarting until you play them in the first couple of matches so the injuries come before you upgrade anyone.
You are trying to turn this into a debate about something I'm not talking about. But, if you did want to go there, on input skill alone, I could lecture you on the code behind AA techniques and why all the top games feck with the settings all the time and why cross-platform isn't ideal (speaking on that, we could talk the latest Halo too) and all that if you really want? Bearing in mind I grew up on controller and can still play it to this day, you don't understand my point. I'm not arguing one over the other, I'm simply saying this:
You clearly underestimate why so many "pros" go over to PC as controller players. And why both those, and those left behind, still make money in tournaments. The cheating that goes on is WAY bigger than you think, the fact you claim it isn't as "common" as I think shows you don't actually grasp that. You also shouldn't underestimate how easy it is to cheat on console, but also how little the big tournies wont admit it goes on and they cannot stop it.
But in a simple question of "controller vs mouse" like you think I'm talking about, it takes an incredible amount of skill to master both (and that's purely on aim, we aren't talking about game sense and all that). However, m/kb does have the higher skill ceiling because there's techniques and accuracy levels it's impossible to reach with your thumbs. Hence why AA is needed in the first place. And there's nothing wrong with that.
I can vouch for that!I'm the best to play online games with because I'll log on half smashed and then get progressively more drunk as the session goes on. Just ask the GTAV and FIFA lads how great it was back in the day.