Hehe, if it makes you feel any better ninmail, I feel your pain.
I’m sorry I can’t contribute more then just a couple of sentiments I have that side me with ninemail.
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]I have no facts, no links, no articles of justification. This is all opinionated Subjective material so don’t flame me later for this crap or I’ll point you straight to Loop-1.[
One, I do feel rtcw cfgs/scripting is WAY to lineant, and out of control. If people want to talk about sv_fps and how using 30 is just redicilous, plz don’t use the argument that it should be left at 20 because: “that’s how ID intended it to be used.” If we’re all so content with id’s initial settings we might as well all use 0 timenudge, 30 maxpackets, and 20 snaps…which I would actually be satisfied with. IMO, high negative timenudge has worse side effects then that of sv_Fps 30. The game is skippy, crappy poo with high negative timenudge. But Hey! You’ll get that extra jump on a guy…
My aggrevation is rooted in the constant manipulating, updating, researching about these damn cvars. If they weren’t so important, we all wouldn’t be here discussing them. The fact is they are VERY important, and can mean the difference between a frag, and a /kill.
The bottom line is people manimpulating these settings for 2 reasons: Resolving Performance issues, or an attempt to get an edge on the compeition. These manipulation NEED TO STOP. Leagues need to put the crack down on ALL these settings in RTCW. If people want to cry about their ping, their hardware, and how some wolf setting evens the playing field, I say rubbish. Thse constant changes and manipulation of the game haults any kind of gamer skill evolution. How? Because after everyone changes their cvars, everyone in some small respect is playing a different game. How can anyone share game tips if each persons game is a little bit different??
As far as network goes, I would be content wtih 60 maxpackets, 0 nudge, 2500 rate, 40 snaps. If everyone wants to end the controversy on player skill simply being cvar dependent, this will do it. If people want to hack wolf, let them do it outside of wolf, hacking their net card drivers or somthing, don’t allow this crap. Wouldn’t it be nice if we all used the same settings? Does anyone here acutally have enough faith in their game to not rely strictly on their cfg?
Many of you may feel this is off topic, but I feel that ninemails bitter feelings are directly relating to the annoyance with cvars. Timenudge is the perfect example of a id cvar gone wrong. It was created to simulate ping in lang games for crying outloud! How it went from simulating ping to evening the ping playing field I don’t know. And to make things more intresting, 30 pingers will be pimp’n a -50 timenudge…So it’s clearly not evening the playing field as much as people like to pretend it is. On top of that, it makes your game run like choppy crap. You may not notice this so much if your getting 43fps, but chances are if your a noob with 43fps you prolly don’t even know wtf a cfg is to even change your nudge!
Ef deviate from the id stock cvars, yet claim sv_fps to be the one untouchable cvar phenomenom, your somebodies fanboy and a hypocrit. The benifits of sv_fps 20 and drawbacks of sv_fps 20 are parallel with the benifits and drawbacks of the famouse timenudge, maybe even worse. Somebody said that you may not even notice the bad things occurting with sv_fps 30. Well, I sure notice peeps skipping around with -50 nudge.
My advice…lock down on the cvars. It’s gonna be sad if the only place you can find a truley even playing field is X-box…
K, theirs the end of that rant.
The second sentiment I have is a generally low tolerance for Bani’s crap. I’ve delt with him before, and he does have some kind of strange supperiority complex thing goin on their. If you have any questions of his egotesticle behavior, or social skillz, just remember that his mod is named after himself, and he supports an enormous 2 man staff…I think. In other words, you may not be totally out of line by thinking he’s a dong.
Let the flames begin!
