Kevin Ottalini wrote:
Saving favorites from the in-game serverbrowser has >never< worked.
I believe the nonfunctional SRCTV to be the major reason any competitive
event might prefer to choose CS 1.6 where HLTV works quite well. Many of
the other issues whisper mentioned while irksome, are still a little
subjective and would probably not be enough by themselves to cause a
change
in engines.
Although the in-game spectate works in CS:S you can't have loads of
spectators sitting in the game while a competition is running, you must
totally isolate them from the game play.
Recording from the SRCTV server would also give all-player viewpoints
(if it
was working) which makes competition review and management and
distribution
of game highlights possible.
I find that I'm unable to properly manage my HL2DM server without a
working
SRCTV. I am also unable to properly manage and update new map releases
since I can't observe what players are actually doing, a critical
element in
the map authoring process.
Since I run LAN clients just to attach to the SRCTV server, I don't care
what the bandwidth utilization is for SRCTV (one of the reasons it has
not
been fixed).
Keeping a good attitude and sending meaningful and consistent feedback to
Valve will get action faster then abusive rants that will never be read.
----- Original Message -----
From: "MOFCLAN.NET :: Bush"
To: <hlds@list.valvesoftware.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [hlds] Valve are you listening?
Perfect example
of this is the favorites within the game not working.. This was broken
when
militia was fixed and if memory serves me properly this update only
included
the map and BOT Bug fixes -- Nothing was posted about any changes to the
steam client or the favorites being re-worked.
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I think Valve is not sure whether the complaints are real or are from
whiners. For example: The "video test" in CS:S gave me an average FPS
of 110, and that was sent to Valve. But in the real world my system
would be unplayable at times. The FPS would drop to as low as 16 when
all the players were together fighting. So some would complain to Valve
about the FPS but Valve had it's data saying that everyone was getting
high FPS'. Also, I'm sure there was a lot of hackers crying to Valve
saying they were just good players and got banned because of their skill
and vice versa. So Valve took the opinion that there was not that many
hacks out there and all were whiners. I think that some of the info
that Valve got was not real world experiences and therefore we all have
suffered. I want Valve to know what happened with me. I am an admin as
well as a pretty good player.
I used to play CS 1.6 all the time (at least 4 hours everyday). When
CS:S was coming out I purchased it as soon as anyone could (silver
package) I think I waited a year for it. My point is that I was
"committed or into it hard-core". I had a 2.8 P-4 w/ 1 gig ram and an
ATI 9800 pro but it couldn't play CS:S well at all. I upgraded to an
AMD 3500, 2 gig ram, ATI X800 PRO just to play the game well! Now, I
hardly play at all. I've thought about purchasing the new games on
steam but, I won't. It just got to be too much hassle to play it. My
"favorites" hardly ever worked, even w/ my new system I have the "eye
candy" options turned off just so I don't go down to 20 FPS in a
battle. There's a new hack every week, the updates don't work and I
even have to turn off my firewall just to get an update on the client!
Which leaves me un-protected (except windows software firewall) while
I'm doing the update. Plus on top of that it seemed that hackers were
always winning the battle against Valve... and unfortunately seems
always will win.
I miss the game sometimes, like the death of an old friend. By the way,
I had 6 friends that were really into it too. Only 1 plays now and only
once in a great while. I will not ever buy anything that has to do with
steam. I'm not whining, I'm being completely honest. Your Admin's are
getting tired Valve.
Ok, I'm done now so start the flaming!
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