There seem to be a lot of bugs & some huge gaping holes for scripting/hax possibilities which some already are exploiting.

The main problem at the moment seems to be interp/lerp.
After looking on various discussions and sites it seems that people with a lower interp can have an advantage, especially when peeking corners.
If you are quick enough you can shoot someone without actually being seen.

One thing which could fix this is the addition of zBlock to force cl_interp to 0.01 (as it was before the patch). But as zBlock doesn’t yet work on the orangebox update, everyone has free reign over the value and as a result often people with 100ms+ ping can gain a advantage.

Server admins can allow clients to put cl_interp down to 0.01 by adding this to their server cfg

//server interp
sv_client_min_interp_ratio “0″
sv_client_max_interp_ratio “1″

The clients can then disable interp_ratio and put interp down (we all disabled this the first time around)

//client interp
cl_interp “0.01″
cl_interp_ratio “0″

There are a few good additions to the patch but they are vastly outweighed by the way the netcode seems broke due to so many variables being open for clients to change.

Here are some screenshots of Before and After.

You can dowload the skin from here

I haven’t really used it much but the friends list looks crap (the font for starters).

I had a look around and found you can edit the skin to change the font style etc. I have made a skin which changes the font to bold so you can actually read it on high resolution.

Will hopefully develop the theme to look like the old style, using my mumble skin I made a while ago as a reference.

Think it might take a while as the coding doesn’t seem to be commented very well, but should be worth it as currently it looks horrid.

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I remember trying out previous versions and thinking what a joke this was with all the bugs etc.
On trying 1.04 however I was surprised as it seems a lot more polished with some really nicely adapted maps which actually look pretty and a completely new HUD system.

After playing it for a few hours I was thinking it was pretty nice, after tweaking the cvars and recoding some of my scripts in my config I was away. There do seem to be a few bugs but it is still in BETA.

I haven’t played CS for ages (last time was before steam) but I’m pretty sure there was proper bunnyhopping involved and duckjumps (don’t seem to be on this mod) hopefully they will be adding this tho.

The thing which prompted me to look at this mod again was an email from ESL regarding a gather.

One really cool thing is that there is pop dog on train.

More Info: Server Listing | ESL Gather Page | Official Website

After playing FPS games online since 1995 I am obviously aware that there are a huge number of cheats around (aimbots/wallhax etc).
The number of cheats and also cheaters has grown over recent years, probably down to the idea of being a ‘pro gamer’.
My stance is really if you cheat and you get caught then it’s your fault and your problem. I have no respect for people who do it.

Recently a few people who I play with have been VAC banned.
The main thing which surprised me is at least 2 of them haven’t ever been (or seen to be) good players.
Not really sure why people feel the need to cheat but when playing in high+ games you see it all the time and if you search youtube for busted css videos you will find a huge number of videos showing people blatantly walling, following people with crosshair and even on occasions firing at walls aimed at others heads.

A few months back I was watching the UK team play in a EU tournament and on speccing one guy it seemed blatent he was cheating. Later on we found that it was decided he was cheating when people watched the demo’s back and therefore the uk lost that game.
At the time I was amazed, but it also took me back to the days of quake3 when I was in div1 as so many people back then were blatent cheaters.

Recently a player I know who is a manager of a well known ‘pro-gaming’ clan was VAC banned but on asking him, he said he wasn’t bothered as he had another Steam ID, also adding that he was just ‘testing’ a cheat on a public server.
This made me look thru my friend list on steam to find another 4 people who are also VAC banned and also on looking thru some old links to people who were on my friends list I found another 6.

Then yesterday I was comparing different configs from well known clans to my own to change some stuff and I found another player who had been VAC banned.
Tomáš “WT” Herout from Reason Gaming, the player who was given the title AWPer of the year by Cadred and who was also in one of the biggest teams in europe.

The 5mil ID is VAC banned, am guessing his 10mil is his new main Steam ID.
On converting the IDs to steam community it does seem that this is the case.
Community Pages:
STEAM_0:0:5358250 (OLD)
STEAM_0:1:10298719 (NEW)

Seems a bit wierd as he has attended a lot of LAN events.
Also would think that he would remove the old one from his config so maybe the account got hijacked but wouldn’t really be too sure tbh.

Main thing is, if you cheat & get caught then it’s your own fault.
If you have multiple accounts for testing cheats (yes I know 3 people who do this) then you are pretty sad and will probably get caught anyway as VAC ban over a random amount of time after picking up your cheat.

related links: WT Leaves Reason | Busted CSS | . . .