Good Counter-Strike Source Update

Sure it's an old game; but still a great one. It will always be my "go to" game until maybe the new one CS:GO comes out later. However here are the changes:
Updates to Counter-Strike: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Cumulative weapon updates
All weapons now have a new accuracy model which fixes many bugs and provides more intuitive weapon behavior
Weapons now have separate accuracy penalties for jumping, landing, and standing on ladders
All weapons are now more accurate while crouching
Accuracy penalties for movement no longer have a discrete threshold, but scale between crouch move and run speed
All rifles are less accurate while running
Fixed bug that caused the glock to fire burst rounds on three consecutive tick frames. It now fires burst rounds with a 0.05 cycle time
Fixed a bug that cause the famas to fire burst rounds on uneven intervals (0.1 and 0.05). It now fires burst rounds with a fixed interval of 0.075.
Fixed bug for the bolt action sniper rifles that caused their zoom state to incorrectly toggle when holding down fire.
Fixed bug that would cause the suppressor state on the USP and M4A1 to not be accounted for correctly when the weapons were dropped with the suppressor attached and then picked up.
Fixed fast suppressor switch exploit
Decreased range of shotguns, while slightly increasing damage
Slightly increased damage of m249
Sniper rifles now zoom faster
AWP fire animation changed to match 1.5 second cycle time
Fixed burst fire prediction of FAMAS
Fixed animation issue with elite dry fire
Fixed timing of sounds on Glock burst fire
Weapon spread patterns are no longer square
Dynamic crosshair now uses actual weapon accuracy, rather than a separate simulation
Increased run speed for Galil and FAMAS
Increased FAMAS accuracy and reduced spread for burst mode
Increased accuracy of silenced USP
Increased accuracy of zoomed sg552
Cycle time for dual elites increased to .12 second
Fixed firing of "stale" burst mode bullets on glock and famas
Fixed reload animation issue with shotguns under high latency
Fixed bug which allowed a CT to defuse the bomb in the same frame that it exploded
Pistols no longer continuously spam weapon_fire event when the +attack key is pressed. This has the side effect of no longer allowing the glock to continuously auto-fire in burst mode).
Weapons no longer continuous cycle the weapon_reload event when the reload key is pressed
Weapons no longer continuously cycle the empty fire event (and click) when out of ammo and the attack button is held

Other bug fixes
Re-enabled the ability for max grenades to be set from server convars
Allow observing other players when mp_fadetoblack is enabled and mp_forcecamera is something other than OBS_ALLOW_NONE
Scoreboard is now more robust with user modified layout changes
Added defuser icons to CTs on the scoreboard; these are analagous to the bomb icons for Ts, in that they only are visible for team members and spectators.
Defuser, bomb, and VIP icons are now colored by team color convar.
Bomb/defuser icons are no longer shown for members of the opposing team when you are not allowed to spectate them.
Updated player max speed cap so that it no longer limits players to 240 movement speed
Allow player max speed to be changed by mods
Killing friendly players no longer increments the player stat for kills with enemy weapons
Round no longer ends when timer runs out and mp_ignore_round_win_conditions is set
Players no longer get weapon donation credit for buying, dropping, and picking up the same weapon
Fixed crash related to planting C4
Fixed positioning of hud_targetid; it now is correctly visible in wide screen aspect ratios and when spectating.
Updated the multiplayer options UI so that it offers more options for configuring the crosshair.
When dynamic crosshair is disabled, the crosshair is now completely static.
Fixed a couple of issues with the view offset when dead was fighting with the observer code.
Fixed a bug where the client would have a ragdoll entity in CS, but wouldn't have actually created a ragdoll which would give a one frame glitch in the death camera position setup.
Fixed an exploit where users could disable flashbang audio effects using alias commands.
Marked the "mat_diffuse" convar as a cheat to protect against exploits.
Fixed issue with buying multiple grenades when ammo_*_max were set to other than the defaults.

 

Oh man, I could hear the "HARDCORE" CS:S players raging right now.

 

This is necessary to ensure a smooth transition into CS:GO (which will probably have more extreme degrees of these factors like changes in accuracy depending on mobility etc), so that when CS:GO ships, people won't all freak out.

 

Well it's a mix of both. The increased crouching accuracy and decreased running jumping is very good for competitive play. Proper pistol fire was improved as well and the famas/ghali guns are now more useful as you can run with them faster. It's a great update and I am relatively hardcore I guess.

 

we stopped playing css a longggggg time ago.

 

Maybe this will finally allow some of the CS 1.6ers to finally make the jump to CS:S

 

Who is WE? Check the steam stats. CS/CS:S are still the most played online FPS overall. It's fanbase is extremely loyal. it is a fast pased twitch reflex shooter that ALSO requires extreme teamwork, map knowledge and saving techniques at the amateur and professional level. I have played it since 2004 and still play all the new games. But CS:S and L4D2 are my "go to" games that I never get sick of.

 

the competitive players.

just like wow, in wotlk the subs were going up but the competitive players (both arena and pve) were leaving the game.


pubbing is not very fun, especially when u get banned for "hacking" in 90% of the 100tic servers. gungame, dm are decent for a while playing with friends but by yourself its not very enjoyable. and esea servers quality were just plain awful.

 

Also hardcore CS players don't play CS:S in the first place, since CS 1.6 is still the true, superior, and only non-gimped CS.

Even if these changes might fix the laughably noobified handling, movement, and physics in CS:S, and CS:GO raise an eyebrow or two, it's not going to bring back the 1.6 days.

Now I know that for many nerdlings, sequel-curmudgeoning is a magical nostalgia-inducing past-time and profession in opining, but when a 10-year old QuakeII-engine based game had and still has thousands more players than its Source-engine, continually-updated sequel, it's no longer just an opinion.

 

Haven't played source in ages.. still play 1.6 occasionally

Disliked source a lot as it was only deagle/m4/ak/awp, famas, galil, mp5 non existent.

Did this make a significant change? Do you see famas/galil more?

For CS:GO they better balance the guns really well...

 

gun game pros everywhere shouted out in horror as they had to relearn how to aim.

 

If you READ my post; you would see famas and gali were not only fixed but they fixed ALL spray tactics to be much more how 1.6 was. Hardcore people MADE the change ages ago. Some didn't. Whatever; that is SH... to a tree. This just basically fixed the game perfectly.