I suck at FPShooters

[Regular]

Drugs kill brain cells.

Go figure.

Any monkey can beat any FPS on the market.

It also helps if they are in drunkeness "trance" with mindless garble such as Radio Head.

[SunKing]

Originally posted by Octavius
There should be an ingame option for screen adjustment in UT2004... I think...

you can hit esc, adjust and then continue the game.

[Heater]

Try Operation Flashpoint, & or VBS1

[Wotan]

VBS1 is great but there's not much 'game' there.

OFP sucked online...

I bought UT2003 just for Red Orchestra. when it was first released. I thought it sucked and from what I have read about 3.0 (requires UT2004) and I aint to excited. At least not enough to get UT2004.

Day of defeat is a better game.

are all the servers dominated by hackers? just wondering if there is a fair fight anywhere with AA or its just hacked to death

I dunno but if you want I can post a link to many hundreds hacks for it. I don't play it any more. It was the same with ghost recon.

The Host sets up night time / fog and some one else uses a hack where they see just like day time. You are crawling around on your belly in night vision and get sniped by some kid who sees everything just like its day time and picks you off. I am sure there are 'good servers' out there but AA is a free game and most free games draw in the haxxors. Wolfenstein ET is the same way.

All these FPS style games get hacked. As I asked above, has anyone seen the newer speed hack software? Its brutal...

[SunKing]

Simple solution. Stay off the Public servers. Play on servers with active  admins. For example I play Desert Combat only on WarmFuzzyLand

But of course there's hacks and cheats. You'd actually be amazed how many there are that PB doesn't catch. And unfortunally there's a site that updates daily with them. I was shocked to see how many are really out there undetected.  AA , CS and BF1942 BFV, are the most cheat filled games ever.

AA though, avoid like the plague. I think its been accepted as part of normal gameplay to cheat in that game regardless the server.

I too have played DOD since the early days, (I miss the old bridge and hill maps). I wouldn't compare Red Orchestra and DOD. They are two different games. One realism and the other fast action. Both are great in their own way. I've dropped DOD since CS:S source came out and I am waiting patiently for DOD:S to release. It's just to painfull to go back to the old HL1 aged looked. RO is a good alternative till then.

[indy007]

Man, I love how people dog on CS & DoD cuz of the antiquated graphics, but still play AH2 over IL-2 consistently I'm kinda old school. Graphics aren't important as vicious, balanced deathmatch. Then again, wtf do I know, I still play text-based games, and think Doom 2 was the greatest deathmatch experience of all time

Also, as for hackers, they're not quiet as common as people complain about. Problem is 90% of gamers get it into their mind that they're the best player on the planet, and anybody better is obviously cheating. Hell, at one point I was getting banned from 6 or more CS servers nightly... to the extent where people staring over my shoulder were asking if I had hacks. If you really think somebody is hacking, go to spectator mode & start watching for awhile. It's not hard to tell if you know what to look for. The "6th sense" about where people are can be either wallhacks or ghosting (dead players in a lan situation ignoring "dead men don't talk" policies), or somebody listening very carefully with their headphones really loud. Aimbots are pretty easy to spot, just look for "snap-lock". You notice that by how their crosshair fixes to enemy faces & doesn't even stray a pixel. It literally looks unnatural.

btw, I've run into admin's who hacked on their own servers. it's especially prolific amongst large clans. just keep server hopping until you find one that's legit. they exist. it just takes some looking

[TheDudeDVant]

Originally posted by Nash
I've been playing this one called Vietcong... basically the only FPS I've really played for more than a few days. But, my k/d has gotta be somewheres near 1/10... if that.

It's like, I'll be lying in a bush kinda hidden with my gun trained on a small area where I know the enemy is gonna pop out of. When he does, he kills me. I just don't know how to get any good at these things.

Does anyone have any tips?

Also, besides Medal of Honor, what's the king of WWII FPS for online play?

JO is the best out atm.. I like the new update actually. Besides a few bugs with tracers and such, was a great update. I have found no trouble in hitting targets.. Even kilt a dude the other day at 408m with an m4.. hehe Best with the AK is just over 300m.. Thats moving targets.. hehe Not dweeb proner campers.. ha!

As far as tips go. DONT CAMP..  learn to move and shoot... Learn to use cover such as rocks or terrain..  Campers always die to peps with basic movement skills.. Strafing is vital..

[SunKing]

Originally posted by indy007
Problem is 90% of gamers get it into their mind that they're the best player on the planet,  

Yup you proved that one.

no one "dogged" DOD because of the graphics. Like we said we've been playing since the beta days too. 6 Years later It's safe to say its due for an engine update.

CS is just CS.. repetative basic, and boring as hell. But somehow appeals to the masses. hmm. Most likely the low system specs and the millions of old school HP/compac computers still run it fine. Oh and the rampant cheating due to a HL1 engine that was never really made for online gaming and its many exploitalbe holes.

It's all about quality not popularity if you want to talk about AH holding its own.

But what do I know, you still play text games.

[indy007]

Originally posted by SunKing
Yup you proved that one.

no one "dogged" DOD because of the graphics. Like we said we've been playing since the beta days too. 6 Years later It's safe to say its due for an engine update.

CS is just CS.. repetative basic, and boring as hell. But somehow appeals to the masses. hmm. Most likely the low system specs and the millions of old school HP/compac computers still run it fine. Oh and the rampant cheating due to a HL1 engine that was never really made for online gaming and its many exploitalbe holes.

It's all about quality not popularity if you want to talk about AH holding its own.

But what do I know, you still play text games.

Never said I was the best. I was really good. Good enough to go toe to toe with any other CAL-I or CPL player in CS, but I was never the best. Watch some CPL demo's. The skill level, and more importantly, the teamwork is phenomenal. I was just run of the mill in that skill range. If you ever get the chance, check out QuakeCon. They had a challenege where you could face-off with Wendell (fatal1ty) in Doom 3. You got prizes if you could even kill him. He is the best, and could even get away with saying it.

I have the same beef with DoD you have with CS. Repetative. Run-shoot-shoot-shoot-kill-kill-kill-die-repeat. Aren't most multiplayer games like that though? Even Aces High has the same problem in the MA. Takeoff-Climb-Cruise-Kill-Die/Land-Repeat. I dunno what it is, but some of the repetative games grab my attention & others don't.

You're right & wrong about the game engine. Definately, definately needed an update. Hooray for CS:S! Can't wait for a DoD:S! The original engine though, was built around Quake. Quake was designed for deathmatch, and single-player was an afterthought. This became especially prevelant later in the series, to the extent that Quake 3 didn't even bother with a story-based single-player, just bots on DM maps. Half-Life was just a lightly modified engine with a few more tools added in for the map makers.

To clarify my original point though, 90% of people that get accused of hacking, aren't. The 10% that do hack are just enough to ruin it for everybody else and get legitimately good players banned frequently.

[Wotan]

Way more then 10% use cheats...

Only the ones who use the poor cheats get caught. Also most of the guys that get accused of cheating don't.

For example in DoD you can turn off ambient sounds and if you use head phones and turn up the volume slightly you can hear every foot step / reload etc...

You hear the guy behind the door, around the corner etc...

The folks that do this get accused all the time of wall hacking.

In CS:S you can set your update rate to 1 and it will make you impossible to hit. Everyone else is smooth as ice but you end up like a ghost. The guy that just killed you, then one you swore you shot first is one of these guys. You usual chalked it up to 'lag'.

But those that use a good speed hack where by they slightly increase speed by 5% or so or a real good aim bot or a decent wall hack (meaning you can see through walls but not shoot through them) you wont ever 'catch' spectating or not.

A lot of it depends on the server and if they have regular players but 'free games' like AA and Wolfenstein ET get butchered becasue they are free and no one cares if they gey 'banned'.

The new speed hack works with any game. You can go 100mph faster of just 15mph. Its the subtle cheats you wont ever notice.

Thats said I play alot of DoD and CS and have fun... I won't play AA however...