Counter-Strike Players Really Hate The Game's New Gun

Valve just released a big new patch for Counter-Strike. It includes a new revolver that can drop anybody, regardless of body armor. That’s, uh, pretty intense. The R8 revolver costs $850 in Counter-Strike’s mid-match currency, which isn’t a whole lot in the grand scheme of things. It’s designed for point-blank stopping power—which is to say, one shot to the body or head and you’ll have foes washing down their lead feast with a healthy helping of dust. There are rifles that cost thousands that can’t match it for power, and its range isn’t terrible either. In the right hands, it can be downright frightening. Observe, courtesy of joejoe347: And here’s a video analysis from Dilman207: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YKE_Dximx4 The trigger pull is lengthy and a bit awkward, but DAMN. The results speak for themselves. At best, it’s a roll-of-the-dice weapon that can turn a match around with a series of lucky shots. At worst, it’s game-breaking. Regardless, it removes a component of skill from the game rather than, say, lowering the barrier to entry in an effort to help new players become more u31 เครดิตฟรี 188 skilled. u31 เข้าสู่ระบบ It’s worrisome, to say the least.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"1747153436","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"culture","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"culture","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); The Counter-Strike community is almost never in unanimous agreement about anything, but a whole lot of them think this thing needs a stern, merciless nerfing, stat. Some pros aren’t feeling the patch either: @csgo_dev Can u guys maybe elaborate – adding Revolver? 1 shot-1 kill pistol, beauty of CS is about skill, this gun will kill it. — TAZ (@g5taz) December 9, 2015 I feel like whenever Valve do a Update, they actually change something good – but somehow manage to fuck something unnecessary up.. — Philip Aistrup (@aizylife) December 9, 2015 What have you done?!?! @csgo_dev — Aleksi Jalli (@alluCSGO) December 9, 2015 Even Minecraft creator Notch weighed in: I'm so happy! I was looking forward to Valve either releasing Half-Life 3 or an unbalanced revolver, and I got my wish! — notch (@notch) December 9, 2015 Other big changes in the patch are being met with a similar (though quieter) rain of bottles. While players seem to mostly dig the nerf to pistols’ burst fire accuracy (in effect, rendering them less accurate when players are running and gunning), they feel like nerfs to the AK47, M4A4, and M4A1-S rifles went overboard. Valve’s goal—“to reduce the range at which spraying is preferable to tapping/bursting,” or basically, to encourage more skillful play—was admirable, but in reality they seem to have just made the guns worse across the board. Odds are, Valve is trying to push people toward using a wider variety of guns, but many plans aren’t pleased that they’ve chosen to shake up the status quo in this fashion. The jury’s still out, meanwhile, on increases to the bomb and round timers in competitive matchmaking, which put them at 40 seconds and 1:55, respectively. Some players think this will encourage counter-terrorist teams to go for defuses more often—since they’ll have more time—which could make for more exciting matches. Others think the change was unnecessary, or they feel the game was too CT-sided already. We’ll find out who’s right in time, but not as soon as you might think. The ESL ESEA Pro League season two finals begin on Thursday, but the ESL has decided to stick with Counter-Strike’s previous patch (for now) instead of updating to the new one. They explained: “After consulting with players, we’ve decided to play the ESL Proleague Season 2 Finals on the previous patch before 1.35.1.2. With the number of game play changes and w69 weapon changes, we all felt that this is really important to maintain the competitive spirit of the event given the amount of money and prestige on the line. With having the patch land very close to the event(and players already being onsite), we don’t think it would be reasonable to expect players to have enough preparation, so we are rolling back.” As a result, this whole patch kerfuffle has kicked off discussions about why Valve really needs public testing periods to accompany their Counter-Strike patch launches—not to mention, perhaps, more consulting from dedicated pros or ex-pros. The bottom line? This patch seems well-intentioned, but not well-timed or well-received. I’m sure Valve is listening, because they pretty much always are. Let’s just hope they reach out—actually communicate—before reacting this time around. You’re reading Steamed, Kotaku’s page dedicated to all things in and around Valve’s stupidly popular PC gaming service. Games, culture, community creations, criticism, guides, videos—everything. If you’ve found anything cool/awful on Steam, send us an email to let us know. To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him on Twitter @vahn16