/arcade/ - vidya gaems and other gaems too

CS2 is a great game in my opinion, but it overflows with hackers. A friend showed me a recording from a match where enemy team used a cheat that caused his team to see a black screen. At high elo ranked game too, it is insane.

>>2253
agreed, but i love cs so i continue to play it.
its fun and worthwhile when there's no one walling, ghosting or toggling.
any thoughts on deadlock?

>>2254
It combines two genres I hate - hero shooters and MOBAs. Hard pass.

>>2255
The combination of the genres is not that significant. I dislike them for the same reason, which is hardcore competitiveness with success depending heavily on team composition. And you can't control what your team plays.

I got into source games at such a weird time in my videogame life.

- Soldat was getting emptier and emptier and 90% of the servers with any sort of activity were in this really gay counter-strike-like mode that I absolutely hated. Here's a game that promotes fast-paced multi-player mayhem and the mode that survives is the one that goes completely against the game's core principles.

- Quake 3 arena was fizzling out, battlefield 2142 killed the series and everyone was moving into call of duty 2 and wolfenstein enemy territory.

- RTS games were losing their luster. AoE2 was dead in the water, AoE3 never appealed to me, starcraft was just plain ugly, same for warcraft (yeah).

I got me counter-strike source, gave it a honest try but the game never clicked with me. The most fun I got out of it was in the gungame mode, but I soon realized steam had gifted me half-life 2 deathmatch and that offered a much funner experience. I pirated portal and had my fun with it but it's the type of game you play once and don't need to touch it again. I got the orange box for team fortress 2 and that became my biggest videogame-related time-sink of the 2010s (and I only regged the game up until about 2012). I haven't paid much attention to other source games but I remain shocked and appalled that counter-strike of all game concepts became such a flagship title for modern valve rather than become an embarrassing memory of 00s awkward game design experiments.

>>2255
the turnoff for me was its not FPS.
>>2256
i dislike the cartoony aesthetic.
>>2258
interdasting, do you not play source games anymore?

>>2255
yeah once I saw the whole MOBA aspect I lost what little interest I had in playing a Valve hero shooter

>>2260
>interdasting, do you not play source games anymore?

I wouldn't say no to playing TF2 once in a while if not for the fact the game went from about 3Gb on release to 50-something gigs after a decade of updates, so I've since uninstalled it to free up much needed space on my PC.

>>2253
I've been playing a lot but randoms are a mixed bag. If anyone would like to team up sometime I'm 7k in premier (yuropoor timezone/ping)

>>2255
ok I gave it a chance - two matches were quite fun but probably only because we won. i like that it seems there are no traditional moba roles here?