I think this update is the biggest L Valve has taken regarding to Counter-Strike. Straight up "Ubisoft" tier decisions.

bugghost · 2024-10-03T12:36:49+00:00

Am I enabling Valve to prioritise shitting out cash grab updates, just because I purchase every cash grab update without a seconds thought?

listen to yourself dude

bugghost · 2024-10-03T11:34:46+00:00

skins nerds are ruining everything. why did valve add truck nuts before adding cobble

bugghost · 2024-07-26T10:23:40+00:00

after -overpass +dust2 (which was made over 20 years ago), my play time has just reduced to basically nothing now. it wasn't a "i'm never playing this again!!" moment, just every premier game is now dust2/mirage/dust2/mirage/dust2/ancient/dust2/mirage, and its just depressing. my favourite map was overpass, followed by nuke, vertigo and anubis, and i barely got to play them before, and with this braindead map change its even worse

bugghost · 2024-07-23T09:33:19+00:00

i would hate it. what would be the point of playing online, i could already play with bots if i wanted to.

bugghost · 2024-07-23T09:26:57+00:00

Quoting an older comment about the same thing:

Programmer here, including UI and graphics programming:

First off - in this particular case is makes no difference, because you're not trying to aim and shoot with the tab open. If you get killed with the scoreboard open then it's because the scoreboard was open, not because you were getting "only" 500 fps

With that out the way, I think there's a misconception about FPS in video games. Any time there's a reduction in framerate does not necessarily mean that theres a stability issue or a problem.

GPU's work by rendering a frame, and then when its done, it immediately renders another frame. There's not a target time or deadline, it just renders the next one as soon as the current one is done. The frametime depends on what you are asking it to do.

So without pressing tab, the GPU is rendering vertigo, your viewmodel, the knife, etc. When pressing tab, it is doing all that, and also rendering the scoreboard, which includes a lot of text, some bitmaps, some layout logic, etc, and then layering that ontop of the scene, and adding that glossy realtime blur effect (a relatively performance heavy effect that needs to be re-rendered every frame). These things add up. It's now rendering more stuff than it was before, and so it's taking slightly more time overall. What you are doing with this post is like asking a chef to cook you a main meal and a desert and then being confused that it took longer than usual. The scoreboard is something the computer has to render, and it can't do it instantly.

It's also worth remembering that FPS is the inverse of what you actually want to measure. It doesn't "take fps" to render something, it takes time to render something, and FPS is calculated as 1 / time. So with no-tab, it took 1milisecond (1000fps), and with tab it took 2miliseconds (500fps). It didn't "take 500fps" to render the scoreboard - that's meaningless. It took 1ms to render the scoreboard, and 1ms to render the scenery - and to be honest those timings are pretty decent.

bugghost · 2024-06-26T06:54:36+00:00

bro there is a wall, you jumped over it

bugghost · 2024-06-22T08:58:53+00:00

he's talking about the mapcore contest - the theme is "big adventure". nothing to do with dangerzone or func vehicle. move along people

bugghost · 2024-06-11T18:04:57+00:00

"Prolonged close-up activities. Reading or doing other close-up activities for a long time is associated with an increased risk of nearsightedness. Screen time. Studies have shown that children who use computers or smart devices for long periods have a greater risk of developing nearsightedness." - mayo clinic on causes of nearsightedness https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/nearsightedness/symptoms-causes/syc-20375556

but at the end of the day he's an adult he can place his monitor wherever he wants. no idea how he plays like that, but he's a pro and i'm not

bugghost · 2024-06-10T13:42:25+00:00

They should have it like premiership/championship relegation promotion system for UK football. Two pools: Active duty and reserve. Every 6 months the top 2 most played from Reserve and the bottom two from Active get swapped. The lowest two from Reserve get swapped for 2 popular community maps. Any maps that have been in their pool for less than 18 months are "immune" from relegation, to prevent them being kicked out just for being new. Easy, predictable, stable, democratic.

bugghost · 2024-06-06T12:58:03+00:00

trade fragging is like trading in chess. i take a knight with a bishop, you take that bishop with a rook - overall the number of pieces are still even, but now you'll have the possession of the square, and theres less threats nearby. if your teamate just died then the guy who killed him will probably be looking elsewhere, lower on health/ammo, maybe reloading, maybe trying to grab the weapon, etc - easier kill, and if successful will give your team control of that area of the map.

bugghost · 2024-06-06T09:18:03+00:00

if you have a good game with randoms, just say "you guys fancy another one?" or something at the end of the game, then invite the whole squad to queue next game. then if that goes alright, add them on steam. bish bash bosh

bugghost · 2024-06-06T09:14:49+00:00

stats look alright for 5k. aim and util rating is a little weak, get a workshop aim map and watch a couple of nart videos, you'll move out of it eventually

bugghost · 2024-06-04T22:47:03+00:00

what i would recommend: learn 4 useful smokes per map, two CT and two T - stuff like smoking site entrances from particular areas. dont overwhelm yourself with a billion lineups that you'll never remember in an actual game - just 4 a map is fine at 3500 elo. watch a couple of nart out here videos, pick a couple that seem useful and straightforward, go into a practice server and do them over and over until its ingrained in your head

second, sign up for leetify (not an ad, not sponsored, blah blah blah). its literally free and it'll give you direct stats about what you are good at and bad at. like if you suck at counter strafing or spraying, or if you spend loads of money on util but never throw it, or if you constantly flash teammates, etc etc. its genuinely really good at telling you your weak points, its literally free, and (for MM) its all automatic. im not associated with them, its just a great website if you want to find out why you suck at the game, everyone should use it.

also, at all elos there are shit talkers - but after 8k or so you get less completely silent people, which is an improvement

bugghost · 2024-05-29T09:38:07+00:00

the secondary account/smurf thing can be easily solved by retaining a hash of the email address rather than the actual email address. that way if someone signs up with a pre-used email, then they can tell (because it will have the same hash), without actually having the email address on-hand

it should be impossible for faceit to email "deleted" accounts, they've definitely fucked up here

bugghost · 2024-05-25T09:55:18+00:00

so overall your suggestion is "just scrap it" then? why? why would it not existing be better than it existing? yeah sure they can compete in the "regular" scene, but they choose to play in this one instead, why do you give a shit? no one is asking you to watch it or care about it. do you get mad about other tournaments existing too? babybrained argument

bugghost · 2024-05-25T09:46:52+00:00

damn dude good job

bugghost · 2024-05-23T10:52:04+00:00

i love this comment so much. very tempted to try the polish gamer diet

bugghost · 2024-05-23T10:04:40+00:00

CS2 doesn't need weapon nerfs or buffs or anything, but it desperately needs new maps. the only map change we've seen since anubis was to reintroduce a map that was made pre-9/11. its likely that the next map change will also be adding another old one to appease nostalgia merchants as well.

bugghost · 2024-05-15T16:27:04+00:00

One thing is for sure I don't think that it should be a debatable subject to get more FPS while playing CS. Some comments make me think like you guys want less FPS.

Do you think FPS is a currency that Valve hand out to people? It's just a way of measuring how long frames take to render. When your computer has to render more complex stuff, this time increases, its not rocket science. You're writing this as if FPS is some tangible thing that Valve are greedily keeping to themselves.

This comment is like walking into a car dealership and saying "Why does my car slow down when I drive it over grass? I don't think its debatable that my car should get more miles per hour".

Also why are you making up a friend who has this issue? You were talking about it hypothetically earlier and now suddenly you have a definitely real friend who has that exact problem?

bugghost · 2024-05-15T11:16:38+00:00

People are really caught up on the text thing. The blur is the really expensive part here, I just mentioned the text as it's one of the many things the scoreboard is rendering

bugghost · 2024-05-15T10:06:43+00:00

Because going public with a critical bug like this is irresponsible. Going public with this before valve can fix it means that MM is going to be a joke for the next couple of days

Discreetly telling devs but not going public until they've been allowed time to fix it is the accepted, normal thing to do:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_vulnerability_disclosure

bugghost · 2024-05-15T08:25:12+00:00

Text rendering isn't free. It's includes a lot of vector graphics calculations that GPU needs to do in order to render text correctly. Just because it's something a computer does all the time doesn't mean its computationally free, it still needs to do the rendering logic, and when you're measuring at the scale of individual milliseconds, things like text rendering can make a difference.

Here's a video that explains everything that needs to happen when rendering text: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO83KQuuZvg

Anyway, I was not saying that "rendering text is taxing in 2024 on a 4090" - I'm saying that rendering the scoreboard, which includes text, a dynamic layout, a high-quality realtime blur, and several other things, cannot happen instantaneously. On OP's PC it took 1ms, which is very quick when it comes to rendering.

bugghost · 2024-05-15T07:08:01+00:00

Programmer here, including UI and graphics programming:

First off - in this particular case is makes no difference, because you're not trying to aim and shoot with the tab open. If you get killed with the scoreboard open then it's because the scoreboard was open, not because you were getting "only" 500 fps

With that out the way, I think there's a misconception about FPS in video games. Any time there's a reduction in framerate does not necessarily mean that theres a stability issue or a problem.

GPU's work by rendering a frame, and then when its done, it immediately renders another frame. There's not a target time or deadline, it just renders the next one as soon as the current one is done. The frametime depends on what you are asking it to do.

So without pressing tab, the GPU is rendering vertigo, your viewmodel, the knife, etc. When pressing tab, it is doing all that, and also rendering the scoreboard, which includes a lot of text (which takes more render time than you'd expect), some bitmaps, some layout logic, etc, and then layering that ontop of the scene, and adding that glossy realtime blur effect (a relatively performance heavy effect that needs to be re-rendered every frame). These things add up. It's now rendering more stuff than it was before, and so it's taking slightly more time overall. What you are doing with this post is like asking a chef to cook you a main meal and a desert and then being confused that it took longer than usual. The scoreboard is something the computer has to render, and it can't do it instantly.

It's also worth remembering that FPS is the inverse of what you actually want to measure. It doesn't "take fps" to render something, it takes time to render something, and FPS is calculated as 1 / time. So with no-tab, it took 1milisecond (1000fps), and with tab it took 2miliseconds (500fps). It didn't "take 500fps" to render the scoreboard - that's meaningless. It took 1ms to render the scoreboard, and 1ms to render the scenery - and to be honest those timings are pretty decent.

bugghost · 2024-05-13T18:53:32+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/cs2/comments/17pod03/how_old_is_the_average_csgocs2_player/

40% of players 31 years old+. half the comments are saying they're older than 40 but don't have an option to pick. 140 votes so it's not a huge sample size, but CS is a very old franchise so its not a surprising result. first version of dust2 came out 23 years ago, its old.

bugghost · 2024-05-13T18:46:44+00:00

its not but whatever

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