s0apy
04-09-03, 14:52
now then. as you probably know, if you circle-strafe with a rifle, constantly firing, your stamina will drop to near-nothing quite fast. the idea of this is that, once it gets to a certain low point (around 8 or so), bad things start to happen to you. and rightly so. however, i'm not certain if some of these things are intended, or are just bugs, and i AM certain that at least one of the bad things IS a bug.
1) your movement speed will slow considerably at very low STA. which is fine and expected.
2) your gun will continually reload after firing one or two bursts (clip at 21 or 24 shots remaining). well - somethings gotta give i guess, but the reload is not really an intuitive result of low STA. i'd have thought a reduced RoF, but perhaps this is the visual representation we get (after all, continually reloading instead of firing DOES slow down RoF quite badly).
3) sometimes your gun will not fire at all.
now then, this is the one i have a real problem with:
4) once/if you get to "gun will not fire at all" you will, even if you stand still and recover STA to max or at least enough to make you think you should be able to continue, you WILL NOT be able to fire your weapon. it just sits there like a large metal turd and refuses to fire despite repeated jabbings at the fire button.
this last isn't lag - i've tried it alone in my appy, paying careful watch on my ping and fps, and can reproduce this problem.
the only way to make your gun work again is to equip something else, then re-equip the gun. then it will magically begin working again.
of course, unless you've been shooting up your appy when this occured, you will most likely be dead, or close-to, by the time you get yourself back in order.
so.
1) has this happened to you?
2) is this a bug?
i've died too often to this dang thing, and believe me there is nothing worse than getting an opponent to 10HP and then standing there like a huge turd-carrying statue of shite while you try and get your fooking pain easer to fire. if nothing else i have now got 3 mice with cracked casings, having hurled them across the room followed by a stream of curses, profane epithets and really-bad-swears that would make a gangsta-rapper blush and satan himself run for the safety of his mothers bosom.
arggggggggggggggghhh.
if this is really the way things are meant to be, i'm switching to pistols forthwith. life is hard enough as a rifle PE, what with everyone laughing at you the whole time, without being additionally hamstrung by the fact that your weapon can completely jam up on you as though filled with a mixture of sticky jam and the gloopy, curse-ed cowpats from the devils own SATANIC HERD.
can you tell i'm pissed?
ps. srry for long post and extended rant.
1) your movement speed will slow considerably at very low STA. which is fine and expected.
2) your gun will continually reload after firing one or two bursts (clip at 21 or 24 shots remaining). well - somethings gotta give i guess, but the reload is not really an intuitive result of low STA. i'd have thought a reduced RoF, but perhaps this is the visual representation we get (after all, continually reloading instead of firing DOES slow down RoF quite badly).
3) sometimes your gun will not fire at all.
now then, this is the one i have a real problem with:
4) once/if you get to "gun will not fire at all" you will, even if you stand still and recover STA to max or at least enough to make you think you should be able to continue, you WILL NOT be able to fire your weapon. it just sits there like a large metal turd and refuses to fire despite repeated jabbings at the fire button.
this last isn't lag - i've tried it alone in my appy, paying careful watch on my ping and fps, and can reproduce this problem.
the only way to make your gun work again is to equip something else, then re-equip the gun. then it will magically begin working again.
of course, unless you've been shooting up your appy when this occured, you will most likely be dead, or close-to, by the time you get yourself back in order.
so.
1) has this happened to you?
2) is this a bug?
i've died too often to this dang thing, and believe me there is nothing worse than getting an opponent to 10HP and then standing there like a huge turd-carrying statue of shite while you try and get your fooking pain easer to fire. if nothing else i have now got 3 mice with cracked casings, having hurled them across the room followed by a stream of curses, profane epithets and really-bad-swears that would make a gangsta-rapper blush and satan himself run for the safety of his mothers bosom.
arggggggggggggggghhh.
if this is really the way things are meant to be, i'm switching to pistols forthwith. life is hard enough as a rifle PE, what with everyone laughing at you the whole time, without being additionally hamstrung by the fact that your weapon can completely jam up on you as though filled with a mixture of sticky jam and the gloopy, curse-ed cowpats from the devils own SATANIC HERD.
can you tell i'm pissed?
ps. srry for long post and extended rant.