well Steam finally managed to end that 900 megabyte download yesterday. I mean CS:Source. So I tried it for the first time this night.
Graphically, it's okay.
But game wise, it's terrible.
I started on cs_italy. Okay, after a few minutes of architectural tourism through the map, I decided to test the player physics. Nice first impression, my player reacted in almost the same way as the old CS. The collisions with the world work as expected. I could have been fooled thinking it was just a BSP world.
But the entities physics... alas. I see a table, I want to jump on it. IMPOSSIBLE. I bounce off this shit like on a bumper everytime. I want to navigate the underpass in the wine cellar with the barrels and all, and it's like I'm in a flipper game. I want to climb the barrels: booooing. I navigate around a corner and jumps over a bicycle: booooing. Even a stupid BUCKET makes me bounce 3 meters away. I can't stand on no chair, I can't camp on no table, unless it's tied to the world. What the FUCK????????
So I decided to shoot a few hossies, to see the bullet physics. First one, headshot. Poof, the hostage falls down. No recoil, no movement, no flinch, nothing: it's as if I had just unplugged him from life, as if the bullet hadn't hit him at all. Wanted to test a bit more, so I take my glock and aim for the hand. Normally, the arm would have flinched because of the bullet's velocity. Nothing. Not a movement. I fire and fire and fire and fire, that stupid hostage goes "waa" "ouch" "eek" "aiiie" "mommy", his health goes down and down and down while he stands PERFECTLY IMMOBIL. Not a single movement. In the end I take my knife and stab that bastard. I would have expected to see blood marks on his face. Many games do it quite well. Far Cry does it very well. Even an old thing like Soldier of Fortune: Double Helix does it. Here, nothing. I can knife him, stab him, pierce the bastard with countless holes, he stays as pink and shiny as a little jesus.
Man. What a waste of code.
But my main grief is against the entity physics. Even a bucket flies in an unrealistic manner when I shoot at it ! Far Cry did a MUCH better job at physics than CS:Source !!! Here just about ANYTHING makes you bounce away from your path as much as that you have to know PERFECTLY the map and what are the "spots" to avoid and the "entities" to circle around so as to be able to play correctly ! Man, if I want to take cover, if I dodge behind a wall, or in a doorway, I am INSTANTLY bounced back on the road by some shit there !!!!!
And I've always been a climber. I love to camp at impossible places. Here, I just CANNOT stand on no fucking TABLE or no fucking BARREL !!! it's FORBIDDEN ! I can't even JUMP PAST IT, it just makes me bounce away !!!
what a pitiful shit. HL2 which I'm downloading now oughta be a LOT better, else I'll ask for a refund. Or damn it, they give me the source, and I'm'onna fix one thing or two. >
