It's been a rough last few months of gaming for myself. Last spring I left my Iowa State University campus and returned home in debt and heavy heart in hand. Despite the reasons for staying, my pocket isn't the only thing that has been suffering since returning home. My supposed t3 connection at State has been stripped and I am back to my parents DSL. Dont get me wrong, the play at home isn't so bad, until things get thick.
I didn't notice a big difference at first between gaming at home and gaming on campus for a bit. It wasn't until I'd looked at my recent stats. I was having trouble holding a 1:1 ratio in a server that I'd called home for about a year and half that I decided to turn my net_graph back on and see what was up. My older settings were not compatible with my home and had a constant choke of about 35... My frames rested steady at 19-..... I was so heart broken.
Was this the end of my gaming as I knew it? I'd been gaming at home years before I went to school and it had been fine then, what was different now? Was my 1.3 gh AMD tm finally at the end of it's rope? Though it seemed hard to move on and grasp the fact that my poor comp couldn't handle css anymore, I would push on.
I tried everything, changing settings to low, "optimum", and I even tried those commands the eliminate things like shadows and muzzle flash but nothing would help me... So I just continued to play on these terrible frames and a sketchy connection. But I wasn't ready to roll over and die just yet.
There were things I was slightly known for when playing css. And that was being stupid and being good at it. Figuring out new ways to play was my idea and I'd intended to put it into action immediately. The maps I was stuck with were the dust maps locked on the Evolutiongaming.nl network. And each weapon was soon to be redefined there.
I picked up my favorite, the galil. When treated Properly this gun is both the perfect long and short range set. It's first two are accurate at a strafe and it's spray is more than controllable. The p288 is always the perfect side arm. And the m3 shall remain as the steady backup with it's super damage at short range and excellent suppressive fire at distance. The only problem I had to deal with was I registered only about a shot a second. If I were to miss in a close range battle I'd lose, but the long range was still ok. And I'd spent about four hours one night figuring most of this out...
Now it was time to change up my style. I'd been primarily a rusher. CT side T side didnt matter to me. But it was my movement that had to change. I could no longer stop and fire because the shots just didnt make it into the server. I had to kill in the first few shots or I was doomed right there. And sticking to walls to make it to corners just doesn't work anymore, that's the first place you watch when you camp and awp the most. That left me with misdirection and a disregard for a little hurt. Always carry a nade was my motto now.
Jumping corners was also out. I found crouching into a corner then just running out randomly really works best. And that spare nade? I've never used it much at people unless I know it will either move them or seriously hurt them. I use it around corners back and away from me. People immediately and compulsively look at the freshly cleared nade area for the person who will be rushing through it. Now it's just a matter of finding them.
After about three months of changing up my game play a friend of mine (MURRAY, look him up ;D) told me to try a cevo fps config, legit for tourney's and everything. The moment after signing in with that installed I noticed my choke was zero... For the first time in months.... I'd messed with my rates for two weeks straight and now it's fixed like that. My frames were also up to about 35+ and I was about ready to crap my pants. And just to test to see how I was doing I went and practiced with a few of my old team friends ( h2flow, anyone remember them?) now in TEAMUNKIND at (http://www.unkindgaming.com/) and completely blew my mind...
Gaming has been saved for Cranix! Someday I will probably upgrade from my socket A system to something better and get even better. But being called a hacker at least once a day is finally starting to sound more like the gamer I used to be, it's nice.
Well this is a huge blog but I hope you all enjoyed a little glimpse into my gaming life XD have a good night and keep on truckin, even when it gets hard.
Cranix out
