I'm taking a break from hl2dm for a bit. It's changed since I firsted played it, and so have I. I used to love playing on the tomb, capping flags and chillin with my pDs buddies. I only now play ctf for like 20 mins a month, cause the dm side of hl2 got the best of me. Slowly and slowly more of the pDsers I loved playing with became inactive, left for a different clan, or just don't play as much as they used to. I started to only play dm maps and forgot about the ctf part completely. It's just not as fun as it was back in the day (about a year ago lol) as it is now. I find myself playing aim_arena 24/7 just to win and make myself look good, and that's not what I want. I used to care less how i played, and even made fun of the ones who make excuses when they get shot, or when they can't hit someone, cause they're "having a bad day," and i've found myself doing these things now. I've played this game too long to just stop playing all together, but I think a break is much needed. It's like say.... A new car, or something, you get it and it's the coolest. You love driving it, and you just want to drive it all over the place. But later on, whether it's months or years, it's not as fun as it was, it's just another boring car. I know none of this is really making sense, it's kind of just a ramble, but I just want to get a couple things off my chest. Something Nerco said kinda made me realize:

"I have no desire to use scripts or exploits which has became the norm in HL2. I consider it cheating and even considered banning it from our server. Hax can’t be competitive unless we fly around 100 miles an hour or using a hit box hiding invinci-jump and I wont be doing that. I also have no intention to insist that our members learn that crap. Makes you wonder why we are so popular and so called elite servers are dead huh. 85% of the people who play want to have a good time not get walked over by someone they can’t catch. It’s bad enough for them to play against good players let alone whining exploiters who complain about RPG’s, nads, and orbs. Its funny, I mean WTF else can a newbie do but spam those weapons. If I took hax in the direction I wanted to go we would most likely lose half our members, and I think it’s easier to just step down and do as I please."

I try and play ctf more to see if i can like...jump start my ctf buds again and get back into it, but it doesn't really work. I've become what I once mocked, and it got me thinking a lot. I know this is total "nerdish" but hl2 became a part of my everyday life. Get home from school, play a bit of hl2, do homework, go skate and so on. So that kind of made me hate the game in a way, I think that's why I'm writing this. Also the fact that a some players have left are fun clan, to be in more competitive clans, and a few scrims here and there would satisfy my competitiveness. To me, hl2 has changed for the worst (in a whole) because a lot of people now play to win, and be the best, instead of why we all started, to have fun. I'm not disappearing completely, i'll still be around the forums and occasionally jump in a game, and if you guys really need and extra person for a scrim, i'll be happy to jump in. And hopefully when I make a come back, the tomb will be back up and better than ever. But until then,

this is turboninja (kai) hanging up his hl2dm coat.

Don't expect us to ever make a return to DM (popularity wise). The game is ruined forever.


Plagued by bugs and no support, nothing was ever done to normalize the gameplay into something long-lasting.

There are no newbie players anymore. All the "pros" drove them away in droves over the past year. A new payer cannot pick this game up. Period. I blame the HAX guys as well as people like Puffer, etc. I learned long ago that coming into a game with no clue, and finding that you are the only one in the server who doesn't have the game down, you quit as quickly as you joined. First impressions are generally everything.

There are little to no "fun" players anymore because, let's face it, what's fun about getting steam-rolled?

I hope you find what you're looking for. See you in October for TF2.

Great advise!!!  

hl2mp is one of the most unique deathmatch concept games ever.

And they let it decay. That's all I'm saying.

DM's dead, it's been dead. Whut's right, TF2 is gonna be pwn  until valve forgets about it and makes more css maps or something.   I'll be playing bf2142 (yeahiknowbf2isbetterblahblahblahgofuckyourself)  till tf2 comes out if you want to gamezor with senior shark.



shark

snipers are super gay.  may they burn.

You must be sore from all the abuse you took in CS.  Long distance kills require patience and skill (when the bullets don't travel at the speed of light).  Snipers in BF1942 and BF2 were powerful, but you had to get used to leading your target and guessing how much to do so.  Snipers can be a valuable part of a team.  I hate the AWP whores in CS(S) just as much as the next player, but they are effective.  Play to win.  Take advantage of whatever you can to win.

Not including a decent sniper weapon in HL2 and HL2MP was a major mistake.  CS(S) players are used to snipers.  HL2MP needs more players.  Not having sniper weapons turns CS(S) players off.  It makes it feel like Q3arena with the nonstop chaos.

Minus the "play to win" line, this is probably the only thing you have ever written that I don't disagree with.