Tai wrote:In 0.60, the drunken cam and the too high mouse accuracy were removed, which imho started all this shit. Before, it was harder to headshot somebody, which removed the emphasis from killing, and made people build and cap the intel and care more about tactics/strategy and engineering than weapons and how to kill someone :P (at least people were like that on the 4chan /v/ servers). This is the actual classic AoS that some veterans/people are referring to. You can install 0.54 and try to connect to the /v/ server(s) if they're still alive or have been revived.LeCom wrote:Firstly, players are really bored of 0.75, nobody will play 0.70 . Secondly, there's this problem with headshot spammers now, which didn't exist at that level when 0.60-0.70 were released.LeCom I'm not sure of how long you've been playing but AoS always had disproportional headshots to other games for the simple reason that the head is 1/3rd of the body and is what everyone is aiming for. It's profoundly easier to kill someone by shooting them in the head. 0.70 was the exact same, probably 'worse' because the rifle had pinpoint accuracy.
Tai wrote:It's harder to hack a game if updates change specific code and data. It's dependent on the update itself, but slightest changes make existing hacks definitely not compatible; structural changes would make it harder to "update" a hack. Maybe related, maybe not, but AFAIK there's no actual hack for 0.76 (the reason may just be the low popularity tho')And, if you don't want the game to be developed, there would be much more hacks than if the game code was changing all the time.That's sort of a misnomer. Hacks are just exploits (and the major ones we deal with are the result of AoS's code being pretty poorly thought out on Ben's part). What you're talking about isn't so much 'development' as patching existing problems. Adding new features doesn't magically make old exploits go away.
It's also a bit of motivation to write a hack/to use hacks if the game always stays the same. You start getting bored of the same stuff, so you want to play it "a different way".
Btw, it's pretty easy to hack a game, so you should forget about coding the client in a way that is hard to hack or such.
You still haven't removed PySpades/PySnip from the vote.