Back to sound ownage

Last time I played with sound was about 2 months ago. During these two months, I just played for fun while playing some music. It wasn't really funny at all. The only good thing was the music. Today I had my headsets put and started to own the other team. It was really funny, and better than just hearing music and playing for fun.

This reminds me the importance of headsets in Counter-Strike 1.6 and many other online FPS games. In most of these games, they let you know the location of your enemies or where did a situation take place.

So, if you are hearing music and playing for fun with simple speakers, I recommend you to switch to your headsets, with or without the music in the gameplay. That will make things much better and will let others know what you are made of :D

Check for a server's variables at Game-Monitor!

Did you ever wanted to check for the variables in a server? It's easy with this method:

1. Add the server to Game-Monitor.

2. Go to the server's page at game monitor.

3. Information is divided in tabs. Search and click "Server Variables" tab.

4. Done!

Source: http://csvjournal.blogspot.com/2009/11/check-for-servers-variables-at-game.html

PROs rates / commands

Sometimes we don't know what are the correct rates / commands for Counter-Strike 1.6.

One Counter-Strike 1.6 player (markmadsen) took some time to ask pros about their settings and the most results were:

cl_updaterate 101

rate 25000

cl_cmdrate 101

and possibly:

ex_interp 0.01

Many of these PRO old players say they won't change the values, even when there are lag spikes.

The thread is here: http://www.gotfrag.com/cs/forums/thread/213584/

Like the new logo?

So this is our new logo.. Like it? :D

Banned for cheating

Recently one of my friend's steam account was banned because of cheating. He was using the cheat in my server and we were using cheats to have some fun: for some reason I couldn't run the cheat on Steam, so I used non steam instead. Take a look at the banned account settings:

So, don't cheat! Because you will get your account banned! That's why people play in Steam servers rather than in Non Steam ones.