CS: Source Beta News

HAHAHAHAHA!

I love the jealousy in this thread. It's making me cry laughing!

I'm amazed this wasnt decided from the start.

people bought a ATI card up to a year ago after advertising the game coming out e.t.c,

then they try to sell more copies of a mediocre game (CS:CZ) by offering the beta to them. unbelievable, there bad choices (for reputation) is astounding.

I havent played CS for years btw, I just cant stand business's fuking with customers and showing no respect to those who paid there bills.

(dont give me that "its smart business" shit). like Sam for LOTR said " were fighting for whats good in this world, where game companies respect there fan base and realize in the end they'll have more business and a better future by treating your customers well".

point is, sure you may sell alot of copies of a game (while your in semi good standing with fans) but in the long run it'll be a permanent mark on your record. and they'll be less likely to trust you or give you money in the future. = bad business decision in the end

Graphic hardware is only one aspect of what is tested during a beta test. i.e. you have various CPU, OS, RAM, Sound configurations as well, networking conditions, general bugs, latency / bandwidth issues, prediction issues, etc.

woohoo.. my coupon might actually do something now!

QUOTE - like Sam for LOTR said " were fighting for whats good in this world, where game companies respect there fan base and realize in the end they'll have more business and a better future by treating your customers well".

Wow, Sam really talked about game companies? And business ethics? That's gotta be in the extended edition, cuz I missed it. :)

I think the best thing about this article is that it shows that source seems to run okay on a widescreen aspect monitor. They didn't mention any distortion of the image (other than the tearing in the middle of the screen) and the screenshot didn't look distended, so maybe the game supports a widescreen FOV natively? That would be very cool for a game company to do this, even if it gives people with widescreens a minor advantage in an otherwise fixed FOV world.

I played Q3 on one of those Apple cinema display 23" monitors before. It was amazing. I set my FOV to 130 and it didn't look distorted at all.

oh cool I see they've really opened it up fuck fuck fuck I never get in betas anymore fuck