I never got to that level either.

It's really fun, I never played 1.6 and only played source a little so I'm a bit of a CS nub but it's nice to play an old school style shooter again, so tired of COD rehashes over and over.

I'm having a blast. What servers are y'all playing on?

I guess we should all join the SimHQ steam group, and join one another from there.

I peeked in the SimHQ steam group and mashed the 'Add Friends' button of names I recognized. Profile name is 'fearlessfrog', but it doesn't mean we're married or anything

Fun game, but starting to annoy me.... I'm carring the bomb and say "got the bomb, clear Bravo", no one does, and say it again and again, someone says, "don't you know CS is really just team deathmatch", lol.

and some of the hit detection/area is F'ed up...

Yeah, it's random on who you'll get. Sometimes it's hard to leave the voip thing on with some players that are pretty odd lol

The hit detection is strange, but it's deceiving on how the bullet spread goes - the aim point stays still always (unlike most shooters) but the bullets actually climb up as the recoil clicks in. It usually means that people tend to aim for mid-body mass, and then the bullets 'climb up' and get a head-shot. If you crouch for stability then ironically you'll get head-shot a bit more. The AK and M4 single first shot is deadly, but after that I'm finding it crazy spray time - with the bullets hard to see. I spent a round or two experimenting with a wall at different distances - it helps show where the bullets are really going, as it sure ain't the aim point

I've also seen a few 1 vs 1 new players rotating around each other on full auto, guns blazing away with neither of them hitting anything from about 5 feet out - they think their bullets are going where the aim sight is, but they've climbed up about a foot above the enemies head once they left the trigger down for too long. The real pros (not me, I'm fairly useless) spend a lot of time climbing the mouse down to concentrate fire

I would advise switching to the static, classic crosshair. That way it's easier to remember (for me anyway) that the crosshair only marks the center of the screen, after that it's up to you to control the recoil by learning how much to pull the mouse down for each shot after the first. Every gun is different so it helps to stick with one or two on each side until you get the hang of them. I would recommend the cheaper (famas, galil) and more expensive (ak, m4) ARs as the ones to really get to know.

Thanks Jeevz, I didn't realize the options had the dynamic/static, classic/default settings - mine was on classic, so must have put it there at sometime or another.

I am doing the famas/M4 combo, and loading up with flashbangs (this is in casual classic where money is easier).

I don't like the casual mode because IMO 10v10 is too many for those maps and I like having to purchase kevlar, kits and whatnot. The problem is more players seem to prefer casual because a lot of matches have bots on both teams in classic comp