C4, delay, detornators, duds and lag.
Posted: 2008-01-28 10:31
I unfortunatly do not have the best of internet connections, usually pinging around 180 sometimes spiking at more. In 0.6 i often had the problem when using a engineer, that i would lay c4 and it would go off in my face. After being called a exploiter for quite some time and even kicked off a few sevrer for it i carefully thought about what i was doing.
Due to the long animation of the c4 and added to the sometime high ping i suffered i often found that i was double or tripple clikcing when i layed the c4 (in combination with the adrenalin of sneeking up on a tank you really just want to get the thing layed) so the c4 was getting thrown down and then imediatly blowing up because you change to the clicker almost instinaious (im pretty sure you can set it of before the animation to being the detornator even happens) and then you set the cliker of with the same button and laying the c4.
When i heard about the 5 second delay being introduced i thought this would be the end of my problems but now i often find myself dudding my c4 before the delay activation and i am apparently not the only one this happens to, even when they know about the delay activation.
Now for whatever reason, whether it be lag, or just over enthusiasm on the cliking when laying the c4, i just find it annoying that you lay the c4 with the same button that you set it off with and that you can click the detonator so quicky after laying the c4, even if it doesnt go off anymore its still really annoying.
I would like to ask the pr team to make one or both of these simple changes that i think woudl improve the situation alot.
1) you lay the c4 with your primary fire key as you do now, but you set of the clicker with the alternative fire key. - This mean no matter how many times you press the fire key whilst laying the c4, you only lay the c4. the clicker can then be easly activated using the alternative fire button.
2) slow down the animation of the detornator so that you cant click it for at least a second or 2 this would also reduce the amount of times the c4 duds from over enthusiastic clikcing but would still dud the c4 if you try to set it off before the 5 second etc.
i know its only a small change and probably doesnt effect that many people but i think it would really help and dort out this problem and shouldnet be to much work to change (especialy option 1) not that i know this im just hoping.
sorry for my spelling i just suck
Due to the long animation of the c4 and added to the sometime high ping i suffered i often found that i was double or tripple clikcing when i layed the c4 (in combination with the adrenalin of sneeking up on a tank you really just want to get the thing layed) so the c4 was getting thrown down and then imediatly blowing up because you change to the clicker almost instinaious (im pretty sure you can set it of before the animation to being the detornator even happens) and then you set the cliker of with the same button and laying the c4.
When i heard about the 5 second delay being introduced i thought this would be the end of my problems but now i often find myself dudding my c4 before the delay activation and i am apparently not the only one this happens to, even when they know about the delay activation.
Now for whatever reason, whether it be lag, or just over enthusiasm on the cliking when laying the c4, i just find it annoying that you lay the c4 with the same button that you set it off with and that you can click the detonator so quicky after laying the c4, even if it doesnt go off anymore its still really annoying.
I would like to ask the pr team to make one or both of these simple changes that i think woudl improve the situation alot.
1) you lay the c4 with your primary fire key as you do now, but you set of the clicker with the alternative fire key. - This mean no matter how many times you press the fire key whilst laying the c4, you only lay the c4. the clicker can then be easly activated using the alternative fire button.
2) slow down the animation of the detornator so that you cant click it for at least a second or 2 this would also reduce the amount of times the c4 duds from over enthusiastic clikcing but would still dud the c4 if you try to set it off before the 5 second etc.
i know its only a small change and probably doesnt effect that many people but i think it would really help and dort out this problem and shouldnet be to much work to change (especialy option 1) not that i know this im just hoping.
sorry for my spelling i just suck
