Is it me?

[SoWat]

Do I need my eyes testing?

I get sniped by people so far away that I can't see them, even when I tried a sniper rifle myself... they just merge into the fog/foliage in the far distance, yet they can pick me off as soon as I poke my head 1mm above a rock.

I am knocking on a bit, but surely my eyes can't be that bad?

Anyway... I run the game with pretty much default settings. Are there any settings that can be used to help see stuff better?

One guy did say that he uses clearscope... as I can't find it in the cvar list I'm assuming it's a cheat (this was on a pure server btw!), so it may well be that the game is cheat ridden already.

[Decoyroy]

as i have been playing that for a while and with a higher brightness i find it easier to aim from a distance.

[Will]

A googling turns up nothing for clearscope with Call of Duty, or various combinations. If you try playing on servers with the killcam (annoying as it is), you should start to get a feel for the max sniping range before fog becomes an issue.

[Chameleon]

Aye, turn the brightness up m8, it can help quite a bit.

[FlameTop]

I think part of the problem is trying to judge just how visable your player model is behind objects. Several times in the snipe-fest that is rocket and hurtgen I have considered I was being stealthy only to be sniped. The kill cam usually shows I may as well have been dancing in open space for all the cover I had managed

It may be they are just using cover better than you Sowat

[JBP|]

as far as cheats go i am aware of a wall hack and also something that makes the models sort of glow i.e. your side would have a red glow while your opponents will be green


all in all if both of those cheats are used then i would imagine it would be quite hard to miss your target (and if there was an aimbot in existance also you couldnt loose really)

[SoWat]

Originally Posted by FlameTop

I think part of the problem is trying to judge just how visable your player model is behind objects. Several times in the snipe-fest that is rocket and hurtgen I have considered I was being stealthy only to be sniped. The kill cam usually shows I may as well have been dancing in open space for all the cover I had managed

It may be they are just using cover better than you Sowat

That *is* something that annoys me. I'm dead sure that I'm completely hidden, but after getting blasted, the killcam shows me laying in the open :/

I guess they do have better cover, but I still don't see how they can see me from soooo far away.

*turns brightness up full





*is blinded on Hurtgen

[throdgrain]

Remember, its a q3 -based game. I expect there's a lot of people playing with gamma/brightness as high as it will go, map_overbrightbits 19 or whatever it is :/
Some people just have to win no matter what.
Me i play at 1280-1024 with every detail on maximum and I dont often even use a crosshair. And if you beat me because of it, I dont care

[SoWat]

Originally Posted by Will

A googling turns up nothing for clearscope with Call of Duty, or various combinations. If you try playing on servers with the killcam (annoying as it is), you should start to get a feel for the max sniping range before fog becomes an issue.

Shit... I eventually found a mention of clearscope, and it's not good news

It's actually part of a larger cheat program (details of which I won't post here).

The killcam certainly puts my mind at rest when I think "How the hell did he kill me" and find I was doing a Flametop-style dancing in the open routine, but some snipers get me, and I can't even see me in their sights when it's replayed.

[Chameleon]

I just turned the brightness up a notch in the nvidia display properties thingy, as nearly every game seems too dark, but the desktop is well bright. Oh well, can't have it all I spose.
I'm also shit at hiding and sniping ..... I prefer to run in with a machine gun, strafing left and right, dodging and weaving ....... shamoan!!!
Erk, cheats already?!?!?! fs

[Will]

Originally Posted by throdgrain

Remember, its a q3 -based game. I expect there's a lot of people playing with gamma/brightness as high as it will go, map_overbrightbits 19 or whatever it is :/
Some people just have to win no matter what.
Me i play at 1280-1024 with every detail on maximum and I dont often even use a crosshair. And if you beat me because of it, I dont care

I had someone bragging about how the bushes provided no cover as far as he was concerned. I assume he had been playing with the mipmap settings, though bragging about it wasn't improving my mood.

Hopefully Punkbuster will be along too, so that cvars can be controlled a bit more.

[FlameTop]

The other syndrome is creeping around only to be sniped. 'Where the fook was he' you scream, only to see on KillCam that he was 10ft behind you staring at your creeping figure

While CODing with the other SPS, we have only found a couple of servers with plainly cheating players. On one dutch one we got to our third case of the killcam showing a player clearly tracking you through a wall, so we just left.

Not at bad as the other server where Gem was kick-banned for shooting the server admin

[Will]

Cheat expose and beginners guide

[Gemma the Dog]

Originally Posted by FlameTop

The other syndrome is creeping around only to be sniped. 'Where the fook was he' you scream, only to see on KillCam that he was 10ft behind you staring at your creeping figure

While CODing with the other SPS, we have only found a couple of servers with plainly cheating players. On one dutch one we got to our third case of the killcam showing a player clearly tracking you through a wall, so we just left.

Not at bad as the other server where Gem was kick-banned for shooting the server admin

I think I should be given the honour of the full shame of my crime...it wasn't just shooting the admin, I was *camping* on a Behind Enemy Lines server....

[Chameleon]

GTD that's just not on dammit!!