You can defiantly see a difference, it's just that it's not a huge thing.

For me the update broke server mods so no more GunGame til it's fixed. Plus it added more lag and more bugs. Honestly, just add achievements and you give me something more to play for. No need for any other pointless stuff.

It's not the point playing games because of graphics.

Graphics were never the issue for gamers back in the day, but as some games gave you more graphically then others, you started to expect the same.

I mean BF1943,BFVIETMAN were not great looking games, but they were good enough.

The gameplay itself was where it's at.

I still think that holds true for some games today, but should be true of all games, gameplay over graphics.

CS:S IS THE BEST SHOOTER OF ALL TIME, BOOM HEADSHOT!

Nice textures are nice.

Ugh, the one thing I hate about the update is that server mods/custom scripts no longer work, which were a big part of my CSS time. Good bye WCS, Z-mod, Z-riot... tic rate is now locked to 60 too, so bhopping is harder than before. Vanilla CSS is still good though, the motion blur from the engine update is nice too.

The update wasn't meant as a graphical update at all. It was meant to fix many game-breaking bugs that used to exist, but now we have a ton of new bugs that weren't even present in the beta. Tons of scripts, skins, mods, and addons that used to work flawlessly are now horribly broken due to the shift from the original Source 2006 engine to the current Source 2009 engine. Some people even have the "censored glitch" - where there's no ragdolls or game, and instead of dying people lie down and "surrender". I shit you not.

edit - That article was pure BS as well. All they did was take screens with the model detail set to low and then with the model detail set to high. The textures and models have always looked that way for me even before the engine update. The reason the textures were all muddy and blocky is because they set them that way. The update didn't change much at all graphically.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau