First my little rant on what I went through to get INS to even work...
I had to reinstall steam (for more than one reason, see below), which I thought would be no biggy, that program is only a few MBs and it's not like it is so attached to the game files it would uninstall my games along with it right? WRONG! So ****ing wrong, whoever designed steam's uninstall routine needs to be disemboweled and kept alive as long as possible afterward, why on ****ing earth would you by default delete everything within the steam folder and give no other option (oddly enough the repair function is in the install exe and not the uninstall exe... its not even mentioned)? I had several gigs of retail games, mods, and other custom content which I am unsure I can replace (I might still have all the files that custom content came from, I might not).
So after this forced clean install of steam, I redownload/install HL2, RO, source SDK base, and INS (which I had to redownload because FP gave me a borked file which worked just enough to load up the game, but not actually play it without tons of problems) and I still have the same problem for which I wanted to reinstall steam in the first place. The problem was that whenever I went to create server for any source mod there would be nothing there, just the window with no text. This happened in both INS and LA (Lethal Agents, which didn't work anyway, thought this would fix it), but even after all that Create Server still didn't have any text any window. So I just hit start and it works, and I was also able to join online servers too.
Which now leads me to comment on INS... wow buggy. I mean I have played some buggy beta 1 releases before, but so much as cough and INS CTD's. I have spent far, FAR too much time trying to get this damn mod to work, and I have only been able to play 10 minutes at a time because I either crash or the server does. From what I can gather during that non-consecutive hour of play is that this mod is not worth it till the next patch or even the one after that. I'm guessing the first patch will be entirely bug fixes (hope fully crash fixes will be reduced) and the next one will actual change some gameplay factors. Anyways, performance is below decent but playable. Things that are really killing the fun are:
- TKers, if your on a server with a tker and no admin, save yourself the grief and find another server, there is nothing you can do to stop him from camping in spawn and shooting teammates right as they spawn.
- Recoil, way to much of it. Every time you fire your gun has jumped up high enough as if designed to kill people who are standing on the target's shoulders. While deployed the MG's feel great, but once you put that bipod up say good bye to its usefulness. Of course MG's are going to jump more without the bipod's support but these things are very heavy compared to the infantry man's assault rifle and they fire the same bullet. If anything they should have less recoil and dominate the battlefield almost any situation.
- Grenades of all kinds are broken, RPG reloads by itself, sometimes hand grenades don't throw and you can't switch to another weapon, the m203's sights are not adjustable and the grenade seems to shoot out of the top of the weapon at a incredible high angle (making it almost useless).
- This is a tricky one, there is sight offset (bullets shooting below the actual iron sights) but it is either shooting to low, or something is wrong with the player's view, its just awkward.
- No muzzle flashes, not even in dark rooms, granted they shouldn't be really visible during the day time but if your in a really dark room or the map is set at dusk, there is going to be some kind of a light source to return fire on. It feels like the someone has turned invisible mode on and people will just keep running blindly into the field of fire because no one can see that there is a enemy in a window somewhere. And no its not lack of communication, if no one can see the enemy then no one can report to the team where the he is.
P.S. This post was not checked for grammar or syntax cause I don't care for it atm.
