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Hi,

Last night I was accused of being a "sponge" can someone enlighten me as to what this means in plain English. The whole sentence went something like "7 ping =Sponge" I'm supposed to know what that means?

Cheers
 
Sponge is someone who soaks up taking bullets.. basically from their screen it looked as if they were hitting you but it wasnt doing any damage..

As for 7 ping, thats why they called you a sponge.. not many people will have a ping of 7 normally unless your on some sort of business/uni connection or live on top of the server or are rate hacking, and rate hacking can mean you mess up the registry of hits which is also why he called you a sponge.
 
I would take no notice m8, he was probably just having a bad day and missing. If you had been killing him he would have shouted haxs instead. As long as you rates are fine (rate 20000 cl_cmdrate 80-100, cl_updaterate 80-100) then you have done as much as you can.
 
i call sponge :)

It really annoys me when i play source games and see the idiot crew with thier 5ms pings that warp like freaks when they side straff.

Its possible one of the most annoying things about the entire engine and games.
 
Efour2 said:
i call sponge :)

It really annoys me when i play source games and see the idiot crew with thier 5ms pings that warp like freaks when they side straff.

Its possible one of the most annoying things about the entire engine and games.
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yeh, im not one to whinge but it annoys me when ive unloaded an entire mag at point blank range and the sight has never moved off their body and i havent hit them once... and they head shot me or something. :confused:
 
It's generally rates "tweaking" that gives the warp effect. CS:S makes "sponges" of everyone though at one time or another. I've lost count of the amount of times myself and opponent have emptied clips at each other wiht little to no effect :D
 
Efour2 said:
i call sponge :)

It really annoys me when i play source games and see the idiot crew with thier 5ms pings that warp like freaks when they side straff.

Its possible one of the most annoying things about the entire engine and games.
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It really annoys me when people accused me of rate hacking when I was on the Leeds Uni connection because they couldn't aim ;)
 
another reson why CS:S sucks, reg is so unpredictable!
atleast with 1.6 you didn't have rates to mess with so you couldn't accuse anyone of rates hacking.
 
OK so this "sponging" is just another term for rate hacking. I'm not on any type of special connection Nildram 8mb pretty normal to me. I often get pings of about 10, and my rate is whatever the default is. What is it with these morons playing CSS is there anyway to turn off the chat text?

Cheers
 
VeNT said:
another reson why CS:S sucks, reg is so unpredictable!
atleast with 1.6 you didn't have rates to mess with so you couldn't accuse anyone of rates hacking.
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Course you can. And "didn't" makes 1.6 sound past-tense...its still there fighting :P
 
GM@N said:
OK so this "sponging" is just another term for rate hacking. I'm not on any type of special connection Nildram 8mb pretty normal to me. I often get pings of about 10, and my rate is whatever the default is. What is it with these morons playing CSS is there anyway to turn off the chat text?

Cheers
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Exactly, you get 10 ping because you're using the awful default rates.
 
Are the rate commands the same as the were for 1.6 with cl_ etc etc, I seem to own at CSS as it is, might have a bash with the changed rates.

Oh and does cl_bob 0 still stop the bobbing effect in source like in 1.6?
 
Im not saying that all low pingers are rate hackers im saying the guys with a constant 5ms are fiddling to get it to read as that

you wont get that ping on JANET as soon as you leave that network.

Im not gonna argue about ping and stuff on here its a silly argument i just dont like all the variables that can be changed to give you advantages in source engine games.

i know what its like to have a 9-10ms ping after using bulldog for a year. anyway i say no more. it bugs me :O
 
Lee456 said:
It really annoys me when people accused me of rate hacking when I was on the Leeds Uni connection because they couldn't aim ;)
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Hehe, yeah well maybe they can aim at your model but the hitbox is a bit off cos of your hax0ry 1337 ping and "dodgy" rates lol :p
 
VeNT said:
another reson why CS:S sucks, reg is so unpredictable!
atleast with 1.6 you didn't have rates to mess with so you couldn't accuse anyone of rates hacking.
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you did have rates, they just were never as big an issue.

As for the ping of 5, there still a bug on the scoreboard where you can have fine rates and a ping of 5. Some of tocuk who are on 10 or 8meg connections have sub 10 pings as well and i know for a fact they all use the correct rates.
 
agree with the above, 2-3 people in my clan have sub 10 ping with 20K 80 80 rates. And yer, default rates are bull**** and always have been, 1.6 included
 
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I hate it when servers automatically change your rates! I don't know if they can still do this as I haven't played in a while, but I was auto-kicked and banned for having the wrong rates for a server I regularly went on all because some stupid server elsewhere arsed up my rates :(

Luckily one of the guys who ran the server was in my MSN so was sorted out. Still annoys me!

SiriusB
 
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