R8 Revolver — FaceWAN Forum Archive

2015-12-10 01:00 UTC

Recently, Valve has added a new gun in the game:

R8 Revolver
The newest addition to the arsenal is a high caliber revolver that's almost as powerful as the AWP and with longer accurate range than the AK47. With this gun, Valve effectively removed the value of eco rounds. Even if you don't win the round, chances are you will damage your opponent s economy severely. At the moment the price tag is set to $850, which means you can't buy it on pistol rounds. Other than this, the only downside of the R8 Revolver is the low rate of fire and the length of the trigger-pulls. At close and medium range the R8 is a one-shot kill to the chest against a fully armored enemy.
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I've got surprised that you can buy a powerful gun like that just after the pistol round, it is basically a pocket version of AWP, dealing the same amount of damage (115) and it has a great accurate range. At one side, it's interesting they're trying to eliminate the necessity for eco rounds, but at the other, I think this will damage the game in a long run, since it's too accessible and it's a matter of timing to charge the shot and kill the enemy with an ease, making it a broken weapon.

What are your thoughts about it?

2015-12-10 02:27 UTC

I have yet to use it, but from what I hear it's OP as fuck. It's basically like a one hit kill deagle.

> Trust your technolust

2015-12-10 04:21 UTC

The devs that thought of it, here's my opinion of them

2015-12-10 05:02 UTC

I've got informed about a funny detail, and I just can't believe what I'm seeing.
Inside the Buy Menu, it's showing "$850" as the price cost, but when you buy it, it actually removes only "$700".
Valve really screwed up this update, I hope everyone is ready for some intense pistol rounds. lol

2015-12-10 08:21 UTC

This whole update is basically one giant disaster:

They decided to change rifle recoil for some reason that I am still not sure of.
They reduced moving accuracy on most of the pistols and then added a pistol that is 100% accurate when moving.
In competitive, they changed the round time and bomb timer to 1:55 and 40 for no real reason. They also forced this on major events as well which is fucking stupid because 1:45 and 35 were perfectly fine.

Valve didn't communicate with anyone beforehand, instead they just tossed out this dogshit right before a fucking $250,000 prize pool event which forces them to use the previous version of the game. It'd really be nice if there was some communication between the players and the devs, but knowing Valve, that isn't happening ever.

Edit:
And on top of all this, they randomly made settings auto-detect which is pointless for most players who ran the game at low for 250+ FPS.

2015-12-11 20:09 UTC

It seems they have changed the revolver in an update last night.

> Trust your technolust

2015-12-11 22:41 UTC

Yeah its probably the worst thing they have done to the game yet. I probably wont be playing until the nerf it.

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2015-12-11 23:18 UTC

The nerf has fixed it.

We did some testing>
Left click shots average 80-90 damage
Right clicks can sometimes be instant kills but they have a LOT of recoil.
The "spin-up" or hammer cocking time is also delayed further.

I am now okay with it.

2015-12-12 10:35 UTC

The gun is still pretty fucking ridiculous right now and has no place in the competitive scene of CS, but at least it wasn't as bad as before.

Now, hopefully they'll fix up their stupid shit on the rifles and pistols.

2015-12-15 14:48 UTC

Dont forget about the flying accuracy. It's practically more accurate than the scout while surfing.