skins

IBA · Post by **IBA** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 7:21 am

Blue Vex wrote:I was waiting for some smartass to say Quake3.
You don't start with a new game and expect brightskins to be legal, ever.

yeah yeah u r the bomb!!! maybe u should take a look out of the little q2 world.

bail · Post by **bail** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 8:12 am

Blue Vex wrote:Advantage of brightskins small? Typical newbie statement.

wh is an advantage and so are bot, but brightskins how can they be an advantage when i see the default skins just as clear as the brightskins?
i dont think my m4 aim would be better in a 1on1 cause i have brightskins?, yes it would be an advantage if i had a 300mhz and playing with software and a fucked up screen i cant change brightness on and ofcourse a very dark map.

Blue Vex · Post by **Blue Vex** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 9:14 am

bail wrote:wh is an advantage and so are bot, but brightskins how can they be an advantage when i see the default skins just as clear as the brightskins?

If the default skins on a server are just as bright as your brightskins, then the default skins are already bright skins. Your definition of a brightskin is when someone edits a skin and colors it completely with a bright green color, then replace the original skin on a server with the edited skin. But a brightskin is a skin you can see clearly wherever it may be located in a map. Take the ctf skins for example, they are brightskins because you can see them without any problems at all no matter if they lurk within the darkest shadows of urban2. Yes, legal skins can be entiteled to brightskins, they don't have to be edited by some flunkie in order to do so.

i dont think my m4 aim would be better in a 1on1 cause i have brightskins?

Ofcourse it would. You can't hit what you can't see. There are hundreds of situations in a 1on1 where you can barely see the top of a players head strafing past the edge of a rooftop. For example. With brightskins you can clearly spot an enemy skull far away, no matter if you only see 1mm of it. In most cases brightskins remove the element of surprise, and that is a huge advantage.

Post by **imeiz** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 10:10 am

bail wrote:wh is an advantage and so are bot, but brightskins how can they be an advantage when i see the default skins just as clear as the brightskins?
i dont think my m4 aim would be better in a 1on1 cause i have brightskins?, yes it would be an advantage if i had a 300mhz and playing with software and a fucked up screen i cant change brightness on and ofcourse a very dark map.

if you can see "brightskins" as easy as the normals, then would there be any reason to use them? they're for advantage. brightskin = skin that's bright, right? i concider the ctf skins brightskins, yes. but still there are people that don't see them in every place, i don't.

tell me, if you can see the guy even if he's in the darkest place in the map, then isn't that helping your aim? i don't see shit in that little place in murder, under the TDM-sign, so it would help to see if there's someone. that's why the place exists?

just because you don't play with a fucked up pc, doesn't mean that there's no people playing with that kinda equipment. just over a month ago i got a new pc and got rid of software. and no, it shouldn't be taken as advantage, if a software user uses brights, because then he could see just as fine as you do with opengl.

if you still played with software then you'd take it as a cheat, because it helps like shit, to see the enemy in every place in every map. ofcourse you can't think about anything else but the screen you're looking at. doesn't help there, can't help anywhere else?

bail · Post by **bail** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 12:01 pm

uh i dont know were to begin. well ok, i clearly dont play with brightskins and i have never done it either so i cant be 100% sure.
but from my point of view when i play from my comp and settings.
i have no troubles seeing the normal default skins from the ctf skins to resdog and swat. im not FOR brightskins im against all sorts of cheats.
as i said i have never played with brightskins so i dont know if my gameplay would improve with brightskins. to not be able to see the skins very well have never been a problem for me except the blue ctf skin on airport. ofcourse the brightskins are more visible on almost every map but for me i doubt they would help me play better actually i think they would be annoying.
and if i dont have any problems seeing them their brightskins dont work on me, therefor no advantage.
im only speaking for myself now, only what i think.

Stim · Post by **Stim** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:43 am

Definition; Irony

Ribbing a guy asking for fullbright skins when we use them on most of today's european servers, bright orange and white.

Post by **Clown** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:39 pm

I think maybe that's what the guy meant by 'normal' skins.

alekchi · Post by **alekchi** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 1:53 pm

brightskins are cool