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Legends? For playing a video game? What a joke.


If anyone Jonny should be the only AA legend for keeping AA2 alive with his program. How many of those players listed contributed that much to the community?

Quoted for fucking truth. I don't consider myself having done a lot for AA but Jonny is definitely #1 in my book. There's others as well. Homey & DarkRaver for creating trackers, Icculus for porting AA to Linux, Crusade (and the people he learned from/with) for bringing mods and all those anti-cheat people at ACI, AON and the rest.

All of those people fundamentally changed the game. I'm sure tournaments drew in a lot of people but I'm one to applaud those that worked to create a better game, not just the ones that played it.

anyone tried the g930s?.

USB? Wireless? "Surround"? All for $100?

BIG FAT NOPE.

Here's why:
USB means that it will have it's own onboard DAC and while you can get nice DAC's for around $100, that would have to mean that Logitech paid nothing for the rest of the materials and never marked up their product to make a profit. Having a low-quality USB DAC will also amplify grounding and power problems as well as EMI from your computer. Not to mention the DAC in that headset only does 48kHz which is fine but to me, that screams low-grade DAC as most good ones these days will do 96kHz or 192kHz.

Wireless will mean there's a lag. It may not be overly noticeable but there will be some and it adds to the chain of lag events (brain processing, clocks, refresh delay in monitors, etc..). Also, how is the audio transmitted over wireless? Can it pick up interference? Is it a second digital encoding that further reduces quality?

Surround means that there's multiple drivers in each earcup. Now the one thing headphones have against them is their size. Since sound waves are effectively vibrations/pulses in the air, the larger your driver, the more accurately it will produce frequencies especially low ones (that's generally why woofers are much larger than tweeters). Now you're taking a headset that's already crammed for space and you're fitting 2 more drivers in per side. How do you do that? You reduce the size of the driver. There's no way around the physics. Something smaller will push less air and thus not be able to reproduce frequencies as good.

Final nails in the coffin: $100 pricepoint for an all-in-one system. It just won't happen. DAC's will get better and cheaper since they're a solid-state semiconducter but you can't make analog stuff cheaply. If you skimp on the magnet in the driver or the spider or the basket or the cone, it all affects the quality of the sound. You need expensive materials to create a quality product. You can find a pair of headphones for around $100 that sound great or a DAC for around $100 that will sound great but you can't get both crammed into one for that price. Nevermind the mic or surround aspect. The fact that this is a product marketed towards gamers is a dead giveaway that it's crap. Gaming products serve a niche but it's not the enthusiast/quality niche. Just like laptops aren't powerhouses, their first priority is portability.

I suggest everybody looking for a quality setup to head over to www.head-fi.org and browse their Computer Audio section.

It cetainly could be done but who's got the time to code it.
New code in assist would be needed, new code in the auth server and sql database entrys added... lots of work.

That's the least of it. I know there's hardcode inside AA that handles the points and sends them to your AA Jacket or whatever it was. I don't even know how all that stuff works inside of the training maps. I'm sure I could spend a lot of time to cut down the training maps so they still work but don't provide any account-related scoring/achievements.

I agree that it would be cool to have and maybe even take it as far as adding in-game achievements. Maybe more points for completing all the training or less recoil (not just a myth!). But that's tons of work and right now, even if it we proved it was possible, nobody here would spend the time to do it.

Jonny already said it's not going to get fixed and the admins haven't locked this thread so I'm free to troll

And you dont adjust your brightness and gamma right?

Right. No need to. Problem?

Grab HWMonitor, run it and then start Assist and post a screenshot result 2-3 minutes after you start playing a game.

You're not sounding rude, you're actually articulating your points better than a lot of the typical flamers. Again, I'm not doing anything in developing Assist. I'm not saying that the reason it's not fixed is because I hate tweakers. The reason it's not fixed is because Jonny hasn't/won't fix it. My thoughts/opinions do NOT reflect those of the anti-cheat and development team.

I play on Windows 8 and it works fine for me. Yea Breakout is dark but that's just how the map is (plus I have a real shitty 5+ year old monitor). What's the problem with Windows 8? Is it windowed mode? I play fullscreen and it's fine. Maybe because I've not touched my settings?

Just wait.