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Re: Show HN: CS Weapons – Counter-Strike weapon data comparison app

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I imagine what would totally sell me on it is interactivity with a live game. Imagine if you could hook into the game and show live data on the last kill, where you hit him, how much damage you inflicted and why. Would be really cool, but probably not allowed without getting banned.

It's not live, but Leetify can give you some very precise data about your gameplay e.g. what your spray patterns actually were

Re: Show HN: CS Weapons – Counter-Strike weapon data comparison app

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I'm one of the primary engineers behind tracker.gg. If I could offer some constructive criticism:

- You probably don't need individual pages

- You're polluting my browser history as a result, not very user friendly. :)

- I shouldn't have to navigate away from the "direct" view to add weapons

- The "direct" view and the "table" view are functionally equivalent. You should figure out how to combine these into a single optimal view - shouldn't be difficult since they do the same thing.

- Your "winning" cell highlighting isn't really clear. Yes it's lighter, but that's not really an effective indicator of "best" (on tracker.gg we use gold highlighting to accomplish the same thing in our view: https://battlefieldtracker.com/bfv/profile/origin/Z1nYoRiTa/...)

- Your various filters/modifiers should probably be colocated with the selected weapons, they're all filters.

- With a single table there's probably room to split the view in half to show graphs/detailed breakdowns to the right of the main table. Your "direct" view uses an inordinate amount of space. (I'm thinking something like our Valorant match viewer: https://tracker.gg/valorant/match/a06b84a9-bdd2-4509-90ca-fa...)

Overall pretty cool, I could see something like this being popular with Valorant too.

Re: Show HN: CS Weapons – Counter-Strike weapon data comparison app

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I love CS. I mean I love the franchise as a whole but the original was such a breath of fresh air in what 2000. The gunplay is so good. It's unfortunate that even today it is impossible to play without hearing 4chan racial slurs for the lulz. Very toxic community.

Solution:

    voice_enable 0

Re: Show HN: CS Weapons – Counter-Strike weapon data comparison app

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I'm one of the primary engineers behind tracker.gg. If I could offer some constructive criticism: - You probably don't need individual pages - You're polluting my browser history as a result, not very user friendly. :) - I shouldn't have to navigate away from the "direct" view to add weapons - The "direct" view and the "table" view are functionally equivalent. You should figure out how to combine these into a single…

I really don't mind the individual pages and I don't think it really "pollutes" the browser history either. Rather, I think it makes it much easier to link a friend to a specific comparison.

Re: Show HN: CS Weapons – Counter-Strike weapon data comparison app

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Professional e-sport tournament payouts for Counter-Strike now total nearly $100M; players have everything from huge salaries to sport psychologists, but still no good way of visualising game data. CS Weapons provides information and comparisons on Counter-Strike weapons, featuring real time analysis and calculation of weapon data. Simulations are performed live in the browser and are scenario reactive, dynamically u…

It's cool that you market it as material design and sharable and having a fancy stack... but all I care is whether I get useful info about CS:GO. The ugliest maps programmed for training are more useful imho. The charts don't help me learn anything about the data more than the table, and the stats like RPM or deploy milliseconds mean nothing to me. If you ask CS players how they learn timing, it's usually mouse tappi…

I actually modified what I posted elsewhere (Reddit for example) for this audience as I imagined those technical details were more relevant. Fair point though.

I understand what you mean about the charts; some prefer things displayed visually so I think it's important to meet the needs of different types of users.

Thanks for the feedback!

Re: Show HN: CS Weapons – Counter-Strike weapon data comparison app

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I'm one of the primary engineers behind tracker.gg. If I could offer some constructive criticism: - You probably don't need individual pages - You're polluting my browser history as a result, not very user friendly. :) - I shouldn't have to navigate away from the "direct" view to add weapons - The "direct" view and the "table" view are functionally equivalent. You should figure out how to combine these into a single…

I really don't mind the individual pages and I don't think it really "pollutes" the browser history either. Rather, I think it makes it much easier to link a friend to a specific comparison.

You can do this without spamming history, just replace the state instead of pushing it.

Re: Show HN: CS Weapons – Counter-Strike weapon data comparison app

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I'm one of the primary engineers behind tracker.gg. If I could offer some constructive criticism: - You probably don't need individual pages - You're polluting my browser history as a result, not very user friendly. :) - I shouldn't have to navigate away from the "direct" view to add weapons - The "direct" view and the "table" view are functionally equivalent. You should figure out how to combine these into a single…

Some stats on your page seem obviously faked. E.g top 1 cs go player has 11600 days of play time. Longer than the game even has existed.

Re: Show HN: CS Weapons – Counter-Strike weapon data comparison app

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's cool that you market it as material design and sharable and having a fancy stack... but all I care is whether I get useful info about CS:GO. The ugliest maps programmed for training are more useful imho. The charts don't help me learn anything about the data more than the table, and the stats like RPM or deploy milliseconds mean nothing to me. If you ask CS players how they learn timing, it's usually mouse tappi…

I actually modified what I posted elsewhere (Reddit for example) for this audience as I imagined those technical details were more relevant. Fair point though. I understand what you mean about the charts; some prefer things displayed visually so I think it's important to meet the needs of different types of users. Thanks for the feedback!

For what it's worth, I was glad you shared your stack, was actually kinda curious ! Very nice website, thanks for sharing, hope you had a blast building it ;)

Re: Show HN: CS Weapons – Counter-Strike weapon data comparison app

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post #28

I'm one of the primary engineers behind tracker.gg. If I could offer some constructive criticism: - You probably don't need individual pages - You're polluting my browser history as a result, not very user friendly. :) - I shouldn't have to navigate away from the "direct" view to add weapons - The "direct" view and the "table" view are functionally equivalent. You should figure out how to combine these into a single…

Some stats on your page seem obviously faked. E.g top 1 cs go player has 11600 days of play time. Longer than the game even has existed.

Yeah, our CS:GO site doesn't get any love, it has received a total of about 10 hours of attention - that's why I avoided using it as an example. Cheaters run rampant in CSGO, it's not a problem exclusive to our site unfortunately. We're exploring ways of automatically detecting cheaters across our network though.
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