Originally Posted by Jinn

I played for a little bit last night. It was not bad, but not great either. It played very much like CounterStrike did (and does), with the same relative movement speed, weapon types and "tactics." I've always been good at CS, so I picked up CA pretty quickly but I was very unimpressed with the lag compensation code. I've got high speed internet and my ping was very good, but things went to hell in a handbasket if anyone in the game started lagging. Laggers get an advantage in that their avatar jumps all over the place and the hitbox seems to follow them.

Netcode is the most important part of an online FPS for me, and I think that CA needs some major work. For one, avatars should never stutter when lag occurs. It should always be a smooth animation; see Halo3, Counter-Strike or even TF2 for an example of what I mean.

I'll keep playing and see if it grows on me.

I must say the graphics were phenomenal for a free game, and far more than I was expecting.