[GUIDE] Warning Shots 2.0

[MusicManiac]

Welcome to the guide, the whole purpose of which is to explain warning shots, and how they work.

Last update: 23/9/18


Content table (click them to go to the section)

1. Why was warning shot added?
   
2. Warning shot rule
   • Warning shots with deagle
     
3. General warning shots scheme
   
4. List of examples with "freeze" command in place
   
5. List of examples with "face X" command in place
   
6. List of examples with "jumping is restricted" command in place
   
7. List of examples with trap commands in place
   
8. List of examples that don't fall into higher mentioned categories
   
9. Afterword and contributors
   

1. Why was warning shot added?

Lemme start with a small history course that will make you understand why warning shot was implemented. Before warning shot rule, CT's were allowed to instakill anyone who was not following command even in the slightest manner. Let me describe for what you could get instakilled:

• Told to face north, and you unfaced towards east for a quick look.
  
• Told to freeze, and you moved half a step, not even towards CT/vent.
  
• Restricted jumping, and you jump, while being in a stack.
  
• Have gun on your back for more than 3-4 sec. You can even not realize it's there, doesn't matter.
  
• Told to crouch-walk to some place, and you accidentally hit your "jump" button.
  
• Going IN the marker when told to go TO the maker and freeze.
  

So obviously, there were a lot of kills for minor things. So in an attempt to make the server less harsh towards new players as well as just to prevent kills on some T's who accidentally hit a wrong button, looked the other way, or something else, the warning shot rule was implemented.


2. Warning shot rule

Give warning shots to non-threatening actions of prisoners. (A warning shot should not deal more than ~34 damage)

• non-threatening examples
  • Slight movement when told to freeze
    
  • Slight head movement when told to face x
    
  • 1 step too much forward when told to freeze on the line.
    
  • Accidental stand up in crouch walking
    
  • Strafing a bit out of line when following warden (bhop)
    
• threatening examples
  • Bhopping around in a stack when told to freeze
    
  • Strafing too much out of line when following the warden
    

First things first: dealt damage. Should not exceed roughly 34 hp. It means, if you warning shot someone for 37, it's bearable, but if you go for 40 hp - that's already 20% more dmg than you should have done, and 20% is a lot. Best way to avoid that - shooting in legs, and not using anything that deals huge amounts of damage (deagle, shotguns, sniper rifles).

Second: you only need to give ONE warning shot. If a T keeps doing the same thing for which he received first warning shot, you are not FORCED to give another warning shot. You are free to head-shot the guy. However, if the same T gets their first warning shot for one thing, and then killed for another, because "he got warning shot already", it's not how the rule works. Example: T's told to freeze 10 sec ago, T named XYZ runs a little bit out of their cell, gets warning shot, so he freezes. Warden restricts jumping, XYZ jumps after 5 seconds. You are not allowed to instakill him, because you already gave him a warning shot, it's 2 different orders that he received warning shots for.


2.1. Warning shots with deagle

You can hear a lot of players on server ranting about "don't warning shot with deagle". You CAN warning shot with deagle if you're confident with your aim, shot with deagle in foot deals like 25 dmg. However, if you miss, and land your shot in body and deal 56 or so instead - get ready to pay for that, most probably in form of slaying yourself :D Also, staff will need to !damagelog player who complained on a warning shot for this big amount of damage, this is additional work for staff, and keeping server floating is not easy task even without some random guy giving warning shots with deagle, so they will not appreciate this phenomenon.


3. General warning shots scheme
Please, remember, this is general scheme, apply some common sense on top, and you'll be fine ;P

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4. List of examples with "freeze" command in place

1. Warning shot for
   
   1. Slight movement out of stack not towards CT/vent/gun, that is closeby.
      
   2. Taking 1 step out of cells and freezing or going back to YOUR cell when told to freeze in cells.
      
2. No warning shot for
   
   1. Slight movement out of stack towards CT/vent/gun, that is closeby
      
   2. Cheating in a game (starting to play game before told, failing to freeze when told to, after someone finished)
      
   3. Slight movement out of stack, while having a gun, considered as trying to get better shot at CT's.
      
   4. Trying to run away (surprising, isn't it?)
      
   5. Bhoping around stack of Ts.
      
   6. Cell-swap
      

5. List of examples with "face X" command in place

1. Warning shot for
   
   1. Unfacing X while having no gun in arms
      
   2. Unfacing X while no CT's are near knife-range
      
2. No warning shot for
   
   1. Unfacing X while having gun in arms or pulling gun out
      
   2. Unfacing X when it's classified as cheating, examples:
      
      1. Unfacing X to see on whom shot will get landed when playing shoot or don't shoot,
         
      2. Unfacing X to see how far your opponent got in time climb
         
      3. Unfacing your opponent in shot-4-shot, if told to face opponent at all times.
         
      4. After someone won in game and needs to crouch-walk under T's he wants to kill, unfacing X to see if winner chooses you to die.
         
   3. Unfacing X when CT is really close (for example, warden healing Ts)
      
   4. Unfacing X and knifing CT, while being frozen
      
   5. Unfacing X and looking towards CT, while having bomb in arms (power-toss threat, plus checking out if blowing up CT's in usual way is good)
      

6. List of examples with "jumping is restricted" command in place

1. Warning shot for
   
   1. Jumping in stack while being frozen, not trying to reach CT's or buttons
      
   2. Accidentally jumping while going to marker
      
   3. B-hopping towards marker, while not shortening distance between you and CT closer, that you should be.
      
2. No warning shot for
   
   1. Cheating in the game, examples:
      
      1. Jumping in colors game.
         
      2. Starting playing climb/bhop by taking jump (-s)
         
      3. Jumping on first reaction / last reaction
         
   2. B-hoping towards marker, and as a result being closer to CT/corners/exits that allow to run away, than you supposed to be
      
   3. Jumping while having scout in hands (doesn't matter if guns restricted or not)
      
   4. Jumping trying to press or pressing "threatening buttons" (what's threatening button is explained on .png higher)
      

7. List of examples with trap commands in place
Generally, CT's dont need to give warning shots for trap commands, with few exceptions, such as: (yes, some of there has been mentioned before)

1. Going IN the marker when told to go TO the marker and freeze.
   
2. Taking 1 step out of cells when leaving cells is restricted
   
3. Facing X when facing X is restricted or unfacing X when told to face X at all times
   

8. List of examples that don't fall into higher mentioned categories

1. Warning shot for
   
   1. Nothing here yet
      
2. No warning shot for
   
   1. Pointing gun at CT when guns are restricted OR CT asked you to drop your gun without picking it up or passing it on again
      

9. Afterword and contributors

Code:

bind F9 "say If you were killed and believe you were supposed to be warning shot, please read this thread: clwo.eu/thread-3423.html"
bind F8 "say You were warning shot for not following warden commands"

Thanks for reading, thread will be updated, so be sure to check it out regularly, changelog will be below.

Contributors:

• Author: MusicManiac
  
• People (actually it's 1 person) who helped me to fix rule-wise mistakes (actually it were 3 mistakes) in initial post: TheDilShawn. Not even sure he should be in contributors
  
• Other staff members who helped to confirm this post is rule-wise correct: SourceCode, C.C., Sharc, Square Play'n, Ya Grill Anne
  
• People, who helped with adding examples: none yet
  
• Separate thx to Jay (aka Nightmare) for his old thread.
  
• Another thx to Square Play'n for fixing grammar mistakes.
  

[MusicManiac]

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[TeamKiller]

I like the guide. Sorry I didnt helped, I am sick a lot, and its hard to focus. But it end up nicely, and helpful.
Thanks