> "Lief" wrote...
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> too, not my stray MP5 round that took out an enemy at the opposite end
> of Dust2 by complete fluke.

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>> "Lief" wrote...
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> with a sense of pride that you pwned someone so hard that they're sat at
> their screen wondering how the heck you did it ;)
Ben that's been happening ever since I started playing online! It seems
that specialised gamestyles in HL/HL2, Halo, UT and Q1-Q3 with a core
following of dedicated players (clans?) set folks up to become complacent.
They think they know all there is to the levels and gamestyle. Then a
newbie to that gamestyle drops in and wreaks pure havoc on all they thought
they knew. Noob gets branded cheater, gets kicked, banned and cussed up one
end and down the other.
Now, you guys all know I'm a beat up shakey ol fart in worse shape than CF
and can't play for poop. But that's happened to me on "elite" clan servers
my son invited me to for Halo and CS Surf servers! He and I laughed
ourselves silly. I just get in and play with whatever "skillz" I gained
from playing five solid years of Quake CTF! Of course, once they get over
their whiney, they discovered I didn't "kick" too well. And they started
paying attention to how I played, and then commenced to fraggin the crap out
of me. :-D
So it ain't a new phenomenon! And you're right, wear it with a sense of
pride while ya can, cause it ain't likely to last long! LOL :-D
McG.
Ben Cottrell - 11 Jul 2008 21:19 GMT
> Ben that's been happening ever since I started playing online!
Not in HL/CS though - cheating was a complete non-issue in the first
couple of years. because either noone had worked out how to hack the
game yet, or those who did kept it so quiet and subtle that noone really
noticed/cared. aside from which, the vast majority of players were
playing over 56k (And framerates were directly related to the speed of
your connection under the original HL netcode) so lucky kills were
blamed on lag instead :)

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