Some observations.
Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 10:57 am
1. Most people I've played with are gone. Cool ppl. With fucking attitude and skills.
2. Itamar is probably still around. This is a speculation of mine - I was playing with some guy (UnnamedPlayer#1), while AGI was specing, 1 vs 1. I got owned by blaster/ckit. He blasted me till HS3. Lolz. Then again it could have been Meisselli, he moves RC to good places too.
3. The ppl who play nowdays fall into 2 categories: total nabs (can't aim at all, can't build) OR total pros who "kill everything with md" (and I mean really fucking great moves and aim). Almost no middle ground inbetween.
4. Accordingly - 2 ways of playing - total camp (and I mean total, like not even going out of the ATCS base first ramp) OR total rush (fast forward, get fat on feed, rush OM or default eggs).
5. If a decisive (forward base) move isn't accomplished before SD, most games tend to go around 70-90 mins. H then camp due to the distance to alien base, and the need to kill multiple eggs rather than one OM. It takes forever now. Aliens have a problem because of DCs and, gods forbid, a container (3 snipes and at least 2 chomps).
6. Nobody builds proper bases anymore. Sure, ret stacking is cool, but most of the time ret placement is very bad. Not to mention planks, crates, trees.
7. Bamboo + tree = basesaver for aliens.
8. Basibomb prevention absolutely requires proper placement of rets and teslas. Without 3-5 DC (just for abundance) basibomb = alien win on ATCS. Because of that...
9. ...advMara is now rarely used to zap stuff or zaprushes.
10. Lack of "quality control" meant that any shitmap was accepted here. Fortunately because od no. 3 (pros and nabs) most shitmaps are voted off very fast now.
11. My aim got shittier. VALs' got better but his attitude hasn't changed.
12. What happened to Unique and his mod on AmsterdamUnlimited?
13. If you dretch against a pro MD and you get owned as soon as you almost got into biting distance check this out: not everyone, but most pro MD can't really hit me on medium distances. I dance my best random dretch while moving forward, land a hit on MDPro, then when I'm almost at him for the second hit I get killed. MDPro waits until I get close when aiming is much more accurate. Don't be me, hit run away while facing him, hide, repeat the initial dance. Works on Meisselli, works on MD, Shotgun, Lasgun. Rifle is much worse because of the bullet spread.
14. Also - beware of an MDPro on ramps like ATCS tunnel. Firstly, they use doge to jump away from ramps and the height advantage gives them distance, while you have to go by ground longer way than you think. Secondly, ramp allows them to have only one dimension to worry about, the width.
15. Also - don't go against MDPro that likes to hug the wall all time. He restricts your movement to only one side. You can only strafe in one direction, and that leads sooner or later to you hugging the wall. You go in a straight line = dead.
16. ATCS tunnel, any weapon and armor. Say a goon wants to eat you. Shoot him, dance around and at some point go behind a corner. Hug the wall (and I mean really hug it) a "turret lenght" from the corner. Wait no more than half a second, he'll go around the corner following you, but he will not be near the wall, most of the time in the middle of he corridor width. Shoot his fucking leg off. Go around the very same corner, but from the other side. Shoot his fucking leg off. Now add the ramps on ATCS . 2 medicore naked rifles can own a really good AdvGoon.
17 . Most of the Lucisuits learned to charge it to max before relasing. Beware.
18. When you meet a pouncewhore, let him punce. Just instead of going away from him, go towards him and crouch when he pounces. He'll overshoot in most cases. If he doesn't but still you crouch, you can't be headshotted by the goon. If he tries to pounce and not chomp he's dead.
19. Gayflamers. Niveus. Default OM has 2 acidtubes in the lower door. A Flamersuit stands in the door. I'm a dretch. He just stands there and flames all time. Not even going towards me. I chat away with team, insult some people for being a cowards. Flamersuit still sits there. 2 fucking acid tubes. One dretch. Some dude psaws default OM. Flamersuit sees the OM down and reacts accordingly - he fucking sits in same place flaming away. WTF is this shit?
20. Flamer knockback should be eliminated.
21. Trem's mostly dead. New maps are not gonna hit it. New gameplay modes will.
22. Ams is around?
2. Itamar is probably still around. This is a speculation of mine - I was playing with some guy (UnnamedPlayer#1), while AGI was specing, 1 vs 1. I got owned by blaster/ckit. He blasted me till HS3. Lolz. Then again it could have been Meisselli, he moves RC to good places too.
3. The ppl who play nowdays fall into 2 categories: total nabs (can't aim at all, can't build) OR total pros who "kill everything with md" (and I mean really fucking great moves and aim). Almost no middle ground inbetween.
4. Accordingly - 2 ways of playing - total camp (and I mean total, like not even going out of the ATCS base first ramp) OR total rush (fast forward, get fat on feed, rush OM or default eggs).
5. If a decisive (forward base) move isn't accomplished before SD, most games tend to go around 70-90 mins. H then camp due to the distance to alien base, and the need to kill multiple eggs rather than one OM. It takes forever now. Aliens have a problem because of DCs and, gods forbid, a container (3 snipes and at least 2 chomps).
6. Nobody builds proper bases anymore. Sure, ret stacking is cool, but most of the time ret placement is very bad. Not to mention planks, crates, trees.
7. Bamboo + tree = basesaver for aliens.
8. Basibomb prevention absolutely requires proper placement of rets and teslas. Without 3-5 DC (just for abundance) basibomb = alien win on ATCS. Because of that...
9. ...advMara is now rarely used to zap stuff or zaprushes.
10. Lack of "quality control" meant that any shitmap was accepted here. Fortunately because od no. 3 (pros and nabs) most shitmaps are voted off very fast now.
11. My aim got shittier. VALs' got better but his attitude hasn't changed.
12. What happened to Unique and his mod on AmsterdamUnlimited?
13. If you dretch against a pro MD and you get owned as soon as you almost got into biting distance check this out: not everyone, but most pro MD can't really hit me on medium distances. I dance my best random dretch while moving forward, land a hit on MDPro, then when I'm almost at him for the second hit I get killed. MDPro waits until I get close when aiming is much more accurate. Don't be me, hit run away while facing him, hide, repeat the initial dance. Works on Meisselli, works on MD, Shotgun, Lasgun. Rifle is much worse because of the bullet spread.
14. Also - beware of an MDPro on ramps like ATCS tunnel. Firstly, they use doge to jump away from ramps and the height advantage gives them distance, while you have to go by ground longer way than you think. Secondly, ramp allows them to have only one dimension to worry about, the width.
15. Also - don't go against MDPro that likes to hug the wall all time. He restricts your movement to only one side. You can only strafe in one direction, and that leads sooner or later to you hugging the wall. You go in a straight line = dead.
16. ATCS tunnel, any weapon and armor. Say a goon wants to eat you. Shoot him, dance around and at some point go behind a corner. Hug the wall (and I mean really hug it) a "turret lenght" from the corner. Wait no more than half a second, he'll go around the corner following you, but he will not be near the wall, most of the time in the middle of he corridor width. Shoot his fucking leg off. Go around the very same corner, but from the other side. Shoot his fucking leg off. Now add the ramps on ATCS . 2 medicore naked rifles can own a really good AdvGoon.
17 . Most of the Lucisuits learned to charge it to max before relasing. Beware.
18. When you meet a pouncewhore, let him punce. Just instead of going away from him, go towards him and crouch when he pounces. He'll overshoot in most cases. If he doesn't but still you crouch, you can't be headshotted by the goon. If he tries to pounce and not chomp he's dead.
19. Gayflamers. Niveus. Default OM has 2 acidtubes in the lower door. A Flamersuit stands in the door. I'm a dretch. He just stands there and flames all time. Not even going towards me. I chat away with team, insult some people for being a cowards. Flamersuit still sits there. 2 fucking acid tubes. One dretch. Some dude psaws default OM. Flamersuit sees the OM down and reacts accordingly - he fucking sits in same place flaming away. WTF is this shit?
20. Flamer knockback should be eliminated.
21. Trem's mostly dead. New maps are not gonna hit it. New gameplay modes will.
22. Ams is around?