Sprocket was the first person I met with a watercooled PC, that was I7 or I8 I think, the Newbury ones. He scratch built it, amazing rig.
CoG were ace players, taught us a lot when we were starting out, decent chaps.
Capture the Flag Quake on dialup (years ago)
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Sprocket was the first person I met with a watercooled PC, that was I7 or I8 I think, the Newbury ones. He scratch built it, amazing rig.
CoG were ace players, taught us a lot when we were starting out, decent chaps.
Meh Quake CTF was for noobs, Unreal Tournament CTF was where the real skill was at....
Jokes aside, remember :
-not having to level up
-not having ranked matches and getting raped
-actually having to learn some skill rather than call in an Apocalyptic Orbital Airstrike for free frags
-having access to everything from minute one
-actually having a game without some schoolkid whining about hackers all every minute
-being 3mm from a flag capture and getting insta-owned by a railgun! ggggrrrr
Oh those were the days!
Quake Champions - Levelling up for chests and reliquaries.
Quake Champions - Ranked duels is mostly dead since it was introduced. I see most streamers waiting 10+ minutes searching for a duel if they even get one.
Quake Champions - Endless Nail Gun spam down hallways for free frags. Fast rockets for endless spam of splashdamage. Both combination is toxic. Spam mostly wins most matches than movement and aim.
Quake Champions - Everything is locked, you’ve to grind games for favor to purchase backpacks, then chests and reliquaries for the chance of nice stuff. As well as runes and 9/10 you’ll likely get duplicates that is converted into shards to buy weapons. Which can take a while.
Even random drops of lore will be duplicates that will be converted to favor, if you can get all lore to unlock character outfits.
Quake Champions - Still lots of hacking and cheating accusations in most games.
Quake Champions - It takes mostly 3 - 5 rails to kill someone with the huge stacks. You’re likely to instantly die from nail gun or rocket spam.
https://www.reddit.com/r/QuakeChampions/comments/7zolpn/so_many_rails_and_only_1_kill/
That's cool. I remember going to these insomnia lans and I recall starting out on wireplay. I still remember some of the clans. I can see a 15 year old me in one of the photos
It was a shame wireplay was this closed environment with no exposure to the wider Internet... I can remember not knowing what to expect when first logging onto a non wireplay server. Good times.
It was a shame wireplay was this closed environment with no exposure to the wider Internet... I can remember not knowing what to expect when first logging onto a non wireplay server. Good times.