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"I wanted to play the big guns, and I got shot in the face! I decided D1 would be good to
play, especially vs someone I knew was better than me, since D1 is my better game. So I
took Sirian on in IO. Things started out ok. He got the first kill and I followed not
too far behind with my own. From there the game opened up. I tried my hardest to dog
Sirian. My plasma vs his Fusion. Dogging Fusion for me isn't too hard, but I was a dork
and I followed him around corners, and got smacked in the face a lot. Even when dogging,
my plasma vs his fusion, he'd toss a homer out and force me into his purple. I was amazed
and shocked the whole game. This nervousness made me do stupid things. I knew not to go
grab my spew after I got killed, but for some reason I didn't stick to that rule. I would
run right back to my plasma, my laser cannons and Sirian's Fusion. I had accumulated a
total of 4 kills, one of which was negated due to a suicide on my part. Sirian's mental
game is top notch and I could do nothing to counter it. Although I did have one dogfight
kill that I was proud of, however, the specifics I can't remember. I see now how vastly
I can improve." =]
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-Yubb (LT)
| "I was in #300baud just having finished my final exam for the month, when aaronb joined in and mentioned that he was looking for an exibition. I had played him a few days earlier and the connection was TERRIBLE! Loss everywhere and laggy as hell. He had found the cause of the problem and his connect was indeed much better. He said he would rather play D2 again, as he just wasn't in the mood for D1, and if it was ok, could we play Nysa. Well hell, why not? I had been pretty sick of Nysa up to this point, as it mostly is a runner's level, but I knew aaronb didn't run as much as other players, and neither did I unless absolutely necessary, so I agreed. We first played a warmup to 5, and then restarted. Well let me tell you we should have went right into it because my 5-2 lead in the warmup was about the safest I felt the entire game. Once we restarted the game, we went right at it, meeting in the dogfight room several times in a row, both of us equally armed each time. I came out on top for the most part in the dogfights, as he said he had trouble keeping me on his screen because of the way I was circling him. :) However, before I could extend my early 2-1 lead any further, I charged up my energy in the main room center, and rounded the corner towards the ramp.....right into one of those smart missiles! "*Doink!* aaronb killed LD". "Ok, no big deal, I can recover from this," I thought, as I went to recollect my spew. Little did I know how almost-wrong I was! I continued to dogfight him and got a 5-3 lead. This is when the game started to get ugly for me, and look REAL good for him. I don't know if aaron just got lucky and FOUND the missiles as they respawned, or if he just had really good timing in his collection of the tasty green treats, because every time I met him for the next 10-12 kills of the game, he had ALL of the smarts. The next 1/2 of the game is a blur to me now, but I do remember several events. I know that every time aaron tried to charge into the dogfight room, he met face first with a merc, or some plasma. So that tactic did him no good. I also started seeing patterns in his flight very early on. I actually saw a tactic he used in our bow2phoenix game (where he would fly into a room and hide right above the door looking into the room so he could pull up behind me and blast me) and used it against him. He flew into the dog room, and when I looked in, I did not see him anywhere. Knowing full well that he couldn't have made it to the ramp in .5 seconds, I simply slid into the room facing up, and guns blasting, he was dead before he even saw me. Oh how sweet it is to kill a camper! :) Of course, if the match was that easy, it wouldn't have been memorable. Here's where it got tough for me. Aaron's use of smarts, in this game, was quite simply, the best I have EVER played against. I have NEVER had a match with a LT player who could out-do me with smarties, and even rarely with UT players who could. But I felt humbled and embarassed when I would run into his smarts time and time again. He just seemed to do it right every time, placing the smarts in such a way that I could go neither left nor right of them. In all he had 11 (or 12, we aren't sure which) smart missile kills. ALL of which happened when I had greater than 50 shields, and MANY of them happening when I had 80+ shields. I really hate losing ALL your shields in about 1/100th of a second :) After a bunch of shooting by me, and eating smarts (also by me) the score was 18-17. Aaron had picked up the empty gauss and when I killed him I got more ammo to shoot with :) Thats when I almost lost it. Firing at him from the ramp, I was unaware that I was drifting backwards. One errant shot nicked the corner of the ramp and exploded in my face, giving me the only suicide of the game. Score 17-17 I was now frantic to recover what was once, a game dominated by me, but had turned into a game dominated by aaron's smart missiles. :) I quickly pelted him with plasma and got my lost kill back. He returned the favor by quickly making me eat a smart missile. :) I got another kill and at 19-18, I could tell he was trying to play safe. I was just trying to stay out in the open room, as to not run into any more smart missiles. Thats when the play of the game really came into my favor. When I killed him with plasma, he had picked up the gauss cannon, thus filling it with ammo when he died. Also, he nailed me with a smart, causing ME to spew the cannon, and giving it even more ammo. Now, being mr. hustle, and luckily respawning right in the room, I was able to snatch up the chug-chug cannon and wipe the floor with him before he widened my rectum any more with those f*cking smart missiles. Damn great game Aaron, nice strategies, and the most awesome use of the green missile I've ever been up against. I am now a much wiser Nysa player because of that game." |
-LordDeath (UT)
| "The single most important game on my IDL profile is the seventh game in my Second Tier match history. This game came against one of the original UTs at the very start of the IDL (not counting its brief Original Run). I had been on the ladder as a player for only a week, and I was an UNKNOWN to everybody except Karash, Neitzl, Descentile and a few others (long story). I had done well in my first six matches, winning four against GOOD players, and losing close matches to both Manson and Chipmunk in their D2 homes. One of my wins came against Explodo, and so his homeboyz came a lookin for me one night. :) Jackhammer called me out, and we played his level suggestion, Athena. We started the match on Kali, and he had a slight lead, but he was unhappy with the connect and asked to switch the game to modem and start over from 0 0. I am certain he felt that I was doing well ONLY because of the connect, and that he would hold me to a lower score by starting over; but it didn't matter to me, I was just happy to be getting a modem game for free, as well as an opportunity to play with the big boyz and maybe strut my stuff a bit. :) And was that game ever fun! WOW! I enjoyed it more than I can describe. Jackhammer, being one of them atLANta boyz, of course relied on the fusion, and I pretty much used nothing but plasma (this was before I became an 'enlightened' fusion rat - hehe). Now you gotta understand, in that first month or two, the First Tier was a VERY exclusive club, and they were quite strict in terms of what a player had to do to get consideration for a UT nomination. Just the fact that I could hang in a modem game of D1 with a UT was a noteworthy happening. And hang I did. The game was neck and neck the whole way, with me pulling ahead by one or two then Jackhammer catching up with a fusion kill or three. We played fast and furious, and dogged it out a LOT, usually to the death. And it started to come down to the wire... and I had a lead! I fought and fought, and fought my heart out, and just could not manage to put him away. Each time I was within moments of victory, he Used The Force and made my ship home in on a fusion blast! Arrrrgh! Then I would respawn and quickly kill him, because he was low on shields, only to go through it all again. Then suddenly... disaster! A one shot fusion kill! NOOOO!!! Man it was a thing of beauty. I vowed to myself I was going to learn how to do that. I was going to master that damn thing and be adopted into the atLANta Crew if it was the last thing I did! Now it was Jackhammer with the lead, at 23 22, and I knew at any moment my game could be over. I harassed him hard and got several hits. I knew he had to be getting low. But I ran out of energy and had to flee. Ducked into the room with the doors, refueled, and when I came charging out to try and tie it up... there he was. And I mothed right into it. :( Ah well. I had had a great time; and even though I lost that game, I had won the respect of the entire UT, and more importantly, proved to myself that I could play at their level. Kiln told me Jackhammer talked about that game for days on end, and I got asked about it by many. That game marked my coming of age as a ladder competitor, and I will never forget it." |
-Sirian (LT)
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