Spent this morning playing some first person shooters on the PC… one was a beta, the other was the open beta Quake Live.
I had tried to play QL before, but the insane queue lengths kept me out. Â I’d wait, then find something else to do long before I got into game. Â But today I managed to get in and run through the tutorial and a couple of matches. Â The tutorial started out alright, with me choosing the beginner level and quickly getting an 11 to 0 lead. Â Then the AI adjusted and I lost 15 to 11. Â Then I went and join some matches…
Either their skill levels are very broad or I somehow borked it up or everyone else is cheating. Â First off, I hate deathmatch, and prefer team games where my personal frag count is less important than the team winning. Â So I joined up with a capture the flag server. Â Its been a very long time since I played bland CTF, usually sticking to Team Fortress, so I didn’t know any of the “standard” maps that were running, and I also didn’t know that I had to put flag-on-flag to capture it. Â This coupled with the dumb ass on my team who was yelling at me to “go ahead and cap noob!” even though I was standing in the right place (the enemy had our flag too) confused me for a bit. Â But that got sorted out, and we eventually won. Â It was close, the score looks bad with an 8 to 1 victory, but it was much closer than that with a lot of good slugging it out for each hard won point. Â However, I noticed while playing that even though I was doing alright, other players were fragging much more than me, and they were getting off air kills and other feats of awesome that I’m not so good at. Â I really am of a beginner level, I know I suck, so how is it that I’m playing with frag gods when skill matching is supposed to prevent that? Â Anyway, we won… then the second match started, and the other team picked up a few more frag gods while our team picked up a few more people like me. Â We had to fall back into a pretty strong defence (the entire team, minus one guy) just to keep our flag on our side of the map. Â In the end, we lost. Â It wasn’t even close. Â Sure, the score looks alright with an 8 to 5 loss, but we were winning at one point, all our caps were done pretty much by one guy and the other team got 5 of their points within just a few minutes, chain capping the crap out of us. Â We got steamrolled.
Anyway, the game runs smooth, although now I need to go beat up on Comcast because I was getting “Connection Interrupted” every couple of minutes, just for a second, but it was enough to get me dead every time. Â If you want to find me, I’m Jhaer.