Favorite Quake Moment/Memory

[Rampage]

With 2012 coming to a close (and possibly the end of the world! .. dun dun dun),
what's your favorite Quake moment from this year or all time?

[Mr.Burns]

Interesting idea,

For me one of the funniest moments was playing Painkeep some time ago and noticing a move from a friend of mine with a truly evil sense of humour called Chaos. He had noticed a camper sat at the top of a lift shaft who because of the location was very difficult to kill. Chaos managed to get hold of the Painkeep Gravity well (which is FAR more effective than most), called the lift - thus alerting the camper that a cheap frag was on it's way, dropped the gravity well on to the lift timing it perfectly so the lift then immediately rose and by the time the Gravity Well had begun to kick in it greeted the camper at the top of the lift turning him in to a sort of explosive soup A little like the following only in reverse...
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEDu_qrcXP4]Yet another gravity well demo viddy video Painkeep v2 2 +Source Mod for Quake Mod DB - YouTube[/ame]
...ahhh Happy days

Being chased around a PK map (having no weapons only Beartraps and Autosentries) and jumping through a Teleporter (TP), quickly laying a full set of Beartraps on the other side, waiting for my opponent to follow me through, I jump back through (unseen by him), He steps on all 3, backs through the TP in a very weakened state only to find 3 of my autosentries waiting to pump him full of holes and me STILL with no weapon. It was one of the those "how did I manage to pull that off?" moments

Playing with Buurvrow and Sir Henry on the SPC server - the conversations becoming more entertaining than the game on numerous occasions

Playing Quake DMP and RQP on Junker/Flanders.

Overhearing a conversation between Sir Henry and TV, which due to some colloquial differences became so funny I was unable to continue playing for about 20 mins after the conversation had ended with tears of laughter rolling down my cheeks.

And of course playing Jer,Pol,Peg,Sir H,Dude, and Fuzzy on Flanders/Bigfoot/FFANY

Kind regards

Monty

[Syluxguy28O3]

i would have to say my favorite memory of quake this year is learning the ropes of cax on wicked lord's atlanta server.

[R00k]

My fav moment was beating muller on E4M3, although i did have a 40ms ping advantages and i was red. So, my least fav moment was the next game when we switched sides and he beat me to a pulp. "you good?"

oh wait my second fav was playing Sock's new mod...!

[RL Clown]

My fav moment was beating muller on E4M3, although i did have a 40ms ping advantages

A 40ms ping advantage? How did that happen?

So, my least fav moment was the next game when we switched sides and he beat me to a pulp.

That's funny. But I must admit that I have experienced those times, as well.

[R00k]

i had a 14ms ping he was > 50ms

[Mindf!3ldzX]

Everytime scrubs like Omicron and King Scoffer call me a cheat. jk jk,but it is entertaining to be entertained with cheating accusations,when I know I'm legit :F

[MadGypsy]

fav Quake moments:

Hanging out with (I have no clue) learning how to do complex rocket jumps & grenade+rocket jumps

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1 vs 1 me and WickedLord

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One match where I forgot what team I was on and completely unloaded on my team, missing every single shot, with rockets (I still suck)

Those were fun times. Those were also 75% of the amount of times I have played Quake (online). My best/favorite Quake moments are all right here on this forum. Here are a few examples:

1) Seeing PMs in my inbox from cool people that are either replying to me or asking me for something. Especially when those PM's are from someone like golden_boy, where I know it's going to be a thought out PM with valuable info and something that requires me to actually read.

2) When I start a popular thread. I started the Become A Quake Modder thread as a total noob and it got a lot of immediate attention. I would literally figure something out - and spend more time trying to explain it clearly and accurately, than implementing it. But it was all worth it, cause it was/is very satisfying to receive interest and recognition for your efforts. It's doubly so when you are nobody.

3)Larry Mondello - yeah, yeah, I know.."blah, blah, blah - that guy is a dick." Towards the end I started to agree, but for 90% of his tenure Larry was a real life cartoon to me and I was fascinated by the absolute ridiculousness of him.

4) a large portion of you people - whether it be an SMC upgrade (seven), a noobish mapper remodeling Earth (bluntz), accurate game creation info (golden_boy), whacky - verging on non-sensical posts (mindz), translating from German to English so you can sing it in Spanish (nahuel ) {{this list could go on for quite awhile}}

All of you bring something to the table that makes Quake more than a game. That's my favorite moment of all, being a part of this.

[Amon26]

Seeing the first shambler in E1M5 at the age of 14 and having it smash me to gibs before I could even run away in fear. It evoked a sense of blind adrenaline crushing terror in me unlike anything I'd ever experienced in a game before.

[smokey]

vintage killing doug w/ 5h to win the ca tourney ( see mark's demo)

[Rampage]

For me it's more so the journey..

I started around 97 playing modem to modem against my neighbor, he got me into the game. I was keyboarding at the time (no mouse). I was absolutely awful. What I didn't know was, that while I was connecting to his phone line, he was stocking up on items in the game for 20 minutes, inevitably, I would lose on average 20 to -1 in our DM matches. Of course, we had little to no clue about the game, and we'd just run around aimlessly on many different maps (ones that I'd have no recollection to today).

After that, we transitioned to 'Mplayer' together, I downloaded the interface, and started joining a pub CTF Scrag server. I think it was called 'Webmaster' but I don't remember. I know the dude who ran it passed away or something along those lines. I was keyboarding during the majority of these years, and I joined a clan called CD with Punisher and 'BountyHunter'.

Those guys slowly got me into 3wave as we moved out of Scrag pubbing. In 3wave, I somehow got into RuM tryouts. The tryouts were gruelling in that it took months and months of weekly practices for them to even consider you for their clan. I got to play with guys like Ramled and Shiva in their 'prime', and we had huge 8v8 matches on warzone on a server with 20+ people, it was pretty epic.

At some point I decided RuM tryouts were taking too long, so I branched off and made my first 3wave clan called FoX, I recruited guys like 'Flesh' and 'DaKnown' and we actually put together a pretty formidable team at one point. We started playing regular scrimmages against Nwo (yea Vis, you can still tease me about my FoX Miracle nickname) and RuM. At that point, Quake3 came out, and like 80% of the Quake1 popultion left. It was a pretty dreadful scene, as most of the people left behind just felt like losers playing on empty servers. This is also around the time that I started using mouse, although I was still a pretty bad player at this point, just the leader of a dying clan.

After the clan died, I just regularly played 3wave pickups daily with guys like Unspoken, Deadeye, Kwong, Nightmare, xUx members, loop, Hero, Airwalk (clan Anti), Pulse, Bludshed, Toiletduck, Arcane, voodoo, and clan HDZ; as well as pub mtown ctf. The guys listed above made up most of the 3wave scene. Airwalk/Unspoken/Toiletduck/Woods/Kwong in particular had the biggest impact on my playing style. I could watch Unspoken/Woods (as an lpb) play for hours. Unspoken in particular was probably the best 3wave player I ever watched at that time, all the other guys played at such a high level, but it seemed like no one could really touch unspoken no matter who faced him. In most ways, I feel like I learned the most and picked up the most watching him, and my style likely resembles his a little bit. It's too bad for most guys who are around nowadays that you never got to play/watch some of these guys when the servers were still busy.

At that point, I transitioned over to CA for a while, starting off with clan Bogo and clan hopping my way all the way up to i0v, in10sity, and then DOOM. It was likely the constant action in CA that got me to get a lot of reps in and get much better at Quake.

Putting all that aside, one of my favorite moments has to be around 2007-2008 where we saw a resurgence in CTF. CD/Hollywood came back to Quake, and the 3wave CTF server was packed daily for a few months. We had regular matches, so many of those matches were epic, a lot just came down to 1 second caps and such. They may have not been on the same magnitude in terms of skill sets of the guys dating back to 2000-2001, but the quality of the matches was superior because the team play aspect evolved in terms of pickup games.

It's kind of a strange thing, as you play all these years, you didn't really notice that subconsciously your skillset was growing the whole time. You just play and play and enjoy the experience, and somewhere along the lines it just clicks that all that 'practice' you put in turned you into a player that you were not before.

Along the way I got to go to a few lan parties with guys like Gohan, Neil, Kwong, Prone, Killa, Exalt.

I think in the bigger picture, the thing that I take back to life from Quake is not only the competitiveness aspect, but the fact that in order to have an experience, you need other people to share that simulation with you. So many things have to be in play for the game to work. Take this for example, if we play a CTF match, but no one communicates, people will still be aware of what's going on (one dude will go hunt a flag, another will go defend the base, one will fight for quad timing). I think the silent interaction in a game is the coolest thing about video games, having to do things simultaneously while other people are trying to counter what you're doing, those actions lead to a game being won in the last second with a cap (and this goes for all mods).

What was cool from playing the different mods like CTF and CA is that I was able to take different things from different people and incorporate them into my game. Watching unspoken showed me how to control bridges on CTF1 and how to use shaft in certain situations (in fact, one time on red alert I saw him defend the base for 10 minutes straight without dying versus some legit competition), watching woods/toiletduck showed me how to hook certain spots, watching Iceberg/Spoon in water showed me how to utilize the circle strafe in water, watching kwong taught me how to have a game sense (be able to control defense/middle/offense all by myself at a single time), watching spectre taught me how to rocket jump like a maniac but evolve that into my own rocket jumping style.

Looking forward, I'm not going to be playing this game much given my position in life and where I'm currently at. But, I'll always be glad I got to have some kick ass matches with a lot of cool people. What I still can't believe is, that I can hop onto a server, and see two guys (usually omicron and a person of his choosing) still talking shit about who's better and who owns who as if it really matters in the grand perspective. I came to watch a DM match the other day, and I could only take about a minute of it before I left the server.

[Rampage]

Along with that, to toot my own horn, this shitty video r00k made:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tulMAWGAia4]Q1 CRCTF : Trib to Ramp - YouTube[/ame]

[rambo]

Wow rampage. You nailed rum tryouts to a tee. Lol. Also some names you dropped in there, fucking awesome. Shiva! Spectre (Kyle I think) Neil but I knew him as JoJo lol. The best moment for me was the opportunity to meet some real good people, past and present. The HDz guys got my ctf game up. Ava, Drag-an aka NTGuru, Nuke, Vis. Then playing you or trying to play you helped, playing Nightmare who I think is Neil's brother. Bunch of good times.

[Rampage]

Wow rampage. You nailed rum tryouts to a tee. Lol. Also some names you dropped in there, fucking awesome. Shiva! Spectre (Kyle I think) Neil but I knew him as JoJo lol. The best moment for me was the opportunity to meet some real good people, past and present. The HDz guys got my ctf game up. Ava, Drag-an aka NTGuru, Nuke, Vis. Then playing you or trying to play you helped, playing Nightmare who I think is Neil's brother. Bunch of good times.

I was in HDz as well, and to be honest, as much as Avalanche has done for the game of Quake, I just feel his name is tainted like a baseball player who took steroids to get into the hall of fame.

Those guys were using Roger Wilco before it was ever popular, regularly having observers sit out and tell them about where opposing flag runners are and how much health they had. They were also the first ones to regularly use chase_active, I would observe Nuke and Avalanche (I would turn on chase_active to see what they';re seeing) and they would sit behind walls and as soon as someone walks around the corner they fire a rocket, it was equivalent to wall hacking a position. Moreover, Nuke and Avalanche made it seem acceptable to sit in water for prolonged stretches with a lightning gun out waiting for anybody and everybody to come into water so they can discharge; I understand this is part of the game, but there is this kind of unspoken rule in Quake about sitting in water nearly every time just waiting to DC guys, it definitely sucks the fun out of the game. For that reason alone, I've never given them respect, because I don't think these types of antics and unsportsmanlike conduct belong in any game.

Aside from that, Nuke was the single greatest 200+ pinger I've ever played with. When I first started 3wave he wiped the floor with me with 200 ping, like nothing I've ever seen before. He was an incredible player at his time, but eventually, the game caught up with him, and a lot of people surpassed him in skill level through progress while he more or less stayed the same player. After playing with him extensively when I improved, you realize that he was more of a mid-tier guy, but he was iconic for being literally the best 200+ HPB to ever grace 3wave CTF in it's earlier days. I don't think to this day anyone understands how good that guy was for that ping. He would regularly beat some of the best 30 pingers in the game with a 220-250 MS.

And yes, nightmare was amazing as well! There are literally dozens and dozens of players I can name that were amazing ctf'ers but the list would get too long. There were lots of other cool regulars like Enemy_x, his brother DarkBird, and Colon (aka Koops).

PS. Don't forget Bean HDz!

[Mindf!3ldzX]

I was in HDz as well, and to be honest, as much as Avalanche has done for the game of Quake, I just feel his name is tainted like a baseball player who took steroids to get into the hall of fame.

Those guys were using Roger Wilco before it was ever popular, regularly having observers sit out and tell them about where opposing flag runners are and how much health they had. They were also the first ones to regularly use chase_active, I would observe Nuke and Avalanche (I would turn on chase_active to see what they';re seeing) and they would sit behind walls and as soon as someone walks around the corner they fire a rocket, it was equivalent to wall hacking a position. Moreover, Nuke and Avalanche made it seem acceptable to sit in water for prolonged stretches with a lightning gun out waiting for anybody and everybody to come into water so they can discharge; I understand this is part of the game, but there is this kind of unspoken rule in Quake about sitting in water nearly every time just waiting to DC guys, it definitely sucks the fun out of the game. For that reason alone, I've never given them respect, because I don't think these types of antics and unsportsmanlike conduct belong in any game.

Aside from that, Nuke was the single greatest 200+ pinger I've ever played with. When I first started 3wave he wiped the floor with me with 200 ping, like nothing I've ever seen before. He was an incredible player at his time, but eventually, the game caught up with him, and a lot of people surpassed him in skill level through progress while he more or less stayed the same player. After playing with him extensively when I improved, you realize that he was more of a mid-tier guy, but he was iconic for being literally the best 200+ HPB to ever grace 3wave CTF in it's earlier days. I don't think to this day anyone understands how good that guy was for that ping. He would regularly beat some of the best 30 pingers in the game with a 220-250 MS.

And yes, nightmare was amazing as well! There are literally dozens and dozens of players I can name that were amazing ctf'ers but the list would get too long. There were lots of other cool regulars like Enemy_x, his brother DarkBird, and Colon (aka Koops).

PS. Don't forget Bean HDz!

no mention of Clan MFR or the Cheese