The Challenge

Game 1

We played DMM1, this one...well, I guess you can see for yourself. There was plenty of friendly smack talk before the match, and we were afraid that these guys were practiced up and in prime shape, so we left nothing to chance. Considering we don't play much teamplay, this of course led to some amusing situations.

From my demo, you can see a lot of what good players call "stupid playing." I hit teammates (only once or twice on purpose), charged foolishly to my death, and basically relied on my teammates to control the level and keep me out of serious trouble. The first thing I did was drop down and grab a rail. I'm pretty lucky I did, as there is only so much armor on the level (especially when 6 people are playing), and most kills were one-shot affairs.

Blaster vs. Rail

3DGN is sharp however, and sees our strategy immediately.

We get through almost half the match without dying, but then yours truly goes out of his way to break the streak.

Time to take a pill, boy

See that grenade? Well, it hits me in the face, and I found out 55 health wasn't quite enough. I get the smack down and start from scratch. 35 seconds later, I get revenge, but it's the wrong guy! This kill was kind of weird because I think my mouse stopped tracking at the last second and I pin Rob in the air with chaingun. Someone upstairs likes me.

It's not actually me doing the killing

About half way through the match, I think Dennis starts screwing around with us, and I gotta lay down the law and slam him with a quick rail. After doing so, I run away so he can't tell it was me. I deny it later.

It was GX-Tim railing you...really.

Two minutes left in the game, and I'm seriously behind on frags. Being the incredible team player that I am, I start hogging kills, getting in the way of battles, and of course, camping the RL. Cries of "I can't get a @&*$%*% weapon!!!" fall on deaf ears. I encounter many unarmed, newly spawned victims.

Don't mind me sitting here.

What I fail to realize is that logical thinking separates humans from animals. People stop coming to my camping spot, and I am sad. With less than one minute remaining in the match, 3DGN has gotten enough suicides and team kills to bring them back down to zero. I assume it's safe to venture forth from my tent, and immediately face an enemy with rail. I have 14 health. Luckily I escape, but soon after encounter yet another enemy. Limping away with 3 health and 10 seconds left, I hide.

Happy day! My cowardice pays off, and we are able to shut out 3DGN completely.

Pings look pretty even to me, wouldn't you say?

Good Game?

It should be pretty apparent that this wasn't exactly a fair match-up. Despite my being spoiled by LAN, our pings are excellent quality, especially compared to 3DGN's modem dialups. In addition, their players were unfamiliar with deathmatch mode 1 settings. The disadvantages were great, but they were great sports and everyone played in the spirit of fun.

Heres the demo from my POV. To play the demo, unzip it into your /quake2/baseq2/demos directory, and start up the game. Bring down the console, and type "demomap kenn1.dm2"

We move on to game 2, also played on Q2DM1, but this time with a few changes in the gameplan.