Skill Vs Luck
God_Killer
Join Date: 2004-02-16 Member: 26592Members
Join Date: 2004-02-16 Member: 26592Members
Ok maybe i'm not the only one but i find ns very weird sometimes...
Lmg is soo random, sometimes i kill 3 skulks in a row with one clip and my aim isn't perfect and othertimes i shoot 50 bullets in one skulk and my aim is god like but i get no kill
Same goes for shotgun, i can swear i missed and i get the kill
Sometimes i pinch myself for being so damn perfect in my aim but make no kill...
Sometimes i go fade and my swipe really misses patheticaly and i magicaly own the whole team
Killing fade with shotgun takes 2 hits but goes up to 10 hits? Same round, same ups.
Now lerk spores! I can't see **** cos of green everywhere but my health doesn't go down othertimes, i see no green at all and hp drops
Xeno next! Wow i just got pushed 10 ft in air but recieve no damage at all and next xeno is 15 ft away and i die instantly.
And the range seems so random as for skulk bites
Sometimes i bite a marine 6 times and no damage is done and other times i'm 6 feet away and kill
And why the hell sometimes 2 bites comes too quickly or 2 shotgun hits like auto fire <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Is it ping?
Is it the server?
Is it my com?
The others coms?
Steam network?
Change the engine, make fix, but now when you get to point of being very skillfull,
the only thing that mathers to be the best is luck.
My scores vary from 50-3 to 2-18
I rather have less skill and more luck and its sad
Lmg is soo random, sometimes i kill 3 skulks in a row with one clip and my aim isn't perfect and othertimes i shoot 50 bullets in one skulk and my aim is god like but i get no kill
Same goes for shotgun, i can swear i missed and i get the kill
Sometimes i pinch myself for being so damn perfect in my aim but make no kill...
Sometimes i go fade and my swipe really misses patheticaly and i magicaly own the whole team
Killing fade with shotgun takes 2 hits but goes up to 10 hits? Same round, same ups.
Now lerk spores! I can't see **** cos of green everywhere but my health doesn't go down othertimes, i see no green at all and hp drops
Xeno next! Wow i just got pushed 10 ft in air but recieve no damage at all and next xeno is 15 ft away and i die instantly.
And the range seems so random as for skulk bites
Sometimes i bite a marine 6 times and no damage is done and other times i'm 6 feet away and kill
And why the hell sometimes 2 bites comes too quickly or 2 shotgun hits like auto fire <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Is it ping?
Is it the server?
Is it my com?
The others coms?
Steam network?
Change the engine, make fix, but now when you get to point of being very skillfull,
the only thing that mathers to be the best is luck.
My scores vary from 50-3 to 2-18
I rather have less skill and more luck and its sad
Comments
Sometimes lag does werid things.
xeno though, that's explainable, there was likely a brush between the center of you and the center of the skulk, which would let you see the xeno but it wouldn't do damage because the game thinks there's a wall between you (something blocking the xeno, like a pillar)... although xeno is randomly weird sometimes I agree, same with Siege Turrets, sometimes you can be 30 feet away and it will kill you and sometimes you can be real close and take no damage. Like yesterday in a pug I was fade and I was near the hive (which was being sieged) for probably 3 siege shots, then on the last one I was pretty far away, probably 15-20 feet and they killed me. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--> GG
That is all
I guess next chapter is to know these flaws and change my aim a bit,
but it's pretty hard when graphics arn't exactly whats in real time.
Maybe that what experience gives you, I've been playing for a bit less than 6 months but always been very good in fps's...guess i'll have to get more play time to counter theses flaws
But what's more important is will they ever make an online FPS with zero ping, no bugs
instead of super cool graphics?
Right now, every other games do some kind of flaws.
UT graphics are not more respective much more than real time
CS is almost ridiculous concerning same manner
Quake3 did a pretty good job actually
Will next gen online FPS's offer more than better looks, cos i admit
Far Cry looks to be a promissing engine for outside mods
Doom 3 beta looked very nice but does it play good on net?
UT2004 is mindblowing for the speed the engine reacts to, net is ok, maps are large
HL2 i hope its more than just skins in higher res hehe
I see a <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif' /><!--endemo--> running sideways and i take a shot <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif' /><!--endemo--> from 8-10 feet away, I see sparks fly off this guy's model like when you would hit a wall. I know I didnt hurt him becuase there was no blood splat.
<this was confirmed when I asked if I had hit him and he said no>
And your right sieges are funky, I'll be 20 feet away and die from the first seige shot or I will be 2 feet away as a gorge healing the think and I wont die.
Never had trouble with not seeing a lerk's spores as far as I know.
Not sure what the problem is (lag, bug, etc.) but all I know is that if there is a blood splat you most likely hit him, otherwise you most likely missed. (unless you chewing on a heavy armor, you can never get blood out of them)
For the LMG i've sometimes, like you do, had perfect aim and guess what? i died from 1 skulk...
Normaly i tend to own 1-2 skulks on pub servers...sometimes this is wierd.
Yesterday i was playing on one of my fav NS_ servers with 10-20 ping and i kept dieing of the smae skulk, it was like i couldnt hit it at all. All the other skulks, lerks and other was killed like normaly wth?
^5
especially on dod servers *cough*
Ok the skill mark is higher in scrims but since the team is usually better than on pubs overall game play doesn't get harder.
Most of the time i own pubs pretty much same goes for scrims, pugs, etc.
But like what i said to start the tread my scores vary a lot
2-18 yesterday and next game 25-5 oh well
To an extent, you can learn and understand the quirks of NS. You could even apply your knowledge in-game to get 'unfair' advantages, because you are making use of physics that should not exist in NS (not bunnyhopping, which Flayra left in on purpose, at least for aliens). However, in the majority of the circumstances, events are too unpredictable to be taken advantage of, such as object positions and vectors for velocity and acceleration. Then there are aspects of netcode and game code..
A fluke is an accident, an event which nobody purposely made happen. An exploit is the intentional and reliable use of quirks to affect gameplay.
The pings were 60ish.
kinda lame if you ask me...
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