[Ydiss]

I totally agree with Hannover.

I've already been called down on another forum for saying I like to use the shotgun primarilly in most games, so I started by using it in MoH.

Apparently, it requires no skill to use and is only used by players who can't be bothered to learn how to aim.

I've been told that it's as simple as 'Target and shooot to kill'.

Funny, I thought that was how all guns worked, but then I suppose I must be wrong.

As Hannover pointed out, the shotgun is virtually useless at mid-long range. You have to expend all 5 shells in most cases, even if you hit with each one, to kill someone who isn't within 10 yards of you. But at close range they are devastating.

Which is how it should be.

I did just as Hannover did. I decided to quieten the moaners and complainers by trying out the SMG.

I found it much easier to use, and could get kills from a much longer range.

I tried the Axis Mauser 98k. A lot harder to use, but with practice I know I could be just as effective with it as I am with the shotgun, I simply have to keep some distance between me and the enemy. Nothing more satisfying that getting a 100+ yard headshot with one though.

I too don't mind players who use the rpg, but I do get annoyed at their lack of judgment (or lack of self-preservation) when they fire one of at point-blank range.

Whatever weapon anyone uses it all comes down to that person's skill. Skill meaning their reflexes, their ability to keep calm under fire, their ability to use the scenery and to out-think the opposition.


Siggi, I completely disagree with your claim that no-one can excell at any online shooter.

Medal of honor, and quake, and Half-life and all the others all require a mixture of various skills.

I agree that some of those skills are capped, if you like, by the player's computer and connection.

But assuming a person has a nice set-up and decent ping (sub 80, for instance) they can excell in themselves as far as they like.

I know a few of the best (and I also know THE best) european Half-life (DM, not TFC or CS) players.

You only have to watch them play a game of Half-life to see that they certainly aren't 'Average' and that they certainly don't just use reflexes to play so well.

Chinx is probably the best European player there is, and you just have to watch him to realise that he out-thinks opponents all the time to the point where they don't even see him before they are dead, or he simply predicts where they will be and fires without seeing them before-hand.

This man doesn't cheat, either. He, along with the rest of his clan [CWA] has found out and shamed many cheaters in his time.

I'm sorry, but anyone who claims that you can't be skillful at anything in this world is just jealous that they themselves don't excell.

The players that stand out are the ones that take a particular gun and use it like no other does.

Let's take the sniper rifle for example. If I were to ask you how you use it, you'd probably reply somethng along the lines of:

Get into a well covered position, get low and kill at range.

Well that's what most players who use it do. It works fine until the enemy work out where you are then either rush you, or sneak up carefully, with assault weapons or grenades and flush you out.

Then the 'average' player, as you like to put it, would be foobard.

Now take one of my mates, Rigz. He is what I would call an excellent player at half-life. He too plays in [CWA] and is certainly not an average player.

We both started out playing MoH at the end of December and, after trying out a couple of the weapons on offer, he decided to 'learn' the sniper rifle.

He's aware that staying still with the sniper rifle will only get you maybe one or two kills before you die.

So he doesn't.

Watch him play one day. He uses the sniper rifle like a shotgun and is a very clever player. He uses his ears very well and out-smarts players a lot.

Sure, sometimes he gets caught by someone, but then we all do.

But he decided to not just get good at the sniper, but to be the best there is out there with it.

At the moment, I've yet to see anyone better.

Oh, and he's already been accused of cheating a few times.

Cheating is more paranoia than reality. If someone beats you all the time they must be cheating because no one can be better than you by any large degree?

That's rubbish.

I know for a fact that he doesn't cheat. He sees cheating claims fired at him as a compliment, as he knows he doesn't cheat.

I don't deny there are cheats out there, I've seen an MPEG demo of one being used in Counter-Strike. It was horrific stuff to watch.

Having seen one in action though it makes it much easier to discern those who do use cheats and those who are simply better than me.

I always give players the benefit of the doubt, because if you are wrong how much of a loser must you look?

No matter how good you think you are at anything in this world, there will always be someone better than you.

Unless you strive to be that person yourself.

I don't because I can't commit the kind of time and practice required to become that person.

But I am happy just playing my game and improving myself. I get better with every second that I play, and I would disagree with anyone who says differently.

If someone beats you regularly it is most likely because they are better than you.

Some people have a hard time admitting that.



[This message has been edited by Ydiss (edited January 04, 2002).]

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