argwarrior

hehe oh yes, I run CTF Sharpeye on veteran too; and of course all the newbies run off into the woods, get lost, and then proceed to shoot everything that moves because "it didn't say you were a friendly." I even spent 20 minutes sniping right next to a teammate, then he looks over and sees me -- and panics, and emptys half an M21 magazine into me. From 6 feet. Go figure. ...and then there is what happens when they FIND the helicopter -- our team finds our AH-64, which will allow us to immolate the T-80s that are charging at us. I watch from our hill as the rotors spin up, and then watch in horror as a newbie in an M1 hears it also, traverses the turret to the heli, and nails it with a sabot before it even takes off. oh the humanity!

SEAL_TEAM_6_SUPER_SNIPER:  "I'm lost!! I dont know where I am!" argwarrior:  "did you keep track of where you where on the map?" SEAL_TEAM_6_SUPER_SNIPER:  "i just used the map and it doesnt tell me where i am!!!  help!!!" BLASTER:  "arg, where is the enimys comin frum?" argwarrior: "they come from the soviet base, look on your map to find it" SEAL_TEAM_6_SUPER_SNIPER:  'IM LOST" SEAL_TEAM_6_SUPER_SNIPER:  ' I SEE SOME!! DIE COMMIE BASTARDS!!" > BLASTER was killed by SEAL_TEAM_6_SUPER_SNIPER > argwarrior was killed by SEAL_TEAM_6_SUPER_SNIPER  > argwarrior was killed by BLASTER BLASTER: "they are attacking us in our respawn!" > argwarrior was killed by BLASTER > argwarrior was killed by BLASTER argwarrior "aaaaghh  blaster cease fire its me!" > argwarrior was killed by BLASTER > argwarrior was killed by BLASTER > argwarrior was killed by BLASTER BLASTER:  "arg, help, i cant hold them all off!" SEAL_TEAM_6_SUPER_SNIPER: "WHERE ARE THE HELICOPTERS?" -- need I say more? why cant we have a patch to fix the nitwits? (Edited by argwarrior at 1:38 am on Oct. 29, 2001)

not that I know anything, but BIS does seem pretty friggin lazy. now, where are my matches, I may have to defend meself

Well I decided to add my two cents. I am currently on a shared T3, though I spent many years gaming on a 56k, so I have been on both ends of the stick. I am sure I do not need to tell you guys the difference between latency and bandwidth. My connection has ridiculously large bandwidth, and, lucky me, good latency to this half of the world. Yet you have people with "fast" DSL conections with pings of 400 -- especially in the southeastern US, some DSL services have a lag time of 4 or more seconds. It isn't just about bandwidth; all the bandwidth in the world will not help you if you have crappy latency. I used to get sub 100 pings on my 266mhz 32mb RAM with a 56k, at least in my region. So, for a lot of people, your in-game ping really has much more to do with luck than with expensive broadband. Don't whine to us about "the state of online gaming" or rant about the unfairness of it all. If you live in an area with poor latency over phone lines, and have a 400ms ping, and there are no other connection options, then your game is just not playable online from your area, and you should not have bought it expecting to play online in the first place. As a side note, I always welcome all players into my game, no matter what their ping is.