It's called a sense of humor... I just wanted to show that Evil is raping everybody today-in a funny way. But then I realized that very few understand that.
But that's the way shit goes down today on ESR...everybody just looking for a chance to accuse someone of something, without a little bit of understanding.
I wanted to make it look like a joke, instead I made myself look like a 4chan pervert jerkin' off to gay porn.
still i think that style is possible to counter with strong defensive & positional control like rapha, agent or cypher can do, they just gotta hit their shots
Obviously he lost because he played worse, but he was playing with some weird ass settings that were clearly causing him problems, you can check his DHW config yourself.
My point was that Evil's win at DHW doesn't mean anything just yet so making these comparisons is pretty silly. Maybe if he had beaten an on form Rapha, but he didn't.
an off form rapha who destroyed a supposedly in-form av3k.
c'mon, rapha was in form. Evil's win at dhw does mean something (although will definitely mean more if it happens again). Beating Cypher & Rapha on LAN is possibly the biggest achievement one can get in QL at the moment.
I don't mean to dimish his victory, I mean beating Rapha and Cypher no matter how they're playing is a huge achievement, but people are acting as if he's the new hero of quake/the next Rapha because he won a couple of online cups and a dreamhack (despite falling short at every other major tournament he has attended)
It's Evil that has to prove himself, not anyone else like some people seem to believe. And as far as I'm concerned he hasn't done that yet.
He's been consistantly placing in the top spots of online tournaments in the last 2 years. He's made top 3 - 3 times on LAN in 2012, one of them being first. This is totally off-topic to the fact he's been a top player for the last 10 years or so.
Evil is definitely one of the players an aspiring dueller can look up to.
That he's what these people say he is, my problem is with those touting him as the best because he won at dreamhack, I'm not trying to say that he's bad ,I'd say he's one of the best currently, but he has a long way to go before people can justifiably say that he is the best.
People do it all the time whenever a new player wins something. *'New' to lan, rather.
He is, he beat some of the best players ever all in one tournament, and he won it. He won dreamhack, that's huge. He's definitely my hero in quake at the moment and i'm sure he could do it again.
He deserves all the credit he gets.
Yes, on Hektik. Rapha is Rapha after all. And besides, Evil kinda gave up after a while.
"so dont say hes cfg was fucked up" - Check it yourself; It's all kinds of weird and it's evident in his aim, movement and overall play that it was affecting him. I won't say he would have won if it wasn't, but it did impact how he played.
And Rapha wasn't playing anywhere near on form, nor was he playing that well. You shouldn't use his performance at dhw as a basis for comparison. If he had beaten a Quakecon 2011-level Rapha then sure, you might be able to speculate because that would be a huge upset, but he didn't.
qcon2k11? you just said rapha was unlucky to not survive fight after fight with 5 hp, like hi did against strenx :X
and i said to you: dont pick up typical rapha attitude... "i lost because, ehh, the sunlight wasnt good"...
cypher made his cfg @ dh, and went to semis...
I remember at least 3 times in which rapha had mouse and other problems in semis or grand finals. It's not that he is the king of excuses or something but him simply having hardware or config issues, and the last dh was no exception.
Though in the latter it was him fucking up really. Who doesn't bring their cfg to the event rofl, therefore his fault.
either hes the most unlucky quake player ever [being the luckiets at same time, doh], with all his sensbugs and stuff... or he just like to whine about it while other just say: i played shit
when he gets sens problems it's apparent from the stream. There's a reason why everyone acknowledges rapha as the best ql player ever, not cypher nor anyone else.
Luck is a part of the game so it's not an excuse for anyone and must be endured. The one that says it all the time is very much lucky anyway (cooller).
The problem was entirely Rapha's fault. How he managed to forget his config, and then somehow acquire one as weird as the one he had at Dreamhack I'll never know.
Why? Is it some sort of unwritten rule? Because when there's money to win everyone will stick to the official ones. I don't see how it gives you any advantage tho.
IIRC the update that introduced the timestamps was release one or two weeks before the IEM European championships that took place at the ESL studios. Since it was new and the jury was still out on whether it takes away too much from the game the timestamps were not allowed there.
It's the only time I remember them not being allowed and I could be wrong with the excact event but I'm pretty sure it was an IEM.
i too think Rapha wasn't in his best form, to me it was pretty obvious, but i don't know if it was because of his cfg, which i doubt; he more seemed untrained, demotivated, and with the incoming 100000 € tournament i can understand him; after all, he doesn't have a job right now, moneys are important, and with the shootmania tournament he could have made more moneys than in 2 years of quake, so...
I may be wrong, but from the demo i watched i got the impression that he wasn't at his old levels; but hey, nobody is perfect, after all he may even have been nervous, or feeling the pressure.
And if he wasn't at the top, it remains his fault, not Evil's one.
I think evil still hasn't reached his full potential, your post would best describe cypher in his prime, where as evil still occasionally goes full retard (rush rush rush).
I think it was the face it cup 11 on t7 where evil had the lead and got killed, he spawned, picked a weapon and came straight to cypher only to get killed 6-7 times in a row and you hear zoot drooling about some kind of comeback
huh... sure
evil's agression is his strength and weakness, it's working most of the time but he certainly could control himself more and think about the timings instead of "kill kill kill"
Evil raised his level of play a LOT! Stupid fanboys of Rapha in this thread tend to forget this. It is possible that Rapha was not in his best form but please Evil played fucking awesome. One of the best ql performances i have ever seen.
the only thing that Evil raised a lot compared to his precedent version is the aim, lowering his sens to the point you have to be good just to be able to move around properly; this kind of sensitivity also isn't much affected on lan, compared to the higher ones.
So he's not running around town naked having sex with other men in bathrooms, but he's the same as if he would run around town naked having sex with other men in bathrooms in the aspect that both are... gay? Not sure if that's a compliment...
And if the aspects which you thought of are the ones you listed in the original post above (fast, aggressive, efficient, accurate, sneaky, cool, smart, evil), that means you find running around town naked having sex with other men in bathrooms "cool" and "smart". So tell me more how one has to be disturbed for 4chan and you are not.
Evil uses kinzu which has built-in accel (cypher told me it's like .1 accel in quake) and 400dpi which in reality is actually around 560 dpi for the kinzu. So what he really uses is around sens 3.22 and .1 accel (don't forget he also uses 100fov). I'm more curious as to what the accel curve looks like for the kinzu considering strenx owned with it too and could never get used to the abysuss even when trying different accel values. There seems to be something special about the kinzu and considering the fact that they won't be in the market forever we should probably find a way to replicate the kinzu feel.
you can build your own win accel curve (at least with XP) . there is also this program, "maccel" or something.
but it is best to get used to non-broken movement. yes you can get used to kinzu as you can get used to almost any shit as long as it is consistent, but it's stupid. better use a mouse with flawless motion and you can exchange between them easily.