and stuff like that
you know
FIRST :E

Good work Thorin, keep Quake alive in some wayz :D

love your interviews!

watching now

I wanna see this MMA fight:



vs

luanswan2002 -> http://piv.pivpiv.dk/

also, you already posted this photo, 1000 times...

nice interview. seems like he was a robot (emotionless or not paying attention to it) when he dominated q4...

Q: when will parts 2 and 3 be uploaded?

Q: when will parts 2 and 3 be uploaded?

One per week, though I might do part 2 this Sunday and pretend part 1 was last week.

Just to clear this up for you.

He never dominated Quake 4. I don't know how Av3k beat cooller and tox in ESWC, in an earlier patch. That impresses me. However, Cooller dominated in the first versions until 1.3 and then only toxjq dominated Q4. Av3k was only able to beat tox immediately after the new patch came out (1.4) at WSVG Louisville and tox hadn't yet adapted to it. tox's style was based on the LG/Rail, which were severely weakened in 1.4 and +forward rocket became the best tactic (which just happened to suit av3k's style the most). After this event, tox changed from fov 90 35cm/360 to fov 110 24cm/360 to adapt to the faster rocket based game, and even at the next event, Dallas, tox won, and by the time WSVG Toronto came around, he was back in his unbeatable form. On the i32 vods tox says ingame, "they try make me worse" in response to a question about 1.4. I think that says enough about who dominated Q4, and even the mighty developers couldn't stop him. That's why tox has the reputation he does.

2gd even said tox wasn't supposed to go to that tournament so he didn't practice nearly as much as he would have otherwise.


Doesn't make 1.4.x less shit ( ghetto cpm )

Was allways wondering what would be the optimal setup for ql as it is now then? Cos at one hand there is rapha with his 110 fov no zoom and crazy sens/accel and on the other we got 90fov zoomer cypher with much lower sens and very little accel. Do those sets rly mean this much or its just an aim-confidence that is screwing aimers when facing rapha? It seems like its better to cheat your brain with high fov and accel so u think your aim suck, u only use it to execute strategies and never mindlessly chase with rail/lg

Not sure if made myself clear but i dont feel very well atm

I think there's never really an absolute optimal setup. It's just what suits you best. Some settings won't work for you, because you don't move your hand fast enough, or because the game is too slow. QL is much slower than Q4, so above 25cm/360 would be pretty much needed to have good aim, but rapha has proven that wrong, so who knows? :)

tox is so fuckin arrogant... every iview with him is like: QL isnt bad but would be kewl if they made it more q4 like...

this quote from i32 proves it: every change that doesnt favor him is bad, and some kind of conspiracy to make the best quaker ever worse, cause hes so fuckin awesome...

The only thing you got right is the last three letters of your name.

toxjq is not as arrogant as their
annoying fans.

In my opinion, to be the best, you have to be arrogant.

Ah okay, i misunderstood it i guess! thanks for the clarification [+]

don't be ridiculous man. tox & avek dominated q4, stop trolling about cooller, dude..

he is right about cooller, dude..

Top bloke, very fun person irl as well and a top notch duel caster! :)

gj on the interview. Was it taken at DHS11?

Was it taken at DHS11?

Yep

took your goddamn time!

thanks though

"I just wanted to show to people good action.
I know that there are many people who's waiting for this final to see good quake. And i wanted to show good quake, and i did".

Words of a true champ, a real progamer.

ye, i love this too

Pizza box. My favorite quake 4 moment.

Avek seems to be fat not fit ;)

Thorin good job as always! Upload other parts ASAP! :)

He is on gaining phase ;).

Ball shrinking phase also

lol

its avek, bitches

such a boss!! quake always attracted the cream of the gamers.

mma is cool, but he is probably damaging his most valuable asset, his brain.

as to what changed to his mentality, the answer is very simple, he got older. The younger u r the more confident u r and the more passion u have.

Overally very good interview, like av3k said mindset means a ton, for most people our minds fuck our games. For me personally its usually that I believe that I am better than my opponent and therefore I feel like I dont need to play at my max, which will make me lose and raget for the very reason that I felt i should have won without effort and I lost instead, which makes no sense when your mind tells you the opposite.

Best way to play quake is to not think anything before the match, but instead adapt to opponents game. Making false decisions basing to something you believe instead of facts will make you lose so much...

For me personally its usually that I believe that I am better than my opponent

Dunning Kruger effect

so ture avek doesnt give a shit who he plays he just play his best.

But to most (and I REALLY MEAN most), playing their best INCLUDES analyzing who you will play with, how that player has been playing recently (quality and strategic wise), what maps to choose or expect, some specific stratagies (like avoid lg for example), all that and more BEFORE the match, If they don't do that they WON'T be playing their best.

At least that's what I believe that happens.

Fight MMA but stay in Quake too :/ It will take me some time to be as good as You and P(r)oland has to have someone on Top!

Mma hahahaha hahahahahahah hahahahahahahah

Nice interview. Im curious about av3k performance in MMA

Awesome interview!
Love to hear avek speak, he sounds like a really smart and nice guy.

like every pole!
:D

Funny, i always thought of Av3k like a cocky Poland boy, nice interview.

You'd be right. Maybe he grew up, though.

we are really running out of players to hate :(

yeah, the scene is becoming too nice and boring :X

Sure, why not!

what about "pizza box story"?

you sure you want to know?

he explained it in the video..

toxic and avek meet in a big Q4 tournament, remember Avek was very very young at that time.
Some technical problem and both are given a break, and Cooller explains how to beat Toxic. As they don't have any paper or anything, Cooller draws Phrantic on the pizza box and explains that Avek should control the weapons foremost, not just the armors. And Avek does that and beats him.

what a cool story! ofc, with a teacher as cooller, avek can win toxjq without big problems!

I like to watch the video of this particular q4 duel!

MMA panowie, MMA