I've played for 10 years and only average at best, time has fuck all to do with it. Was quite a bit better in cpma vq3,

signed average punter

It's all about mindset in my opinion. Focus plays a huge role.

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do u play on gimmicks

I just finished a game where I went 20kills and 30 deaths. Why is this?

Exactly. Why? What happened during the game that you died so many times? This is the question you should be asking, not why there might be some "global dip" in your performance.

The players just seemed better even though it wasn't a different tier

NEVER HAD ANY?

Do you even lift?

DANGER ZONE! © Archer

Well, I suppose ingame perfomance may vary a lot depending on your mood, focus and number of hours you slept before :)

Quake is a very intense game requiring a lot of your organism functions. Have you ever noticed that sometimes your mind thinks and reacts slower? Than you should've asked this question to yourself before.

Plus opponents skill may vary itself. You're not playing vs bots so...

You got to play more like this :0

not bad :)

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you can play too few and too much. your performance will decrease if you play 24/7 for a week and it will decrease if u play once a week.also not all players perform equal some are really consistent and as for me, some have shit days and pwn days

Don't seriously reply to this tard. He is either a troll or a 8 year old kid (google his nick and check his qvak profile)

Exactly. This guy is posting in the quake live forums as well, asking the most basic questions but refusing to read the guides which are posted at the top of the forum he's posting in.

You have to play 24/7, don't listen to liars saying that they are naturally born good, they all play a lot. Not quite 24/7, but between 200-400 matches/week, which is a lot, well assuming your opponents don't ragequit this is how it is. Also do not play the same opponent and once in every 10-20 matches go crazy, trying to play different, like all aim all one weapon style, something whatever it can keep your interest and mind up. Also watch demos when you don't play (on top of the time you play), but (hint) do not watch live online matches, because it can trick you into spending too much time sticking there for the sake of inertia even if they are pros they won't play so serious, will time so and so and will talk a lot of useless crap which will all eat up your time. It would be great if you will have the discipline to go away from the monitor every 2 or three hours to take a walk or do whatever else and go to sleep at night (keeps your intellectual and overall physic ability higher), I lacked the discipline bigtime, went full play even for 40 straight hours, not the best thing to do, in three weeks I burned out and embraced with much joy anything SP game that wasn't quake.

You are assuming he is decent. The other day he posted he was happy about hitting 2 impressives total on a whole match.

Ouch. Next time I will recommend him to play 48/7 then xD

i hit 21 impressives on campgrounds with 61% rail and only had 1 rail frag yesterday.

i was dissapoint

Don''t forget that while you're not playing other players are getting better...

Mind wise, the best I ever was, was in 2002. My aim and movement is a fuckload better than it was then however. I would never dream of hitting 50 lg and 60 rail and stuff like that.

Still I remember being able to think from the other guys point of view, laying traps and timing really well, it feels like I just can't do that any more, too much mindless playing over the years.

I'm 31 now and since about 25-26 I have noticed a slight drop in performance on fps games, Its very little but I was much better when I played quake1 and ra3 as a young man. I also had a lot of passion about winning and losing then also, I no longer punch things, break keyboards, or get any other forms of extreme nerd rage. I have passion for other things in life so this has really became just true entertainment to me. If I lose i dont whine and bitch and view the demo 30 times to see what i did. If I lose I go play another. :P Also, and a lot of people will disagree with me on this but I guarantee if we did a scientific study it would be true that some people just apex at certain levels. I would love two use two examples, Krailed and Pudrick. Look how much these guys played but they are no Walter or KGB, why is that? Its simple their apex is just lower than Walter and KGB. Nothing the matter with that but I think a lot of people having trouble accepting that they are at their apex of hand eyecordination performance. No hate against krailed or pudrick, they always had exciting good games when we all played together. Nothing wrong with being average, these top guys are freaks of nature that no amount of config, hardware buying, practicing, will put you on their level. Hopefully we can find it in the human genome and ill pay to have some rapha stem cells injected in my brain, and a few KGB ones so I can LG like him, Maybe some walter cells so I can rock ztn.

A British trick I learn a while back. Switch ISP to Virgin Media and automatically gain movement skill. (pic related, its the skill)