"I do not approve any of these changes and I would honestly rather see the franchise die with dignity than the devs trying to get a bit more money for a while by making it COD/BF'esque. This is really shameful." -winz

manually typed my username / password and logged in to + this

[+] For your effort.

[+] For your effort too.

nice plus steal

very true!

i always liked winz, he is a smart guy!
keep it up man!

literally lol'd at tyrone

#team-g100s

its tracking really feels weird to me. I dont know whats the problem but i cannot use it.

1) are you using logitech drivers? tracking feels different for me with and without drivers
2) the sensor is a little off-center compared to other mice, so it takes a bit getting used to

main reason ive stuck with it is because of the shape (very flat), light weight (2.3oz with weight removed), coating (smooth yet doesnt attract sweat grease stains like other rubber coated mice), and also the price. currently 29$ USD at best buy

i have the kinzu v2, kana, wmo, cm spawn, abyssus 3.5g, abyssus 2014 and i still prefer the g100s over the other 5 claw grip mice.

so do you recommend using driverS? I didnt use it.
and i have used wmo for lots of years, then i started using zowie fk. I tried g100s for its shape and lightweight but i really dont know what is the problem but it feels weird. btw i live in nyc, so price is same from amazon

yep. definitely try the drivers out, I believe the latest is dated 8/4/2014. also especially good if you want to disable the dpi switch if u accidentally hit it mid game

duel!

very good questions!!

also i was really really impressed with the evil story (lending money).

Give pics if guismo backsteen and seven please

Guismo12 and Sev3n don't want to appear on the internet, I always ask for pictures. I think you'll find Baksteen pics on ESReality, he was taken at the Adroits LAN in Netherlands maybe... I don't remember.

EDIT : Look this page, he's on the main pic : http://www.esportactu.fr/quakelive/162-baksteen-/

wow he is cute, but not as handsome as gienon

Give me a good pic, I think I haven't one for his player profile page on Esportactu.

Also, give a pic of you for the same reason please :p.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/112091674@N02/1...3925465054

You're the dude in grey ? or is this gienon ?

lovely gienon is in grey, his smile is honest I rather grit my teeth after losing vs him in semis :))

good read.

Good interview; I agree with him about his points on 1v1 maps, timelimit, etc. He seems a bit negative at times but the fact that he donated for evil to go to Qcon without any regrets says a lot. He's more of a realist than anything which I am very appreciative of.

This is not donation, this is PR. Its like buy a shoes to an orphan, take a photograph of that and then get it back.

Yes it is PR, but it's also a meaningful act of support towards evil and towards the Quake Live scene. Everyone is a bit selfish. Maybe another person, more humble than winz, would not talk about the fact that he donated. However, it is also somewhat humble to say to people that he got most of his money back, and to be honest about what happened. Every decision you make in public is informed to some extent by self-interest, but that doesn't necessarily take away from the good that you might do. You're also demeaning your fellow Russian by comparing him to an orphan, which is not very nice to evil, but that's up to you.

Lulz, that's a pretty funny way of seeing things, but it would be more actual by saying t's like you buy shoes to an orphan, which allows him to win a race that rewards him with two pair of shoes, and then you take the first pair back.

The duel points should be made much more subtle though...
It's a balance kinda thing and it's not really all that messed up.

For instance there is a large benefit to tl 10 for spectators.
I personally like BO5 finals with BO3 elimination rounds (which should definitely be double elim though).
If you put TL back to 15 minutes then a BO5 would take way too long for "non-playing people" to watch.

You want to be able to "show the game to a non-playing person" which encourages him to play.
Which btw is also quite bad from nowadays casters and people's continuous whine of gettings casters to analyse what players do.

I also think the time limit isn't the best argument here. It's like, where do you put the limit anyway ? If 15 minutes allow for more controlshifts, 20 minutes would allow for even more, and 30 minutes will do the same, etc.

I'd say the format of a tournament + the little map pool made with new map every year would be interesting. Small map pool means the players can't really decide if they will play their best map or not in a bo3, I think it's pretty fair if players practiced a map for the same amount of time to see who would master it faster and who adapts to change better, movement and angles being a part of the "skill" required to play Quake.

The point isn't to allow for multiple controlshifts, the point is to have enough time to allow at least one on a more regular basis.

Breaking a top player control is incredibly hard nowadays as there are fewer and fewer mistakes that are made and often takes several minutes.
The question is, do you have enough time to break his control and then make up for your frag deficit? In too many situations, my opinion is that you do not.

I don't want to go into details too much and give a few exemples of situations that currently have too much of an impact in the game. Let's just say that, when you are out of control, you either have to gather enough resources in order to be able to challenge the in control player or hit a retarded amount of unreturned damages. A single spammed rocket can push your opportunity to break the in control player by a minute or more.

Opportunities to break the control of a top player are too few with TL10 and that increases the luck factor.
That is strenghtened by one sided maps where the first frag matters way too much and decide too often the outcome of a game (I said too often, not always!). There are a few exemples of that: evil stomping rapha on tox at DH then rapha stomping evil at QCON on the same map by one sided scores. It's just that the first frag on that map matters too much and that's true for some other maps aswell.

One could say the game actually benefits from it having the best players lose more often to lesser players but I don't believe that. Games should be close due to a healthy competitive scene and balanced maps/settings.

The benefit of having a smaller map pool means everyone will master every map. You would have less blowouts and higher quality games that way in my opinion

I understand the people that are in favor of TL10. It's less tiring, you get to see more maps in tournaments etc, I just don't agree with them. :p

Again that is my very subjective opinion and nothing else, I don't consider it as fact and I'm willing to discuss any of those points.

I'm actually with you on that TL 15 is better for the players as it gives more options during a game. With tl 15 you can make a gamestyle more focussed around control and pressure rather than just kills and rushes.
Also there is a larger "luck" factor in QL than there was in Q3. However the luck is divided over more maps so (imo) it would even out.

Anyway my point isn't to say that you're wrong... just that it's somewhat more subtle than it seemed to me in the interview :)
(there are lots of advantages / disadvantages / small changes to gameplay / etc. which all do take a part in why one thing would be prefered to another. It's even very player specific as people who like regaining control through rushes would prefer a lower tl.)

Luck doesn't get divided over more maps. This is not how stats work. There is the same amount of luck involved on each map and the same player could get lucky on all of those in a BO3 or BO5. To illustrate, if you have a 50% chance of one thing happening, it can still happen twice in a row, 10 times in a row.. 100 times in a row (Obviously the more of it happening in a row becomes less and less likely)

I think the best testimony of TL10 not being enough time is the number of mid game forfeits since Quakelive. Players are aware they do not have time to make up for the deficit they have and just give up.

I admit mentalities have changed a bit aswell but that's something that was quite rare in previous games, mid game forfeits were extremely rare in competition and/or practice.

Would be nice to have that back. :(

If you're assuming that both players are equally skilled then they have an equal chance of something fortunate happening to them. Statistics kinda do say that the luck will even out.
Ofcourse a sample set of only 3 - 5 matches is small... but when it increases it should even out.

But if you look at the results in QL... you can see that "luck" is not the greatest force in quake. Not unless you think that rapha is just insanely lucky for multiple years hehe ;p

Anyway (:P) I only disagree with some minor things you say, on the whole we're in decent agreement :)

i don't think that's a very good argument. every other big esport game has single matches that frequently last longer than entire quake grand finals.

Well I'm not sure if you actually competed in some tournaments... but it's pretty time consuming.
Now ofcourse if you get paid to play that's not so bad... but for 'random' people it's quite a lot of time that goes into it.
I stopped playing zotacs fairly long before I became inactive... and my only reason for it was lack of time. I didn't want to play 4 hours on a sunday anymore.

Now if you'd increase timelimit.... that would mean you either play BO1, or you get a tourney that lasts at least 6 hours each sunday.
Which again is ok if you're watching.... but not so much when you're playing.

where are these numbers coming from?

from my personal experience in QL and Q3.
But it's not that hard to come up with real numbers if you want them...
Assume you play bo3 with tl 10, and you can use at most 15 minutes to find the opponent, get to a server warmup etc etc.
So each round will take 3*10 + 15 = 45 minutes.
The number of rounds is dependant upon the number of entrees where 2^nrOfrounds == nr of entrants. (where you round nr of entrants up to a square of 2.)

There used to be at least 128 entrants (rounded up) and there often were 256 entrants. Which would be 7 or 8 rounds maximum. Let's assume I played good and played in 6 rounds = 6*45minutes = 270min = 4.5 hours.

If you'd take tl 15 and assume the rest is the same you'll get 45+15 = 60 mins per match * 6 = 6 hours.

Now zotac does have a nice matchmaking system that matches up people based on who finished their games first and all people must be in the same chan (so they reduce the 15 minutes preperation and if you win in 2 maps then you can continue on faster through the rounds) So the values might be a bit skewed. But it's a fairly accurate depiction imho.

Good read, indeed.

Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,
The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.

Chorus.—
My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart’s in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;
Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I go.

Farewell to the mountains, high-cover’d with snow,
Farewell to the straths and green vallies below;
Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods,
Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.

My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart’s in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;
Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I go.

so CTF qcon summary by winz:
- flaming other teams/community for lack of own practice :D
- flaming community for having no teams after killing all competitions with retarded 5v5 promotion to almost all leagues :D
- 2 euro teams were going and had too huge ego to train vs each other cause they expected to meet each other in finals :D
- when I gathered russians just to play the league game vs ukn for fun for their practice before qcon instead of simple defloss they voted pillbox which none of us ever played instead of playing something we knew(and played close game with them before). When they lost p9 vs 2014 at Qcon I was just laughing, served them well
Seems like an adequate guy but their french attitude towards other players is just sad:
Jul 19 18:48:18 <winz> I still think we are better than them
...

You are as usual, full of shit. Not that I'm surprised though.

Edit: You must be trolling. Can't think of anything else to spit lies then take an out of context sentence.

NEVERMIND

"Now I don't know the reason why you seem to dislike pavel"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bu3Me-fCYAAE0gx.png

http://www.esreality.com/files/inlineimages/2006/43086-winz4.jpg

??????

didn't know pavel got a wife :D that's cool

now i feel even more lonely :'(

:DDDDDDD

Surprised it wasn't more like this tbh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_e...fZmCAZwhyY

May be even like this?

:o Drama

your interview is filled with contradictions. Not that i bothered reading it all...

Also you DID said that in UE their is less capacity to train CTF than in USA? Must be kidding.

Everyone heard your arrogant talk about how you were supposed to win etc.

Anyway you could have said that np but why lying and saying you didnt said it, its like when you say UT require more skill sthan QL and the opposite few times later?

Seems like you have problem with the "public image" you are trying to make out of u.

Such shame the top 5 players in France are bobos from rich families with outrageously big egos. Which doesnt represent well what was once the shining Quake community. Started declining after Benois's suicide and shits :(

Excuse me, but.....aren't all top duelers egocentric as fuck? some just keep it in check better than others.

Absolutly not.

Hi strenx.

Where am i lying? :)

Almost every single point.

- Your interpretation skills are either very low or you are being purposedly dense, there wasn't any flaming whatsoever.

- Again, there was no flaming and I don't see why you are making up that I was behind the temporary changes for 5v5.. if anything I voted against it (and even if I was behind it, this is unrelated to the scene slowly dieing)

- Exp never had 4, ever. We asked them to play almost every single night 2/3 weeks prior the tournament.

- Is this an attempt at looking like a cool person to say you only "gathered" players to "help" us practice by showing up on an official game in a league you signed up for.. Thanks I guess?
Still showing much bitterness about the fact we picked an "unusual map" (which had been in the pools for a year).
First of all we did not pick it because you haven't played it, we were unaware of that, we picked it because 2 of us had never played it and we desperately needed to play it against good teams.
It's fair to assume it's a very understandable pick.

The only thing that is true is the log you took out of context (low move btw) and I stand behind it. I still think EU in general has superior style/strategy and we massively fucked up at Quakecon.

Again, I'm not surprised by such a post of yours. It's very consistent with how much of an asshole you have been every single game we've played against you..

Could you develop the 5v5 thing please ? Games were played 4v4 at QuakeCon, I don't understand what it's all about.

5v5 format was pushed for pickup and 2 out of 3 online leagues by winz and other admins, many teams including mine just went inactive cause of that

So it's 5v5 in ctf pickup now ?

Why do you think 4v4 is better ? (I'd like to hear since I know nothing basically on these debates)

it was 5v5 only for a couple of weeks on pickup, but that doesnt really matter, it's leagues which do
as for 4v4 yes I do, but that's an endless talk, everyone has his own preferences

5x5 is the stupid carnage at the p1, p9, c7 imo.

ukn did practise for the CTF but instead of picking the new map Cerberon against the pug teams they practised Spider Crossings and existing maps that they already knew - great strategy! I suspect an element was their ego thinking they could win it all, and then realised they should have trained more on Cerberon once they were at Qcon.

You have no excuses. EXP were going too and you should have arranged daily pcws with each other.

Its funny that when unkn did arrive at qcon, you were practising with SAKE for the CTF and did not pick new cerberon to train either. Why make up excuses for your own fault?

W I N Z <3
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Good interview.

Thks again Infuscomus for your work and GL HF WINZ!!!! ;)

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Talking about yourself?

A UT player commentating with the sole intent of throwing shit at one of the best UT players ever, because he throws shit at the game he owned at.

Winz is the Juan Pablo Montoya of a 'arena' games, in the good sense. That's unique.

Wow, someone's butthurt.

Wait wait wait... are you this guy who got busted cheating a while ago while you were CB admin or something ?

Wow, man, nice to met you.

"(for obvious reasons)"

the music:D

"Winz is probably one of the worst CTF players I have ever seen"

lol

http://www.esreality.com/post/2603248/re-dem0...pid2603248

rotfl

hahahaha

http://www.esreality.com/post/2603248/re-dem0...pid2603248

I just don't get it.

The last post that you made previous to this one, you stated the following:

"No disrespect to any of the players in the lineup but why not support and send the BEST and most exciting players from Europe instead?

Surely the BEST CTF team would be Spartie, Winz, Linkin and Calipt."

Whats changed since this? why the totally contradictory post now ? and why say such shitty things too ? has your head just flipped out again or what ?

Its been 3 years ffs....and you still lurk around quake forums in the early hours of the night randomly s**t-talking actual genuine legit gamers.

I was serious three years ago and I'm serious now. You should go to the docs and get help with these massive personality disorders that you clearly have.

(single elimination gives AIDS to any real competitor) - Winz

Just to be clear, I have no problem with winz anymore. Past is past, and I wish him good luck in the future

(yes, you guys are not dreaming, it's me writing)

[+]

you two are both amazing players.

Do you still hate my railgun? Because l1nkin said it was bad ;(

Time to shape up br1ck

Buddha has spoken.


: D

I love Winz......quake is dying and I just started to play it :-(

Quake isn't dying then, keep playing, we're hundreds.

hahahaha

quake will never die dude.

lol bunch of door knob lickers in here.....

It's impossible to rival top players who have more than 10 years of experience on some maps.

Wrong.

Really nice interview. Looking forward to plazma's too!

++ plazmaaa