Posted by crunkus @ 16:19 CDT, 13 April 2015 - iMsg
Looking at how many tournaments he's won, in your view what made Cypher so great at Quake for many years? How would you describe the way he play, and what about this makes him do so well?
he's so good cause he's a very dedicated duel player, and that for years now. Also he started quake as a kid, and over the years he had practice partners like cooller or av3k.
also he makes quake look so easy when you watch him play, he got a pretty relaxed playstyle, a bit like cooller, but yet he hits everything and makes the smartest moves 80% of the time
I think Evil is overall better than cypher.
It takes Cypher all year to figure out how to beat Evil.
It takes Evil a week to figure out how to beat Cypher.
I think rapha said it well and that it applies to Cypher (on lan anyway)
Wasnt it something like....'i make the best of bad situations'
Which is true, they both take terrible situations( when they are in practice on lan etc) and either turn them around, or minimize ther terribleness. :p
Zero 4 was one of the best when quake 3 was at its peak4-6 years earlier when it mattered the most, guy has nothing to prove when he came back for fun many years later after hanging his boots up for a long time while cypher was at the perfect gaming age and constantly playing.
That was a tourney where griffin placed 3rd, all due respect to the guy, that should tell you what shape quake 3 pro's were in at that point...
I remember that lol they gave him such a hard time. Even when they're like "ok, we shouldn't be so hard on him, he probably takes himself very seriously" was hilarious.
Dam dat rapha is a true G at duel, losing 15 frags like that.
Rapha and cypher are only good at adding 25+35. They're both mediocre at CA and CSGO. If rapha beat me at 1v1 CA then you guys could have something to talk about, but alas isabadmutha 10-0'd rapha. So why would he bother even vs'ing me?
I checked some of your accounts and you all hit LG in the 20% range.
Edited by jigglywiggly at 00:03 CDT, 18 April 2015
1v1 CA. Like that has ANYTHING to do with deep skill rofl. You are delusional if you think that it means like anything - and we saw the undeniable proof at #20, clear as day.
Truth is, even disabled monkeys can play lolCA and be reasonable "good" in it (if they can properly use their mouse and keyboard simultaniously) in relatively short time.
Accept the FACT that you got fucking OBLITERATED to the minuses on ztn and I doubt that da raffer even tried, while the commentators made fun of you. plsmen )
"lg <-> 20% range" ----> I can hit more even with plasma. :' D
Here's your logic reversed:
Check the one(two) videos I posted above where Spart1e and Tox dismantled Rapha.
Therefore Rapha is shit at videogames.
I don't care what Zoot and DDK think. They would have had the same thing happen to them and they have played far more duel than me.
You're the only delusional one, blinded by your incapability to be good at something that requires talent...
1v1 CA you can play the same person 100 times and you can never beat them. In duel you can start getting spawn frags, get lucky RNG spawns, shoot someone who has no armor and beat them. You also get the benefit of a snowbally gametype.
Duel requires a lot of practice, CA doesn't. Nobody even plays duel on the west coast in the US, so it's impossible to get actual practice. You would not realize that since you're euro.
Edited by jigglywiggly at 03:14 CDT, 16 April 2015
I'm reasonably good in FFA, almost div2 in TDM (tho I played only like ~300 pickups so far) on better days.
I started dueling like a month ago on another account (still 38-40% lg average and not vs. vegetables), but I don't have delusions like you - I know that there's a long and steep road ahead of me and there are a shitton of people out there who are way better than me in it.
Fighting skills and damage dealing are already there, but metagame is not really sharp yet - but that will come with meticulous practice. Someday I might be somewhat good at it as well - or not. Time will tell.
If you had any logic, you'd realize that you should put your work into a game that isn't dead.
I don't care about your accs, I just bring them up if they are absurdly low. I have an alt with higher accs than that with games in duel.
You can acc whore all you want, it's a pointless metric at anything above 40%.
Also duel isn't a gametype I care about, so no destruction occurred. That's about as much as I care when someone beats me at a moba.
Edited by jigglywiggly at 03:29 CDT, 16 April 2015
Everything you wrote seemed very good until i checked your profile....................... such an autistic statwhore. Especialy in a cool and noob friendly mode such a FFA, you are just destorying the hobby you supposedly like with this attitude. Just saying i know you won't change just with a few words but who knows maybe one day..
High-level FFA is not noob friendly, it's unforgiving as hell. It's a calculated race between those who are at roughly at the same level - with a chip of luck involved. I mean between people who actually have good fighting skills, cycling items, timing powerups and know spawns and can control areas.
It was before, at least. And classic servers with skilled people are still are - but those games are just simply rare. Waiting for a pickup game to start was like hours most of the time lately, not mentioning the fact that they were already scarce to begin with.
Most good players didn't want to play because it's unranked (which is ridiculous in itself - I mean "classic" being unranked) or because they had to wait a long time to get into the arena. Some of them migrated to 16 player loadout servers with ubershitty map pools, some of them started to play other modes and some of them even stopped playing completely. Because one "update".
If you are talking about real low skill and people who are incapable of using their mouse & keyboard at the same time - for them, every game mode is all the same if they are playing with each other and all the same if they are playing with better players. In the first case, they are probably having fun, in the latter case, they are getting obliterated, no matter what.
If you consider preferably checking the roster first (after checking the pickup channel for games) and looking for more capable players (and servers that has a map pool not limited only to Thunderstruck-sized maps with 16 players + loadouts), then joining the ones where the opposition seems stronger as "autistic statwhoring", it's your baguette preference.
After the loadouts, it just SEEMED to be noob friendly and besides some lucky vegetable spawns with insta 100 dmg rocket randomly to your back, it became even more easy to utterly destroy lesser players than before. Spawning with weapons, unified ammo packs + their reduced spawn times and item timers just made it helluva walk in the park. This have been discussed enough times already. Then again, thank the donut mongers for this.
I played around 2000 games like that and got fed up with the CoD-like supplements, rofltimers and such - and the absolutely zero challenge + constant whine most of the time, hence why I started dueling, mostly with friends only.
yo, my profile avg for lg is 43% so let me weigh in since that somehow makes my opinion valid
CA is my most played mode but it's brainless and is only cool for the times when you wanna dick around and not focus while playing, or if you wanna test a new config or something. nobody, including the people that play it, take it seriously, and nobody cares how rapha performs at a mode that doesn't really even belong in quake in the first place or in a game that he hasn't even touched before.
please try to divorce your ego from the situation because when you try to suggest you're better than rapha, it makes you look ridiculous. I'm not even trolling, just trying to spare you from being seen as even more of a joke. ok thx
fun fact, no game mode you play makes a difference in a dead game. Just because you think CA is brainless, doesn't mean anything.
That's like calling all of CS brainless because there's no items.
It's been confirmed rapha's aim is about average for an average tier 5 ca player, then he isn't special at all(in terms of aim). I don't care whatsoever about a gametype that revolves around 25+35 and memorizing spawns.
It's really not a hard concept to understand. I sent some videos of Rapha to a few UT players and they were surprised how someone with mediocre aim could become #1.
Edited by jigglywiggly at 19:48 CDT, 17 April 2015
unless you count the actual items that you have to buy at the start of every round, have you even played CS?
this is what I mean. if you have precisely no fucking clue what you're talking about, I suggest you just shut up because your posts give off the impression that you have the IQ of a cornflake.
good luck finding 5 people on this forum that will back anything you're saying.
@your edit: because there's more to quake than mechanical skill (ie: aiming). This is why nobody takes CA seriously.
I'm gonna take a leaf out of my own book and not comment on the UT video since I know nothing about it. Cheers!
Considering I made it to LEM in 99 wins. Also yes I could, easily. Of course they'd have to register since nobody with a brain would spend an extended period of time here.
Edited by jigglywiggly at 19:48 CDT, 17 April 2015
Also, why not gotop? Why not those from Faceit, ESL, Quakecon? How about hosting your own cup then? Nope, the most vocal ca tryhard hasn't played a single ca or quake tournament in his life. At least jiggly played (and got destroyed).
yeah so you basically showed me worst CA tournaments than gotop.
why not gotop ? because, did you see the mappool ? did you see the mappool of the others CA tournaments ?
I will play any CA tournament as long as the mappool is nice.
maps must be : drunkenmummy, thunderstruck, windowpain, deadandgone, electrichead, somewhatdamaged.
also i need a good m8 to carry me.
and about faceit, i already participated at some faceit cups. From what i remember i played once with hal (stermy's little brother) and ended up 1st , but not every top CA players participated. So what the point ?
I finished 1st at some 4v4 CA cup quite long time ago aswell, can't remember the name of the cup, but still i did it. And some really good teams participated. But anyway i don't care much about 4v4 anymore. I prefer 1v1 or 2v2.
I also placed 2nd or 3rd at the weekly little faceit cups. But that was long time ago.
And btw i do not consider myself as the #1 CA player. I'm pretty good at it, but not the best. I play it only for fun cause i like it a lot. I don't care much about tournaments as long as i can have the best LG in practice games against good players :D
also because of my mental issues i just can't go to quakecon, but anyway even if i didn't have these mental issues i wouldn't have gone to quakecon 2013 to participate in the CA tournament because like i said already, i don't like 3v3 much, and roundlimit 7 + crap mappool is a joke really.
there is a 2v2 CA cup this sunday. Managed by URAZ, which means a guy who knows what he's doing. He's a real CA player and very good at it, not like some random russian dude who organized the GOTOP ca cup for example :D.
mappool will be : drunken thunder asy hells and window. So yeah, quite nice mappool actually. I only dislike asylum cause i get fps drops on it and because of the stairs and the limited space to dodge i'm not really good at it :). Also would've been fucking nice if the original hellsgate was replaced by hellsgateredux, which in every aspect is better than the original. I just dislike the void a lot (it's so random and everytime you end up in it cause a random rocket bounce made you fly into it lol, and that even if you try to avoid this kind of situation as much as you can, yeah, it's so random, happens like at least twice out of 10 rounds) and the fact that there's a huge slope at each side of the map making it difficult to get positional advantage for LG, so means that it's based quite a lot on rockets (also because of the huge pillars close to each slope). Also redux isn't symetrical which make it more interesting to play (different tactics etc) and if you want to play +back lg or rail there's more possibilities to do it than at the original hellsgate.
oh and also, roundlimit 10 ofc :).
so yeah i might participate if i find a decent m8, but i'm pretty sure that if i do so, i won't win it, cause like i said, i'm not the #1 CA player, just good at it, that's all :)
and 2v2 is much more about rockets than lg tbh, not like in 1v1 where the lg is probably the dominant weapon depending on the map.
also, you'll say i'm making excuses again but anyway there you go :
these past months i've been changing mouse and config a lot, mainly for testing purpose, to see what suits me best. I think i figured out what works best for me only quite recently (some weeks ago), which mean that i won't change a single thing in my setup/config anymore, and that probably forever :)
been testing different crosshairs, different fov, different enemymodel, different mice. But i ended up with fov 90 (zoomfov 40), keel r_lodbias -2 and playerlean 0, crosshair 2 size large, and abyssus 2014 @ 1800dpi 500hz sensitivity 1 (23.5cm/360°, been playing for many months now with this sens, used to play on 32cm + kinzu v1 hardware accel to 29cm with old abyssus). Went back from original abyssus to zowie AM to zowie FK, to razer DA 2k13, to krait 2k13 and then finally to abyssus 2014 (been playing with it for some months now, and i don't feel the need to change mouse anymore, this one is just perfect for me).
so yeah all i can say is that i'm starting to get in shape slowly but surely. But i still feel that i need more practice to be at 100% of my capacities :), yeah yeah i know, it might sound arrogant/pretentious but still :) this is how it works for me actually.
You mean that tournament with the random as fuck maps? That was setup horrendously. None of the top ca players even attended like extremerz.
I am getting better at CS, I have 300 hrs. Of course I'm busy with university + research atm, so time is limited. Also I don't just play one game. I've probably played more Smash 4 than csgo. And I've definitely played more age of mythology than QL.
Edited by jigglywiggly at 00:04 CDT, 18 April 2015
nobody takes ca seriously?
you must mute all chat or your not in t4.
I've met very Serious players in ca.
they get very angry when their team loses and their stats take a loss.
grrrr. votekick the lowest scoring player.
I have teamchat on only yeah. And I'm t4.
Kicking the "lowest scoring player" only happens when there's an imbalance in the teams, I've never seen a vote to kick someone pass simply because someone sucks.
What I meant by nobody taking CA seriously is that it's one of the more casual modes in quake. There are almost no CA tournaments and there's no "CA pickup" like there is for FFA, TDM and CTF. I only like it because it's a good way to train my combat skills and it allows me to test a new sensitivity or smth in a low-pressure environment.
I've not played CA for a few years, so it must be better now.
I prefer duel and ffa, you can't be moaned at by some tit saying "GO BRIDGE" as his only tactical advice, just insulted, which i favor when warming up or wornout )
Edited by Mental Patience at 19:28 CDT, 28 April 2015
Hey, this is a thread about cypher, basically known as a good dueler.
We are talking about his skills in a duel game, but not 1v1 CA.
So your point is completely off from the thread topic.
Also, there are people who can time better than Rapha or cypher.
And these two still manage to beat them.
Don't you think there are something else to make them good except item timing?
I was talking about his performance in csgo, a game where more than 20 ppl play
ofc nobody here knows anything about more than 1 game here, so they started talking about me instead.
You can judge someone's talent by exposing them to something new.
Dude you have way too much AssHirt for a 'dead game' i actually thought it was really realky entertaining to watch you drop, and then drop, and drop, and then grand finale where you give head to Rapha saying plz plz plz ask my mommy if i can have some items PaLEeeZEEZE ;)
Lg acc doesnt matter i always treated it as a egotistical weap. Only people with egos trying to overcompensate and care :) did i ever trdy to take on the world champ and ask for forgiveness from his saviormid game at the same time? No. I smashed a wmo in my head. Much differenttttttt LEARNNNNNN :)
I think 90% of cypher's success is his reads. When he's in the flow it looks like he already knows how the next 10 seconds will play out. In control that means he'll catch you in all the bad spots and out of control it means you'll never even find him until he chooses to let you. It probably has something to do with how he processes information and him being confident enough to never doubt his reaction to the information.
Cypher's single main asset is his aim, coming from his outstanding reflexes and eye-hand coordination.
That's it, because he often does mistakes, sometimes big ones, more often things like strolling around hiding when he's in control, not pressing enough, or pressing too much and losing everything. But his aim (which is not only hitscan aim, he's one of the best with projectile weapons) allows him to pull it out most of the times.
Also his mindset, he rarely looks nervous even in the most desperate situations. On lan he isn't intimidated at all, by anybody.
he's successful to a degree that no other player has ever been at regaining control via creative, surprising, and unconventional attacks(probably because he has an excellent sense of somehow knowing his next sequence of shots WILL hit). he's the type of player who essentially will never play a full 10 minutes without control. it doesn't matter who he's playing because he will get control back somehow. other players have to wait carefully for either their opponent to make some kind of mistake or to go aggro after hitting a streak of rails or spam damage. cypher just goes for it and makes it work.
Anyone wanna go the other way here and say Cypher is NOT great?
Great aim, great out of control play. Here's the thing though, unless hes been practicing a lot recently, he isn't aggressive. He doesn't go in for the kill when its obvious the opponent is a walking corpse and he knows where he is. Ive seen him lose a lot of matches by just running out of time to make a comeback, and the real problem was 7 minutes ago when he wasn't aggressive.
The other problem is when you're up against a player with great aim and movement, they can get from one side of the map to the other in about 5 seconds. You just cant hide against someone like that. Ever seen Evil or K1llsen when they're really on a tear? No one can hide (well maybe from k1llsen for awhile). But you just get run down and railed to death, or trapped. Being able to hide and evade your opponents is a great asset, but it becomes more of a liability when you're in a game of full speed quake.
Your analyses is pretty accurate. Its just that most people do not care how good a player is when he's not practicing, as was cypher the last 8 months basically. But when he is in shape his aim, execution and confidence will be on par with evil's. At that point you better run from cypher.
Exaclty. His out of control play and defense are awesome. Hs timing is always great to the point where he always is dangerous as far as stealing items and winning fights out of control. His reads on all the other players seem extremely high level as well. His defense rockets are usually great.
It's just when his aim is not on because he isn't playing enough that he starts to look kind of normal. I think that's why he gets so pissed sometimes, because he should be beating people but he just can't quite execute.
The thing that explains that he's starting to shape up and do less fooling around is a nearing LAN and thus probably setting his mind on to it. This has happened before and has nothing to do with his monitor Hz.
No, he's hitting much harder than I've ever seen him hit online consistently. Just watch this weeks Sunday cup grand finals. I've seen him do crazy shit on LAN, but this explains why. Often they have 120hz+ monitors at a LAN...
He's done plenty of sick shit previously. No question. But he's definitely hitting harder now - noticeably. I've watched him tonnes. He's hitting 40+ LG IN SPITE of his usual spam regularly now. Which means he's often hitting well over 50 in fights currently. His aim is sick at the moment. I'm glad he got a new monitor.
simple statistics, the guy has won so much because he's played so much.. he's also lost a fuck ton too it's just a matter of how many times he has played.
if people spent as much time as he did trying something and failing as often as he did they would bound to be super successful as well.