Nothing wrong with 10v10ca or 24 player ffa. If you are too weak to handle the pressure or not smart enough to realize it's not chaotic at all, then it's your problem of being noob at quake. For the same reason people hated loadouts in QL, real quake pros hate childish low-player modes. If you don't like skill, there are other games than quake out there.
Honestly p4r4 is right. It's just that the netcode is unlagged so no one misses rails much = its much more annoying gameplay esp if you are only used to small games.
It would be a convincing theory if those people with "less skill" didn't pwn the "skilled" quakers in 24 player ffa out of the scoreboard every single time.
If we take real 24-man ffaer and put him into 4 man baby mode, he will die of boredom. Real test is to take a kid who thinks he's cool because he won some duels and look at him finishing last place in a big ffa game, where he is absolutely helpless and can only cry "spam fest! no skill!"
Okay, I see that your understanding of skill is that skilled players are so skilled that they cannot even deal with minor difficulties like some lags or lack of items or having a little clusterfuck here and there.
Well, maybe it's new era of fast shooter games where instead of running around exploding each other skulls with shotguns like mad, players rather want to be protected in kindergarden area with all the luxuries and comfort that lets them ponder their decisions in peace and serenity, always protected by abundance of items and +backing places. Of course players who like this pathetic ballet will feel awful and broken experience when thrown into an actual fighting area with some action instead of dancing and singing like they are used to in modern duels or small player ffas.
These 24-player ffaers are a bunch of sissies and faggots. If a real man is playing anything, he is playing a 48-player ffa, but there are no servers with such a limit, which means all of you are faggots. QED
If we take real 24-man ffaer and put him into 4 man baby mode, he will die of boredom.
Fortunately, boredom can be averted by thinking about the game at hand. Unfortunately, this is something the average "real 24-man ffaer" is probably not very used to or good at. Makes perfect sense, in a 24 man FFA (probably with loadouts too!) thinking has no tangible effect on the result.
If these insane FFAers are actually as good as you claim, it would make sense for them to participate in the weekly competitions for the supposedly easier gamemodes and win some guaranteed $$$. Yet we don't see that happening. I wonder why that is?
The same reason why we don't see quakers winning billions of dollars in DOTA and other games with zero skill. Some people just have some dignity and rather not swallow a piece of poo even for a ton of money.
I honestly can't decide if you are trolling hard (in that case it backfires, because you present it in a believable way) or just mentally regressed somewhat.
Seems like there were more players during the syncerror/sponge/sasparillo era. I agree with what you said but my beef isn't with the server admins. Most of em are doing decent job. My issue is there are too many servers and too little population. Keep in mind I was never a duel freak in quake and I work odd hours (graveyard shift).
Basically I set my expectations far too high when I setup a 1gb ram vpn for seattle servers. Now that I've seen the population I realize what a waste of my time this game has become. It was pretty great back when it first came into open beta. CTF was popping, FFA was 16 players max, CA had multiple servers to choose from that had good latency.
I miss the days when EVOL was still around.
Anyways, I'm done ranting and I have decided to divorce QL and marry Q2 again. Cya all on tastyspleen.
no she was being a b**** I literally told then that she admitted to being on her period and that she was a total b**** excetera excetera 100% cents in and never got band High Five mate!
I also reported Julio's and told them that he had his dick out of her ass and that's why he wouldn't moderate correctly. if you would have kept the dick in there would have been no problem operating correctly
Talking trash on a video game totally makes rape and assault okay. I think I'm falling in love with you. Or maybe it's just lust because I picture you with the body of a Greek god and a penis like a horse's
Edited by Riot_Grrl at 20:40 CST, 26 February 2016
Meh, I got banned on a FFA server. As far as I can figure out, it was for being in the lead. The guy who won the game before, that I joined halfway through, never got banned for it. But then, he was chatty with the server owner.
If you want to put an elo limit or an auto handicap, fine. Or if someone wins by a margin you think is unfair and you ask them to leave after one win..again, fine. Weird, but fine.
But to kickban people just for being in the lead and not being one of your buddies, despite nothing in the server's name suggesting such a policy, is something I'm seeing a bit too much of.
Same happened on a CA server where all the regulars were paranoid about something they called "rapists". Which, from the context, I inferred to mean "Anyone better than me and my friends".
Just when you think you're never going to get good at this game, you get kicked for owning people who have played much, much longer, and it 's just a little teeny ray of hope and reminds you that no matter how late you got into the game, or how hard you get raped on decent servers, there are still plenty of people much worse than you.
So...Yeah...kicking me DID teach me a lesson, I guess. But only that I'm better after 9 months than you and your buddies are after 9 years. That, right there, is so sad that it's hilarious.
So, by all means, come here to laugh about it, to gloat about it, or to mock the people who kicked you for it. But whatever you do, don't complain about it. Those are the servers that will die first. And then those little fish will have to come swim in YOUR pond.
"GG" < "well played" < KICKBAN. The only higher compliment is an accusation of cheating AND a kickban.
Edited by Riot_Grrl at 02:56 CST, 26 February 2016
same thing happened to me, actually even worse. First, they voted to kick the guy that was 2nd and I f2 of course, then for me. So, they removed top 2 for no reason at all... just pathetic imo, so not quake like, loser behavior. previous quakes including q3, used to have mentally tough players, that could take a beating and stand up. when ql came out that gradually changed to playing vs weak crying babies that came from other games (of course some good players came too).
With tiers gone, playing on a noob server as a "good" player is basically tierslumming, something that was looked down upon before.
Some people couldn't care less about improving at the game, they just wanna shoot people with the rocket launcher and have a chat with their friends. Nothing wrong with that. It's not sad.
I don't see anything wrong in kicking some tryhard who makes the matches less exciting by raping everyone while not saying a word.
Yeah...as long as the server name/description makes it clear that it's a noob server. Most players will leave a server if they win a game by a decent margin, anyway. But even those that don't, and hang around once they realise they can win every match, are completely entitled to do so if the server owner can't be bothered to state where his line is drawn in the sand.
Putting "fun only" in the tags is meaningless. You join the server, and everyone is shooting everyone, yet you still get kicked for...shooting everyone.
What happened to elo/glicko limits? Now is the perfect time for that, since making a smurf account is no longer free.
The players are entitled to hang around on a server as much as they want, just as the server owner is entitled to kick whoever he wants for whatever reason. It's their server.
mappie, kickban is for damn faggots who can't behave. Or teamtrolls in a public team game. Or REAL cheaters.
These days, not too many servers you can choose from. If you are a 'better' player, even less and sometimes (especially in specific hours of the day) you can't really choose where to play.
tl;dr: This butthurt loserkickban YU BETER SO CHATER mentality just makes the servers more empty and the playerbase more scarce.
Quite a lot of the servers in many gametypes are sysoped by total morons or power hungry psychos.
Ban reasons:
-Being in the lead
-Being not good enough (whatever the fucker who runs the show calls 'good' today)
-Not playing as the Holy Admin and his Cohorts expect you to
-Skill gap (usually with friendly FU CHEATER before kick)
-Dumbass dispute with sysop going medieval on you because he's butthurt
Don't sweat it. If you're banned from a server, it is actually a gift for you; you no longer can go and play with morons. They actually do you a favor so you can go and find better servers and they can be morons in peace.
I would like to take this opportunity to share with you cheating accusations which were directed at someone else. I can't remember who was being accused nor who was accusing, but I remember the argument quite well.
Namely, the person in the lead of a ffa game was cheating. An aimbot? No. Wallhack? No. What then? A cheating config consisting of stuff like high r_picmip. Unfortunately stating that virtually everyone plays with such a config led to nowhere.
I have been playing quake live for about 5 years now, love it.. Insomniacs is the only really active server with a ping I can play on. I was just playing a match, wasn't winning or anything, and bam i get kickbanned. I have been playing there for years. And theres nothing I can do... :\ wtf
I also got permabanned from Insomniacs a few day ago while in the lead. Now that game shows as a quit in my stats.
Fuck 'em. I'd like to know who actually runs that server, so I can return the compliment someday. - Rebecca
Yakumo - I find your sarcastic reply a big disappointment from someone I respect from the old days of Quake Live.
Surely you know my main point was the unfair kick and ban, not the quit in the stats. Since I cannot ever connect to that server again, how could I find out?
I stand by my reputation as a skilled and fair player, with more than 1,500 wins out of more than 3,200 games in the former non-Steam QL.
All I remember was that I was leading the match, despite a ping of over 100, and some whiny jackass calling me "camper." Then I was disconnected. There was no vote involved.
I know you do not approve of servers being run this way. I also know a server owner or admin can do as they please because it's their nickel running the show, but that doesn't make it right.
Yes, I remember that player - had to kick once from my QL server and since then no friend of mine. All is clear now. I will keep her in mind when I fire up my Quake Champions rent-a-server next year.
Sarcasm will only get you so far - which is "not very."
I absolutely LOVE that harry put up the server because Athena is fucking delusional.
It is not a question anymore if her bans were or have been for good reasons, SOOOO many people have complained of the same thing;being banned for no reason, and her being rediculously defensive, literrally like a rape victum( reminds me of my mom!!!)
Lol fuck that fat let her relatives die from cancer cause shes scared of thc bitch. Fat, ugly, w t shut the fuck up unless a dicks in her mluth, shes so fucking wretched that that never occurs..
I got banned from hakspy's FFA server because I went 50-0 100% acc against bots. The admin literally sat there speccing me kill some bots and banned me.