01-04-2011, 10:51 AM
(01-04-2011, 10:19 AM)WTFProoF Wrote: About the space-kill, I will say what I think about it without thinking about politeness: "It takes a fucking luck shit rocket to push someone into the space. No skill or anything near it needed its only shitty luck. Noone should get rewarded for having luck. That's why I hate space-maps in any game and don't think they are somewhat suited for duel, they are only shitty fun maps where the one with more luck-free-frags wins". But if the majority thinks that it's pure skill to land a bounce rocket and they should be rewarded for it, fine.
Actually I dedicated myself to doing just what you said is pure luck. On every map that supported it on Nexuiz I tried whenever I could (i.e. whenever void was near) to push the opponent off the map. To some extent I got rather good at this, even playing some maps ALWAYS laser only (!) and doing actually very well on public matches (revdm3, pushmod...). To place a rocket just sideways to the opponent that is in mid-air and to detonate it at that exact moment where the blast throws the opponent off the map is very tricky, as is lasering people mid-air. If you think that's purely luck, then you don't consider that you CAN actually do this intentionally, even though it is sometimes more difficult than just decreasing your opponent's hitpoints below zero. I've seen much more of lucky "conventional" kills than unintentional pushing off the map. Of course some people tend to fall of the map without reason (especially including me), giving someone else a free frag. So?
I see pushing people off the map as a very big challenge and a lot of fun - an additional way to play the game. This is also why I tried to emphasize the importance of the push-force of weapons, especially the laser.
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