09-23-2004, 03:28 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-23-2004, 03:36 AM by _Acid_Head_.)
For the longest time I was stuck with single player/low bandwidth online games because of my 56k connection. Since beta 7 up until 1.3 I played CS, but when they released 1.3 (or was it 1.5? Whichever one came with Ricochet) I started lagging like crazy, I saw ricochet came with the new patch, and tried it out, I loved it and people that know me from long ago know that I actually wasn't that bad even with my consistent 250 ping. Once I got DSL I started playing CS 1.5 and got much better at Ricochet.
Ricochet actually wasn't that bad on 56k, you just had to adjust your timing because there's a small delay on the disks, I had no packetloss so that's the only problem I had. Funny, it actually took me some time getting used to the broadband connection and almost instant disk shots.
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Hell yeah, I love arena because it's man to man, a duel, completely symetrical, meaning that usually, the more skilled person wins (or very lucky since it's such a small, fast paced map). I really do wish someone would make a good map like arena that has as many jumps and takes as much time to master, and is also fast paced. The only other map I like in ricochet is user2, but it's not really fast paced, you just need really good timing with disks.
edit2: lol I just gotta share this. My first RC server was the 24/7 user2 server, in the name it said "DECAP ONLY", for like two weeks I played with push disks only, I didn't even know what "decap" was, didn't know about right click. Well, once someone told me and I started using it, I just really loved it, that server/map made me fall in love with decap.
Ricochet actually wasn't that bad on 56k, you just had to adjust your timing because there's a small delay on the disks, I had no packetloss so that's the only problem I had. Funny, it actually took me some time getting used to the broadband connection and almost instant disk shots.
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Quote:I was a bit intrigued, besides something about a duel that interests me. Anyway my freakish tactical self took a quick fondness to rc_arena, and here I am.
Hell yeah, I love arena because it's man to man, a duel, completely symetrical, meaning that usually, the more skilled person wins (or very lucky since it's such a small, fast paced map). I really do wish someone would make a good map like arena that has as many jumps and takes as much time to master, and is also fast paced. The only other map I like in ricochet is user2, but it's not really fast paced, you just need really good timing with disks.
edit2: lol I just gotta share this. My first RC server was the 24/7 user2 server, in the name it said "DECAP ONLY", for like two weeks I played with push disks only, I didn't even know what "decap" was, didn't know about right click. Well, once someone told me and I started using it, I just really loved it, that server/map made me fall in love with decap.