04-29-2003, 05:11 PM
I remember I joined a server pretty much right after the HL patch ricochet was included with... slightly confusing at first, meaning it took a few rounds to see how it all fit together. I don't remember who it was, but basically the first player I faced was a good one, kept getting me over the barrier. I didn't take long figuring it out, then I decided to just jump very basically (I took each jump one at a time, trying to make them natural), but I did mostly jumping with arrows, and shooting decaps over the barriers. I learned my first stuff from Jariel. I played him over and over, and learned how to avoid shots and such. Then it was Yeti who jumped around like a maniac and I had no idea what was going on. Same with a few others. I remember playing rulepool back when he didn't own as much. Darkson annoyed me, so I decided to learn his method and try to fight fire with fire (hahahaha, you probably wish I never developed that habit). Basically I sucked for a long time. I stopped playing for a month or two, came back, realized I needed to get better. Around Dec-Jan, I played beastie and rulepool a lot. I played the two of them for like a really long time all alone in a server one night, and it forced me to learn how to avoid shots and hit decaps, as well as implement the fancy jumps. So there ya go... that's how I got built... over-the-barrier from god knows who, accuracy and patience from Jariel, then observed jumps from Yeti/RWS/etc, then stalling from Darkson, midairs and unpredictability from beastie/rulepool.