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Roscoe A. Sincero <legion@keg.zymurgy.org> wrote in article
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> Since alt.games.quake is a dying newsgroup, message crossposted to
> rec.games.computer.quake.playing.  git.talk.quake also added due to the
> presense of Gary, the stoogebot king.
> 
> 
> Joseph S. Lazaro wrote:
> > 
> > Your Mom wrote:
> > 
(an insult and a story wiped away)
> 
> We can pretend that the person above was unaware of lag.  In that case,
> we can say that lag made it look like the person fired only one shot. 
> The ability to withstand at least three rockets and the ability to fire
> multiple shots and made it look like one shot has absolutely *NOTHING*
> to do with skill.  Without Quad or any special powerups, it would take
> three direct hits from an RL to frag a player with 150 (yellow) armor
> and exactly 100 health.  If you are being hit three times in a row with
> rockets, then you can't be that skilled in the first place especially if
> you are being hit by someone who is so lagged that three shots look like
> one.
> 

All this depends on what we are playing.  If it is CTF and u have
resistance, 
u can take three rockets and still live. Also, we are assuming that this
guy
actually hit him.  Let me share my story.  In a CTF game, a guy who I have
played with before gets ahold of Strength and Quad.  He is now doing 8X
damage.  Well, I meet up with him and he fires twice at me from about
two feet away, he misses both times.  He wigs out, he started calling me a
cheater because I survived two "direct" 8X shots.  I replied and informed
him that he didn't even hit me.  He said how could I miss I was two feet 
away.  I said if you were 8X and shooting from two feet away you would
have killed yourself, he said no, called me a cheater again, and left the
server.  Well, hell, I don't cheat, the fact is there are alot of people
who 
have been playing Quake for a couple of months now and can pound
newbies, but when they get up against someone good, someone who doesn't
stand still for them, it is painfully obvious they can't aim for shit.  I
run into this
all the time.  I am constantly asked how am I surviving, the reply is you
aren't hitting
me.  As far as the one shot kill goes, if it was CTF, which they didn't
say, some 
servers have the stealth rune that keeps you from glowing when u have quad
or
are carrying the flag, so he could have been quaded.  Just another side of
it
that shows you it is possible for that to happen to someone, without it
involving
a cheat.