🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 07 Jul 1997 11:40:28 -0400, "Roscoe A. Sincero"
<legion@keg.zymurgy.org> wrote:

>> I watch as nothing hurts
>> them.  I take my shots while he gets blown by several others, after he
>> kills three others, he turns on me and blows me away.  It doesn't matter if
>> I have rockets or grenades, I can't seem to kill these mega Quakers.  If
>> fact, just today I shot 3 rockets into one of these guys, dead hits, and he
>> still turned around and killed me with ONE SHOT.  
>> Armour?  Nope, I doubt it...  I had 150 Armour and over 100 hit points. 
>> One shot and I was gone... He wasn't quad and there wasn't any super
>> armours that I knew of on the level.
>
>
>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.

Hmm, I'm a LPB.  I can recall several occasions where people told me,
"What!?  I shot you with two direct Quad rockets!"  My reply: "uh...
no you didn't...they both missed."