On The Gun I Hate To Love

Ten bucks says Steve could outrail this guy. =)

Rail skill is l334.

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!

-Rev.

I played Quake 1 like a mofo. Night and day I played that damn game. I loved Quake 1. Yes, the RL had big splash dmg and a really fast RoF, but none of the other weapons exactly sucked either. Quad dmg + super nailgun was pretty damn nasty, for example...

Quake 2 was crap in my mind. Sluggish controls, goofy theme, and, yes, the railgun. Q2 had some great mods tho, which I played a lot, but regular Q2 DM? No way. Nothing was more irritating than a wide open map and someone who was good with the RG. Spawn, die, spawn, die, etc. ad nauseum. Fuck it.

Q3 is better in terms of handling and speed and such, but goddamnit, the stupid RG is there. Honestly I hardly EVER play Q3... mainly because I find mindless DM pretty tired, but even when I am in the mood for DM I usually don't turn to Q3. Railgun = suck.

The shock rifle in UT is similar in terms of annoyance when there is a good shock whore in the map... but at least the shock combo takes *slightly* more skill to use. There are far less shock whores in UT than RG bitches in Q2/Q3. (Yes, obviously the RG does take skill to use, but it's a far less interesting weapon. instant hit + takes off almost all health = boring)

AND IN THIS CORNER WEIGHTING IN WITH THE BLACK BACKGROUND AND BLUE TEXT WEB SITE"THE WIIIZZZZZZFFFFFFFFXXXXXX KID" AND IN THE CORNER DIRECTLY ACROSS THE RING WEIGHTING IN WITH THE BLACK BACKGROUND AND WHITE TEXT WEB SITE "sTEVE sCARY GIIIBBBBBSSSSOOOONNNNN"


FIGHT!

"rail skill is l334"? This guy can't even l33t-sp34k right! ;)

The railgun is ... ok. I mean it is a great deal of fun to use, but I feel like it dominates most maps because of the maps' layout. Take tourney4 for example, it's just too much wide open space - a great railer is going to tear you apart because he can see 1/2 the map most of the time.

wow, that article sucked. i agree with #23, as fun as the railgun is, there is no 1337ness in rail skill.

what a hoser.

The railgun with 101 Damage and 2-3 times the loading time would be fine with me :-)
Plus if anyone on the server had less than ping 10 it shouldn't spawn!

the guy who wrote this article obvious either a) sucked ass at quake 1 or b) never played quake 1.

thanks!

uhm, that column sucked.
I agree with you steve.

I think one of the central ideas in Steve's article that was glossed over in this response, since it seems to be primarily a listing of what is good about the rail and why the gun is now a necessary part of DM game play, is the distinct possibility that the exact parameters of the gun, as they stand, are out of balance. You don't have to remove the gun from the game to tweak it. I just think that there is no other weapon where great skill so equates to death for even a marginally less skilled (or less reflex endowed) opponent.

It would be really funny if this guy changed the link so that it forwarded to goatse.cx!

"Rail skill is l334."

DING DING DING, A WINNER IS STEVE!!

I agree!!

hey that guy's a real jerkpole

"...that extra armor shard"
Maybe in 1on1 but on the overcrowded FF Servers Q3 there isn't much left of anything?

looks like someone forgot about dre...