My attention-whoring goodbye post. Posted in the lounge, hope Kaz doesn't mind, and hope it'll stay clean.
It all started on a fine spring afternoon, when my friend came over and showed me a website, from where I've downloaded this 2D game, called Soldat 1.2.0.. and I got addicted. Soon after, I was playing realistic mode only, and met two very nice guys fins, Deeptwo and Eye-of-Terror (both are WoW addicts now if I recon right.. dang shame), and in a few months time, I joined the Soldat Forums...
..as a horrible prick. Spammed my way up to a post count around 300 very fast, with nothing constructive to say. It was around the time that I've stopped playing Realistic, downloaded the Mapmaker and joined #soldat.forums@quakenet when I slowed down. A few months of doing nothing usefull but playing in the c'n's/BA-SaD private servers, improving my mapping abilities and meeting new people like Knot (whom I looked up to as a Soldat player for a long time) and Urhos, I was surprised as the Beta testing forums were wide open for me to access (thank you n00bface for suggesting me and others for supporting). Slowly I gained understanding of Soldat as the beta tests commenced, and came to realise the aspects of what we call 'Unbalanced Weapons'. However at this time the balance was uninportant, because Michal introduced Bink, which was a 'Just add water' cure for all Weapon balance related problems... or so we thought.
During 1.2.1, the version of Auto Crisis, I've joined the infamous ::NbK::, and met the realIRC community. The beloved private servers were long gone, so #Soldat.Gather was the saviour of many Soldat players, including me. The last refugee from the newbie flooded publics, the Citadell of nice players, and the nest of the community. A few months passed, and I've came across many interesting players, while NbK became the clan which awaited the better days, The Perfect Balance, TNL3 to become active and warmonging. During this period I've became quite skillfull with the mapmaker, and made my breaktrough map, ctf_mare. Altough the map was never played in public games because of its size, it highlighted me in the mapping spot (or so I feel).
As time passed, (SEC finals were over, Hungary ended up second.. from the end of the list) 1.3's beta tests were approaching, we could feel it in our bones: the ESL mapping contest was the final signal, /ctf_marage/ and the beta tests soon began. This time around we concentrated on the weapon balance with full power, we wasted no time and effort into creating a better tomorrow for Soldat players worldwide. Meanwhile Soldat Radio had just kicked off, and I've come closer to Chakra and met my favourite pole, Witcher, and that nice french dude whom no one understands, Ouchek( :{D ). At this same time the 3rd Soldat.hu meeting happened, we camped in a forest and got drunk, badly.
Then D-day came.. 1.3 was released. A big, two ton heavy stone fell of my heart, as I've felt that we finally triumphed, and there was no ground for whining at all. Naturally I was struck-down by the amount of flaming and whining we got from the general public regarding the new version, so I was disappointed. Things weren't alright around the NbK household either: for a very stupid reason (I wanted to lead my own clan, so I created one.. it died after a few days and no wars at all) I left the clan, but Skoskav took me back without a word from either of us. My relationship with the clan leader Jaz became worse and worse, and after he kicked Chakra out (who had joined simply because he's the most sinister brit ever to walk the face of this planet) I told him I'm leaving. His final words were: "Fine, I don't need you". I left, and NbK died the next day, many Soldat player's open a bottle of champaign for the event. Meanwhile I've released more and more maps, growing myself into a known mapper in the community.
TNL3 started soon after, and I've joined the historical clan, BA, to fight within their ranks for the victory. (Note: ironic that NbK died at the door of what we've been waiting for.. TNL3) Overestimating my skills, we lost almost each clan war in BA, Zieg, alias TeenSpirit left for university, and after a rather inactive period the clan fell apart: noseeeh, the only israeli I've ever came to know from closer (and got to like..) left the clan, and I did the same, leaving my pal Liber Lupus behind with Cold_Fusion. Yet another stale period came for me, spent with making a few maps and chatting around with Pienne, Frogboy, Evil-Ville, Funktopus, Sticky, Melba and Amblin in #soldat.forums.
I've turned to the last place where I could find peace: the Hungarian community. The national team got revived, and we started building up for SEC2..
..and now we've reached today: the era of Public Balance testing. Had a lot of discussions with my fellow soldats lately, and frankly, I'm fed up with it all. People have different opinions, different views, different favourite weapons they don't want to change, and I can't change a damn thing for the better. As you can see, I've spent way too much time on this game, and it's growing on me. Have tried hard, but alas I failed, and don't want to ruin this game any more. This is my good bye, and this post was written for the people who would like to know if I leave it all behind, or are just curious of the career retrospect of a Soldat player. The mapping contest won't close, I'll stay for running a few rounds, but after that, it's sayonara. Was fun, and good night.
It all started on a fine spring afternoon, when my friend came over and showed me a website, from where I've downloaded this 2D game, called Soldat 1.2.0.. and I got addicted. Soon after, I was playing realistic mode only, and met two very nice guys fins, Deeptwo and Eye-of-Terror (both are WoW addicts now if I recon right.. dang shame), and in a few months time, I joined the Soldat Forums...
..as a horrible prick. Spammed my way up to a post count around 300 very fast, with nothing constructive to say. It was around the time that I've stopped playing Realistic, downloaded the Mapmaker and joined #soldat.forums@quakenet when I slowed down. A few months of doing nothing usefull but playing in the c'n's/BA-SaD private servers, improving my mapping abilities and meeting new people like Knot (whom I looked up to as a Soldat player for a long time) and Urhos, I was surprised as the Beta testing forums were wide open for me to access (thank you n00bface for suggesting me and others for supporting). Slowly I gained understanding of Soldat as the beta tests commenced, and came to realise the aspects of what we call 'Unbalanced Weapons'. However at this time the balance was uninportant, because Michal introduced Bink, which was a 'Just add water' cure for all Weapon balance related problems... or so we thought.
During 1.2.1, the version of Auto Crisis, I've joined the infamous ::NbK::, and met the realIRC community. The beloved private servers were long gone, so #Soldat.Gather was the saviour of many Soldat players, including me. The last refugee from the newbie flooded publics, the Citadell of nice players, and the nest of the community. A few months passed, and I've came across many interesting players, while NbK became the clan which awaited the better days, The Perfect Balance, TNL3 to become active and warmonging. During this period I've became quite skillfull with the mapmaker, and made my breaktrough map, ctf_mare. Altough the map was never played in public games because of its size, it highlighted me in the mapping spot (or so I feel).
As time passed, (SEC finals were over, Hungary ended up second.. from the end of the list) 1.3's beta tests were approaching, we could feel it in our bones: the ESL mapping contest was the final signal, /ctf_marage/ and the beta tests soon began. This time around we concentrated on the weapon balance with full power, we wasted no time and effort into creating a better tomorrow for Soldat players worldwide. Meanwhile Soldat Radio had just kicked off, and I've come closer to Chakra and met my favourite pole, Witcher, and that nice french dude whom no one understands, Ouchek( :{D ). At this same time the 3rd Soldat.hu meeting happened, we camped in a forest and got drunk, badly.
Then D-day came.. 1.3 was released. A big, two ton heavy stone fell of my heart, as I've felt that we finally triumphed, and there was no ground for whining at all. Naturally I was struck-down by the amount of flaming and whining we got from the general public regarding the new version, so I was disappointed. Things weren't alright around the NbK household either: for a very stupid reason (I wanted to lead my own clan, so I created one.. it died after a few days and no wars at all) I left the clan, but Skoskav took me back without a word from either of us. My relationship with the clan leader Jaz became worse and worse, and after he kicked Chakra out (who had joined simply because he's the most sinister brit ever to walk the face of this planet) I told him I'm leaving. His final words were: "Fine, I don't need you". I left, and NbK died the next day, many Soldat player's open a bottle of champaign for the event. Meanwhile I've released more and more maps, growing myself into a known mapper in the community.
TNL3 started soon after, and I've joined the historical clan, BA, to fight within their ranks for the victory. (Note: ironic that NbK died at the door of what we've been waiting for.. TNL3) Overestimating my skills, we lost almost each clan war in BA, Zieg, alias TeenSpirit left for university, and after a rather inactive period the clan fell apart: noseeeh, the only israeli I've ever came to know from closer (and got to like..) left the clan, and I did the same, leaving my pal Liber Lupus behind with Cold_Fusion. Yet another stale period came for me, spent with making a few maps and chatting around with Pienne, Frogboy, Evil-Ville, Funktopus, Sticky, Melba and Amblin in #soldat.forums.
I've turned to the last place where I could find peace: the Hungarian community. The national team got revived, and we started building up for SEC2..
..and now we've reached today: the era of Public Balance testing. Had a lot of discussions with my fellow soldats lately, and frankly, I'm fed up with it all. People have different opinions, different views, different favourite weapons they don't want to change, and I can't change a damn thing for the better. As you can see, I've spent way too much time on this game, and it's growing on me. Have tried hard, but alas I failed, and don't want to ruin this game any more. This is my good bye, and this post was written for the people who would like to know if I leave it all behind, or are just curious of the career retrospect of a Soldat player. The mapping contest won't close, I'll stay for running a few rounds, but after that, it's sayonara. Was fun, and good night.
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