When did your KF Skills Really Start to Solidify?
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That's what matters. Having fun. Too many people tend to forget that that is the reason why we play games. Doesn't matter if you aren't very good (yet) at what you are trying, so long as you are having fun. I don't think that I ever had more fun as a Sharp then when I was learning how to use the M14. I died a lot, I struggled to get the combo right, but I had a ball of a time while doing it. Nubs have more fun anyway
Yeah, running up to a scrake and shooting it in the head is fun. =3
For me it was probably around 1200-1700 hours that I actually felt pretty decent. I was pretty bad for a while. That was around the time my friend Kilroy taught me some of those fancy moves that people make videos about. It was also the time when Zerk kiting games were really in, and many people still didn't know about the Support combos, and didn't know how to kite Fleshpounds very well. Before that it was my own make shift combos and stuff that weren't very good. Hell, I think I only had like 10k headshots at around 1300 hours. I played a lot of Support, Commando, Medic and Zerk back then.
Those were fun times. I remember just how shocked everyone was when you could uppercut, or kite Fleshpounds in game. I had this one game where I was Katana, Pump, Hunting Support and I kited like 160 or so on wave 10 up on the forest part of Wyre. We had like 7 Spectators plus my 5 dead teammates. I was doing the FP combo, the uppercut, picking up spawn weapons, and just overall doing work. Was my first successful kite ever not as Zerk. Everyone was cheering me on, screaming and shouting about things I was doing, and just generally riding my e-peen. I must have looked like a kid who just realized that candy is delicious. Was so happy.
I am not very good at games. This is the only game that anyone has ever told me that I am good at, and it's the only one I've ever felt I was good at. Killing Floor is a rare exception to me playing a lot of single player games once through then moving on to the next. No idea why this game really brought me away from single player, but it totally did. It even had me put in nearly 4k hours into it. I love this game so much. <3
Those were fun times. I remember just how shocked everyone was when you could uppercut, or kite Fleshpounds in game. I had this one game where I was Katana, Pump, Hunting Support and I kited like 160 or so on wave 10 up on the forest part of Wyre. We had like 7 Spectators plus my 5 dead teammates. I was doing the FP combo, the uppercut, picking up spawn weapons, and just overall doing work. Was my first successful kite ever not as Zerk. Everyone was cheering me on, screaming and shouting about things I was doing, and just generally riding my e-peen. I must have looked like a kid who just realized that candy is delicious. Was so happy.
I am not very good at games. This is the only game that anyone has ever told me that I am good at, and it's the only one I've ever felt I was good at. Killing Floor is a rare exception to me playing a lot of single player games once through then moving on to the next. No idea why this game really brought me away from single player, but it totally did. It even had me put in nearly 4k hours into it. I love this game so much. <3
My story... that of a TF2 tryhard-diehard trying to make his way into the much richer world of KF
I got KF after pretty much half of my TF2 buddies were playing it right after the 2011 Xmas Update, so I joined missing out getting the Santa skin. During that time, I was a on/off player, playing only when my TF2 buddies would nag me into it. After 300 or so hours in, they basically left Steam as a whole and I was enjoying KF by myself for a long while.
I didn't really get skilled or anything until around 600-650 hours in. I grinded my perks up to lvl 6 then hopped on to Suc/HoE like a stereotypical idiot and I got my *** beat for a LONG while, until I decided that I didn't want to die by Fleshpounds but rather Steves so I started watching some of Falz's and Puppy's videos on how to wipe the right way. I went server hopping for about 50-100 more hours until I essentially got bored of KF then I hopped on TF2 again... (2500+ hours now).
Months pass, and I become ohso very upset with the whole Backpack.tf community voting key scam going on (still going on right now. Not gonna mention the current price of a key) and I hop back onto KF, because my L4D2 was crashing too much whenever someone molotov'd a Boomer or something.
I hop onto HoE again and I run into a guy named Glacial. While he is a nutcase on his own lol, he did show me some of combos (M14/LAR, Hunting/AA12/Kat) and that's when I really got into KF.
Recently reset my perks (out of pure shame for grinding them all in the past) and am playing with pubs in order to get those low difficulty map achieves I missed. Them pubs are WAY better than me
I got KF after pretty much half of my TF2 buddies were playing it right after the 2011 Xmas Update, so I joined missing out getting the Santa skin. During that time, I was a on/off player, playing only when my TF2 buddies would nag me into it. After 300 or so hours in, they basically left Steam as a whole and I was enjoying KF by myself for a long while.
I didn't really get skilled or anything until around 600-650 hours in. I grinded my perks up to lvl 6 then hopped on to Suc/HoE like a stereotypical idiot and I got my *** beat for a LONG while, until I decided that I didn't want to die by Fleshpounds but rather Steves so I started watching some of Falz's and Puppy's videos on how to wipe the right way. I went server hopping for about 50-100 more hours until I essentially got bored of KF then I hopped on TF2 again... (2500+ hours now).
Months pass, and I become ohso very upset with the whole Backpack.tf community voting key scam going on (still going on right now. Not gonna mention the current price of a key) and I hop back onto KF, because my L4D2 was crashing too much whenever someone molotov'd a Boomer or something.
I hop onto HoE again and I run into a guy named Glacial. While he is a nutcase on his own lol, he did show me some of combos (M14/LAR, Hunting/AA12/Kat) and that's when I really got into KF.
Recently reset my perks (out of pure shame for grinding them all in the past) and am playing with pubs in order to get those low difficulty map achieves I missed. Them pubs are WAY better than me
Probably when i realised that shooting a fleshpound being kited by a zerker is unappreciated. (Sorry! i was just trying to help...i panicked best intentions i swear.)
Two questions!
What do you mean by richer?
When was this? Date, as in. Around... late 2010? Early 2011...?
What do you mean by richer?
When was this? Date, as in. Around... late 2010? Early 2011...?
Just hit 500 hours and I think maybe some skills are starting to solidify.
I only just moved onto Sui though...
I only just moved onto Sui though...
You're going fine. Once you get used to the slight changes in Sui, you will find it a breeze.
On a side note, thanks for the good games
Richer as in "Better in every way possible." Except those memes. Man those memes are just... out there
I started to feel very comfortable at around 1000 hours. There's still some things I'd like to work on, but right now (at ~1400) I'm just refining my aiming and prioritizing. For like 700-800 hours I was still only playing on hard difficulty... now I can't even go down to suicidal xD
I'm still terrible at nearly 3500 hours in Killing Floor, so my skills haven't come together yet. In all seriousness, I felt like I could "Survive" on HoE around 600 hours, but it wasn't until 1100 - 1500 that I actually got to be where I could hold my own. Now I feel like I'm not great at anything specific, but I can do every perk at least decently.
ive played fps games all my life so it just came naturally from day 1.
playing games like quake live REALLY REALLY prepares you for games with no crosshairs and making pin point accurate shots.
playing games like quake live REALLY REALLY prepares you for games with no crosshairs and making pin point accurate shots.
I started to get better when I decided that it was about time for me to enter the HoE gang, which was early this year. A lot of challenge means a lot of practice, I'm still sharpening my knife for greater matches!
Was a zerk kiter until I met a bunch of pros like pups. I learned to play properly from them at 1.5k?
I think probably around 400 hours in but I can't really remember... a friend bought the game for me around the time it came out, and I played a bit but didn't really get into it, preferring at the time L4D. Then I think mid-2011 I was looking for more multiplayer games to play, and decided to give KF another shot, and went pretty hardcore on it for a while. Didn't really get consistent at beating Suicidal/HoE until probably late 2011/early 2012, but even then I wasn't amazing, and I sort of stopped playing it for a while when PAYDAY: The Heist came out and that became my multiplayer game of choice. Then this year after the disappointment that was PAYDAY 2, I came back to KF and have been refining my skills ever since, and would consider myself quite a competent and capable HoE player. (Except for Commando, my least played perk) I know multiple tactics like the Support combos for Scrakes and Fleshpounds, Sharpshooter tricks, melee locking the Patriarch, all sorts of things, and every so often I learn new tricks that people have found. Always good fun.
Always good fun.