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Gator Clan

Jan. 23, 2002

I was supposed to post something from the first 1/4th of my web sites existence. Unfortunately, the oldest '96 version of Matt On-line was a geocities site. It doesn't exist anymore. So, I scoured the web for the oldest post I could find on any site by myself. It probably needs a little intro.

Back during my freshman year some friends and I started our own Quake clan. Gator Clan We had this thing we called "Gator finger service" which we picked up from the old planetquake pages. We At the time, we didn't even know what finger was, but we tried our best to copy it. Here is the first post I ever made to that system.

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Updated 21:31 EST 1/27/98

I've got a few interesting Quake stories today. First, my roommate, Cockbreath, was playing on the cltonline.com server and this guy Chaotic was destroying everybody. I told him to get up while I tried to show him the proper way of playing, but even I got beat by a fairly high margin, 35-20. I could've sworn this guy was a 'bot. Everytime I encountered him he would jump around me in a circle and never miss. None of the evasive techniques I used worked once. I ssent him a chat message to see if he was a bot and he responded. Fucking amazing. He is by far the best Quake player I've ever encountered.

I tried my first game of CTF today, ended up in the middle on rankings, but I never once captured the flag. Too many people, a level a never played on, and a grappling hook I could'nt get used to. But that's what it takes to be a good Quake player. The ability to adjust.

I'm still using the FOV strategy I picked up from Brian Hook's .plan file. Here's my init string:

+mlook


alias +bond "fov 35" \\Zooms to 35 (bound to Enter)


alias -bond "fov 90" \\Zooms back to normal

90 is the default field of vision, anything lower is varying degrees of zoom. Very useful when you want to use the railgun and sometimes even the Hyperblaster at long range. Especially if you're a camper like MDF.