Once in a Blue Moon and Various Nostalgia

[LordBerenger]

Melee School, how does that sound? 

And Vic will join that school and get All A's.

FORGET IT!!

[Bjord]

And Vic will join that school and get All A's.

FORGET IT!!

Vicious has no potential. 

[LordBerenger]

Vicious has no potential. 

I meant Vic the Bear the NA girl Gnjus had a crush on.

EHUM ^^

[Teeth]

By the way, just a spontaneous idea I had! When I get my desktop back I was thinking about starting some sort of training project for anyone who wants to participate, no matter the clan. For two handers mainly, but anyone who is interested in melee would of course be most welcome. We could all decide for a day every week where we gather on a duel server, or maybe even ask some clan for permission to use their own servers.

Melee School, how does that sound? 

Are you getting your desktop back soon? What's up with you being all helpful all of a sudden, there's something fishy about that, I'm watching you!

[RandomDude]

Wasn't this BC_Shrek guy or something the first one to ever get the black armour? I thought that was quite memorable as well.

And yea the game was a lot of fun back then, even though archery was insane. The feeling you got when finally being able to afford the armour/horse/weapon you wanted for so long was just great. But obviously something had to be done after nearly everyone was walking around in full plate 24/7.

rofl i bought a greatsword first, then a sallet, then gothic plate and i refused to buy anything for my feet cos it would take that much longer to get the boots i wanted

archers used to shoot at my naked feet

i forget when i switched to flamberge

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Fu stop insulting me ! I'm not French !

Anyone remember Appe_The_Destroyer ?

Full Black armor + boulder on a stick hero. Good times indeed 

UGLYBASTARD, the guy I always tried to emulate. By the end, I was quite successfull at it.
Kesh, because being oneshotted across the whole map wasn't that bad anyway.
Village_Elder, because man he was awesome at throwing rocks and making babies.
Pululu was the high-PD archer unbeatable at firing timing. He didn't cared about his reticule because of the arrow angle "bug" (firing with perfect timing means your arrow goes straight no matter your reticule)
Stulle (I remember he was a member of wolves back then) was the polearm/archer guy. He used the LHSM and was very good with both.
Kunio and his turbocourser 
Around Xmas I "discovered" the looney tunes axe (good times beating high profile people in duel with it ). One week later 3x more people were using it, one month later it was removed. Ty dev team, it was really imba  Do you remember that ?

speaking of black armour and boulder on stick - Where's Giant got to?? (Fallen_Giant)

Theres lots of other fallen players who i used to hang out with 24/7 when they were on like kingbread but.... they left me *cries* bwahahahha

edit: just read vmega's post - Giant used looney toons didnt he - i remember now

[Gnjus]

I meant Vic the Bear the NA girl Gnjus had a crush on.

EHUM ^^

Damn the distance between us, that girl had the potential to become a hell of a Bandit !

[Tomas_of_Miles]

If I wasn't so disorganised and busy with Uni this year, I'd gladly train at a "melee school" in 1h. However if I had that time I'd probably be able to be on the duel server enough to get better.

[Phazey]

Hate to shamelessly advertise, but the Mercs have been doing reasonably regular trainings for our new Merc-academy members.

One or two hours of training > weeks of playing experience. Burrik and Muffin and those guys know tricks i never picked up in my many, many hours of regular play.

[RandomDude]

Hate to shamelessly advertise, but the Mercs have been doing reasonably regular trainings for our new Merc-academy members.

One or two hours of training > weeks of playing experience. Burrik and Muffin and those guys know tricks i never picked up in my many, many hours of regular play.

Muffin got really good at duelling and fighting in general

we fought with 2h wooden sticks a few days ago and he destroyed me in the first duel with 1 wpf

[Bjord]

Hate to shamelessly advertise, but the Mercs have been doing reasonably regular trainings for our new Merc-academy members.

One or two hours of training > weeks of playing experience. Burrik and Muffin and those guys know tricks i never picked up in my many, many hours of regular play.

Well I was thinking of a more community organized thing. I already knew about the Academy.

[Phazey]

Yah and i totally support that idea. Heck, if it gets going i bet a lot of mercs will participate also.

You need a good teacher though. Someone who does all the explaining and analyzing on teamspeak. Do a few excercises, like chamber practice or hilt-slash practice, then analyze what's going good and what isn't.

Also, private tutoring by the better players, like letting them watch you dueling and then getting private advice is gold.

[LordBerenger]

Also this thread just needs this video link to make sure it will be epic.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOBeVPIamcI

[Bjord]

Yah and i totally support that idea. Heck, if it gets going i bet a lot of mercs will participate also.

You need a good teacher though. Someone who does all the explaining and analyzing on teamspeak. Do a few excercises, like chamber practice or hilt-slash practice, then analyze what's going good and what isn't.

Also, private tutoring by the better players, like letting them watch you dueling and then getting private advice is gold.

Exactly what I had in mind. I would also not mind if and when this thing gets going, that some Mercs help out with the tutoring. I could ask other well-versed players like Phyrex as well.

Also this thread just needs this video link to make sure it will be epic.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOBeVPIamcI

You were beaten to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd_xQiRT1DM&feature=channel_video_title

Here is a song for your thread 

[Osiris]

Training? why train when you can pull out an xbow and pew pew?

[v/onMega]

Yep Random.... Giant used the looney exclusively.... :-)