Good Q3 players on UT2K4

[surgeon62]

I have seen lots of topics regarding good Q3 players being kicked from servers because people think they are cheating when in reality they are just good and owning all of the others on the server. However, I haven't seen a post here where someone relates a similar experience on a UT2k4 server. I'm not that good of a player myself, but I have to believe that a good Q3 railer would dominate UT2k4 games with the lightning gun or sniper rifle. Also, railing skills would make a Q3 player dangerous with the shock combo.

Anyone?

[obsidian]

Good Q3 players probably wouldn't play UT in the first place (I say that in all seriousness).

[Foo]

I have seen lots of topics regarding good Q3 players being kicked from servers because people think they are cheating when in reality they are just good and owning all of the others on the server. However, I haven't seen a post here where someone relates a similar experience on a UT2k4 server. I'm not that good of a player myself, but I have to believe that a good Q3 railer would dominate UT2k4 games with the lightning gun or sniper rifle. Also, railing skills would make a Q3 player dangerous with the shock combo.

Anyone?

Tends to be the other way round. UT's got more hitscan stuff so that translates back to Q3 pretty well. Biggest difference between the 2 games is Q3's tight spaces vs UT's wide open areas. Totally different style of play needed for each. Also most of UTs emphasis is on the team stuff and Q3's mainly solo so on that level you often find Q3 players go lone wolf in ONS (and consequently hate it) and UT players find themselves in a more close, directly competitive kind of game when trying Q3.

That said a fucking ton of people play both games so this is just a fringe thing.

[Deji]

Q3's mainly solo so on that level you often find Q3 players go lone wolf

Totally untrue. Once you get to div1 (and a bit less in div2), the winning difference becomes teamplay and not aim. I used to be in team LaG, which, at one point, before losing two of our main lineup to other clans, was one of the best CTF teams in Europe, many clans could outaim us, but few could beat our teamwork. Even in Q3 pickups, people keep (atleast players from higher levels) a fairly tight degree of teamwork. Of course, team effort never really has worked and never will in a totally public server where you've never seen half the players on your team. Likewise, I can't see any degree of real team effort working in UT any more than it does in Quake.