Nimrod Posted March 18, 2002 Share Posted March 18, 2002 ..and what will happen in JK2 and all read this. It was written by a good friend of mine, EX_Gerrard_IV, in the 'good old days'. Jedi Knight Sunscreen Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '99: Play BGJ Cave. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, playing BGJ cave would be it. The long-term benefits of playing BGJ cave have been proved by top JK players, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now. Enjoy the power and beauty of weapon mods. Oh, never mind. You will not been understand the power and beauty of weapon mods until their dead and replaced by Spork 3.0. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at screenshots of yourself with a bazooka and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really played. You are not as newbie as you imagine. Don't worry about the force 1. Or play force 1 at all, but know that playing force 1 is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your JK performance are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you during the final rounds of the LND tourney. Play against one expert every day that scares you. Strafe. Don't be reckless with other people's clans. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours. Sidestep. Don't waste your time on newbies. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only until you were beat by the newbie who plays "leave packs at BGJ". Remember games you won in tourneys. Forget the games you lost. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how. Keep your old patches. Throw away your old screenshots. Force jump. Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with yourself. The most experienced people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with themselves. Some of the 40-year-olds I know don't even know what skin to go with. Get plenty of ladderbux. Be kind to your shields. You'll miss them when their gone. Maybe you'll win in three duels, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll force you?re opponent to fall off a cliff, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll self-kill; maybe you'll dance the hokey pokey at the LND tourney. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your top winning is half-chance. So is everybody else's. Enjoy the skins you've made. Use them every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest grouping of pixels you'll ever make. Swing, even if you have no reason to do it but to slash a crate. Read the instruction booklet and tips page, even if you don't follow them. Do not listen to the top 20 ladder players. They will only make you feel inadequate. Get to know your clan leader. You never know when he'll be gone for good. Be nice to your teammates. They're your best link to your problems and the people most likely to stick with you when your idea for a force pull at BGJ strategy goes away. Understand that players come and go, but there are a precious few players that stay. Work hard to bridge the changes in mods, because the older you get, the more you need the mods you knew how to play when you were young. Play Cases Ladder once, but stop before it makes you into a cheating, win-at-all-costs hacker. Play Spork once, but stop before it turns you into an absolute newbie. Jump. Accept certain inalienable truths: The speed of the game will rise. Top name players will cheat. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, game lengths were reasonable, top name players were noble, and tourney players respected LND. Respect LND. Don't expect anyone else to support your insane strafing habit. Maybe you have a mentor fund. Maybe you'll have an elite friend. But you never know when either one might run out. Don't move you fingers too fast, or by the time you've played 400 games, you will feel like you've played 800. Be careful whose technique you copy, and do not be patient with those who copy yours. Copying is a cheap. Playing them in a tournament is a way of fishing the best from the world, claiming it as your own and racking up the LadderBux points to a level greater than your worth. But trust me on playing BGJ cave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaG|Kaiser Posted March 18, 2002 Share Posted March 18, 2002 I'd post the Chris Rock version "No Sex in the Champagne Room," but it would get me banned. All I can say is "Cornbread! Aint nothin' wrong with that!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saber_Trails Posted March 21, 2002 Share Posted March 21, 2002 yes! ff saber duels! yes!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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