Ok,
I'll just pretend that I didn't read that on Adels page.. didn't mention
I got my butt kicked.. I guess saying I had my share of lemons doesn't
count.. ok, I lost some games in Shoggo to Adel. But not all of them I
might add. and certainly not by 30 odd frags either! Not to mention
that I've never played the Chaos DM mod before this weekend in Quake 2
(hell, I had never even heard of it before Friday night!) You'll
notice that in all that Hypo bashing, he didn't mention I needed any of
Chaos' turrets to win by 21 frags on an original Q2DM map...lava, yea,
ok... now that we're talking smack, I guess I'll have to add for the May
beating, I'll have to actually load Quake 2 onto my system out of its 5
month dormancy and play some Eraser bot bashing to warm up for this match..
unlike the weekend when I hadn't played a HUMAN opponent in 6 months or
more, and no bot action in almost as long... I'll be ready willing and
able to defend that score.. can't speak for warming up in Shoggo tho -
my old system can't handle it unfortunately.. guess I'll have to break
down and buy another PC before I go too.. only thing that's worse, Adel
will have all his weekly buddies over to ambush me this time.. or maybe
I'll prove that they're just weakly buddies... = D
March
30th, 1999: Alpo Con III - Hypo's Revenge
This
weekend having ended was yet another of great match-ups between Adelusion
and myself, this time at a mutual friends house in Kansas City (Mr. Evil
for those in the know). Adel flew in from Chicago, whilst I made the drive
from Omaha. We picked up Adel from the airport just before 9pm, bought
the appropriate provisions from Taco Bell for the evening, then settled
in for a grueling 7 hours of Deathmatch across many games that night, only
to be followed by uncountable hours over Saturday and Sunday - stopping
only to eat and to venture forth to buy a new mother board for one of the
systems (hey, we don't know our own strength some times!). We also stopped
briefly for a few hours on Saturday night for a few rounds of Magic: the
Gathering, but that story belongs in my long neglected Magic section of
my page (yet un-updated since last October I might add). Of the many games
we played, the more favorites definitely include Shadow Warrior, Quake
2, Blood, Total Annihilation, Star Craft, and my personal favorite for
the weekend, Shoggo (anyone know, is there Bots for that game?). All games
were played across local LAN, with the slowest machine being a 300, and
the others in the 400 family. Pretty much all the games were a good mix
of close fought matches, though this time, I finally extracted my revenge
on Adel for the beatings he handed me when we tested Gothic DM and Gothic
DM 2, with a Chaos DM game of Quake 2 on Sunday ending with myself at 10
Frags and him at his all time low of -11... but wait there's more another
game played on Friday night ended with Mr. Evil and Adel in the 30's ,
and myself in the 70's (same game setup)... I certainly felt good about
it, (and I heard the disapproval from them for the next 48 hours I might
add). Other than those 2 massacres, most of the other games were close,
but I had my share of lemons too. Overall I think we all had a great time,
and I can't wait for the three of us to go at it again. I'll have a chance
at Adel in early May, as I'm looking to take a weekend flight to his place
for a little r&r (really, fragging is relaxing!).
On Doom
news, my level for Mordeth ep3 is coming together nicely - if my editor
doesn't explode from too many line defs soon anyway. I need to get some
links on this page updated.. everyone moved around again.. also I may be
scheming something with Martin from the Doomshack concerning an older unreleased
DM map of mine... I just have to find the time to update it to a new engine
mod and Its off to him for further "enhancement". Time will tell. I noticed
a while back that Wildman Rick Clark mentioned on his page that he thought
he wasn't as talented at gothic architecture as Adel and myself - liar!
You are the man Rick, never sell yourself short like that! (but thanks
for the compliment ; D) Rick continues to blow peoples minds with his high
quality work across more gaming platforms than I have currently installed
on my PC...
GothicDMwas my debut to the Doom 2 community. Along with all the other
artists involved, we made a 32 level set of Deathmatch only maps that continue
to knock the socks off everyone that gets their hands on it! If you haven't
seen it, click the logo above for screen shots, or, grab a copy now:
Hey,
we had so much fun doing the first, how could we not have done a sequel...
and who knows what may still be in store...
During
the course of GDM2, Adelusion dropped some
kind words about me.. as well as a map as a tribute in my honor as well.
I was quite humbled by the experience, I must say. If you want to know
just why he did these things, you can read about them here.
Adelusion
finished the assembly of the public graphics/flats wad from the Gothic
series.. please read, follow and respect our wishes presented in the text
file, a lot of hard work went into the making of these graphics and effects...
