Jedi Academy server...

[Kurgan]

Sorry, "Cosmo" is just easier when I'm really tired and can barely read the screen anymore... It's like dyslexia-lite!

"COMO" will do fine. No offence taken.

This is the first game I play online with people from abroad. I have played some Counterstrike a couple of years ago, on New Years Eve, when we were just a couple of guys in the college hostel, but it doesn't compare to this.

I will certainly come around again, although I suppose I will be able to join big parties only on weekends, because our timezones are pretty different and we do have jobs (at least I do for sure )

I know what you mean, I come home from work and I'm bushed usually. The weekends are best, when I'm not out of town... I need to get a laptop with broadband so I can waste time playing games while on vacation too!

[Kurgan]

Kurgan I can post pics?

Sure man, I don't care (as long as the mods here don't!). You didn't do so shabby yourself man.

[Praxis]

Muwahaha!

Turns out the pics from multiplayer just ended up being stored in a different folder.

Pulling them up now.

[Lord Revan]

OK some of my pics


just posing


Me fighting Kurgan (IIRC)

I wasn't the only SD.netter it seems

Saber barrier can be effective

as you can see

[Praxis]

This is where we had the teamwork. You just started running. The entire way, people would run and jump at you and I would toss them into cliffs, or miss you and run straight into me, or run from the side targetting you. I literally killed 6 or 7 people and two others were helping me by sniping the guys around us.

You didn't spot it cause I was behind you the entire time. It worked out extremely well But that dang TrackerOfNoobs prevented us from scoring



'nuff said.


Gotta love that pit. I had multiple strategies for pushing and pulling people into it while I defended the flag.



Take a wild guess...


The guy on the elevator was too stupid to move and I just charged my pistol and got a nice headshot. His buddy in the pit tried to take my flag while I was shooting the guy on the elevator.



*snicker*


This guy was running with the flag, and dove onto the elevator thinking he was safe. He turned around just as I came down on his head, batman-style.




Fun with Kurgan.




More fun with Kurgan.



Revan takes a fall...


Noobs.


Another one of my favorite scenes was when a guy dove at me with his saber, and instead of fighting I ran. He missed me and jumped right off the cliff.


Sorry I don't have any shots of me dying. I'm sure Kurgan has plenty of those.

[Praxis]

^will be linked instead if anyone wants me to^

[Praxis]

as you can see

Whew, that shot just missed me getting killed...you can see me saying "Doh" in the background!
Ha, nobody has shots of me dying yet!

[Praxis]

TrackerOfNoobs put us all to shame

No freakin' kidding there. That was downright embarrassing

It was just after our little bout of teamwork wiped out their entire team...

We had five of us in our flag room, all defending you (you had their flag), when he bursts in their carrying our flag (a big risk on his part), kills me right off the bat and half your defenders...I respawn in the same room, dive at him, and get killed AGAIN, and by the time I get back all I find is the bodies of you and our entire team in our flag room, and no flag.

Moments later, "Blue team has scored."

My jaw almost hit the floor.

I think I killed him one time in the ENTIRE GAME. He must have killed me fifteen times

[Lord Revan]

Yeah link those they're fucking huge (that's why I use thumbnails).

[Praxis]

Done.

[Kurgan]

This is where we had the teamwork. You just started running. The entire way, people would run and jump at you and I would toss them into cliffs, or miss you and run straight into me, or run from the side targetting you. I literally killed 6 or 7 people and two others were helping me by sniping the guys around us.

You didn't spot it cause I was behind you the entire time. It worked out extremely well But that dang TrackerOfNoobs prevented us from scoring

Yeah, see when I get the flag I just try to haul ass back to base, I don't look around much. But we were actually playing CTF "correctly" rather than just trying to have one guy sneak around capturing all by himself!

Gotta love that pit. I had multiple strategies for pushing and pulling people into it while I defended the flag.

I fell WAY too much on that map. I even fell when nobody was around. I realized later that in my force setup I forgot to give myself a full level of Push/Pull so that might explain the ease with which you could toss me. As to chasing somebody and then just hoping in I blame that on my own stupidity.

The guy on the elevator was too stupid to move and I just charged my pistol and got a nice headshot. His buddy in the pit tried to take my flag while I was shooting the guy on the elevator.

Yeah you got quite a few blastech headshots as I saw it. I had to swipe that smug grin off your face by sniping you at least once while you were doing that.

Sorry I don't have any shots of me dying. I'm sure Kurgan has plenty of those.

Unfortunately not, I barely took any shots during that match (was too tired I guess). Maybe next time.

Great pics! Guess I'll use thumbnails next time too. See I use my own site, rather than an image hosting service, so it's just laziness. ;P

As to Tracker, to be fair, he did spend a lot of time simply strafe running through each base (looking for easy marks I guess), but yeah, there was no doubt he was good. He pulled all my weapons the first time, then I started using Absorb (hehe, thanks for the reminder!). Killing noobs just ruins you for these guys!

So *that* was smithers... ok. Poor VikingLarz! I'm sure he was trying.

[Lord Revan]

Does anybody have a pic of several people trying kill the Jedi Master in the Korriban FFA

[Comosicus]

as you can see

Whew, that shot just missed me getting killed...you can see me saying "Doh" in the background!
Ha, nobody has shots of me dying yet!

If I remember right, I was trying to do my own combo move then, but I wasn't so lucky that time.

[Praxis]

Yeah you got quite a few blastech headshots as I saw it. I had to swipe that smug grin off your face by sniping you at least once while you were doing that.

That was YOU?!? I knew some dang bugger got me with a sniper rifle headshot when I was about to kill someone, but I missed who it was!


Yeah, I usually use my own server but my upload speed is horrible, and due to some routing mishaps (if I try to connect to my own IP address, it sends me to my router setup page, but if anyone else tries to connect to my IP address the router forwards it to my computer) I cannot see images I host on my own server unless I use localhost instead of the site address

So for pics I'm going to start using Imageshack. This was my first time using it.

Yeah, poor VikingLars was the one who would always get on the elevator and stand still while it moved. I would usually either come down from above with my saber, or just fire a charge shot on the path I knew the elevator would take so that it would intersect with his head just as the elevator reached the top

[Lord Revan]

If I remember right, I was trying to do my own combo move then, but I wasn't so lucky that time.

the thing is that there's no way to block the saber barrier, so if you're too close you're dead.

[Kurgan]

Yeah you got quite a few blastech headshots as I saw it. I had to swipe that smug grin off your face by sniping you at least once while you were doing that.

That was YOU?!? I knew some dang bugger got me with a sniper rifle headshot when I was about to kill someone, but I missed who it was!

I let the Darkside flow through me at that point. I actually had a rocket lock on already, but then changed my mind and decided to disrupt you in the head instead. You were so occupied... hehe.

Yeah, poor VikingLars was the one who would always get on the elevator and stand still while it moved. I would usually either come down from above with my saber, or just fire a charge shot on the path I knew the elevator would take so that it would intersect with his head just as the elevator reached the top

Perhaps he was having some problems. I know in the last day or so my mouse has been doing weird things. Typically I'll be doing a huge jump or something and then as I land I try to turn, but for a second or two I won't be able to turn, only look. It could be the surface the laser on my optical mouse is reading is dirty or something. I was afraid to run around too much or I'd add to my skydiving without a parachute sessions.

[Kurgan]

If I remember right, I was trying to do my own combo move then, but I wasn't so lucky that time.

the thing is that there's no way to block the saber barrier, so if you're too close you're dead.

There's actually several ways to counter the saber barrier move (feel free to let me elaborate if you don't know these), and IIRC you can even "block" it so to speak. I've seen people actually do it such that both the spinning blades are knocked to the ground (dropped hilts). I have never accomplished this particular manuver myself but it might be possible if done at the very start of the move.

[Comosicus]

If I remember right, I was trying to do my own combo move then, but I wasn't so lucky that time.

the thing is that there's no way to block the saber barrier, so if you're too close you're dead.

There's actually several ways to counter the saber barrier move (feel free to let me elaborate if you don't know these), and IIRC you can even "block" it so to speak. I've seen people actually do it such that both the spinning blades are knocked to the ground (dropped hilts). I have never accomplished this particular manuver myself but it might be possible if done at the very start of the move.

Would PUSH or PULL do such a thing? Or GRIP?

[Kurgan]

Does anybody have a pic of several people trying kill the Jedi Master in the Korriban FFA

I've got some shots of JM but they were from other games not the ones we played. It just looks cool to see some guy swinging his staff around while a group of blastech users converge on him in a big circle...

[Kurgan]

the thing is that there's no way to block the saber barrier, so if you're too close you're dead.

There's actually several ways to counter the saber barrier move (feel free to let me elaborate if you don't know these), and IIRC you can even "block" it so to speak. I've seen people actually do it such that both the spinning blades are knocked to the ground (dropped hilts). I have never accomplished this particular manuver myself but it might be possible if done at the very start of the move.

Would PUSH or PULL do such a thing? Or GRIP?

Counters to Saber Barrier (from memory, I may have missed some):

Guns/Explosives (crouch and fire under the blades, use explosives anywhere or the best... use DEMP2 blast that will force them to stand up and push them back so they are even more vulnerable).

Force Push (forces them to stand up, making the blades less likely to hit and leaving them more open to counter attack).

Force Lightning (hehehe).

You won't believe this one... crouch and then crawl under the blades and then smite them with a Lunge (the Fast "uppercut" manuver with Blue stance).

Properly timed Roll Stab (If you screw up though, you're dead).

It is also possible to nail them with a "Death From Above" (that seemingly useless Strong flying attack) or a downward Strong (red) swipe with perfect timing, but this is for the experts.

Katas and twirls, properly timed can also break through the Barrier and nail them, or do a barrier of your own just right...

Not sure about Pull or Grip. I think Pull will just bring them closer to you and increase the chances of you getting hit (but I could be wrong.. if it has the same effect as Push it might be somewhat useful but less useful than Push still since they'd be right in your face). Grip I'm not sure it can even target them while in the move, but again, I'd have to test it. You have to be pretty close for Grip usually.

[Comosicus]

Counters to Saber Barrier (from memory, I may have missed some):

Guns/Explosives (crouch and fire under the blades, use explosives anywhere or the best... use DEMP2 blast that will force them to stand up and push them back so they are even more vulnerable).

Force Push (forces them to stand up, making the blades less likely to hit and leaving them more open to counter attack).

You won't believe this one... crouch and then crawl under the blades and then smite them with a Lunge (the Fast "uppercut" manuver with Blue stance).

Properly timed Roll Stab (If you screw up though, you're dead).

It is also possible to nail them with a "Death From Above" (that seemingly useless Strong flying attack) or a downward Strong (red) swipe with perfect timing, but this is for the experts.

Katas and twirls, properly timed can also break through the Barrier and nail them, or do a barrier of your own just right...

I remember knocking down some people with the two-saber barier with the staff kata. I was trying to do the same in that image, but it looks like the timing was not the best.

[Kurgan]

Counters to Saber Barrier (from memory, I may have missed some):

Guns/Explosives (crouch and fire under the blades, use explosives anywhere or the best... use DEMP2 blast that will force them to stand up and push them back so they are even more vulnerable).

Force Push (forces them to stand up, making the blades less likely to hit and leaving them more open to counter attack).

You won't believe this one... crouch and then crawl under the blades and then smite them with a Lunge (the Fast "uppercut" manuver with Blue stance).

Properly timed Roll Stab (If you screw up though, you're dead).

It is also possible to nail them with a "Death From Above" (that seemingly useless Strong flying attack) or a downward Strong (red) swipe with perfect timing, but this is for the experts.

Katas and twirls, properly timed can also break through the Barrier and nail them, or do a barrier of your own just right...

I remember knocking down some people with the two-saber barier with the staff kata. I was trying to do the same in that image, but it looks like the timing was not the best.

Yeah, fair enough. There's much "safer" (and more humiliating) ways to stop the Barrier, even within the limited confines of a blade duel (ie: nixing the use of guns/explosives).

Oops, you replied before my Edit...

[Praxis]

the thing is that there's no way to block the saber barrier, so if you're too close you're dead.

There's actually several ways to counter the saber barrier move (feel free to let me elaborate if you don't know these), and IIRC you can even "block" it so to speak. I've seen people actually do it such that both the spinning blades are knocked to the ground (dropped hilts). I have never accomplished this particular manuver myself but it might be possible if done at the very start of the move.

Would PUSH or PULL do such a thing? Or GRIP?

I like to roll under it and do a stab. However if your timing is off by a second or aim by an inch you get beheaded.

The biggest mistake one can make is to do the saber barrier before igniting your sabers (you usually expect attacks to automatically ignite the saber). Then you're stuck for a minute with two saber hilts flying around in the air.

[Kurgan]

There's actually several ways to counter the saber barrier move (feel free to let me elaborate if you don't know these), and IIRC you can even "block" it so to speak. I've seen people actually do it such that both the spinning blades are knocked to the ground (dropped hilts). I have never accomplished this particular manuver myself but it might be possible if done at the very start of the move.

Would PUSH or PULL do such a thing? Or GRIP?

I like to roll under it and do a stab. However if your timing is off by a second or aim by an inch you get beheaded.

The biggest mistake one can make is to do the saber barrier before igniting your sabers (you usually expect attacks to automatically ignite the saber). Then you're stuck for a minute with two saber hilts flying around in the air.

I don't think that happens unless you purposely turn the sabers off immediately before doing the move (I've only done it on purpose, never by accident). It looks funky.

It's a little weird though, another way to screw up the saber barrier is if you're using a JK2 model imported into JA. For some reason the calculations that JA does to convert Outcast models screws up the animation for this move, as well as the Dual Saber taunt.

[Kurgan]

67.15.13.128:29070

That was some game tonight guys. That Padawan dude was funny. First he said everyone should "SUCK MY DICK BITCHES!!!" then he said he hated [CFM]Conrad[JC] repeatedly. Conrad replied "well i love you so im sry."

I finally banned the guy for fun. The match actually timed out (40 minutes, 8 to 4 was it? With us leading. Poor Kronikz had only Elias to help him, but then he somehow gained the WILL to continue..

And guess what? I forgot to take any pics!

Then the lag monster attacked the server, so I had to reboot it. G'night guys, so ends another weekend of sabering thrills. See you next game?