My Quake 2 (Lithium) Videos
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One day I was digging through some old CDs when I came across a disc with Quake 2 demos. Demos in this case meaning recordings I made of matches that I played, mostly online. I used to play the Lithium mod all the time on servers like XS4ALL, Demon etc. Unfortunately I only have a few demos where I'm playing on cable since at that time I had mostly switched to Counter-Strike, Team Fortress Classic and later Quake 3. Too bad because now I won't be able to show the 3xtr33m 1337 skillz I had developed at the end of my Q2 days (haha).
Here is a small selection of the demos in video form, so you don't need Quake 2 to watch them. << more to come! >> If you were a regular in the North-European Quake 2 Lithium 'scene' you might want to check out this list of all 1070 players featured at some point in one or more of the demos. You might be on it, *shock*! Check out my other videos at media.dyxtra.com. |
Radical Railgun Rampage(165MB, 10m51s) |
Date: somewhere in 2001 | Alias used: "Lex" | Map: Q2DM6 | Played on: Cable & new PC | id Demo Analyzer report |
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One of the few cable demos I have, and it's one of my favourites, since it makes me look like some Quake god :D 72 railgun kills in just over 10 minutes, although my opponents were newbies. Still fun to watch though as there is some good railing (and some bad).
Pay special attention to the aimbot allegations against me, and the subsequent vote to kick me off the server :) |
War against [BORG](134MB, 8m54s) |
Date: october 10th, 1999 | Alias used: "[Rf]Dyxtra" | Map: Q2DM1 | Played on: 56K & new PC | id Demo Analyzer report |
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A 4vs4 clan war with [Rf] against [BORG]. I have absolutely horrible ping here, reaching over 400ms at times. Yet I still manage to do really well against the lower ping opponents, I put that Strength rune to good use. Unfortunately it seemed my connection died at the end of the video, so the final score is unknown. If I had to guess I'd say we won though ;)
Check out the demo report as well, my stats are pretty sweet. |
Frantic FACT3 FFA Festival(133MB, 8m44s) |
Date: somewhere in 2001 | Alias used: "Pointe" | Map: FACT3 | Played on: Cable & new PC | id Demo Analyzer report |
| More low ping action, a lovely chaotic FFA (Free For All) games on one of the XS4ALL (dubbed Axes 4 All) servers, which were very popular Lithium servers back in the day. I was never that good at these busy games, I preferred less players and more control over what the hell was going on. Still, having a good romp at these once in a while is good fun. Managed to get 474 FPH (Frags Per Hour) in the end, which is pretty decent and the highest of this game. And I wasn't constantly camping the Rocket Launcher like some people ;) |
The Early Days(108MB, 7m10s) |
Date: may 29th, 1999 | Alias used: "Dyxtra" | Map: Q2DM2 | Played on: 56K & old PC | id Demo Analyzer report |
| The oldest demo I have, dated 29th of may 1999. I played before that obviously, but didn't make any recordings of it. Not terribly exciting to watch since it's a bunch of newbie modem players wandering about, but it's cute to see just how bad I was at one point. Hey we all gotta start somewhere! |
A Tale of Two Mid-air Rails(15MB, 1m) |
Date: october 8th, 1999 | Alias used: "77UI" | Map: Q2DM1 | Played on: 56K & new PC | No report (recam) |
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This is a short recam I made outlining two mid-air rails from an Instagib game (Instagib = railgun only, and 1 hit to kill). A recam is an edited demo with different camera angles etc.
P.S. The two guys I played against were first class lamers. First off they both had really low pings, now there is nothing wrong with that, but they were, get this, teaming up against me. Me, playing on my 56K. When that didn't go according to their plan they called me a bot and kicked me off the server. I guess I bruised their fragile LPB egos by railing their asses. =|ThunD3Rou5|= and Thevma, you suck :D |
War against [M] part 1 (with hook)(153MB, 10m9s) |
Date: may 22th, 2000 | Alias used: "[3L]Dyxtra" | Map: Q2DM1 | Played on: 56K & new PC | id Demo Analyzer report |
| One map of a 2 vs 2 clan war with [3L] against German clan [M]. [M] is a regular deathmatch clan, while [3L] is a Lithium clan. The biggest difference is that Lithium adds an off-hand hook, allowing you to fly almost anywhere Tarzan-style. Obviously, this totally changes the way the game is played; a great Lithium player can suck balls at regular DM and vice versa. To even the odds we decided to play both with hook (advantage: [3L]) and without (advantage: [M]). This is one of the games we played with hook enabled. |
War against [M] part 2 (without hook)(201MB, 13m15s) |
Date: may 22th, 2000 | Alias used: "[3L]Dyxtra" | Map: Q2DM3 | Played on: 56K & new PC | No report (20min of warmup screwed the stats.) |
| Same as above, but this time playing in the style [M] was most familiar with, without hook. You can see the game is more tactical this way, but I always preferred the faster, more action-orientated Lithium style. This should be were [M] shines, but...well...just watch :P |
One on one vs Mio(82MB, 5m26s) |
Date: somewhere in 2001 | Alias used: "*Dyxtra" | Map: ZTN2DM2 | Played on: Cable & new PC | id Demo Analyzer report (includes crouch-Quake) |
| A 1v1 game against one of my Quake 2 buddies Mio. The filename of the demo notes that this is the first game of Q2 I've played in a while, I was probably busy with Counter-strike or something. I still play well though. It's not a long video since the match soon devolved (or maybe evolved :P) into a silly game of crouch-Quake, aka playing while crouching all the time. I might make a video out of that as well as it's pretty funny ;) |