- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: perducci
Have you thought this through at all? If there's no skill involved, what about people who consistently outshoot others? Are their pockets full of rabbits' feet? Do you really think they somehow didn't earn that?
Lead doesn't involve voodoo or sorcery. It just means that an enemy is a little bit ahead of where he appears to be. You have to gauge that distance and aim there without the crutch of a masterchief model or a red reticule. That does take skill, and it does separate the men from the boys. Play some 1v1s against skilled people if you still don't believe me.
But not Elmy; all of his shots are luck. :P
Like you're saying, you can learn it and adapt to it. But I hesitate to call it a skill. There's multiple reasons:
First, the aiming off isn't what bothers me. You DID have to lead in Halo xbox... and it was static. You could guage your velocity and your target's velocity, along with your angle of fire, and could systematically always hit your target.
But here we have a system that doesn't allow you to CONSISTENTLY aim correctly. Between ordinary network variables and the utter pile that is Halo PC's netcode, lies chaos.
I'm no slouch at Halo PC, and I haven't played in a very long time. Quite the opposite, in fact - I was damn good at the game. In fact, I've only lost in one 1v1 match (out of hundreds) since the game came out. The clan I spoke of earlier had a lot of arrogant little kids that played, so I had a healthy crop to shoot at regularly. The guy who beat me plays for madcast now, along with a lot of the kids I beat (although to be honest, they could probably steamroll me now)
I grew to adapt a little with the netcode. But I simply won't believe you if you don't feel that lag never ruined what should have been an excellent shot, time after time after time.