Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community - View Single Post

ironpham · 10-22-2007, 07:26 PM

I have several moments, but I'll do one at a time.

This first moment was probably the greatest of all of my moments. This happened back in the Warcraft 2 days on battle.net (first season).

So, somehow, I had gotten pretty damn good at this game at the age of 12. I was at least on par with ut@golfers who was number 1 on the ladder at the time (yeah, I know there are better people, but he was damn good).

I was going into a 3vs3 game on old Garden of War with 1 friend of mine who was pretty okay. The other teammate was a random, but he left at the beginning of the match anyways. So, this game started off as a 3vs2. Also, I was humans, the super underdogs of WC2 (no bloodlust).

The game starts off as any normal game would. I was at 9 and my partner was at 4. I scouted and found 1 guy at 11, 1 guy at 2, and one guy at 5. Keep in mind, I was the only person in the whole game that scouted. I was watching very carefully for other scouts, but they never came. All of a sudden, about 3 or 4 minutes into the game, the guy from 2 and the guy from 5 rushed my partner at 4. THEY WERE BOTH USING MAPHACK. I actually found out they were using maphack because the guy at 11 whispered it to me. He said he wouldn't fight unless they were gone.

So, my partner was quickly decimated. Though he was able to get one peon out to me so he could watch. So as the match continues, I decide it would be best for me to expand to s9 as soon as possible so I could get some cash rolling in. I upgraded to Stronghold as soon as I found out they were hacking (they were using more than just maphack as I soon found out). I needed to get some knights up and fast.

So by the time my partner's base was gone, I had an expansion at s9, and I was up to a Stronghold and pushing out knights. I decided to stay at Stronghold for the time being and outman them with level 5 (fully upgraded) knights. So, I sent a peasant outside of my wall so I can get more barracks built. At my base at 9 alone, I had 12 barracks. This was all done within probably about 7 or 8 minutes. During this process I had build up an army of about 20 knights, so I decide to send them down toward 5.

Now, the guy at 5 was a little bit ahead of the guy at 2. He had the infinite upgrade hack. It does what it says. His ogres were level 12 (max was like level 8 or 9 after you Upgraded from a Stronghold to a Fortress). I decided to go ahead and try to attack while I make a larger army. So I go in with my 20 knights and widdle his army of about 12 down.

My 20 knights died (in retrospect, they could've probably won, but I had other things to manage). However, I had an army of 42 more knights heading that way. Even with the small level 14 reinforcements of his allies, my knights prevailed. They completely decimated the guy at 5. All that's left is the guy at 2.

Now, by this time, the man at 2 had bloodlust on top of his infinite upgrades. So they were around level 18. While I was decimating 5, I decided to go Fortress and get some mages to counter this problem. Without them, bloodlust would completely destroy my knights. So, by the time 5 was dead, I was upgrading blizzard for my mages with a couple of mages popped out already and another army of 42 knights at the barracks.

I figured the one guy left was pretty dumb, so I scouted the middle because I was sure he would gather his army there. Sure enough, he had about 20 level 18 ogres with bloodlust ready. So, I bring down 3 mages, and I blizzarded (is that right?) the hell out of them. While I'm doing that, I send my remaining knights from 5 along with my 42 knights up to 2. From there on, it was only rape.

I had decided to let the last guy live since he tipped me off. He and my partner were awestruck by my performance. They both thought for sure I would lose, especially since I was humans. But as it turns out, skill > hacks.

The funny thing is, I would've never thought of this as one of those great moments if it weren't for one thing. Later that week, I joined a game. Then some random guy joined in and saw me. He said "Oh my god, it's ~Ironman. That dude is sick. I heard he took on these 2 hackers all by himself as humans." He then left because he was on the opposite team. That made me laugh.

(I probably have a couple more moments in different games to come.)

10-22-2007, 07:26 PM	#10 (permalink)
ironpham DOOMTRAIN Location: NC	I have several moments, but I'll do one at a time. This first moment was probably the greatest of all of my moments. This happened back in the Warcraft 2 days on battle.net (first season). So, somehow, I had gotten pretty damn good at this game at the age of 12. I was at least on par with ut@golfers who was number 1 on the ladder at the time (yeah, I know there are better people, but he was damn good). I was going into a 3vs3 game on old Garden of War with 1 friend of mine who was pretty okay. The other teammate was a random, but he left at the beginning of the match anyways. So, this game started off as a 3vs2. Also, I was humans, the super underdogs of WC2 (no bloodlust). The game starts off as any normal game would. I was at 9 and my partner was at 4. I scouted and found 1 guy at 11, 1 guy at 2, and one guy at 5. Keep in mind, I was the only person in the whole game that scouted. I was watching very carefully for other scouts, but they never came. All of a sudden, about 3 or 4 minutes into the game, the guy from 2 and the guy from 5 rushed my partner at 4. THEY WERE BOTH USING MAPHACK. I actually found out they were using maphack because the guy at 11 whispered it to me. He said he wouldn't fight unless they were gone. So, my partner was quickly decimated. Though he was able to get one peon out to me so he could watch. So as the match continues, I decide it would be best for me to expand to s9 as soon as possible so I could get some cash rolling in. I upgraded to Stronghold as soon as I found out they were hacking (they were using more than just maphack as I soon found out). I needed to get some knights up and fast. So by the time my partner's base was gone, I had an expansion at s9, and I was up to a Stronghold and pushing out knights. I decided to stay at Stronghold for the time being and outman them with level 5 (fully upgraded) knights. So, I sent a peasant outside of my wall so I can get more barracks built. At my base at 9 alone, I had 12 barracks. This was all done within probably about 7 or 8 minutes. During this process I had build up an army of about 20 knights, so I decide to send them down toward 5. Now, the guy at 5 was a little bit ahead of the guy at 2. He had the infinite upgrade hack. It does what it says. His ogres were level 12 (max was like level 8 or 9 after you Upgraded from a Stronghold to a Fortress). I decided to go ahead and try to attack while I make a larger army. So I go in with my 20 knights and widdle his army of about 12 down. My 20 knights died (in retrospect, they could've probably won, but I had other things to manage). However, I had an army of 42 more knights heading that way. Even with the small level 14 reinforcements of his allies, my knights prevailed. They completely decimated the guy at 5. All that's left is the guy at 2. Now, by this time, the man at 2 had bloodlust on top of his infinite upgrades. So they were around level 18. While I was decimating 5, I decided to go Fortress and get some mages to counter this problem. Without them, bloodlust would completely destroy my knights. So, by the time 5 was dead, I was upgrading blizzard for my mages with a couple of mages popped out already and another army of 42 knights at the barracks. I figured the one guy left was pretty dumb, so I scouted the middle because I was sure he would gather his army there. Sure enough, he had about 20 level 18 ogres with bloodlust ready. So, I bring down 3 mages, and I blizzarded (is that right?) the hell out of them. While I'm doing that, I send my remaining knights from 5 along with my 42 knights up to 2. From there on, it was only rape. I had decided to let the last guy live since he tipped me off. He and my partner were awestruck by my performance. They both thought for sure I would lose, especially since I was humans. But as it turns out, skill > hacks. The funny thing is, I would've never thought of this as one of those great moments if it weren't for one thing. Later that week, I joined a game. Then some random guy joined in and saw me. He said "Oh my god, it's ~Ironman. That dude is sick. I heard he took on these 2 hackers all by himself as humans." He then left because he was on the opposite team. That made me laugh. (I probably have a couple more moments in different games to come.)