That movie was THE reason for me getting into competitive dod. Big ups to Half-Life Jam Empire for being my first team
Good ole Jarret Haynes aka Cyan. He was leaps and bounds ahead of everyone back in the day when it came to movie making. He made highball finals from our anzio match with x6 and that was back in04, still to this day one of the best movies out. Short sweet and simple. You know alot of people hated on Cyan back in the day, they call him Cryan 24/7 bc he always whined in vent but he was a damn clutch player, probably one of the most underated players of all time.
Jb_ wrote:
Good ole Jarret Haynes aka Cyan. He was leaps and bounds ahead of everyone back in the day when it came to movie making. He made highball finals from our anzio match with x6 and that was back in04, still to this day one of the best movies out. Short sweet and simple. You know alot of people hated on Cyan back in the day, they call him Cryan 24/7 bc he always whined in vent but he was a damn clutch player, probably one of the most underated players of all time.
Do you ever talk to him? He helped me out a lot when I first started, curious as to what he's up to.
basically i learned a lot very quickly from the rvc guys and dice guys when i first started. we knew a lot of them through cs and it allowed me to play with some really good players very early.
but the 2 most influential are DR and MaX.
i remember the first week gomi came to dod from CS (me, sonik, ko, luk), we were able to frag pretty hard from the first day. we got accused of cheating in scrims we were losing by 500. we didnt know how to play dod yet. we learned it pretty quickly and had a good first season (only lost 1 game in reg season and went to semi finals), but once we got DR on the team for our second season, we took a huge jump with how to really play dod like a really good team. also played a billion 12mans with him and was always drawn to specing him whenever i could. played with him at Socal 4, and Socal 5. very exciting player but very smart.
then, around summer 2005, or maybe fall, max asked me to heavy with him at socal 4. we had a team of max seven DR tofuman miller and x$m that lost in the finals to LLL8. we also played on a team together under the x6 "sponsor" and again together right after wsvg 2006 with spf3000. so i learned a LOT from him on how to play the heavy position while heavying with him on all different teams, especially during the time of socal4 and all throughout the tourny. mainly because i was still only playing less than a year at this point so i was like a sponge at the time and still getting better.
those 2 were 2 of the smartest and best players ive ever played with. i learned a lot about how to lead in game from them, and how it is to play with 6 guys as a team and show us what/how a real invite team is. also, being able to see their thought process as you play multiple cal matches, lan matches and team scrims with them over time. that was probably the most influential thing really because it shapes the kind of player become,it determines the type of in game decisions you make, and it shapes how you think about the game in-game philosophies. and they were the first real elite and experienced players i got to play extended time with in the first year of playing dod. so by my definition of "influential" those 2 were the 2 that influenced me most as a player.
oh and also sonik. we both heavied together for a LOT of matches and a LOT of scrims for a long time. also talked dod quite a bit and watched tons of hltv demos together early on. really great heavy partner and a guy who knew how to play the heavy position.
some other honorable mentions that still influenced me quite a bit are:
scorch
Qu1rkZ
shotgunderek
profiction
luk/sonik/ko
in more recent years, since ive played so long, i've been pretty set in my ways as a player. plus, at this stage in the game, why try so hard? but i have been influenced in a different kind of way. it is almost the opposite as before and it is more skill based. some of you these days are just nuts. a few off the top of my head are ryanemo, taylor, cableguy, tox, bryan, jules, these are all guys that influence me in a more skillbased kind of way by just getting to see the shit they pull off. i guess its influential because those are guys that can be so nuts at times that it influences the way i have to play against them.
