Happy birthday Soldat!



I've recently returned to playing Soldat and it's still a game I've fallen in love with 15 years ago.

Simple, yet so full of posibilities. It's sad seeing it in the state it's in right now, but it will endure atleast for a while yet, I believe.



There have been many memorable moments over the years, I guess I could name a few.



- In my only SCTFL tournament win, while not playing the first map, I was on voice chat with the clan. I went away to get something, and accidentaly stepped on my headset's line and tore it out. Because of this it was decided I can't play the map I was supposed to play. In my desperation I went to my neighbour which I knew used to game, but I barely knew otherwise, and asked his Mom(he wasn't home) if I can borrow a headset. Ofcourse she looked at me sideways and sent me away. We won the finals but I didn't get to play.



- There used to be a secret fun clan called "The Fluffos" where we assumed secret fluffo alteregos. We were seperated by color. I was "The Silver Fluffo". All of us in this clan were good players in good clans but we used this to play for fun and fuck around. We played clanwars with silly restrictions like playing knife only, triple m79 lineups, weird tactics and so on. I believe it was started by TomPenny, an oldie fellow Slovenian player.



- The hate for the left. Still not sure if by design or simply a bug, but Barrett used to shoot differently when aiming to the left side. It was sometimes kinda random and weird, so back in the day of no delay or bink barret having the left side on a map was very advantageus, especially on larger barrett friendly maps.

But ofcourse, some players took that as a challenge and to a degree mastered the random shot! Urhos was one of them, and probably the greatest Leftie Barretter ever.



- Soldat used to be on ESL - Electronic Sports League! There was quite an active 1on1 league going on, with occasional tournaments.



- There was a patch somewhere along the line where you could shoot the LAW while prone(SUPERMAN LAW!), which led to a huge increase in Barrett+LAW combos which basically doomed that mechanic to failure and it was removed the next patch. It was OP as hell but very satisfying.













