User Info: Pulsarracerman Pulsarracerman 6 years ago #1 "A King Does Not Kill A King" -Saladin TDM is over, and I feel the need to reflect on this tournament. By far, it was the most difficult one. I am going to bring up a few controversial issues here and some of you might not like what I have to say, but I discovered some sad truths about the game while playing this TDM. First of all, seal clubbing was the most rampant I've ever seen than in any other occurrence. Many of the highest ranking players were just brutalizing on the lower ones. It was not uncommon to see very high MR players hosting "beginners only" rooms and would kick me out any time I would join. The guy in first place, "Rogue_Hunter_" was notorious for this. Since the MR's carried over from the last TDM, it made things very unfair because last time, everyone started on the same playing field. You didn't know who you were going against and their skill level til you fought them. This time, you could just avoid them if you really wanted to, so it made picking easier rooms that much more provocative. In this tournament, I went all out and probably went too far. I remained in the top 200 for the entire time and wanted to stay there. Because of this, I too became guilty of seal clubbing, as I realized the top scorers were rampantly doing this, and it was truly the only way to keep up. In almost every low MR room, you would always find one of those glorious top 200 players, and very few would stick around if you happened to join. You can say I suck or whatever, but I sortied against a lot of the ones who would actually fight me, and still got kills on them. In no way am I condoning seal clubbing and I know everyone in my squad frowns upon it. When it comes to co-op, I have a completely different mindset. Second, wallet warriors dominated this event. If you tally the scores, say the top 10 players or so, you can get an idea of how much money was put into this event. Even the best player in the world can not achieve a score of 50,000 points in every match. I absolutely have no problem with spending money on the game, but take heed, Rogue_Hunter_ is sitting on 16,561,152 points. My ranking at 65 has 4,682,406 points. Just what are these people trying to prove? I think they would have been safe with half those points and still get the Cipher. They are taking it to the extreme just to say that they're the "best"...more like "richest" players out there. And seal clubbing to get that insanely high is a bit ridiculous anyway. To each their own, but still you gotta think how much money and time do these people actually have to burn? More power to you, I guess. Third, thanks to the internet and people like UWSPJasonChan making videos on Youtube, more and more people could easily learn that laying into the afterburner for the whole entire match is a good way not to get shot down. The last tournament, people were flying much, much slower than this one. It did make for some frustrating times for me. I fly fast, but also try and use some maneuvers as well. The difficulty this time was exponentially greater because of this since most people already knew that from watching videos or reading tips rather than learning things themselves. I don't care if that's how you like to fly, but I don't find any glory in it. I played on alternate account as well this time starting from scratch flying with total noobs and found it to be very enjoyable. I could actually see people doing some skilled flying rather than just going fast the entire time. I am not putting down that play style, if that is how you play then that is how you play, all I am saying is it gets annoying after a while. Lastly, I don't know the deal about hacks, but there were a few times I saw some strange things happening. For example, there were times I shot another plane that was going to be a definite hit or kill, and I could actually see the missiles going right through their aircraft! What the hell is that...invincibility cheat?