An Ode to UT2004 and The Old Days

[kAoS-Acer]

I miss the old days when all a person had to do was hop online, browse through the list and jump on a server like vanilla, and find urself in the middle of a massive ctf war.

I miss how there would be noobs and high ranking clan members alike, explosions everywhere, guts and severed limbs all over the place, then u'd see a quick flicker in the corner of ur eye as 2k made off with the enemies flag and scored, yet again.

I miss how u'd see old arch rivals, and find that despite the fact they could beat u 2 weeks ago, they hadn't improved since then, and u could enjoy moping the floor with their arse.

I miss how fear members would hop on and boast and toy with the less experinced players, and then a dx member (or sometimes a kaos member ) would hop on and kick them into tomorrow and they'd sulk and leave.

I miss how u could jump onto a completely empty server, and 10 minutes later it would be full, with extra spectators waiting for someone to leave.

I miss how in the last 2 minutes of a match everyone would become frantic, and suddenly ppl's aims would improve, and they'd fight smarter, and it was like fighting totally different ppl.

I miss how noobs that didn't know how to translocate would run from one end of the map to the other to take the flag (no dodge jumping either)

I miss how whenever we'd have a match against another clan the only person who wouldn't use their proper name or tag would be gammo. grimreefer was a favourite of his.

I miss how we'd have promising members turn into traitors because they thought they had become too good for us (cough*xaero*cough) and then when u'd meet them online with their new tag, u'd kick their arse and humilate them in front of their new team mates.

I miss how the moment a good clan member jumped onto a server full of noobs, it would suddenly fill up with other clan members and the noobs would leave cause they were leagues behind, and within 10 minutes the only ppl on the server were clannies.

I miss how well known clan members would alias just to have a fun match, but everyone knew thier alias and who they were anyway.

I miss how noobs would all pile on one team against a talented clan member, in a desperate attempt to beat them. It never worked, despite it sometimes being as drastic as 6 to 1.

I miss how u couldn't go a match without seeing another member of ur clan jump on and join the cause.

I miss how members of the same clan would all join the same team when they were on together, and the other players would complain about team stacking.

I miss how most clan members had a little fan base of noobs who would repeatedly say hello whenever they saw them online, and would always ask for tips and hints, or ask u to join their team and help them - or better still try to make casual conversation with u while u were in the middle of escaping from the enemies base with the flag on 10 health and no back up from ur team.

I miss how despite the best efforts of ppl like executioner, ekynox, godfather and the like to bring us down, kaos still stands

I miss how gammo has a lasting hatred for all things instagib

I miss the Numa Numa dance video of that guy dancing to it, and how much funnier it became when dru said it was "2k when he beats fear in ctf"

I miss the old days of UT2004, but look forward to UT2007 and many more days of kaos and ut in the future

[kAoS-Maian0]

I miss the old days when all a person had to do was hop online, browse through the list and jump on a server like vanilla, and find urself in the middle of a massive ctf war.

I think we all do =(....Cept gammo who never ever plays public =)

I miss how fear members would hop on and boast and toy with the less experinced players, and then a dx member (or sometimes a kaos member ) would hop on and kick them into tomorrow and they'd sulk and leave.

Oh god that never gets tiring and still happens from time to time...not as much as Id like though =( Always great when they come onto our server and gammo promptly sluaghters them under an alias and they demand to know who he is

I miss how u could jump onto a completely empty server, and 10 minutes later it would be full, with extra spectators waiting for someone to leave.

With there only being three servers in the whole of oceania that happens a lot now days lol.

I miss how whenever we'd have a match against another clan the only person who wouldn't use their proper name or tag would be gammo. grimreefer was a favourite of his.

Oh man I forgot all about that name, used to confuse the hell outta me when I first started casue he'd talk to me like we were good friends and I couldnt understand why lol. Then when he started changing it on a nightly basis it confused me ever more lol. Now its easy to pick a gammo alias =)

I miss how we'd have promising members turn into traitors because they thought they had become too good for us (cough*xaero*cough) and then when u'd meet them online with their new tag, u'd kick their arse and humilate them in front of their new team mates.

Just recently happend with two brothers that decided frks would be a better path for em....tossers lol

I miss how well known clan members would alias just to have a fun match, but everyone knew thier alias and who they were anyway.

Word of advice, never use an alias other then your normal one for too long cause otherwise noones ever calls you by youre normal one anymore. Even if I play as kAoS.Maian0 I still get called Mayan-Oh lol.

I miss how members of the same clan would all join the same team when they were on together, and the other players would complain about team stacking.

Dont worry that stil runs rampant. There'll be 20 minute warmups while everyones whinging about fixing the teams so they arent stacked. And then when the match actually starts there are about 4 or 5 team changes anyway.

I miss how despite the best efforts of ppl like executioner, ekynox, godfather and the like to bring us down, kaos still stands

I miss how gammo has a lasting hatred for all things instagib

Nothings changed there lol.

Oh the nostalgia of reading through that. But see if you came back now, you wouldnt have to miss it all cause a lot of it still happens in one form or another, so get on the three available servers and play!!

[kAoS-aZZie]

. . u gonna havta do something a bit more impressive than writing an Ode, to impress me all over again, Acer . . . .

*cough*

[kAoS-Acer]

aZZie u r insatiable lol

I could fly to the moon and back using a straw and a jacket potatoe and u still wouldn't be impressed

besides, i didn't know that u needed to be "impressed all over again", i'd figured that my presence, a few posts and an ode woulda been enough to satisfy u, talk about demanding lol

[kAoS-DIISKO]

i miss the heddy days of ut2003 :/

[gämmö]

lol

[kAoS-aZZie]

i miss most things bout "the good old days"

ut2k3 is hard to go back to after ut2004 . . . weapons seem retarded . . . or maybe it is me!

[gämmö]

i miss the heddy days of ut2003 :/

I notice no dif... get more headdys now den in UT3.....

[kAoS-Acer]

i notice no diff either, got just as few heddys ut2k3 as i did in ut2k4...

[kAoS-DIISKO]

heady grrr

heady

adj : extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic

[-oj-]

awesome post man..

i was never around in thos days but they sound fun..

[kAoS-Acer]

oh u can bet they were -oj-, and i get the feeling that when 2007 comes along later this year its gonna be a similar story, all over again.
Can't wait!!!

[kAoS-Druzilla]

Numa Numa Dance

[kAoS-aZZie]

i soooooo luv that clip . . . . giggle like a skoolgirl everytime

[kAoS-Acer]

i had that song stuck in my head for months after i watched that clip the first time, i even went as far as to download several versions of the song, and then proceed to play samples of each over teamspeak lol

those were the days alright....