Let's Talk about the Stone Ages of Skulltag (2007-2008ish)

[Grounder]

Yo, anybody remember these days? Back when there were Real Guns Advanced and regular co-op servers everywhere?!
I had some good times with my buddies DarkSamus, Arwingpilot, and SonicTheJackrabbit. Does (Sniper)109, Faceheadman, Godmode, or K-Yerp sound familiar to anyone?

Hope I can find some people who were around playing ST around '07 through '09 and talk about their experience and good times too.

[Clownman]

I remember when people.would play normal gvh and not the horrid NORDIC SAGA expansion

[Ivory]

DarkSamus

Yeah, he's one of my friends. I still talk to him a bit.

[CarThief]

Cant say im happy about NS either, basically killing off the traditional melee vs range. Not to mention how they all act, and explode if you just dont like it for some reason.

Lots of nostalgic rambling. You know how i am, heh. :P

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But that would go on forever... Im not sure i've been around that long but i remember the days when GVH was new. Back then it only had 3 classes on each team, the Hunter was the main source of annoyance with super speed and 100 damage lightning arrows, and i suppose Jitterskull could be equally as annoying due to back then not having to chew his enemies, and more frequent charging as well! Fortunately as time passed stuff did get nerfed, perhaps reaching an ´golden age´ by the time Choke and Ghostbuster where introduced, or possibily later. Ah, rough times, but fun nonetheless.

And of course before GVH, Zdoomwars, uh... some fortress vs fortress mod, MM8BDM and various other popular mods where played here and there it was the prime time of Capture the Flag. Was pretty much playing that all day, mostly in open matches where anyone could enter and it was a good ol killing fest while trying to score or helping to score.

Some wish to go back to the time where it was just Skulltag, or one of its game modes like CTF, admittedly thats not being played as frequently by now, finding NON-PASSWORDED CTF servers is a pain these days and only clans seem interested in this, and of course play it on private servers. And personally im not a clan person. And i suppose i wouldnt mind if GVH got a little popular again (obviously not the butchered NS one), but i guess people want quantity over quality these days, more classes yet they have less balance and thought put into them, that class that shapeshifted into humans was just cheap, heh... Oh well every major game seems to go into that direction, atleast, in this sense, there is a 'classic' mode, for those who prefer the game as it should be.

[Turbodude]

Do I know you from somewhere?

I didn't exactly play Skulltag (or any online source port of Doom, except maybe a bit of ZDaemon in 2006) until around mid 2008. But even then, there was still a whole lot of regular co-op servers running on familiar megawads such as Alien Vendetta and Hell Revealed, as well as other full games such as Heretic and Hexen.

Back when people still played DOOM on a DOOM source port. That isn't to say I don't like playing non-doom games on ST, like 8BDM. But too many people play mods such as All Out War 2 that the original purpose of Skulltag has almost diminished into obscurity.

There's occasionally servers that try to revive the familiar gameplay we all know and love, but most people just join and leave in less than an hour. Then the servers die and remain dead until someone else gets the idea to try and bring it back. It's a shame that people don't like playing DooM anymore, knowing in mind it's still one of the better shooters out there.

[TERRORsphere]

K-Yerp got a life and quit Skulltag and making YTP's forever

[Grounder]

Do I know you from somewhere?

Hey Flip!!!

K-Yerp got a life and quit Skulltag and making YTP's forever

I'm pretty sure he became a drug addict who tries to  hide whenever he can.