All of us have our stories of how we got to where we are today. I'd like to know all of yours below.
What made you get where you are today in Lockdown?
Wed, 02/25/2015 - 16:45
Thu, 02/26/2015 - 03:05
#2
Not realising there are better PvP games to play.
Thu, 02/26/2015 - 03:42
#3
6 months of unemployment + owning a Mac.
Still can't play 90% of better games out there. :c
Thu, 02/26/2015 - 07:38
#4
@Krakob
+1
Thu, 02/26/2015 - 10:10
#5
Still looking for a better top-down PvP game though.
Thu, 02/26/2015 - 13:16
#6
xD
I needed krogmo coins for my triglav…..then I started to like the hate and love in LD
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 15:40
#7
"Sources say he is an AI,
"Sources say he is an AI, though maybe it's his over-consumption of water and Mexican food that is responsible for his Lockdown prowess. Ex-Ray says he doesn't lift."
And that's my story...
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 16:58
#8
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Lockdown doesn't have much of a learning curve so it's easier to just pick up and play unlike other games ( KoF, SF, Elsword ). Also, since it doesn't hurt at all when you lose, no ranks like in elsword, so it was stress free and it kept me playing.
Though the revive times are way too long for a game where you can die from getting 2 ~ 3 times.
What's your reason, Paw?
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 20:36
#9
Back in the day I didn't really read any of the game texts.
I found the coliseum and thought it was like some mini game. It turned out to be PvP. At the time, I had colbalt armor and was using a calibur, so obviously I got mauled. Because I wasn't very serious about the game, I just kept on playing again, not even realizing I was paying money to do so.
After a few games, I noticed whenever I'm with people with "alien" icons (AKA Dusker/wolver clones), my team usually wins. After a few more games, I finally figured out what each shield does (except I didn't know about the recon mark until much later). I think it took me a month to figure out how the point system worked (not that I was dense, just that I didn't actually pay attention to points until then). It took me even longer to learn about recon mark.
I got my first kill after acquiring an Iceburst Brandish. I didn't know at the time, but I had marked the Dusker and just comboed the crap out of him. Anyways, I gradually got better, eventually joining the Dusker-Flourish bandwagon. I made a lot of T2 friends, many who are no longer active (I think the oldest T2 friends that are still active is Nottheanswer and Vatonage).
It took me a while to get Vanguard. When I did, I still stuck with T2. I did try T3 once, but it was too fast paced, and I get 2HKO from combo spams. The T2 glory days were awesome. I remember some butthurt people, but in general there was very little complaining. Alas, all good things must come to an end. T2 starting dying. I had become quite attached to Spiral Knights, so instead of quitting decided to try my luck in T3.
It turned out I just needed some practice to get the feel of things. I was pretty good in T3, hitting 7-10K regularly without trinkets. Eventually I got my hands on ASI High Gran Faust and Divine Avenger, which made killing people a blast. Things started to get repetitive, though.
At some point, I realized I was addicted to the game and needed to do something. So I sold almost all of my valuables to NPC vendors and went on a long hiatus.
Some months later, I came back to the game and created a new knight, hoping to gain some replay value. Unfortunately, I was now too experienced and beat the game in a week. So now I'm back to grinding Lockdown to kill time.
However, I have found better things to do in my spare time. I've been playing far less regularly than I used to. I think I check the forums more often than I log in to the actual game.
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 22:13
#10
@Van-Winkle
My reason for creating this thread? Mainly just boredom.
And as far as my story goes if anyone is wondering I'm just some random internet guy that showed up to the Spiral Knights scene through my brother introducing me to it back in 2010. We both played it for like an hour and while he decided to completely quit after that I actually decided to come back a year later after I had seen new stuff being implemented into the game. After I had came back I just played it casually for a bit then suddenly I found out about Lockdown and started playing it. Was a constant cycle of me getting rekt, me raging and then me trying to get better gear to see what I could do then. I was Tier 2 so the top players I knew about were people like Sky, Rdz, Ancient, Reb and etc. Always wondered how tf they did half the stuff they did and always wanted to try to do all of that myself.
In time I eventually had moved to Tier 3 and met my first teacher (Can't even remember his name now, smh) who had taught me how to shield cancel. Took me like a week to get it down. Practiced for a few months and tried my best to get better at Lockdown and eventually was recruited into Order of Venus. From there on out I was actually introduced to all these players that were on the top at the time and learned a lot from em. When Order of Venus died though I just decided to quit Tier 3 and go back down to Tier 2 because I honestly prefered it over Tier 3 at the time. In fact I still do for various reasons but I won't get into that.
Anyway, once I got back into Tier 2 I stayed there until early 2014 when it first started to have a limited amount of matches. A little bit before that time me, Reb and Rek had made an attempt to make a truely competitive hotspot within the Tier by creating/reviving two ambitious Lockdown guilds and then continuing to have them go against each other. We thought we could save the Tier by bringing in competition but unfortunately there wasn't even enough Tier 2 Lockdown players left for either of the guilds to live off of in the end. (OP + LD Aces = guilds) So since our plan didn't work out I decided to just move to Tier 3 since Tier 2 was dead. And now here I am today. Tier 2 player stuck inside a Tier 3 players world.
Sat, 02/28/2015 - 12:48
#11
what got me where I'm at today?
Spectating pawsmack and learning what not to do in the process.
Sun, 03/01/2015 - 15:38
#12
this is pretty much a story about guilds
i saw the coliseum tab, went in not knowing anything. died a bunch and yet i had fun. then i learned as i went, watching the better players and what weapons they used. eventually i got myself a voltage, btb, and chaos set. then i learned about AT and i rekt everyone
shortly after that i spectated a T2 LD game and i decided to make a rudimentary T2 LD set and join in on the fun. i found that i really enjoyed the community of T2 (it was better back then trust me) and got recruited into the guild brick squad. after a few months i had good gear and more friends in T2, and i quickly rose ranks in brick squad. however, two of our top members, dragon-karyu and recotah decided to quit, really dealing heavy damage to guild morale. shortly after this, the legendary almighty pnusy decided that the guild shouldn't die and helped to revive it along side danielflame, forest-dragon, and me :) T2 was still pretty active at this point, we did gvg frequently, every day for at least 3 matches. everything was great but the T2 community just slowly started to decline. no one was having fun, operation crimson hammer brought about the infamous hammer spammers, and so T2 just became another pay-to-win environment with uvs taking over and AT running rampant (myself included) so eventually the guild disband, and we all vended up in different places.
i tried out exceeds, that sucked. then i hopped to promise and that was even worse. i think i joined aurum next and made a lot of friends. it wasn't long however, before the guild became inactive and everyone headed back to usual lives (i believe this was after summer ended). then one day i was playing LD and kyo started asking ppl if they wanted to join his guild enraged, with the promise that it would be a chill relaxed guild not focused on LD, but rather, ppl who love LD and want to relax. so i decided to leave aurum and join. allesio and krissychu also joined and we became the leading officers. we all got name changes to "name-xz" which looked cool until kyo and allesio had a falling out, and that was the end of enrage. the guild had become to serious and all about LD and donations.
enrage dissolved into berserk which was led by allesio, who name changed to murderhaze. it was a pretty good guild. but it lasted even shorter amount of time than enrage, and it merged with oration. i joined for a day or two but didn't enjoy it, so i went guileless. that's when 21 came back and i decided to join them, but the guild quickly went back to being inactive. around this time i had learned that AT wasn't respected and would never be taken seriously until i learned to aim on my own
that's when i rejoined oration where i currently reside, and have improved a lot since. if you read all of that you must be bored. that's my story anyway
I can aim