After all those years, hanging around in/on the famous opc forum, german-defrag.de, own-age.com, breakdown-hq.com and other sites, seeing map sites appear and disappear (q3a.sytes.net, jamster's mapbase, worldspawn), it is time to say goodbye to this gorgeous game.
I wasn't really active in the community since 2011 (or '10?). Played some maps here and there and sadly saw the overall quality of maps drop drastically (exceptions exist). Furthermore I have no contact to the current players/mappers around and lost the motivation in playing. It just doesn't feel like the time anymore when I stumbled into tricking.
Everything started with regular Q3A-Lanpartys. Some time I grabbed a video called "Tribulation" from one of those ultra big 10gb HDDs and it was mindblown. Those tricks synced to the music of Ozzy Osbourne, or Prodigy... and that outro track by Karl Jenkins. Just <3
After that I picked every video I could during the parties. Even without an internet connection I had a good amount of df/fs vids. Including classics such as Cetus 1+2, IT tricking movies, Kos Cpm Runs, and many more (everything can be found on igmdb.org). Then we finally got a 56K modem, and I googled for defrag runs... q3a.ath.cx was found. I downloaded letter per letter, played every map, got better and better and started creating maps. runbliccer still sucks
, never heard of time resetting before.I got addicted to playing Defrag and really invested a great amount of time of my life into this game. Also met great friends, online as well as in real life. Morbus, pan, kaffeewunder, MD, the mdd crew, Kos, bunny-burning, exkalibur, berserker, r1chu5, godfather, w3sp, shio, toulouz,
The "create your own stuff"-part in my life had its own positive aspects. It was a blast doing all the maps next to other great mappers, mainly the mapping clans cmc and amt (\o mega-teck, s0t3k, chronos, instazz, gund3r, th0ca, webas, sst13, Zlaugh2err, DaEngineer, xunderbird, zerg, spray, pigger, gh0st and others I probably have forgotten). Counting all the maps on ws, I released around 50 maps (bl!cc3r and bliccer). Actually a nice number.
Thanks to all who did collaboration maps with me!
I digged further and further into collaborating with others and participated in numerous (meanwhile dead) modifications and level competitions (maverick). Only q4run was pretty active... for half a year though
Besides level-designing I started movie making... and that's the aspect I really don't regret. I am studying this subject since several years now and I am going to work in this industry. This is also the reason why I have to quit this hobby of Defragging, to fully concentrate on the post-production.
Nevertheless I want to release one last map which is lying around on my HDD for some time now (since dfwc2012 exactly
). I hope you can enjoy this last piece of mine, and hopefully you did with the other ones.http://ws.q3df.org/map/acc_cath_rggl/ (<- there are 2 versions inside)
One more announcement: Before I totally vanish, I will also release one last movie with maze' demos around the beginning of next year (sorry maze
) and a redesigned mappack of old maps.So... at last. Thank you all for that great time and years! Defrag in total had a great influence on my music taste and on my whole life... no defrag - no movie making. I learned a lot about myself and how I am.
Thank you DeFRaG and Goodbye! o/
