Info
Nickname: skillpiG / Roobir
Full Name: Nico Pieter Fouché (If you call me Pieter i will NOT respond)
Age: 21
Location: Despatch, Port Elizabeth
Class: Medic, Soldier
Clan: Swift
Favorites
Single Player game: Doom 3, Half-Life 1/2, Minesweeper
Online Game: Guild Wars, WoW, CoD4, TF2, BF2 (prolly still banned)
Music Artist: In Flames, Dark Tranquility, Disarmonia Mundi, Arch Enemy, Darkest Hour, KSE etc
Song: In Flames – Freefall
TV Series: Boston Legal, Friday Night Lights, How I met your mother, South Park, oldschool THG Videos
Movie: Fight Club, Event Horizon, Sin City, Rocky III
TF2
Favorite Class and why you decided to play it:
1. Medic, we were lacking specific classes in miNt and no dedicated medics were to be seen in SA. I decided to salvage what I learned from my sniper/soldier experience and put all my efforts in becoming a valued medic.
2. Soldier, I love the pure brutality of this class and with the right source of inspiration you can become quite a good teamplaying soldier.
Your favorite players: Joint: pure determination, Kaboos: pure teamplayer, _enemy: pure white with a fro and generally everyone I talk to :>
Most Kills in one round: 5 on cp_granary last point (pickup as medic) and 4 pantheon members on cp_badlands last point (clan skirmish as medic) and I think ~24 as soldier on pub
Best moment in TF2 and why:
1. Getting asked to leave the pickup (due to being “too drunk”) and then getting highest score as demoman
2. Beating Brazen.TF2 3-2 on badlands for the first time.
3. Forcing opposition’s uber with my Ubersaw and then surviving to use the advantage gained from Ubersaw and win the round.
Settings:
Rate: 60000
Cmdrate: 45
Updaterate: 45
Interp: 0.0222
Frag Vidz: None (yet >:D)
A bit about yourself
Studying Information Technology Communication Networks, something like the internet comes to mind.
I do networking, so you can guess I have a short temper (ask swift peeps :P) and I enjoy my fair share of alcohol (ask #alcoholarmy peeps). What you guys probably dont know is that I actually enjoy helping out new people and giving them tips from what I had to learn the hard way. No, that doesn’t make me a caring person, just a helpfull, short-tempered medic that curses alot. 🙂
Gaming Gear
CPU: Core 2 Quad q6600 @ 3.2GHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte P35 DS3R
RAM: Corsair Dominator DDR2 4GB @ 1066MHz
Graphics Card: Inno3D 8800GTS 512
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 2232GW (22″ LCD)
Mouse and DPI + In-game sensitivity: Logitech MX-518, maximum DPI with various ingame speed adjustments
Keyboard: Logitech Slim Glossy
Advice for new players
Aim to be unpredictable, it might make you survive long enough to save your clan-mates.
What you think new players need to do to better them and become more competitive?
Gather information on the class you want to play, learn everything you can: from exploits to scripting. For me using scripts is a sign of simply “doing your damned homework” and not a way of trying to be a hacker. Sure you get unfair scripts, but all of them have been judged and *fixed* if deemed necessary.
After gathering information, try establishing relationships with fellow TF2’ers who share your ambitions and work together on improving.
Last little tip: don’t take everything too personal while meeting new people in #TF2 or clan servers, but don’t let anyone walk over you! :>
See you in #alcoholarmy,
skillpiG.
Honesty. Priceless.
Shot boet!
gotta love nico =D
Great Interview!!
Pieter!!!!!! 😀 Nice interview skillpiggy
Do Not Mess with the Pig Of Skill! He is from PE :]
I know 😀 but I moved recently… He’ll never find mwahahahaha… (evil laugh drawn out)
Skillpig, what scripts do you use and could you guys dedicate a page to listing the ones each of your clan use?
Hey Splat! We’ll be focusing more in the tutorials part once the league is up and running. So we’ll be creating some content on configs, scripts(allowed ones), demos, strategies, aim and more stuff as requested. Join our forums and suggest other information that might be useful for the community.
Yoh Splat, I only use this one now:
alias “+jumpeh” “+jump;+duck”
alias “-jumpeh” “-duck;-jump”
bind “MOUSE2” “+jumpeh”
All the other juicy scripts are useless now due to wait command being disabled.
I used this one for quite a time tho: http://code.google.com/p/tf2compconfiguration/
Nice interview :O In flames we trust /
Pieter jy’s ‘n fokken moffie ou maat!