Legendary DAC member known as Hammer to us has just been interviewed;
1. How did you get into the Fallout community?
A: I got into the Fallout community back during the old V13 days. I ended up signing up to their forums during my time playing Fallout: Tactics on GSA. I don't really remember much about those days other than constantly trolling St. Perveribius and Rosh by saying the most asinine shit in a deliberate attempt to make them write long run on sentences that nobody really gave a shit about.
I succeeded 9/10 times. That was until I was finally banned anyway.
2. What did you like most about the Fallout games?
A: I enjoyed the setting really. When I first heard of Fallout I immediately thought "Wasteland! Finally!" and was instantly hooked. In the end it was the open ended game play, gritty graphics, and compelling storyline that truly made me a fan.
3. What did you think of FO3 or it's DLC? If you didn't play them why not?
A: I can't say much about FO3 that hasn't already been said. I gave up on the franchise as soon as I saw that fucking downie Todd Howard promoting the game.
4. You supposedly sued the government and won, can you tell us about that for the record?
A: It's a long story. Too long to really answer here. Let's just say it was a legal battle that ended up spanning 5 years and just recently came to an end in my favor. Thanks to Uncle Sam though I've been living easy and buying a new Alienware every 3 years!
5. You have your own clan called the Enclave, can you tell us about it and how it has been doing lately?
A: The Enclave was a Rainbow Six clan formed back in 1998 by me and a group of friends. Ironically I never played Fallout 2 when I picked the name and was actually going on the literal meaning of "Enclave" - We ended up forming as just that after being removed from a major gaming clan in Rainbow Six in the Mplayer days. Since then we've always played at a high competitive level and managed to hold the Championship for two straight years on Mplayer before its final collapse and transition to GameSpy Arcade. Having completely commandeered the R6 scene and with Mplayer’s sellout to Gamespy Industries We ended up looking towards Team Fortress Classic for our next game. However, we failed to achieve the instant success they had in Rainbow Six. After a few months the decision was made to join CLQ and start partaking in tournaments. Soon after, SOPs or Standard Operation Procedures were established for TFC maps such as Well2, NML, CZ2 and others.
The Enclave was responsible in creating several of the most popular maps in TFC tournament history such as the Wstland series (1, 2, 3 and 4) and the ever popular and self titled map "Enclave" which was used in nearly every single league after the fall of the CLQ.
The climax for The Enclave in TFC was our victory in the 10v10 CLQ championship match against "DNoD" - the top tier clan from QTF and previous CLQ champions for 99'. This was considered by many to be the most controversial championship of the CLQ in that the clan who won it did so on a map one of their members made. After a two year CLQ championship reign, many members were experiencing severe burn out. many left and were never heard from again and the lost passion to play quickly lead to the Enclave becoming, according to many of its members, a shell of it's former self.
We went on for about a year doing absolutely nothing until a few of our remaining members got into "PlanetSide" which was Undoubtedly the Enclave's claim to MMO fame, The Enclave quickly became the most effective yet controversial outfit in all of Emerald/Konried. It’s reputation for being a brutally effective yet culturally uncouth group of players spread across multiple communities and their presence lives with the remnants of the PlanetSide player base to this day.
The Enclave pioneered and improved upon the most tried and true tactics and strategy on both a global and planetary scale. The Enclave unlike no other outfit was capable of pulling off impressive feats of organization, at it’s prime it’s numbers swelled to over 300 and with this they were able to run the most effective combined arms operations in all of PS.
Early in 2005, with the advent of BFR’s and dwindling interest in the game, the Enclave decided to leave. In little over 1 year The Enclave accumulated 6.9 million outfit points, the highest on its server across all three sides to this day, beating out outfits with twice as many members and who played for twice as long as The Enclave did.
Ever since PlanetSide we've been playing WoW. Only just recently have we left it. We're alive and well and still kicking. We've recently been accepted into the beta of "Global Agenda" and look forward to testing that. Apparently one of the developers knows of us from PlanetSide and personally invited us to help with development of the game. I remain skeptical, but we'll see how things turn out.
6. A lot of people seem to hate you on the Internet, why do you think that is and can you share some stories with us?
A: I think its a combination of me just being better than them backed up by the fact that I'm generally an arrogant and obnoxious asshole. As for stories? Well, here are a couple of the most notable ones.
In December 2003 the Planetside server Konreid was merging with its sister server Emerald as a part of the “Battle Concentration Initiative”. The leaders of each of the three empires staged a meeting on a small plot of land south of Planetside's largest landmass: Cyssor. The meeting was purely ceremonial and was meant as a place for all 3 sides to meet and take screenshots during the final hours of their server. The Enclave, being strictly loyalist to the Terran Republic, would not have any part in it. So during the climax of the event, which was to be a massive screenshot, 3 liberators manned by members of the Enclave flew over the island and decimated everyone on it, thus beginning hostilities between The Enclave and some of the Planetside community.
Late in 2005 a little known planetside player name Raider05 was reported to have “died”. A massive funeral procession was held for this in game. Former members of The Enclave, as the Planetside phase of The Enclave was officially disbanded, took it upon themselves to bomb the “ceremony”. The resulting debacle is considered one of the more intense in the history of online gaming. The situation eventually developed into the permanent banning and blacklisting of many The Enclave's members from all SOE games.
Oh darn. I guess I'll never get to play EQ2 now. 
7. Why did you leave DAC and the Fallout community?
A: After I gave up on the Fallout franchise and started taking the Enclave to higher levels of competitive gaming I almost forgot about Fallout entirely and saw no need to continue posting on the DAC forums. While I remained there (and still do remain) lurking nothing really has compelled me to post. But I mean really, what did I contribute? Other than pointing out the obvious flaws in Kashluk and his complete and total lack of musical skill and almost homoerotic sense of fashion or my attempts to enlighten the misguided pinko liberal euro-trash commies in the error of their ways I never really contributed a whole lot "Fallout" - Just seemed better for me to leave.
That and some spook deleted my amazing signature.
8. What do you think of Megatron and the rest of Mammas Gang?
A: 'Dey seem like sum reel gangsta ass niggas, not sum' fukin' industry sellout niggas dat u seein' on MTV nowadays. Chea.
9. Rosh once killed a man making him a pretty hardcore guy, how many men have you killed when you were in the military?
A: I think anybody who keeps a score card of how many men they've killed while being on active duty in the military is most likely a liar.
10. What games have you been playing on your own time and what games are you looking forward to?
A: I've been playing allot of ARMA2 and DowII until the GA beta starts. I am honestly looking forward to Blizzard's new MMO - I figure WoW gave me nearly 4 years of fun and this new one should be able to do the same.
11. Are you still interested in single player RPG's or have you gone completely online only?
A: Pretty much online only. I haven't seen a good single player RPG since the Geneforge series and that was Shareware. Garbage like Bioshock, Mass Effect or any of the other new "RPG" games out there just don't interest me.
12. What do you think of DAC in respect to NMA and/or RPGcodex?
A: I like DAC a whole lot more than NMA. And I only visit RPGCodex to post retarded flame bait threads that make all of the mouth breathing, self proclaimed RPG purists rage. Here, let me give you an example.
"My Top 5 reason on Why Mass Effect is the best RPG Ever
1. Amazing Graphics - WoW! It's like watching a movie!
2. Heart pounding action - I never get tired of turning a corner and fighting off a horde of Geth, it really gets my blood pumping!
3. Top noth voice acting - I can't think of a better person to voice Joker, the games hot shot pilot other than Seth Green. 10/10 Bioware!
4. Compelling Story - I never played a game where I felt compelled to read a prequel novel for. This games story was full of twists and turns and came to an unexpected end. Till this day I feel chills just thinking about that climatic ending. Bring on Mass Effect 2 PLEASE!
5. Open ended - You can complete a bunch of quests in a variety of ways and they all impact the story. I don't think to date any game has ever been able to do that. Another two thumbs up for Bioware."
And normally that's all it takes for them to stop admiring their mint condition "PlaneScape Torment" CDs and use their stubby little snot crusted fingers to post about how wrong I am and why I'm a stupid kid.
13. What are your thoughts on Fallout: New Vegas?
A: I couldn't give two fucking shits.
Thanks Hammer (aka BuzzCutPyscho). |