When Pseudo first joined, I believed him to be the better. I had heard the legends of the 2000 ping player, told to me when I was still a kid. A certain respect is in order when a man does something like that.
The first time he logged on, this respect was deepened even more. ‘Omg server suckage’ was the first thing he said, something all true veteran players complain about when they first enter an unknown server. In a way, it’s announcing you are there, and that you are serious.
The game soon got under way, and all the players of 3DAP were focused. At times I saw pseudo hopping around, in what I thought was a nefarious plan. Often the thought “Goddamn what is he doing. He must be the best if he plays like that” came to me. In the end I was proven horribly, horribly wrong.
He ended up with a score of -1. This, in itself, is an art. In the following games, he did fare better, but mostly against bots. My heart was broken. My hero had died.

I stand before you now. All I can do is point and laugh to try and forget the anguish, the pain, and my broken hero, which all came to pass on that one faithfulnight.
All I can do. Is point. And laugh.

When I got back, I sucked HORRIBLY in the first game. I played way below my normal skill level. I got back to my regular level after 5 or so games.

Now you havent play way longer than 11 days, and UT(200x) is a skill intensive game. Just play more and you’ll get back to your regular self.

Oh btw, you’re in UK right? I havent played UT (99) in a while, but I’m always up for a game

and this too: http://www.xs4all.nl/~zuidbuur/Shot00216.jpg

An example would be that earlier this year I got UT2004 after playing UT2003 a shitload, and I was pretty good at it and often came 1st or 2nd every time I went on a public server. However, many hours of other games such as Call of Duty, Far Cry, SC:PT and Raven Shield meant that I wasn’t concentrating on UT2004’s game engine anymore. I got back to it and sucked so much.

With some games they naturally come to you, with others they take a while to get accustomed to since your brain is probably running on another game engine. I sucked getting into Call of Duty, but I immediately own at Counter Strike: Source. A few hours a week of one game (no others) and you should be able to get back into the game.

The age theory is a bit far-fetched, unless you’re getting arthiritis.

It’s all that Medieval: Total War. The strategy gamer in you has replaced your reflexes with tactics, and one thing you cannot do in a first-person shooter is think.

All you need is some concentrated action game time. Give it a solid weekend if you can and see how you are by 9PM Sunday.

I was never really able to game until I did get DSL, and that arrived around the same time I got the UT2004 demo. I can generally manage to hold my own, but I’m nothing special. Playing CS:Source recently shows how out of touch I am after not playing CS for over 2 years (I was quite decent, the few times I did play multiplayer at LANs). But I’m not so concerned with that, because as long as the servers are filled with complete wankers, I won’t be playing often.

It just sounds to me like you need more practice. You need to stop bumming around in strategy games (like I’ve been doing lately) and get yourself into more action, more often.