Talk:Shifting/@comment-68.46.59.145-20131020093604

I remember when shifting first appeared in late summer/early autumn 2008. Almost NO ONE knew wtf it was, and it was a guarded secret among a few melee regulars (I knew of only 2 other players that could do it/did it), and I only figured it out because another player because he hinted at it (in claiming it wasn't a hack).

And man, did I abuse the hell out of it! Headshots, headshots everywhere! I was pretty much unstoppable.

Within a month or two I realized how unfair it was, so I started campaigning against it on the forums. No one knew was this "shifting" thing was, or the ones that did basically said "Yeah, well you do it ALL the time!"

Guess I deserved that, eh?

Also, in retrospect, all my campaigning accomplished was the increase of shifting's publicity. D'oh!

In any case, despite being disarmed by my own morals, I found refuge in the sickle  - which originally had a ~60 damage rating! I once again became Melee King, but without cheating.

Unfortunately, though, the melee community had turned into a bunch of shifters by the year's end, and with the coming of the ninjato, melee was forever tainted.

So, I'm one of the reasons melee sucks now. Surely I wasn't the only one, and it would have been ruined eventually, but I certainly sped its demise. Sorry :/

On another note, it was originally called shift-glitching by the few people in the know. I started calling it "shifting" on the forums (because shift-glitching took longer to write, and SG looks like a gun name), so I guess that name took root. I'm not gonna say I coined  the term, but I totally did :P

So, yep. The good old days and whatnot.

-Firebase, formerly of Section 8 Clan