I remember playing FPS game called Enemy Territory as teenager and after awhile whenever I was in 1v1 shoot out with one of my “clan” members I knew who it was based on their movement.
I was walking down the street a couple years ago, in my peripheral vision I noticed the gait of someone walking across the street traveling the other direction, instant recall of that former coworkers name from 10 years previous. It would have taken longer to recognize them visually if they were standing still. Still amazes me, years later.
Gait?
Fixed, thanks!
This happens all the time in video games. Fighting game players often revere it as a form of unique personal expression, and it's interesting as a spectator because you absolutely can recognize the players by their plays, but it's extremely hard to explain how you can do that.
it's called pattern recognition
Yep, but explaining the exact pattern is often difficult
Off topic, but if it was Wolfenstein ET I will just add that there still is a community for it and a Foss version of it that runs on modern operating systems
Thanks, I spent many hours and late nights into early mornings playing this game.
I loved that game, but it became all about the trick jumps, which basically broke every map and that just got annoying as all hell.
I had the same experience with my workmates, in Quake 3. We played so much on the same maps that I recognized anyone by their play style, and also because they liked different parts of the maps.