If you go to the youtube description there are linked timestamps to all of the topics we discussed. I'll paste the topics below, but I'm obv not gonna link them here also:

00:06 Intro

00:19 When k1llsen first got good as a dueler

01:34 KODE5 2006 final, playing toxjq despite having actually finished 3rd.

02:36 What made toxjq so good in Quake 4?

03:05 How good was k1llsen's aim back then?

03:23 Does k1llsen remember Cooller interupting an interview of his a few years later.

03:53 Relationship with Cooller over the years.

04:38 Coming out of nowhere to win IEM IV Cologne (Gamescom) after beating av3k and rapha.

05:48 What is the secret to beating rapha?

06:43 What is it like facing rapha and his tactical style?

07:50 How did games vs. av3k go over the years?

08:48 People describing k1llsen as a hit-n-run rail style player.

10:34 How tactical is he in-game?

11:25 Does he have the best aim when he is on his game in QL? How does it compare to others?

12:38 Facing Cypher the least of the big four, how good Cypher's aim is when he is on.

14:12 Cypher's rockets.

15:12 Does QL suit rapha more than Cypher, comparative to Q3?

16:40 Always losing to Cooller for most of QL.

17:32 Overcoming Cooller at Dreamhack Winter 2011.

18:49 Cooller's dodging.

19:23 How k1llsen's railing style developed.

20:22 The three aimers (Strenx, Spart1e and k1llsen) after the big four (rapha, Cypher, av3k and Cooller). Coincidence the former are mainly known for their aim compared to the latter?

21:37 The one-sided match-ups of av3k vs. rapha and Cypher vs. Cooller.

22:25 How competitive was QL in dueling?

24:20 What is his sense of the dueling scene's health for the next couple of years?

25:20 Can there be an FPS that appeals to casual players and the hardcore?

26:54 Is a hardcore FPS the only game k1llsen plays casually or competitively?

27:30 Will k1llsen be a competitive LoL player? What role does he play?

27:55 How much skill does LoL have? Do k1llsen's skills work there at all?

28:55 Players who he always wished he could have dueled.

30:10 Will there ever be a good k1llsen movie?

30:28 Outro/final words.

A transcription would be even better. Why are all interviews video only now?

Communication is more visual, maybe?

sure, more like ads and sponsors. i want transcripts too.

Enable Automatic Captions for Youtube. Go to 16:19:

K1llsen says:

rapha google translate it into:

gatherer mussah

I laughed.

Good job on the interview, it's nice to see someone different than the usual guys being interviewed. Although it felt like k1llsen lacked the vocabulary to give in-depth answers unfortunately.

Also Dahang should of had a mention as part of the "small four" :P he imo has a better quakelive career than the 3 you mentioned!

Love your interviews, danke alot!

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a lot is two words.

What did you say ?

Spelling correction... now das hip!

Just checked your profile, no wonder you are good at it!! :D

LOOOOOOL

thought you meant his superman pic until I scrolled down.. holy fuckballs :D

killsen's history with cooller?

you mean, how did he make sure his ego doesn't suffer too much after each loss?

You sir, are awesome.

k1llsen ftw

Awesome interview, horrible accent (no offense tho :DD)

Nice. Thanks for the interview =)

potentially entertaining & well-thought questions, not so great answers tho: disappointing ones actually, lacking depth especially when talking about other players (tox, cyph, cooler)

"Yeah so cooller's dodge is hard but my flick rails can't miss" and so many others.

Amazingly strong e-athlete but unfortunately a poor analyst.

thats is actually a good point there....he gives advice how to hit good dodgers

You're actually right, we'll all have to start flick shafting then.

Joking aside, details and in-game situations and/or anecdotes would have been far more interesting than most of his out-of-context answers.

flick to rail, not shaft. it's good advice :d

either you have problems understanding what i'm writing or I'm horrible at speaking my mind; probably a mixture of both

the questions were very generic (like for example "what made tox so dominant in q4?) in order to offer a wide array of possible meta-game considerations, which would have helped players more in understanding the game - think about rapha/strenx's interviews and analyses; instead of getting a more "complete" answer you get a short, almost useless one (flick railing to prevent dodges isn't breaking news, and a pro's point of view on cooller's dodging patterns would have been great to hear. Same thing for tox in q4: "good aim and he was fast".)

i don't mean to sound disrespectful, just stating my opinion that these questions could have potentially offered much more helpful insights

ye, yea, my post wasn't that serious. i was trying to hint at the fact that powerful hitscan weapons can easily negate great movement, hence him being "right" and the absurditiy of adding such a weapon to quake in the first place.

all is about aim and everything else comes with practice...end of story

What mouse settings does k1llsen use?

g9x, logitech drivers, 1000 dpi, sensitivity from the driver, 2 sens 0 accel

0 accel? you sure about that? he talks about accel feeling good since he talked about it with d1ablo. and i remember an interview where he said that since he changed accel from 0.15 to 0.14 he started to hit more.

also, watching his aim / movement just shows quite some mouse acceleration.

2 sens 0 accel refers to his logitech driver settings other than he's using what you can find on his config on http://www.k1llsen.de/

3 sens
0.14 accel
0.022 yaw/pitch
0 acceloffset
6.8 sensecap

i think the normalized values posted below could be quite spot on. afaik his logitech driver settings lowers the dpi to somewhere around 330 dpi.

what does it mean in cm/360? just curiuose, dat weird mousemovment

There's an old ESWC 2010 DPI thread where someone recalculated his sensitivity to 30.14 cm/360 with 0.022 jaw/pitch and 3.45 sens. He has lowered his sens after that to 3 and the calculation doesn't take into account the lowered dpi from the logitech drivers which is around 330 dpi.

I'm currently at work but if i'm allowed to make a wild guess (and if the info i have is correct) i'd say he's using roughly 40 cm/360. Don't ask me how he manages to look so jittery and still hit everything - most likely some natural talent involved :-)

I spec'd him once (8 or 9 months ago) and someone asked him what settings he's currently using, so he did a very slow 360 and said its in the low 30-ish cm/360 range (can't remember exactly but it was between 31 and 35 cm).

edit: thx jedy

http://www.funender.com/quake/mouse/index.html

if I recall correctly someone on ESR managed to take the drivers modifiers into consideration and work out these values (can't find the post, so values arent the same):

dpi 400 @yaw 0.022
sens 2.2/2.4
accel 0.4/0.5
senscap 6.3
m_filter 1
offset 0

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this is so awesome. i love k1llsen!

anybody got the interview where cooler interrupts k1llsen?

04:16 - "zis guy just sthole my faw souzand dollars on kode 5 final at germany, zat's all i can say about him"

On a side note: Slasher's interview technique is remarkably similar four years later :>

thorin is delivering the best interviews imo, no disrespect to infus, slasher etc but he is really well informed and askes really smart questions. one thing puzzles me though how could i miss him so many times? he is like a ghost i must have missed him ridiculously often

K1LLSEN K1LLSEN K1LLSEN

My 2nd favorite player <3

great interview! if you and Cypher end up on the same LAN again please get him to do one of these interviews and make sure to ask alot of quake related questions! :)

a lot is two words.

I'm open to the idea. With that said, I did quite a long career interview with Cypher in text form already, in December of 2011.

yes I remember this interview, I was not playing quake anymore at the time but this interview motivated me to start playing it again, enjoying the game alot atm so thanks :D

And please do consider a video interview with him.

cool guy Marcel. like his support he getting at every LAN

I was never really interested in watching K1llsen, consdered him always that cold machinery style of player who creates a serious obstacle for anyone simply because of his accuracy, so it is very good finally we see the guy behind the name. I must add he is quite a likelable and modest character compared to how i imagined him.
My respect level for him as a person raised exponentionally as the interview went further. Maybe hes not so used to these longer indepth intervews especially in english, seemed a little bit tired at the end. Im just sad he goes to LoL, such a waste of talent.

K1LLSEN ROCKS

K1LLSEN OFF DA RAILS

nice interview!

nice interview, k1llsen is a nice guy :)

I know that he hits these completely insane rails, but I can't help but wonder if a lower sens/accel combo couldn't make him even better. I'm gonna go with what I see when he plays in tournaments, which is a very flicky and unstable mouse movement.

I remember d1ablo having sort of the same mouse movement and crazy rails, and I also remember watching a demo of him playing with a much, much lower sens than normal. His game was so damn smooth and his rockets and lightning gun improved immensely.

k1llsen's rockets can be really great, but they can also completely fuck him over when they're off, which I've seen more than enough to think that he should really try some less sensitive mouse settings.

tl;dr k1llsen's rails are nasty but I think he could do even better with another setup.

k1llsen uses a fairly lowsens with hardly any accel. It just looks flicky but when you spec him on a server you will notice that he doesnt have the fastest sens ;)

I watched him play a few weeks ago before DreamHack and I didn't find that to be less flicky than on streams :) But I dunno, maybe it's just my perception of things.

http://www.esreality.com/index.php?a=post&id=1907380

before gamescom 2010, which he won he lowered the sens to 3 and upped accel to 0.14

He didn't give the detailed answers like Rapha did, but I think it showed us the person behind the name. Nice interview, I liked it!

well ask rapha to speak German, see how detailed he is then :P

this. really.

as a native german its quite hard to describe complex topics in english. its because the basic toolset of both languages is similar (and thus basic english is easy for germans to learn) but when you try to speak indepth they begin to differ. german begins to become quite complex in grammar and structure while english begins to use rarer vocabulary and larger number of sentences.

actually i dont think its even possible to translate proper, meaningful german into english without ending in using a shitload of words that try to sum up what has been said. a proper way for such an interview would be to do it in german and translate it by a native ger speaker that is good in eng (not the other way around) later.

but i guess thats true for many languages ;)

Maybe a written interview would allow him to go into more detail, because he can take all the time he needs to express his thoughts and feelings.

I was not criticizing him for this, but I would be very interested in a more detailed explanation of his views.

what's with metro scarf

damn, forgot he had a son

No offense to you Thorin but your voice kind of annoys me a little. It isn't the accent which puts me off it's how everything you say be that a statement, a retort or anything for that matter always sounds like a question.

I don't know if it's because of your many travels all around the world and your voice has just changed like that or maybe it's merely a bad habit you've gotten yourself into.

No hate whatsoever just my thoughts, I appreciate what you do and the interviews that you bring to the table.

It's a great interview technique. He's asking for confirmation in everything he says, leaving the door open for reaction.

I know what it is, but you simply don't have to put emphasis on the ending of a sentence all the time, it's just annoying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwczZLOmBhw

That best describes what I mean.

Again, no hate towards Thorin whatsoever he's doing a brilliant job with the interviews and I appreciate every player he talks with.

:):)

are you said?

ew m_filter 1 :/