False, as I was actually around during that time I can confirm only kalante and Ari could compete on the levels of the closed beta stars. And I'm pretty sure they were in closed beta as well..

It's a lot easier for me to fight 3 proto heavies with my assault solo than it was fighting James
Also now you have this lovely thing called AA which makes things really easy

Whilst I'm here, I might as well chime on the main subject - I can only speak for infantry players as that's all I ever played as. This list is based on individual skill alone, it doesn't factor in leadership skills, teamwork, tactics & selflessness.

Imo, the best to ever play the game would be: Protoman, Regnum, Alldin, Almighty, James, Tryhard, Fizzy, Kalente, Soul, Marauder, Funkmaster, Xero, Tiberius, Extacy & the twins.

If I were to factor in leadership skills, teamwork, tactics & selflessness... I'd add myself, Kujo, Cubs, Radar & Zatara to the list.

The best team to ever play the game would have to be TP, Imperfects had more individual talent but I doubt we could of beaten TP in their prime. They had a great leader in Cubs & simply worked better together as a team.

We all joined the game at different times so as a result we all have a different idea of who the "Legends" are, what tends to stay with us is who was considered to be the best when we first came onto the competitive scene; for some it was 6 v 6 corp battles & for others it was 16 v 16 PC battles.

The idea of facing some of the so called "Legendary" players from the beta is much scarier than the reality ever would be (if they were to come back that is) - It's hard to say if they'd be as highly regarded if they had stayed long enough to take part in PC battles.

The players who have been here from the beginning all say that James, Protoman, Regnum & Tryhard are the "greatest ever" b/c they were the first players to be considered the best in all of DUST & to us, no one since has ever lived up to them.

We're all guilty of putting past players on a pedestal b/c everybody romanticizes "the good old days", I choose to believe that the players I've mentioned above really were that good.

Yeah, I remember us running as a duo on a few occasions. I did same with Zaria a few times too, although she tended to have less kills & more WP; she was always WP farming that one.

The thing I remember you for the most would be when you would get 20+ kills per game riding around in your indestructible logi-lav; I'd always hear you laughing like a maniac every time you caught someone we knew. :)

I had a 50-0 game doing that..never lost 1..or when someone leaked our secret way of team killing in pubs..ahh why you guys make me remember

Try not to listen in anyone in this thread, people like zitro and the scout twins 17 year old boys were jokes, not because they were bad, but because people hyped them up SOOO much when in reality it was ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS just proto when proto was THE MOST OP ITS EVER BEEN, the exception being the scout twins who didnt need to run proto, because they were scouts.
As for every other person who was "OMGSOL33T", it was always the same thing, proto assault suit, no stacking penalty dmg mods, duvolle with sharpshooter 5(50% more range) weaponry 5(another free dmg mod, making a total of 40% dmg), and the GOOD hit detection of chrome, all up against EVERYBODY ELSE with 2 million spread out as fk skill points, the vast majority of players were using a mlt suit with either mlt weps, or geks, or elms.

We're talking about when a braindead player in a proto suit could have twice your range, twice your damage, and three times your hp, and you could go 30-0 with one hand.
We're talking about thales going 80-0 NO PROBLEM.
We're talking tanks like mine one shotting installations and 2 shotting rdv's from the redline, and with 3m of 400dmg splash, going 30-0 no problem.
We're talking viziams going 50-0 no problem.
We're talking core nades one shotting almost every suit.
We're talking standing in k17D nanohives made you LITERALLY INVINCIBLE their rep rates and total clusters were so high, ignoring the omfg proto ones.

All this against starter fits with the occasional gek that had half the range of these protos, duvolles with sharpshooter literally fired across the map, viziams on the pipe map could stand in the crows nest and literally cover HALF OF THE ENTIRE MAP FROM THE CENTER.
Oh and each tier of the weapon gave it better range, Im not exaggerating about twice the range twice the dps and 3 times the health.