word of advice, try to find some newbie servers to play on when you start out. there was another guy who was coming to ut from q2/q3a on a server i was on the other night. unfortunately, the server was swineonline and was chock full of l33t clanners(gf, syn, 318, dd, etc.). we had our own contingent of sobs on there, but i wouldn't put us in the same category.
anyway, while we were playing an intense game of hydro, this guy was like, "hey, where did you guys get the rocket launchers?". hehe. poor guy was getting slaughtered. the thing is, he wasn't that bad with "traditional" fps weapons like the rocket launcher. just wasn't used to the x-loc or other weird ut weapons. dividedsky was speccing and was trying to tell the guy to shoot his shock ball with the shock primary.
everyone on the server was quite nice and tried to help him out, but i think he ended up with like a 25% efficiency. can't imagine that the experience was that great for him. hehe.